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by jxf 5y ago
The article's tone is way stronger than "suggests". There are multiple quotes from people flat-out saying the whole mythology of Abagnale is fictitious.
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by jxf 5y ago
> an economy where no tracking is possible might not perform as well as an economy that tracks everything, for knowledge means better resource allocation. Such an economy is still very possible: just pay people for their data. Giving it
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by jxf 5y ago
I confess I'm pretty ignorant about the history and origins of Rust, and it's not something I tend to investigate deeply for a lot of my tools. But I derive a great deal of my current livelihood from Rust and helping firms use it
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by jxf 6y ago
Was this talk recorded?
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by jxf 6y ago
The reason energy recovery in cars makes sense is that you're constantly stopping and starting. In a plane you definitely don't want the engine to stop running while you're in the air.
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by jxf 6y ago
A fantastic summary. My bread and butter is helping companies get to the cloud, but my number one guideline is that the local developer experience must be supported as much as the infrastructure improvements are. Otherwise, you get a mishma
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by jxf 6y ago
While the result is a big relief, I think it's not as decisive as I'm noticing some headlines (and commenters) are claiming. One of the big open questions is "are APIs copyrightable?" The court skirted that question, and
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by jxf 6y ago
There's a nonzero chance this is another Dropbox. "Why would anyone pay for a taskbar widget that's just rsync?", wrote some folks in 2007 (right here on HN! [0]). But people derive all kinds of value from the right cont
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by jxf 6y ago
Sure, but that doesn't mean that any one person is protected from, say, a capricious and arbitrary manager — and it's absolutely legal. In any case, saying "a company cannot fire you just like that" is patently false in
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by jxf 6y ago
> A company cannot fire you just like that. In most of the US, they absolutely can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
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BMW charging drivers to activate automated software safety feature(twitter.com)
17 points by jxf 6y ago|13 comments
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by jxf 6y ago
I've lived in multiple places where I could walk to everything I needed to walk to within 15 minutes. Why do you think it's hard for you to imagine this could be true?
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by jxf 6y ago
Top of page: "Build a Business, Not an Audience". Bottom of page: "Powered by ConvertKit". (I do think the author is genuine in his point; I just found that juxtaposition funny.)
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by jxf 6y ago
I think that is the point, though. If you're small and you want to focus on building things, it doesn't matter very much what it's running on; it's almost always going to be a better use of your time to make it someone e
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by jxf 6y ago
The main advantage of Kubernetes isn't really Kubernetes anymore — it's the ecosystem of stuff around it and the innumerable vendors you can pay to make your problems someone else's problems.
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by jxf 6y ago
Just because an executable is cross-platform doesn't mean it can exploit issues on other platforms. Those issues have to actually exist there, and most vulnerabilities don't look like that.
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by jxf 6y ago
A VC firm has general partners (GPs) who own the firm and manage the money and funds. It may also (and usually does) have limited partners (LPs) who invest money in one or more funds but don't play any management role.
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by jxf 6y ago
Or more people need to learn German? The community is already there, obviously — if others want to join, that's how they do it.
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by jxf 6y ago
This is interesting in that it provokes the question of what an app's rating "means". Clearly, if you were getting the app because you expected to be able to trade GME and you can't, then this is a good signal not to get
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by jxf 6y ago
Being new means you might not know you need to do that, though.
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by jxf 6y ago
A company with 5 employees is very unlikely to have a complicated ownership structure and so wouldn't be hamstrung by the act. You are penalized if you are small, complicated, and anonymous. You aren't penalized _just_ for being s
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by jxf 6y ago
This looks dead. Is there a cache?
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by jxf 6y ago
Also not to be confused with Peter Norvig of Google.
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by jxf 6y ago
> 25 MBit/s is 25 Mbit/s there is no difference in service between a community ISP and a commercial/public company ISP except the price No difference except the price, really? So, you don't think any of the following
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by jxf 6y ago
This doesn't seem like a very compelling argument to me. They serve different purposes. Do Habitat for Humanity stores put Home Depot out of business? Do food banks put grocery stores out of business? Does offering free water as a drin
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by jxf 6y ago
> Especially so since I have a mission to replace all my dropdown & modal boilerplate with <details><summary> and <dialog> elements, and I like to build services that still work if JS is disabled. Can you elaborate
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by jxf 6y ago
I misunderstood the title as being disappointed that they won second place (as opposed to first place), rather than being disappointed that they won an award at all.
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by jxf 6y ago
That's not really what a natural monopoly is. In a natural monopoly, the high barrier to entry means it's essentially wasteful to encourage competition. For example, imagine operating the first power plant in a desert region. If i
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by jxf 6y ago
Part of the value of Encarta was in the human curation of what was interesting. Wikipedia includes (by necessity) everything — but an encyclopedia would probably devote more space to (say) Nigerian history than to (say) the in-game statisti
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by jxf 6y ago
Q: What part of this is a TOS violation?

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