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by joebob42 5y ago
Is price gouging in this context illegal (genuine question, I know very little in this area, but I would not have thought so). It seems to me like they are effectively just selling at the price the market will bear, which is artificially in
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by joebob42 5y ago
The fact they rolled back hours of trades is astounding to me. I'm surprised it would be legal, to be honest.
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by joebob42 5y ago
Another theory: type 1 is fun now, type 2 is fun in hindsight, type 3 seems like it would be fun looking forward but turns out to be awful.
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by joebob42 5y ago
Is type 2 fun a good idea? I haven't been able to decide for myself. I'm never sure whether doing these sorts of things has actually been a good use of my time. It probably helps me grow or something, but God does it suck a lot of
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by joebob42 5y ago
I dunno. I agree this work is important, but I also find it boring and frustrating. Its like adding logging, plumbing configs, etc. Obviously it has to happen, but at least for me it's neither interesting nor exciting.
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by joebob42 5y ago
I think it's hard to buy it, but it's easy to "sell" it / lose it over financializing.
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by joebob42 5y ago
I don't like that OSI seems to somehow come away with this (at least as framed here) with control of the term. I agree just calling whatever nonsense open-source is problematic, but I don't agree it has to be one of their licenses
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by joebob42 5y ago
I am not sure this myth the author is claiming is anywhere near as pervasive as they seem to think? I kind of know what they mean, but I don't think it's something most or even all that many people I've met would agree with.
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by joebob42 5y ago
I liked "Whatever features within their algorithms that are creating the addictions, especially in teenagers — they can disable those features. That could be another thing." The algorithm isn't trying to help , but YouTube o
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by joebob42 5y ago
I've always felt quite safe in Airbnb's. I also kind of feel that if this was really a huge safety risk we'd have stories of disaster from the 20k Afghanistan refugees, which I'm sure would have been mentioned here if th
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by joebob42 5y ago
$5b seems pretty low to me to be honest, especially given the way tech valuations work.
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by joebob42 5y ago
It's hard. You can love and be excellent at all the things a field of study entails, but if no one wants to pay you to do those things it isn't a career. I think encouraging people to study and enjoy these things as a hobby, and p
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by joebob42 5y ago
Something about the article was weird. I didn't grok that it was a book review until after I finished reading it, but I'm not sure exactly why that was.
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by joebob42 5y ago
Thinking more, I guess I'm comparing to more creative / niche competitors or different approaches, rather than just doing the same thing on azure / gcp.
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by joebob42 5y ago
Probably not literally, but in my experience the answer is more or less just "yes, aws is more expensive than competitors"
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by joebob42 5y ago
I'm at a big tech company. I literally think I'd leave if they stopped feeding me. It's such an amazingly valuable perk. It's worth substantially more to me than the raw cost of the food. Having to do my own food during
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by joebob42 5y ago
I think it's more just that they don't feel they have a choice. The whole peace in our time thing didn't work out super great last time. At some point you can't just cave indefinitely. I agree though that I can easily im
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by joebob42 5y ago
It seems a bit reductive to me. I'm also not sure oil and gas extraction is simple in quite the same way growing avocados might be. It has a thread of internal consistency but it's not super convincing to me? Just comes off as som
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by joebob42 5y ago
Come to think of it, I was relatively unbusy, knowledgeable about c++, in van nuys, and kind of a dick at around that time. Perhaps I, too, creates Bitcoin.
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by joebob42 5y ago
The article is amusingly direct about calling them spam / malware.
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by joebob42 5y ago
I appreciate the taking individual action and making a statement but not corrupting their Foss project.
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by joebob42 5y ago
Isn't that going to be carbs? I mean they certainly have less carbs per unit of weight but to the extent they have calories it's mostly carbs right? If Im exercising 5-6x a week and I can't eat much protein I need calories fr
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by joebob42 5y ago
Well this sounds awful. What am I even supposed to eat, just fat?
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by joebob42 5y ago
Sure, but the startup that does this is going to lose, because usually a given risky dependency isn't actually going to turn out to be malicious, and reviewing all foreign dependencies as if they were your own code is wildly time con
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by joebob42 5y ago
I think not quite just debt and favors. In my mind at least the key differentiator is that with money, I can take some money from Paul for some good or service, and expect to be able to get a similarly valuable good or service from basicall
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by joebob42 5y ago
Meh, I think it's still a good step. At some point you've got to take action to make progress. If more countries ban it we might eventually see a decrease in total mining.
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by joebob42 5y ago
I think the whole "Putin wouldn't allow this" aspect is being dismissed too readily.
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by joebob42 5y ago
For whatever reason I read it as sort of affectionate rather than really expressing "ownership." I would have been perfectly happy to be one of this person's engineers.
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by joebob42 5y ago
I'm not sure I follow. At least from my perspective if war were to happen "on his watch", even if it wasn't really his fault / a different president wouldn't have avoided it, there's effectively no chance
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by joebob42 5y ago
I have no idea. It kind of reminds me of a Yes Prime Minister sketch where he's not sure if he'd push the button. The impression I get from what I know is that Putin is the sort of person who really could push the button, if he fe

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