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by jt2190 3y ago
> The announcement comes… after the U.K.’s [Competition and Markets Authority] issued a final order for Meta to sell Giphy, on the grounds that the merger reduced dynamic competition. > … Shutterstock said it expects the deal to close
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I think a better way to frame this is “Is it possible to use the rule of law across national boundaries?” Clearly the answer is currently a qualified “yes”: Laws, treaties, etc do exist and are commonly used. The areas that are addressed ar
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This is the more interesting part of the article IMO: > The glut of downtown office space, combined with San Francisco’s high housing costs, has led many to envision converting downtown commercial spaces into residential buildings, but n
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Edit: Reading further, it's clearly about the written form used: > [I]t is unlikely that Harriot hit upon binary notation simply because he was using weights in a power-of-2 ratio, something that was a well-established practice at t
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> … [T]he notion of this sort of finer level of control is definitely accurate. But Rust gives up something really big to do what they do. They give up garbage collection. Within Jane Street and generally in programming, I think a lot of
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> IMO it's a break in property law to have a contract that says "You own the property and have all it's liabilities (like taxes) but you do not have the right to sell that property to a willing, SEC qualified, and able buy
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Exactly this. Startup employees are essentially compensated like this: * Base salary that is very low risk because they have a “liquidity event” every pay period, and there are numerous legal protections that ensure that they get paid. *
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For clarification, “NET -NN” and “NET NN” are common shorthand for describing cash flow, where the minus signifies that the customer pays before receiving the product or service, and a positive number signifies that they receive the produ
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I think it’s more helpful to try and quantify that though, rather that just leave a vague “sometimes” response. For example, one thing I look for is when the model can not explicitly express all of the states that we now need, and as a resu
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> NET-14 Impressive! Assuming that I’m correct and that that hyphen should be read as “minus”: How are you able to get your clients to pay in advance? Assuming that I’m wrong, it’s still impressive.
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by jt2190 3y ago
There are two types of software projects, roughly: * Speculative, with the hope that the ROI will be a multiple of the money put in. These are often in support of revenue-generation. * Maintenance, where the goal is to keep the software use
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The smaller the potential upside of the project is, the more the estimates matter. Put another way: A project that promises to return USD 10 for every USD 1 invested is still an attractive investment when the ratio is 8:1 or 7:1. This sugge
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by jt2190 4y ago
Also excellent: "A JVM Does That???" by Dr Cliff Click (Video, Presentation, 2016) https://youtu.be/-vizTDSz8NU
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> One solution is to split it into an AService interface you put in a new module, call it e.g. A-api, and leave the implementation in A which now depends on A-api. This is what Fowler describes as “Separated Interface”. [1] Specifically
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by jt2190 4y ago
I’m a long-time JavaScripter, and after years of working with Java backends and also some time with NodeJS/Express I’ve been working with a PHP backend at my current gig. A few observations: * PHP documentation sucks . It’s demonstrab
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by jt2190 4y ago
This is only true for those who are not impacted, in this case, by a government shutdown. For example, suppose you’re running a company that has won a government contract and you receive scheduled payments from them. You use the payments to
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by jt2190 4y ago
That is an excellent problem to have! :-)
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Specifically of: “The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689” by Jonathan Healey https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/659745/the-blazing-... “The Making of Oliver Cromwell” by Ronald
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by jt2190 4y ago
I suspect that those who grow up as social media “natives” will have some social norms that protect them somewhat, whereas many of those who came of age pre-social media will not have learned the social norms that can protect them. We can s
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by jt2190 4y ago
The source for this article is Mark Gurman’s newsletter at Bloomberg: “Apple Plans to Launch More Than Just Its New Headset at WWDC” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-04-16/apple-...
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I know we’re not supposed to gripe about moderation, but I wish that there was a guideline to prefix the title with “Opinion:”. A lot of people see the domain bloomberg.com and assume “news”.
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It was, but that changed as of RHEL 8. I suspect that AmazonLinux (also originally downstream of RHEL) caused Red Hat to reconsider this. I’m not sure why exactly. Perhaps Red Hat/IBM compete with Amazon in some space, or perhaps they
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by jt2190 4y ago
Well explained! We see the same phenomenon in bank "savings" accounts, which only pay a meager interest rate, but protect the saver from essentially all the downside risk. (Contrast with, for example, investing directly in the sto
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by jt2190 4y ago
> This is a curious line… Literally in the next sentence the author also remarks that he finds it odd: > “That makes me curious.” He finds it curious because he also finds the technology is magical. Eventually he concludes: > “Le
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by jt2190 4y ago
Here’s a 2013 picture and a little writeup about P-22, the “great cat”: How this photo turned a reclusive mountain lion into a Hollywood icon (2022) https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/p22-holly...
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> The thing you really want to do, and every doctor should aim for, is to stack the placebo effect on top of a well-established treatment effect. Psychologist Alia Crum does research into this area. “Harnessing the Power of Placebos” by
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In software we call this a “micro-optimization”… Something that programmers waste a lot of time fussing with while ignoring the factors that dominate the overall performance. Fiddle with LinkedIn if you want, but understand that it probably
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Wouldn’t it be simpler to just ask for a signing bonus?
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Both Type 1 and Type 2 describe engineers who acknowledge that their software is part of a larger system run by humans for some purpose. Type 1 and Type 2 make a different decision about where to draw the boundary between the software and t
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by jt2190 4y ago
> Officially there's no explanation for the image at all, but "It's some teenagers at my local high school, plus a lot of Photoshop" doesn't feel at all likely, does it? Consider that a state-level adversary woul

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