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by madrox 6y ago
We do, which is why it's so attractive to look at Bitcoin's energy consumption. The result is a big number, but we don't know how bad this number actually is because we don't have fairly accurate measurements of any othe
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by madrox 6y ago
There are a lot of arguments against Bitcoin, and the energy consumption argument has always struck me as the most asinine. It's an anchoring fallacy rooted in the fact that bitcoin's energy consumption is easy to estimate with a
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by madrox 6y ago
It's incredible how much flack this thing is getting...especially for its appearance. Clearly gone are the days when designers believed that form followed function. This vehicle was designed to maneuver closely around other objects lik
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by madrox 6y ago
Not visually appealing at first glance, but the posts I've seen by postal workers are that this thing looks great. The cargo capacity will handle the increase in package delivery, and it's much easier to see around the edges to ma
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by madrox 6y ago
This speaks to me as someone who's critical of many of the hit stories in our popular culture. In the last decade, I've often wondered why our relationship to the future has changed so much since the first days of Star Trek. The e
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by madrox 6y ago
My understanding is that this story was run through the New York Times fact checking department. Is that not the equivalent of testing?
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by madrox 6y ago
Scapegoating an individual is also an excellent way to ensure nothing gets fixed. Was it a cover-up of bad behavior when Amazon refused to release the name and/or fire the engineer whose error caused the 2017 S3 outage? We don't f
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by madrox 6y ago
Whether it's governments or corporations, there is constant tension between "move safely" and "move fast and break things." One reason why tech companies managed to dominate many fields is that they are less worried
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by madrox 6y ago
Perhaps failing is so normalized in tech that I'm naive to how the rest of the world thinks, but I don't think failures of the kind Caliphate made should cost someone their job no more than an outage should cost an engineer theirs
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by madrox 6y ago
Of course it isn't good. This is HN, and we want the web advertising industry to go away. However, that's not going to be the outcome. Antitrust scrutiny in this case means making it more fair to third party advertisers...the peop
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by madrox 6y ago
This is basically an ad hominem argument. There is no room to discuss Sandbox on its merits with this stance. Yet we're debating this on an article whose every Sandbox criticism comes from other industry professionals who are just as w
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by madrox 6y ago
I hope no one is saying Privacy Sandbox is worse than third party cookies, or is trusting this article to form an opinion about it. Web advertising was a $319 billion dollar industry in 2019. Does anyone wonder who may be lobbying their g
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by madrox 6y ago
Playing devil's advocate, how is Google & Chrome different from, say, Apple & App Store? Thinking about iOS like a browser, arguably what Privacy Sandbox does is not that different from iOS 14's AppTrackingTransparency Fra
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by madrox 6y ago
I totally get that package management is Hard. However, I feel like Homebrew should be able to track what's there because it's a dependency vs what's there because the user wants it to be and act accordingly. Granted, I'
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by madrox 6y ago
Having been approached by Google for these kinds of projects, I 100% believe this. I was leading a team approached by them to do something similar for Google Glass. There was no real incentive there except the privilege of being an early gl
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by madrox 6y ago
In addition to most FPS games, I found that roguelikes, platformers, and RPGs were still pretty satisfying. Basically, any game I could simply react to that didn't require thinking more than a couple seconds in advance. A lot of Ninten
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by madrox 6y ago
I used to be really into strategy games. When Starcraft 2 came out, I went hard on the competitive ladder. Then I got my first management job, and overnight I felt like I had no energy to play strategy games anymore. I found I needed to pla
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by madrox 6y ago
I was thinking about Pidgin the other day when Beeper was on the front page. It seems we're back on the consolidation bandwagon for IM clients. Which leaves me more grateful than ever that browsers have (more or less) avoided this yoyo
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by madrox 6y ago
I have a lot of admiration for Reddit. They're the only place I can still go to in 2021 that doesn't feel like getting a window into the dumpster fire that is other social networks like Twitter. The author is also quite right that
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by madrox 6y ago
I get the impression this author is dancing around some particular bad experiences they’ve had, which is the real subject of this post. Without understanding those details it’s hard to get where this comes from. There’s certainly a lot of u
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by madrox 6y ago
A similarly unintentional comedy in translation was a book I found several years ago that I believe was an autotranslation: "How to Good-bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way?". The a
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by madrox 6y ago
I used to work at a company with a 100 year old brand, and they took their perception seriously. Every few years, they conducted a brand audit and I got to attend an internal presentation on how they do it. Along the way, they mentioned tha
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by madrox 6y ago
I think you’re right. This is the thesis behind my current startup. Before you build anything, you have to know what community is being underserved. I’ve believed one of those areas is esports but over time generalized that to current event
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by madrox 6y ago
When I got my first job reporting to a non-technical executive and had authority to pick the PM tool, I thought this was my chance to find the Tool That Didn't Suck. Going down that rabbit hole led me to the sad truth that it'll b
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by madrox 6y ago
That is more or less my understanding. This person clearly feels comfortable with his own work. His choice. I would never inject his homebrew, and I would not trust my own understanding enough to do this myself. I don’t think that makes me
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by madrox 6y ago
I don't think the problem is the companies but the band itself, which follows physical laws. GP has experience with the limits of this band because it's used by Sprint/T-Mobile.
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by madrox 6y ago
There's no literature I'm aware of studying links between DSPD and Alzheimer's. However, DSPD is characterized as delayed sleep...not less sleep. As long as you're getting sufficient sleep and feel rested when you do sle
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by madrox 6y ago
I find it ironic that the bottom of this press release is a blurb encouraging you to follow them on Facebook and Twitter.
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by madrox 6y ago
My dad did the same and got me into it. Whenever I came home to visit, we'd end up watching Smiley's People. I didn't really appreciate it at 19, but by the time I was 27 I realized it was a masterpiece.
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by madrox 6y ago
What this doesn't mean, though, is Buy Everything. Buying everything is also how you get poor quality and poor process. It's important to recognize what's core to your culture. It's why I prefer discussing this as a what

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