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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Wow, with $1.75 billion raised. What happens now?
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Here's their Show HN from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515494 It's always interesting to see the mix of "this is amazing" and "this will never work, should be open source" Some
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
There are if you assume there are legitimate uses for Bitcoin. Without mixers, your entire transaction history and balance is public. It would be like broadcasting your bank account to the world. If I was paying my friend some Bitcoin I wou
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
What do they mean “this ad is paid for by Uber Technologies”... it’s a push notification they sent in their own app. Who is paying who?
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Would they, if you put on in the middle of the interstate?
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Yes they are trying to make FB sound like a big bully, but it’s really reaching. Google wouldn’t want admin@realgoogleoversightboard.com sending out emails. No sympathy here. They can buy a new domain, they weren’t “removed from the intern
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Is it important the host looked behind the doors? If the host had just picked at random from the two doors, and it happened to show a goat, the odds would be the same.
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
I don’t consider 500ms “low latency”. You should be below 250ms before you start touting it as a key selling point.
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
It reminds me of Uber shredding 10s of thousands of electric bikes after selling JUMP because they did not want to deal with any liability risk: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52832791
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
The linked report says: “In FY19, NASA employed more than 18,000 civil servants and had a budget of $21.5 billion. “ https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/2020_na...
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Even entry level at stripe is above $150k: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Stripe/salaries/Software-Engi...
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
What (dollars:life) value do you think is the cutoff point? I wonder what the dollars:life cutoff value is across various policies, using (marginal safety improvement:the economic costs) to calculate it.
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Yes the authors here really sound like this is an argument to relax the car seat age, but that sounds like a ridiculous argument to me. Do you think we should kill this random child if it would lead to (8000/57) = 104 families who can&
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
You can always plug a box into the TV, even if it’s a smart TV. The software can still update. Does the hardware needed to play a video really become obsolete in 1 year? Why, do hardware decoders improve that fast? People aren’t using these
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
The actual announcement: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/09/listening-... (They quoted it twice yet didn’t link to it - what’s up with that?)
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
For some context of scale: Netflix is between 12-19% of all internet bandwidth
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
What do you mean by "so security focused that C/C++ just won't do"? Anything on the internet should be cautious of memory unsafety issues. Something like an image processing library I won't consider 'security
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
He is referring to marginal time for both cases.
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Yes, this sounds straight out of a dystopian future novel. Missing an arm or leg? You will be hit. Extremely short or tall? Hit Walk with a limp? Hit Pink hair? Hit
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
https://archive.is/8XrNy
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Does herd immunity work for COVID-19? I though we did not yet know whether infection leads to future immunity. Even better than 18 low-risk and 2 high risk is 2 low-risk and 2 high-risk. I think the intention here is to reduce infections u
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
As an example, picking constants: you may have a chosen the constants based on some experimentation, but including the full details of the experiment using code comments is nonsensical. It would be great if you could still somehow have thes
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
There’s seems to be some in-between of metadata you want to include about the code, including discussions, but is too lengthy for traditional code comments, or wants to reference other parts of the code, or just doesn’t mesh with traditiona
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
I would assume there are more people who would pay $10 a month ($120/year) for access to all of these AAA games than there are people who buy >2 new AAA games a year (~$120/year). Thus, roughly speaking, it should be profitable
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Does the iOS/Android permissions model really allow accelerator access at all times? Otherwise this article sounds alarmist
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
There’s something funny about an otherwise very advanced project being broken due to css issues. No matter how far you advance in the field you will still need to google how to center a div
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Yes. If my friend had pitched Airbnb or Uber many years ago, I’m sure I would have dismissed them as impossibly risky. Or Snapchat as only useful in niches. Or Peloton as way overpriced compared to exercise videos on YouTube.
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Couldn’t you just use the user agent if you wanted to do this? Or does google crawl without revealing itself?
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Could you not just flip on your devices screen recorder?
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
They are still the exciting workplaces. If you are passionate about privacy, I believe one of the best things you could do in practice is is join a big tech co and work on E2E encryption, security, privacy controls, homomorphic encryption,

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