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by leppr 6y ago
The crazy valuation of TESLA has more to do with the flight-to-stocks caused by the unprecedented dollar printing of 2020, combined with the "memeability" of the brand and its CEO, than the fundamentals of the company.
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by leppr 6y ago
> I expect my property to still be mine and protected by the police. Non-US citizens can and do own property in the US. Property tax is separate from the US tax on citizenship talked about here.
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by leppr 6y ago
This userscript is very useful for hiding pinterest search results: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-d... I also use it for w3schools and a few other common search result spam sites.
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by leppr 6y ago
Maps.me is likely going to launch some cryptocurrency/blockchain integration.
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> I'd say that it's very unlikely that the UX will be ruined by ads [...]. If there's one thing he does well it's respecting his users. If there's one thing Telegram isn't good at, it's having a UX th
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by leppr 6y ago
May be oversimplification but I reason that this stems from the two cultures having opposed attitudes towards the "weird": USA: focus on, make fun of, pretend niche is bigger than it is Japan: pretend it doesn't exist, ignore
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by leppr 6y ago
I'm assuming the intended use-case will be clicking on a shortcut to Github's integrated "Edit & do pull-request" function embedded in the MDN website pages, and write one's edit in the Github editor GUI, which
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by leppr 6y ago
I bind those commands to "shift-j" and "shift-k" and heavily abuse them. It's not pretty, one could argue that the mouse is more efficient for such movements, but for me it's faster in practice than moving my h
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by leppr 6y ago
Dark mode is not a fad, it's simply a good option to have in the valid cases you describe[1], and has been available in many products for decades. The reasons we're seeing more of it are that developers are switching their bad har
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by leppr 6y ago
I'm feeling like, outside the small circles of OSS lib developers and FAANG-level companies employing rockstar front-end devs, there is less and less appreciation for UI as an area to invest talent and money in. Perhaps this is due to
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by leppr 6y ago
That's sad to hear. The situation with smartphones is magnitudes worse than VR headsets. First, VR headsets have competitive consumer-respecting alternatives (Valve Index), second, they are for now purely an entertainment device, while
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by leppr 6y ago
Creating fresh accounts for devices requiring them should be standard practice, and companies not allowing this boycotted. When you buy an Android phone, Google gives you a "free" account if you chose to create one (no phone numbe
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by leppr 6y ago
I think it can be satisfactory under certain conditions. City-scale works because people can vote with their feet (the binary Keynesian beauty contest has an escape hatch), diversity is somewhat limited, and there is somewhat more accountab
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by leppr 6y ago
This prioritization of issues (where for a rational actor, economics will most often be at the top), is why democratic republic systems don't allow democracy to permeate less "important" issues. Citizens don't get to vot
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by leppr 6y ago
It's doable: https://youtu.be/F_Uiy40vEj8?t=412
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by leppr 6y ago
https://www.coindesk.com/investment-giant-alliancebernstein-... American institutions are definitely going in. It's a solid ponzi, why would they shun that one when they went in all the others?
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by leppr 6y ago
You may be right on the first point, I won't speculate. I just wanted to point out that it's unlikely to be something endemic to the space. > What's the real material racism that crypto stops that other forms of payment o
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by leppr 6y ago
> Coinbase's own (unrefuted) numbers show they are far worse than other tech companies. Where is your conception based off of? They are (were?) at 3% vs 6% average, on small absolute numbers. Not great but certainly within margin
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by leppr 6y ago
I find it difficult to conceive how one could work at/manage a mainstream cryptocurrency company and be racist. Both empirically (it's the most multicultural tech scene I ever witnessed), and in principles (one of the core tenets
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by leppr 6y ago
It's important to notice that the NYC article is very light in details as well. Maybe they're keeping the details as ammunition for a legal battle, but until more is revealed to the public, it's hard to either excuse or conde
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by leppr 6y ago
Indeed. The only thing the current "tiny house" concept is a solution to is bad building laws. Clever design and engineering allow people to live in an alternative way that lawmakers forgot to outlaw, but there's nothing idea
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by leppr 6y ago
What are the advantages compared to say, Rclone which is open-source and supports a wide variety of storage backends[1] and E2E encryption[2] as well? [1]: https://rclone.org/overview/ , [2]: https://rclone.o
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by leppr 6y ago
Not wrong since they have this in the Github: > It is released as a browser webapp and also packaged as an cross-platform desktop application (Mac, Windows, and Linux). and they provide a docker image for hosting it easily, which is ho
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by leppr 6y ago
Good thread to remind everyone who may have rarely-used Google accounts they want to keep: set up regular calendar reminders to login to the accounts. I've recently been locked out of a couple of accounts I hadn't used in more tha
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by leppr 6y ago
Not all devices have DNA authentication on wake yet, some people still use those old "desktop" computers with browsers logged in to their online accounts via cookies, which anyone could use if found unlocked.
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Also, sites often use automatic AMP generators which break subtly, fail to load or omit images.
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There is a very rational and not emotion-driven incentive to spread your subjective preferences. For vim: plug-in development effort. Nowadays we have to recycle VSCode ones because Vim is seen as too niche to develop for it directly. For v
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by leppr 6y ago
It's trying to explicit and bring grandparent's ideas to their logical conclusion. I dislike slippery slope-type arguments, but I fail to see how one can coherently agree with their comment and not mine.
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by leppr 6y ago
Censorship is the last-resort solution. Ideally, you'd want to have control over people's education and social structures to prevent deviation before any censorship is even needed. It's a real shame, because it seems we had r
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by leppr 6y ago
For me it's the LCD screen versus an AMOLED that is a big blocker on mobile devices. But as I understand for now this will probably mostly be used by hackers and developers themselves, not as a daily driver for lambda users who are con

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