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by marcod 3y ago
I feel like AWS (and Lambda in this article) doesn't get enough credit for a bunch of revolutionary things they did. Don't get me wrong, I bitch about them every day, but credit where credit is due :p
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by marcod 3y ago
> Digg died because reddit existed. Sorry, but digg died because they told their community in unmistakable terms (aka v4) that they don't matter. Reddit happened to be there to take the refugees.
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by marcod 3y ago
> These federated things need to be set up so that there's "no wrong door" I would argue they are. Any of the servers will work fine. There needs to be a paradigm shift that only things that are centrally managed and have
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by marcod 3y ago
Only because they don't factor in what their users will do when they get wind of it... become ex-users.
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by marcod 3y ago
> I don't agree that it's Amazon's job to police how I use my own device. That's not what the ban was about. His account was banned because they wanted to protect their drivers from future racist encounters. Obviously
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by marcod 3y ago
It's really not that bad. I use Amazon Echo to turn on/off my lights. If my home automation doesn't work, I can still just use the light switch to turn them off and then they will come on. Or if there is an Amazon issue, I ca
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by marcod 3y ago
I just deleted my reddit shortcuts. sigh And when I went to log out of reddit, I got https://www.redditstatic.com/youbrokeit3.png
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by marcod 3y ago
I mean in the reddit case the business reason is "monetize the platform as much as possible", which clashes with a platform that's nothing without its users and the content they create. A good business strategy would be to bu
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by marcod 3y ago
Any employer can increase the amount of domain knowledge in their software development teams at any time. All it takes it giving them the time of the employees who use the product. Ergo, the actual problem is that is too expensive for most
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by marcod 3y ago
tastes like shit and also doesn't help! TM
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by marcod 3y ago
filed under noshitsherlock
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by marcod 3y ago
Moderation was never solved. To name just two issues: It doesn't scale without paying a lot of people, and deciding what to moderate precisely, reproducibly, and fairly is a major unresolved issue. How can you look at twitter and faceb
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by marcod 3y ago
It's not very efficient?!? I am shocked!
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by marcod 3y ago
> fascism is a mass political movement that emphasizes extreme nationalism, militarism, and the supremacy of both the nation and the single, powerful leader over the individual citizen. And what you are saying is a stretch.
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by marcod 3y ago
If the hosting entity is in the US don't forget lawyer fees ....
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by marcod 3y ago
I was just thinking of how when Digg died, Reddit was there for us. Onto the next best thing!
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by marcod 3y ago
I mean, you can find disposable electric toothbrushes in stores ... sustainability does not seem to be among the primary design criteria.
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by marcod 3y ago
They don't always use it, because I can archive a new page from my mobile phone browser, which doesn't even support extensions. My guess is that most content providers with paywalls serve the entire content, so search engines can
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by marcod 3y ago
How could anybody claim that the teletype protocol is outdated? Teletype refers to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter
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by marcod 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36051936
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by marcod 3y ago
Yes, to me it's much more about politicians wanting a short-term win, over long-term stability at a cost.
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by marcod 3y ago
Yeah, my first thought was "interesting approach in the age of 100 GB games" ... And I had the same thought last weekend, when Diablo 4 had their Server Slam for 2 days (70 GB download).
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by marcod 3y ago
Ideally not if the meeting is useful?
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by marcod 3y ago
If past performance is any indication, it's pretty safe to lobby for regulations in the US...
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by marcod 3y ago
Forgot who said it, but every 12 year old with their unrestricted iPhone has 24/7 access to Bukakke.
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by marcod 3y ago
It wasn't so much an experiment as a relief effort during the pandemic... and the people liked it so much that they demanded more.
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by marcod 3y ago
588 EUR per year is not peanuts especially for 17% of Germans who are poor. > 13.8 million Germans either live in poverty or are at risk of slipping below the poverty line. https://www.dw.com/en/germany-what-poverty-
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by marcod 3y ago
Let's have the perfect be the enemy of the good!
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by marcod 3y ago
I'm thinking of https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UnconfessedUnemp...
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by marcod 3y ago
I'm guessing you know by now that monopoly was built to be frustrating :) Love Bonanza too!

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