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by lbotos 7y ago
I watched a video recently where a Mastering Engineer said that they will cut different releases for different streaming services. There is even a tool they recommended to compare the masters to different platforms formatting: https:/
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by lbotos 7y ago
Does someone smarter than myself see a downside of using Turbo for heatmap visualizations?
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by lbotos 7y ago
Not GP, but at someone else on HN's suggestion, I've been following Khan Academy's banking course: https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-fi...
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by lbotos 7y ago
I, lay person here, to see if I get it: > Huge amounts of cheap debt allow companies to buy lots of stock, driving up prices. > Stock prices inflated in such a way are not supported by fundamentals and so the downside risk greatly inc
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by lbotos 7y ago
google for flights sends me to the direct airline 99% of the time (and they give you a choice to use a portal). It's less of a portal, and more of an aggregator that funnels you... like a search engine.
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by lbotos 7y ago
There was a live streamed announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1OunoCyuhY
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by lbotos 7y ago
> I don't think it's that bad for CircleCI. CircleCI's focus is CI/CD and it's highly unlikely GitHub is going to do it as well as them. I don't think it's bad for entrenched CircleCI users, sure, but I
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by lbotos 7y ago
The problem with that is it sort of invalidates their whole "booster pack" model. Magic is also a "family" of games, so they'd either need to do some sort of tiering: - pay fee for unlimited phantom drafts - pay mor
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by lbotos 7y ago
In trading as an individual, you don't need to beat the big guys, you just need to hit your objectives (hedging/profit targets). If someone moved later than the big guns, but in the same direction, with reasonable risk assessment&
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by lbotos 7y ago
do you have a source that the fed used this metric as a reason for lowering rates?
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by lbotos 7y ago
There is a YC company that is trying to do this: https://triplebyte.com/ Search for stories about it on HN to see how it's going.
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by lbotos 7y ago
Yes, but also, it was basically linux, which meant that it was close enough to the hosts that you were connecting to. It was a nightmare to admin Linux from Windows in the past. I have a college aged brother, and Microsoft currently owns Gi
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by lbotos 7y ago
So, I'm younger, but there was absolutely a shift in thinking from web 1.0 to 2.0 in that 2006-2008 era. You could even call it the Ajaxian era. http://ajaxian.com/ I read that blog every day and the techniques and too
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by lbotos 7y ago
Cue black mirror episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
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by lbotos 7y ago
Your argument here is against "business". In a dream world, where we could build for building's sake, and create "more perfect" things with no considerations for cost, I'd agree with you, but businesses (in the
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by lbotos 7y ago
Are you familiar with "Every Frame a Painting"? That's a great start: https://www.youtube.com/user/everyframeapainting
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by lbotos 7y ago
@Keufran, I didn't see your email in your profile. If you email me at my work email in my profile, I'd be happy to put you in touch with our UX team directly.
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by lbotos 7y ago
I work at GitLab. I just passed this along to the UX team. Thanks for raising the question!
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by lbotos 7y ago
My understanding is as follows: In a traditional IPO, the company finds a bank to underwrite the deal and that bank gets shares. That bank is then taking on the risk of the shares flopping and tries to sell. The SEC rules protect the underw
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by lbotos 7y ago
Uh, I think you are making an argument against safety and i'm not sure if you are being sarcastic? It's one thing to theorize, discuss and build something dangerous, it's another to actually use it. See Flamethrowers.
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by lbotos 7y ago
> The problem is only one side is evaluated. I tell all of my friends that it's your job to interview the interviewer as well. The company is about to get 8 hours of your day for the next few years. figure out how you can figure out
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by lbotos 7y ago
I agree with you re: keeping them alive, but the US is very much perpetually at war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_lengths_of_United_... Almost so much so, that it seems like a reason to keep them alive.
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by lbotos 7y ago
I was an IRCCloud customer for a while. It was really good, and I left because my friends switched to a slack. :( Idling in IRC was 10x better than slack.
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by lbotos 7y ago
some clients can, yes.
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by lbotos 7y ago
> Driving on the Autobahn also made me realize that buying a car for its speed is extremely pointless in the Bay Area There is plenty of fun to be had of route 1, in 1st or 2nd gear, with a few horsepower underneath of you. Don't dr
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by lbotos 7y ago
> Taking this to the next logical analytical step would be really powerful. How does this economic recovery compare with prior recoveries? When the next recession hits, who will bear the heaviest burden? Do you know of anyone who is doin
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by lbotos 7y ago
Examples? I believe you, just wanna think about this more.
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by lbotos 7y ago
Isn't the root of the problem this: > To fund all this loan-making, the shadow banks have turned to insurance companies, pension funds, university endowments and wealthy investors, offering them a chance to buy into a diversified po
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by lbotos 7y ago
According to Pew, They did: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/07/31/gen-zers-mi...
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by lbotos 7y ago
> Plenty of part time employment is like that. For example, many people that work retail or service part time have very flexible schedules. They typically have an availability chart and then if they need a day off last minute, they are o

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