maronato

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   The Bobbit Worm Chronicles(michiganreefers.com)

   1 points by maronato 4y ago|0 comments
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   by maronato 4y ago

   > It's a testament to how deep the lack of a creative culture at Meta runs. This seems to be it. Meta only "innovates" to copy competitors. WhatsApp was a threat and was bought. Same for Instagram. Snapchat couldn't b
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   by maronato 4y ago

   There's a difference between the market expecting a great quarter and FB missing by a little, and the market expecting a bad quarter and FB doing even worse.
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   by maronato 4y ago

   I worked at Uber. The main arguments that I kept hearing were: - easier to share and import common packages - proto and thrift files are kept close to services and clients are updated globally automatically - dependencies and go versions ar
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   Doodle Icons(khushmeen.com)

   1 points by maronato 5y ago|0 comments
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   by maronato 5y ago

   Imagine that the same message reaches more than one servers. Which one should record it? If they all are in sync you just use the one that received the event at the lowest timestamp
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   by maronato 5y ago

   > But it will be hard or impracticable to convince everybody I know to do the same. That's why it is a problem. Messaging apps are for messaging people
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   by maronato 5y ago

   And just like that, Facebook processes every message sent between every Brazilian.
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   by maronato 5y ago

   > In the Buddhist belief, life is not confined to a period of 60 or 80 or 100 years: life is eternal. Life is not confined to this body: life is universal. To express will by burning oneself, therefore, is not to commit an act of destruc
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    by maronato 5y ago

    Rich countries are already paying Brazil a lot of money - to destroy the rainforest. The cleared land is mostly used to produce meat, and Brazil is the largest meat exporter[1] in the world. [1]: https://www.worldatlas.com/a
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    by maronato 5y ago

    Although true, transistor count is only tangentially related to performance
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    by maronato 5y ago

    This hasn't been true since M1's release
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    by maronato 5y ago

    Maybe, but performance doesn't usually increase linearly with cpu count anyway. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law
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    by maronato 5y ago

    My understanding is that the baby was prematurely removed because of the asphyxiation
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    by maronato 5y ago

    To live in a society we must agree to a social contract in which personal freedoms may be limited if that benefits society as a whole. That's why we pay taxes, have laws, and respect each other. Here, it's important to understand
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    by maronato 5y ago

    The article's premise is wrong imo. Typescript is a superset[1] of javascript, so typescript-only syntactic sugar is entirely to be expected. [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript (repo description)
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    by maronato 5y ago

    Disposable email domains aren't the issue here. Creating a disposable @gmail account to avoid paying is possible too. Don't use emails to assert user identity. Most companies use credit cards for that. Or make it so that creating
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    by maronato 5y ago

    I don't think your analogy is completely valid as one is the state and the other a private company. Freedom of speech and information are not required of non-state entities. If people really want such freedoms, they should move away fr