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by kelthan 3y ago
Yes, because it's exploitable. Systems that require very high cognitive load on their human operators (whether machines, programming languages, etc.) are alway destined to fail. Human beings are not good at doing boring, repetitious wo
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by kelthan 3y ago
This is mostly to deter malicious behavior because it makes it unprofitable for bad actors to publish malware by spamming the store with dumb apps that are only life-support systems for their little packages of joy. It's a high enough
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by kelthan 3y ago
There are objective truths in the world. They are called facts.
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by kelthan 3y ago
Check with any of the nearby college/university business programs for the names of Angel funding groups or programs. They will have a lot of them handy.
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by kelthan 3y ago
Bitonic sort has a couple of properties that make it poor fit for a generic sorting algorithm: * The number of items being sorted must be a power of 2 (2^n). * The number of comparisons it makes is larger than other sorting algorithms like
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by kelthan 3y ago
I have an Epson with refillable ink tanks, which has been great.
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by kelthan 3y ago
At which point Apple will be facing an anti-trust lawsuit.
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by kelthan 3y ago
Metrics can only measure one or more aspects of performance, assuming they are well crafted. And, metrics rarely cover all aspects of work that is being done. Take a few abstract metrics for example: * X SLOC written / unit time * X Bu
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by kelthan 3y ago
I think the point is that if he can pivot to do all the other things, then the social media will follow. However, the markets that he wants to get into require a high degree of customer trust--and I'm thinking he doesn't have much
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by kelthan 3y ago
I completely agree with you. As noted by others, this is not a question of managing gender equality in competition: chess has no inherent gender advantage. Though there are significant structural biases for men in competition which is why
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by kelthan 3y ago
Take a look at Vale: https://vale.sh/
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by kelthan 3y ago
Reminder, Twitter (now X) is a privately owned company. Comments like "How does anyone in our government allow this nonsense?" are answered by the simple statement that the First Amendment allows companies like Twitter (X) to do t
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by kelthan 3y ago
Government spending and business/personal finance management are two completely different things. While lots of people like to equate them, they are fundamentally very different.
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by kelthan 3y ago
Congress does not make "just in time decisions" in the way you imply. If Congress passes a bill for some program, they agree in the bill what the program will and won't do and they estimate the costs of that program over the
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by kelthan 3y ago
The debt ceiling "crisis" is a completely manufactured political cliff. It serves no purpose other than to be used as a wedge during political debates. When Congress passes a bill for anything that requires spending, the time to d
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by kelthan 3y ago
That proposal is a perfect example of "enshitification". It also shows that as a CEO she sees Twitter users as product to be sold, not a user base to be catered to. This is the exact trend that newspapers and print media went thro
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by kelthan 3y ago
Car buying is going to be a challenging market: * There are a number of entrenched vendors in the space already for both new and used cars. * Car companies and dealerships are working to eliminate the "invoice vs MSRP" price gap
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by kelthan 3y ago
That is _probably_ what he means, but there is nothing in the quotes in the article to confirm that is _actually_ the case. Also, the comment at the end of the article "... RDMA and other key drivers behind Oracle’s ascent to being the
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by kelthan 3y ago
Because the education market, mostly state run, is significantly underfunded and therefore quite careful about how it spends money. It has same basic attributes as social services startups: very fiscally conservative buyers with long lead-t
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by kelthan 3y ago
At this point, we don't know that there was reckless malfeasance at play. However, there is plenty of circumstantial data to indicate that may have been the case. There was certainly an explicit and willful disregard for expert advice
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by kelthan 3y ago
Agreed. Hopefully, this will result in a requirement for "black boxes" or "flight recorders" for this type of recreational/tourist endeavour going forward. They aren't going to prevent the accident that just oc
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by kelthan 3y ago
Air pressure decreases as you go up at a far lower rate than water pressure increases as you go down. Air pressure at 30K feet is ~0.3 Bar compared to 1.0 Bar at sea level. Water pressure increases by 1 Bar every 32ft (10m) of depth. To see
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by kelthan 3y ago
For those that may not understand the physics: There may have been monitors that detected structural issues in the hull (nucleation above), but at the pressures that the Titan was operating at, the amount of advanced warning is likely very,
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by kelthan 3y ago
There is an automated system for requesting and getting approval for covers, if you want to "cover" your ass while covering a song. (Ahem.) It basically says "yes" and logs the fact that you requested it so you have proo
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by kelthan 3y ago
All of the FAANG companies have railed against the overreach of DCMA Takedown Notices. However, they are bound by law to comply with them.
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by kelthan 3y ago
That is part of the rules required of distribution sites like YouTube, Apple Music, Spotify, etc., as defined in US law as part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA). Hence the name "DCMA Takedown Notice".
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by kelthan 3y ago
Maybe... Until 2019, 100% of the royalties for the song "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by The Verve, released in 1997 and their most recognizable song, went to the Rolling Stones. The Verve sampled the distinctive repeating string theme
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by kelthan 3y ago
A friend of mine who is a managing partner at a law firm specializing in IP law once told me that "once a case goes to a jury trial, it's a 50/50 chance that you win--and the odds only go down from there."
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by kelthan 4y ago
I suspect that it's part of the push to force companies to pay the $1000 for "the checkmark." Apparently, the conversion to subscription services and for-fee validation is not producing the desired effects so the Chief Twit a
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by kelthan 4y ago
Just a clarification: Cohen plead guilty as part of a plea deal. So the case never went to trial with an adversarial argument of facts between Prosecution and Defense. Therefore, we don't really know how good the case was. The fact tha

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