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by m12k 5y ago
I understand why people make NFTs (to cash in on the craze), but I still don't understand why anyone buys them (outside of money laundering).
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by m12k 5y ago
Also, maybe you intended for the repository to be called "ultimate-saas-js" instead of "utlimate-saas-js"?
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by m12k 5y ago
On the flipside, I've met "10x engineers" who always prioritized working on highly visible and strategic new features, and excelled at shipping them as fast as possible, even if it meant racking up massive technical debt. By
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by m12k 5y ago
I mean, IP is by its very nature designed to be monopolistic, and with the decline of manufacturing and the rise of tech, IP is making up a bigger and bigger part of the US economy. So of course it's becoming more monopolistic.
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I feel like it's missing the whole question of what to do if you'll be hitting water instead of dirt, trees or snow. I've heard speculation that you could improve your odds of surviving by e.g. throwing down a pair of keys or
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by m12k 5y ago
"Quarter pounder" sounds like something eaten by a quarterback. "Third pounder" sounds like something eaten by the guy that always comes in third place.
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by m12k 5y ago
I think you're exactly right - it's not that Apple can't see which way the wind is blowing, it's that they can still make billions more by dragging out the process and not giving an inch on anything they care about until
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by m12k 5y ago
If you use a tool with global illumination, so it's not up to you to fake how the light bounces, but it's calculated for you, then you're much less likely to get the problem you describe. If the tech you want to play around w
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by m12k 5y ago
There's always been two Americas, but there's been a balkanization in recent years. Until a handful of years ago, I had never heard of a president that didn't at least pay lip service to the idea of unity, of serving all Amer
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by m12k 5y ago
"can expose everything inside a room" Can estimate the size, position and movement direction of moving objects within a room.
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by m12k 5y ago
Saving the world and making a living are not guaranteed to align well. So I'd argue that it makes sense to first work to become financially independent, then spending that freedom in pursuit of making a difference, without being influe
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by m12k 5y ago
You realize how much you're a product of your time, when you hear a piece of music being played[1] and your first thought is that it must be satire. I'm so used to music from that era being satirized (e.g. in the Fallout games) th
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by m12k 5y ago
Veritasium did a video on this recently [1] where he talks about how YouTube saw falling engagement when only showing users their subscribed channels, so they started recommending more non-subscribed content a couple years ago (he talks abo
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by m12k 5y ago
TikTok seems emblematic of China's overall approach compared to the West - shows up late to the party, but studies all those hard-won lessons to copy and later surpass the most successful Western products. The free market is great at f
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by m12k 5y ago
GitHub Actions can do some neat things. I got tired of waiting for Dependabot (tool that makes automatic PRs to update your middleware, acquired by GitHub) to add an option to group PRs together (it opens a separate PR for each dependency t
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by m12k 5y ago
Could you elaborate? Did SCA somehow drive you to stop accepting credit card payments? Are you using a payment provider that doesn't offer support for 2FA?
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by m12k 5y ago
I think the solution is their requirement of 2FA for credit card payments[1]. Basically instead of this massive, expensive system to deal with fraud when it happens, and everyone paying banks to sometimes eat the cost of that, make it not h
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by m12k 5y ago
Copyright was invented as a reaction to the invention of the printing press. Whenever technology threatens to commoditize something, there's hand wringing and pushback from those who benefit from that thing not being a commodity. What
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by m12k 5y ago
The task of "making a consumer aware that a product exists that they would be interested in purchasing" can be valuable to the consumer. The problem is that since it's a task currently being performed by the sellers of specif
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Well, yes, they could certainly try. But "happier and healthier in the long run" is much harder for them to measure than "has responded to instant gratification". It's much harder to A/B test effectively at lon
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by m12k 5y ago
Humans are instinctively drawn to a lot of things that are really bad for us in significant amounts, because we are designed to fit into an environment where those things are scarce. Sugar, fat, inactivity, "interesting news", out
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by m12k 5y ago
Legislation like the GDPR is a step in the right direction, by defining and enforcing your ownership over your own data. It seems like we need another similar legislation to define our rights when we license IP - e.g. so I can't just l
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by m12k 5y ago
Sure, but even if it was an illusion, they spent a lot of time and energy building it up, just to burst it like this.
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by m12k 5y ago
Isn't VR extremely latency sensitive? I remember reading Carmack's blog posts about needing to reduce input and screen lag even on local machines to make it bearable. It just seems to me like the least likely place for streaming t
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by m12k 5y ago
Is there any way you ever make $320m back by selling a better performance version of teamviewer/remote desktop? Or is there some other play here - e.g. a Stadia/GeForce Now competitor?
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by m12k 5y ago
There's several reason why even with highly effective vaccines, we might see worse infections when we do see them among the vaccinated. For example, if the vaccines work well, then there should be a bias where we see the most breakthro
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by m12k 5y ago
As someone who knows quite little about Android (currently in the Apple ecosystem, but considering jumping ship): When you use these privacy-focused Android versions without Google Play, is there a consistent way to get apps from the Play s
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by m12k 5y ago
First off, congrats for tackling a problem like this! I'm wondering if there isn't also a big opportunity in selling this imperfect produce to food factories? Consumers have to be on board with big/small/misshapen veggie
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by m12k 5y ago
People who want to be clever use language to make simple things complicated. People who are clever use language to make complicated things simple.
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by m12k 5y ago
See also https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

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