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As U.S. Hardens Line on Beijing, Taiwan's Stock Rises in Washington(foreignpolicy.com)
8 points by maxwell 5y ago|0 comments
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by maxwell 5y ago
"Having the courage to live a life true to [oneself] instead of what was expected of [one]" by their society, partners, employees, contractors makes a fine definition of villainy. No, don't buy the Woz trope.
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by maxwell 5y ago
Luck also seems to plays a big role in the programming lang market. Yet the behavior of lang maintainers seems to have an outpaced influence over that luck: individual programmers actively chose Guido over Larry or Matz. In turn, Armin&#x27
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by maxwell 5y ago
Wow, I thought he was full of shit when I heard this years ago, but I still had some respect for the guy. This is like watching an old Kevin Spacey interview. Where does very publicly cheating on his wife and building a company where driver
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by maxwell 5y ago
What if asset issuers ("crypto manufacturers") imposed contractual price ceilings/floors? Probably more realistic with exchanges ("authorized resellers") than individual traders. https://www.ftc.gov/
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The 7 Powers Known to Tesla, Pixar, Netflix, Apple, and Twilio(nfx.com)
33 points by maxwell 5y ago|19 comments
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The Ultimate Entrepreneur: The Story of Ken Olsen and DEC (1988)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by maxwell 5y ago|0 comments
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Pro1 X smartphone with physical keyboard, run Ubuntu, Lineage, or Android(indiegogo.com)
2 points by maxwell 5y ago|0 comments
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by maxwell 5y ago
Market timing . https://www.nfx.com/post/why-startup-timing-is-everything https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gross_the_single_biggest_reas... etc.
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by maxwell 5y ago
Developers are also users, usually some of the more advanced users, important early adopters and power users. Remember non-developers saying they would never get Facebook, or an iPhone, or bitcoin, or Snapchat, or TikTok... and then Road
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by maxwell 5y ago
Who first shortened the word "application" when referring to software? Maybe someone in the '80s, or earlier? Looks like it's attested by '92.
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by maxwell 5y ago
Where's a good branded phone? Linux is already running on the majority of smartphones, individual manufacturers and distros seem less important. Any Android user would switch to another Linux phone with the right features, price, etc.
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by maxwell 5y ago
Yeah, the majority of phones and servers run Linux. It's "mainstream infrastructure" instead of a consumer brand, but not out of the ordinary for consumers or businesses.
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by maxwell 5y ago
Yeah, grandparents and computer labs kept their old Apple computers around through the '90s when Apple wasn't cool. Before getting a Mac became at first ironically cool in the early '00s (because they looked funny but couldn&
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by maxwell 5y ago
Well yeah, "software", including drivers and OS integration, not just "apps". Linux phones no longer seem limited by hardware or cost (at least judging by my PinePhone), more stability and support. Once stability is ther
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by maxwell 5y ago
Yeah, I was in college and startups through the mid-00s, adopting Mac at Tiger. It seemed like maybe Leopard was the breakthrough anecdotally, where Boot Camp took away the "but-it-can't-run..." that was the last factor keepi
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by maxwell 5y ago
Coined? We talked about web apps, desktop apps, mobile apps back in the early '00s, before Jobs unveiled the iPhone, which initially supported only web apps, if you missed those days.
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by maxwell 5y ago
Consumers will go where the apps are: if developers increasingly exit the Apple and Google ecosystems, which seem beset with nearly daily anti-developer actions, the only other option is Linux app development for mobile. The hardware is rea
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by maxwell 5y ago
Why do users choose a platform? Apps. Who makes the apps? Developers embraced Windows over Mac, users followed. (Until iOS development made Mac's the default dev machine.) Developers embraced iOS and Android over Symbian and webOS. Win
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by maxwell 5y ago
Yeah, it's a clear abuse of market power and is holding back the web. They have the resources to fix these issues, and seemingly choose not to, effectively taxing developers, who pass the costs on the consumers. So even well within the
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by maxwell 5y ago
Apple devices are becoming increasingly unusable for developers. Fantastic opportunity for Linux apps to gain more dev resources, as anyone with a bit of foresight sees little future in macOS, iOS, Windows, or Android as development platfor
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by maxwell 6y ago
Starbucks makes licensed K-Cups: https://athome.starbucks.com/coffees-by-format/k-cup-pods Keurig doesn't have a monopoly on anything except licensing their name. Unlicensed third-party compatible cups are readily
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Engineered coronavirus stirs debate over risky research (2015)(nature.com)
4 points by maxwell 6y ago|0 comments
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Lost Painting Buried Under a Picasso Rediscovered, 3D Printed, and Tokenized(news.artnet.com)
11 points by maxwell 6y ago|4 comments
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First monkey–human embryos reignite debate over hybrid animals(nature.com)
1 points by maxwell 6y ago|0 comments
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BMW, Volvo, Samsung, Google back moratorium on deep seabed mining(apnews.com)
2 points by maxwell 6y ago|0 comments
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Largest card grading service halts submissions(espn.com)
35 points by maxwell 6y ago|44 comments
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Maine's Open Land Tradition (2006)(digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu)
3 points by maxwell 6y ago|0 comments
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by maxwell 6y ago
Constitutional amendment?
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by maxwell 6y ago
How much deflation is good? The point of Friedman-style 2% inflation seems to be to steadily, but not abruptly, drive up prices, increasing wages, increasing demand. I see the personal, anti-social case for "giving in to our greed&quot

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