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by matrix_overload 3y ago
It is nice and innovative, no doubt. But reinventing the syntax from scratch instead of introducing just the minimal amount of changes to the original C is a barrier that will deter 90% of possible adopters. The reason C# took off is that i
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Well, yeah. Working together towards a common goal. Who would have thought? /s
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Eventually, the company gets too big and cocky, does a massive mistake and goes out of business/downscales. Like, you know, bad investments of 2008. The economy must go in growth/bust cycles, where growth brings out new ideas, and
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
The answer is competition. Most of markets nowadays are dominated by 2-5 big players with the CEOs going to the same golf club. Wink-wink, nudge-nudge, prices go up, nobody can do nothing. If we had 50 competing players, there would be enou
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
From what I can see, women are statistically more OK to accept and fit in. Men are more likely to become the challengers and want to have their share of the pie. We didn't just create opportunities, we also stigmatized challenging the
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Wherever you want, as long as SHA256 checks out.
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
> but tested the water with Voyager USDC because of the absurd APY Why would you see it as an investment signal, rather than a massive red flag and an indication of a Ponzi scheme?
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
4. Let people flee to other cities, vote based on identity/emotion and then be genuinely surprised why it's doing downhill the same way.
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Firefox has been going downhill for a while now, so it's not surprising. That said, if you don't want to use Chrome, a fairly good alternative would be Vivaldi [0] - a surprisingly neat browser created by the ex-founder of Opera.
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Effectively killing the company that developed it. Yeah, great idea.
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
I guess Microsoft just ran out of ideas how to improve the OS itself, so they started just blatantly knocking off every popular tool in their ecosystem. Sends a particular message to anyone considering making any tools that work with their
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Be careful with your estimations. Generative AI currently resembles VR in 2018. Very impressive as a technology, and will certainly find its niches, but grossly overestimated by the public.
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Is there a legal path to invalidate the FCC's decision based on this? Can the Supreme Court overrule FCC on this case?
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
I do when I track when my money goes. A lot of the products I actually spend money on are either made by 10+-year old companies from the West, or newer companies from China. This is quite disturbing actually, the "new wave of companies
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
That's why our forefathers figured out antitrust laws, that we stopped enforcing around early 2000s. If there are 10 companies competing for the same market instead of 1-2, that's 5x more CEOs, 5x more accountants, 5x more enginee
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
It's not. It serves as a counterbalance to much lighter reporting/auditing requirements for private vs. public companies. It's way easier for a private company to do some creative accounting and do away with your money withou
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Oh, shit. This sounds like a non-financial person (an engineer?) acting out of desperation, trying to plug a financial hole. Without realizing that they are breaking very serious securities rules, and SEC will be in their full right to shut
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Startups used to be a way to create your own solution to a non-trivial problem, and make money off selling it to people that will benefit from it and enjoy it. It was a highly rewarding experience for those who didn't want to play corp
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Yep: 1. See a competitor forced to drop free tier due to costs and VC landscape. 2. Get an avalanche of free users move to your platform. 3. Observe skyrocketing costs with meager impact on revenue. 4. Boot the free users. But hey, at least
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
IIRC, it was due to spectre/meltdown [0], where a rather obscure design flaw in Intel CPUs of the time made it possible to slowly read the kernel memory space from an arbitrary process. Microsoft added software mitigations for it to Wi
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
They didn't care. They needed to show investors a plausibly looking story how they "hire the best" by having a process with >90% rejection rate, and they did.
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Have you tried the consultant/contractor angle? Many companies that were forced to downsize will be looking into contracting out some of the workload they still want to be done.
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
A common mistake people over 40 make is list too much experience. This simultaneously sparks ageism, raises the "overqualified" flag and creates concerns about your ability to scope out irrelevant info. Try removing the graduation
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Don't worry, they will sunset it in 3 years, like every other project.
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Well, guess which part pays the bills for the other one.
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
>Then I got any email from Couchbase's lawyers with a document stating they would hire me for 10 days total and no longer. I wonder what would happen to your sign-up bonus? There is usually a clawback clause if you decide to leave y
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Sanctions prohibit transactions with specific companies, banks, and a few other entities. They actually make a lot of economic sense, as they are designed to weaken the parts of the economy used to fund the Russian warfare. Sanctions agains
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
That's a very stupid and short-sighted attitude. Russia has effectively been a dictatorship for the past couple of decades, so most regular people have zero control over the policy. Most pretend to just not notice things and hope their
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
ChatGPT being an ultra-hot topic, so every article tangentially related to it gets twice the views?
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by matrix_overload 4y ago
Because it can instantly go through countless examples where people were summarizing things on the forums, paper abstracts, documents, etc., and blend it together with a 99% accuracy. Except for that 1% where it will look totally plausible,

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