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by joshe 4y ago
Pretty funny that a substack called "Honest broker" has this paragraph: "Do you think I’m exaggerating? Trust me, the people who run the company believe in 24/7 surveillance as the single most important feature on the pl
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by joshe 4y ago
A new reason to write more or at least record more of yourself so that you can create things like this. Save your emails!
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by joshe 4y ago
The progression of greys is fun. In order: Black Dimgrey (hmm) Grey Darkgrey (huh, darkgrey is lighter than grey) Silver (all righty) Gainsboro (of course) White That's 3 out of 7 making sense.
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by joshe 4y ago
Would be wonderfully ironic if Elon saves downtown SF.
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by joshe 4y ago
our malnourished cavalry horses!
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by joshe 4y ago
You can, you can go to a bank and ask for a loan for an ice cream truck to start a business. It will help a lot if you already have money and just want to finance it. They'll give the loan to a new company you create and that company w
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Political spam is out of control. Now Gmail is about to make it worse(washingtonpost.com)
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by joshe 4y ago
Here's a good explanation about why gdp is important. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/four-reasons-why-gdp-is-a-... It is only one measure of success, but it is not misleading. You can just use it and 6 other me
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by joshe 4y ago
I've been curious, with the EU "cookie banners everywhere" and Apple iOS privacy moves, is there a new first party analytics startup scene? Is it big and healthy? Anyone have some favorite companies doing this?
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by joshe 4y ago
Interesting and thanks! I'll give this a shot.
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by joshe 4y ago
Another big myth is that money is stopping all your ideas from being accepted. The truth is that you haven't convinced people. This is true even for entirely correct ideas. None of those were going to pass anyway, so it's no price
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by joshe 4y ago
WhatsApp also doesn't get screwed up by weird carrier sms integration like iMessage does. Just traveled overseas and used a different sim card with my phone. Not only does this screw up iMessage while overseas (it shouldn't), but
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by joshe 4y ago
It's funny how angsty 2018 era San Francisco was about ride sharing. Everyone thought it was "big tech is crushing the world", when really it was "vc's and endowments are going to subsidize your rides for 10 years b
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by joshe 4y ago
Great nuance, thanks for commenting. DX to me is reduced cognitive load. We are all operating at the limits of abilities, better DX expands the scope of what we can accomplish in our weeks and months. Often things sold as DX are absolute ga
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by joshe 4y ago
Google's internal developer hazing and poor DX surely have something to do with this. I've talked with multiple ex coworker developers at Google about the 3 to 6 months it takes to actually figure out how to deploy something. Also
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by joshe 4y ago
What is too aggressive about this is the taking a normal english word and restricting its use to preserve a guild's privileges. The original sorta useful aspect of this was that in the days before the internet, you could keep records o
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by joshe 4y ago
Temp DB's feel like a slightly underused technique too. (Not saying it's always better.) Ie, just a quick script that adds a serial id as the first column. Then imports to postgres/mysql based on header names (column names) a
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by joshe 4y ago
The quick answer is that we are not short of any of those materials. We might not be producing enough right now, but there's far more than enough that can be mined or recycled inexpensively. Increased prices will cause more mining and
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by joshe 4y ago
Maybe 15 years ago I ended up fencing the CC stuff off with firewall rules because it was the fastest way to deal with its awfulness. With the next computer for half a year it was always this queasy, i should probably install illustrator no
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by joshe 4y ago
I think for all the tech he's bored of, he's reading cynical media accounts instead experiencing them himself. And this is how you age into old man shouts at cloud. Why his boring stuff is actually cool: Block chain is cool, I agr
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by joshe 4y ago
This is probably the only tech acquisition that's ever made me sad. I just hate Adobe so much. The nightmare of their installer, the weird store with horrible designs popping up when you activate normal ui stuff, the difficulty in canc
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by joshe 4y ago
No this is just lore, there is a great deal of pseudo science around this. They are slightly different chemically so it's not impossible but there is no evidence to that effect. Note also that Sucrose is 50% fructose, so saying sucrose
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by joshe 4y ago
Table sugar is also high fructose. Sugar is also called sucrose, it is 50% fructose and 50% glucose. High fructose corn syrup is "available at various fructose levels. HFCS 42, used in beverages, processed foods, cereals and baked good
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by joshe 4y ago
The super silly thing about this is that if you actually make everyone (in the whole world!) identify content for over 18s, you could just have a browser setting that a parent could set. It layers on to that non existent technology to perfe
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by joshe 4y ago
Here's a list of social panics that turned out to be nothing: Kids being poisoned by halloween candy (no child was ever poisoned by a stranger on Halloween) Kids being latchkey kids Violent video games Jazz Hip hop Rap
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by joshe 4y ago
This will be interesting, one advantage Verizon has had is more area coverage in many states. In Northern California I switched from Tmobile -> Verizon just for this reason. It has been much better. This is for stuff like on a random bea
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“Let's be honest here: Europe's a museum, Japan's a nursing home and China's a jail. We don't need to worry about those currencies being some kind of major threat to us.” - Larry Summers
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by joshe 4y ago
Equal earth ( https://equal-earth.com/ ) is a good well designed map. I printed the pacific ocean centered version and have it on my wall. There is a lot of conspiratorial woo about this topic, but it is genuinely useful to g
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A ‘megaflood’ in California could drop 100 inches of rain, scientists warn(washingtonpost.com)
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by joshe 4y ago
I miss this old school straightforward writing style. I'd love to have a search engine that just searches writing like this.

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