mihaic

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by mihaic 4y ago
One aspect of today's society that would have seemed strange to anyone 100 years ago is that any verbal/psychological abuse of any kind is bundled as more ok than minor violence. Violence is almost never the answer, but modern bul
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by mihaic 4y ago
As in most real-world scenarios, multiple solutions are needed, and it's best to first agree on the goal you want. To me these would be more availability while also disincentivising real estate as an investment vehicle. I know that&#x2
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by mihaic 4y ago
The fact that you're actually presenting a reasonable solution and you're being downvoted shows how much capitalist propaganda has poluted the mainstream. Either that, or the majority of people here are real estate speculators, wh
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by mihaic 4y ago
While NIMBY might be a cause in some parts of the US, absurd increases in housing costs are happening worldwide, in all kinds of markets. The only way for housing to become affordable is to have homeowners take a hit in their valuation, eve
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by mihaic 4y ago
Well, I think we're pretty much on the same page regarding where the complexity comes from. For Twitter though I'm thinking though that they should have put a lot more effort in simplifying the systems/processes/data the
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by mihaic 4y ago
I'm not saying that it's easy, just that most work could be done by much fewer people. I'm not talking out of my ass, I have been working on scalable systems for more than a decade. I'm reminded of when, out of sheer cur
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by mihaic 4y ago
What your saying is true for almost every web app. I don't see any reason to justify Twitter's complexity that requires 1000 engineers. Scale is such a weak argument since their entire product paralelizez very easily.
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by mihaic 4y ago
Rarerely in these articles do I read anything about the profit margins that the distributors are making, and if there's oversight there. Subsidies are some of the worst solutions when the service providers are an unsupervized oligopoly
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by mihaic 4y ago
Why would it be surprising? Without any pressure to cut costs engineers find countless ways to "be useful" that ads little value while adding massive complexity to the organization, ballooning maintenance costs in the long-term. I
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by mihaic 4y ago
What I find so amazing about this dumpsterfire is how easy the plan to maximize Twitter revenue would have been: fire 80-90% of developers over the next year and just optimize the system to reduce infrastructure costs by 95%. Be transparent
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by mihaic 4y ago
Being slightly more cynical now, I'm wondering if this push is merely the payment processor realizing they could increase their cut by shaming the customer into paying more. And I don't believe we can measure this purely financial
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by mihaic 4y ago
I've read a lot of material about leadership, but rarely have I read on how to follow, something that is just as hard to do effectively. I've come to a more complex position, where the task needs to align with the team for them to
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by mihaic 4y ago
"That much" doesn't mean "none at all", you're doing a textbook strawman here. I for instance don't care if my conversations are end-to-end encrypted, or if my financial transactions are anonymous. I do ca
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by mihaic 4y ago
Agree, but I still don't know if there is a way to format the message in a way that the average newbie can actually accept.
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by mihaic 4y ago
I think we need a concentrated effort to separate "privacy" from "targeted invasive advertising". I know they're related, since ads are the main reason big tech break privacy, but as used now it's a term that c
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by mihaic 4y ago
Most of these are the sort of "common sense" things you'd get with experience, and I mostly agree with the ideas behind this. Where we fail as a craft though seems to be in passing on this information to those not yet convinc
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by mihaic 4y ago
I was joking, but HN at the same time is filled with people that believe regulation only stifles innovation. So just because AI is inevitable doesn't mean that we should abandon all regulation. There would be good merit in slowing down
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by mihaic 4y ago
It honestly sounds like you're making a good argument for a Butlerian Jihad in that case.
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by mihaic 4y ago
The thing is that I recharge by being alone AND by being with friends, and am drained by being with people I don't like. Either I don't fit the standard, or the definition is too narrow.
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by mihaic 4y ago
I dislike the introvert/extrovert dichotomy, especially in the oversimplified US interpretation that has now become global. I'm for instance gregarious and outgoing with people I like, even if I might have met them very recently.
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by mihaic 4y ago
Not sure why you're downvoted, but anyone that fondly remembers the "Borland Blue" days probably agrees with you.
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by mihaic 4y ago
While I hope QR codes receive an even stronger backlash, I would bet on a general downgrade of the experience. Given that, I have to ask the Americans: how can you still justify that absurd 20% tip?
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by mihaic 4y ago
You're hyperbolizing, and making it easier for the people that actually like QR codes to contradict you. In essence, I think you're mostly right though, but I see a hard battle ahead, since most people go with the flow. I remember
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by mihaic 4y ago
I think that's the wrong framing. Any one small site tracking me doesn't do anything. It's the shadow profiles that are built by correlating this data accross the web that actually is the issue. The fact that an information m
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by mihaic 4y ago
Actually surprised he was still alive! The current decade is probably going to beat out all others in the number of famous musicians dying.
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by mihaic 4y ago
"Reject" being now an options is an improvement of sorts but honestly, the cookie laws in the current form are terrible long-term for privacy. Like recycling plastic, it's a red herring that benefits the big companies, and wh
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by mihaic 4y ago
That applies for TV show. For movies though, the vast majority of new torrents are Blurays re-encoded to HEVC (x265 being the encoder used pretty much every time).
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by mihaic 4y ago
One thing we always collectively fail at addressing is how to classify housing in a special category of goods, where simple free-market rules don't apply. Things like rent-control are in this direction, yet we never articulate what the
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by mihaic 4y ago
I agree with you, but what option does an employer have in this climate, even if they want to improve the situation? You can't fight alone against the currents. There's a reason marriage appeared as an institution, since it forces
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by mihaic 4y ago
While American capitalism turns everything into a transaction, which usually leads to dehumanizing employees, I'd blame this one more on the failure of modern education to adapt. The fact that we spend 15-18 years just "learning&q

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