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by jfoster 6y ago
Makes sense.
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by jfoster 6y ago
Bet it eventually becomes like Google but with less transparency. Apple will do the same stuff, but call it something different.
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by jfoster 6y ago
The pay-off for doing so (ad revenue) is pretty huge. I'm surprised they have held off for so long.
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by jfoster 6y ago
An incomplete vaccine can apply evolutionary pressure on the virus. From my understanding that's probably not so likely if just a few scientists use their own vaccine (someone more knowledgeable please correct me if I'm wrong), bu
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by jfoster 6y ago
I think that's just how progress gets made quickly. As Larry Page would say, "have a healthy disrespect for the impossible."
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by jfoster 6y ago
> it is Neuralink’s responsibility to say everything they do When they bring a product to market, that is.
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by jfoster 6y ago
Is your hypothesis that there is nothing they could do that would both be not too far from what they have now, plus valuable?
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by jfoster 6y ago
The article proves itself a little bit pointless by closing with this without any elaboration: > Although fatality estimates are important for understanding the risk of viral spread to people in different age groups, they don’t tell the
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by jfoster 6y ago
Sounds like the sketches essentially served as an MVP.
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by jfoster 6y ago
AWS has varying degrees of vendor lock-in, which electricity companies generally don't have.
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by jfoster 6y ago
The other thing the gig economy does is entirely (for better or worse) expose people to the supply/demand realities of the business. For example, if you are a full-time employed programmer at Uber, you get paid the same every week, reg
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by jfoster 6y ago
There is even some restored tram cars from that time still in use: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-33148281
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by jfoster 6y ago
Not a good test. If they expect a decent ROI, the attack can't cost any amount up to $4.5M to execute. The $4.5M isn't a guaranteed outcome from such an attack. Some targets may not be willing to pay, or may only be willing to pay
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by jfoster 6y ago
Mainstream (and that includes many politicians) still think of it as respiratory. All the other effects are not yet mainstream knowledge.
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by jfoster 6y ago
Can you mention the worst or most deceptive thing they've done?
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by jfoster 6y ago
I don't think that scenario would even be possible. Shareholders would seek an injunction. They have to maximise shareholder value, and such a decision clearly wouldn't be doing so.
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by jfoster 6y ago
I think the most likely event that could decimate one of the FAANG would be increased competition from another. For example, what happens to Amazon if Google decides to get deadly serious about e-commerce? What happens to Google if Apple &a
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by jfoster 6y ago
The idea of prioritising the economy is a falsehood. You can't have a strong economy with a virus like covid ripping its way through the population. Some people might go on as normal, but a huge portion of the population will be afraid
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by jfoster 6y ago
A few things to note, at least about the Instagram stories: 1. It's primarily mobile, by far. 2. The story is the only thing on the screen and the entire experience is focused on it. 3. You can hold down the story to prevent it from co
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by jfoster 6y ago
Would it be those ones that suffer? If some existing companies depart a central area, isn't it more likely that others would replace them in that area, rather than a geographically uniform reduction in occupancy?
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by jfoster 6y ago
Pretty much. When an airline goes out of business, most of the physical aircraft will still be sold to someone unless they fall victim to lack of proper maintenance.
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by jfoster 6y ago
And even if you do prepare, the preparation might be for nil (or very little) advantage if a government will just bail out your competitors anyway.
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by jfoster 6y ago
No. Pandemics keep happening repeatedly and based on the past ~100 years, you'd be inclined to say that the frequency may be increasing: 1918, HIV, 1957, 1968, 2020. (and particularly so if you factor in the near-misses: SARS and MERS)
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by jfoster 6y ago
You don't have to go back to 1918. 1957 - 1958 pandemic estimated to have killed ~1.1 million people worldwide: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1957-1958-pandemi... 1968 pandemic estimated to have
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by jfoster 6y ago
When one of the transitive dependencies fixes a security issue, is it then re-evaluated prior to being updated in the internal repo? I'm guessing you work at a pretty large tech company. It seems wasteful that so many companies might b
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by jfoster 6y ago
Do you have a pragmatic approach that you typically recommend, considering that (without version pinning thousands of packages) anything could change from one day to the next? (even if a package was "good" today, it could turn &qu
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by jfoster 6y ago
On what cadence do you do this? Every release?
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by jfoster 6y ago
React itself is big & reputable, but the dependency tree is massive and I doubt that it's getting fully vetted on an ongoing basis. Even if you vet it today, any given dependency can be updated to something else tomorrow. There are
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by jfoster 6y ago
This article might be of interest: https://medium.com/hackernoon/im-harvesting-credit-card-numb...
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by jfoster 6y ago
That's true, and it's probably for this very reason. That said, at a minimum it's very possible to have a somewhat usable website on iOS. If ever that stops being the case, hopefully consumers will finally stop buying iOS dev

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