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by moomin 1y ago
It’s sad to see. As I understand it, digital photography forced camera companies to decide if they were principally about film or about photos and imaging. The competition in the image space was brutal, which phones winning the mass market
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by moomin 1y ago
Yes, the average heroin farmer is making more money than a wheat farmer, but he sells it to someone who can get it to America.
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by moomin 1y ago
I know this isn’t the point of the article, but that’s not how the drug trade works at all. The producers make very little. The real money is in the logistics. Which you could argue is the cloud providers but the analogy isn’t great anyway.
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by moomin 1y ago
I can confidently predict that the breakout dev tool in the next few years will have LLM features, but won’t have forgotten stuff like editing features. As Claude Code has already demonstrated, you do t even need an editor for good LLM inte
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by moomin 1y ago
Adam Smith mostly has a lousy reputation these days because of the work of the Adam Smith Institute, which does not accurately reflect his thinking.
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by moomin 1y ago
A good way of understanding the function of the EU is as a way of negating prisoners dilemma effects, or at least externalising them.
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by moomin 1y ago
Without checking the article… do you know the name of who write the article?
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by moomin 1y ago
Some anecdata for you: I used to work for a price comparison website. We had pretty good metrics on how long pages took to load and what the drop-off from page to page of the process was. It will shock you not in the least that milliseconds
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by moomin 1y ago
A very common specialisation of this is drinking culture. Some guys just plain don't drink and definitely don't drink as much as the drinking culture would require, some women bluntly don't feel safe around a bunch of guys ge
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by moomin 1y ago
Is there really a security exposure to protocols you don’t yourself employ? How do protocols get updated? Can they be EOLed? Turns out there’s a lot I don’t know about Ethereum.
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by moomin 1y ago
It could mean many things, but you’d still need to explain the monocultural freakshow remark.
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by moomin 1y ago
More and more firms are realising that AGPL coupled with dual licensing allows them to be open source whilst protecting their commercial interests.
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by moomin 1y ago
It’s closer to actors and athletes than we’d all hope, in that most people get a pittance or are out of work while a select few make figures that hit newspapers.
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by moomin 1y ago
I feel like this article is missing the point by a country mile. FP proponents very much know that requirements can change and wreak havoc with their type systems forcing them to change large numbers of likes. What the author is missing is
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by moomin 1y ago
Routine reminder that if newspapers should quote the valuation implied by the debt, not the equity, in mixed deals.
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by moomin 1y ago
I’d say that one’s approaching resolution, too. And 4 has won.
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by moomin 1y ago
You’re making a very good point here. We’ve always known that malign forces of various varieties will exploit the vulnerable in society, and we’ve definitely experimented with trying to imprison every last one of the vulnerable sucked into
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by moomin 1y ago
I have no idea if your rule of thumb is accurate but you’re not comparing like with like. The problems being described here are to do with the disposal of contaminated wastewater. Whatever you think of golf courses, dealing with the wastewa
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by moomin 1y ago
Try taking a photo of your partner first thing in the morning and posting it online. You’ll probably figure out the distinction.
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by moomin 1y ago
The thing is, you need those staff to implement expansion plans. Twitter, famously, didn’t make the kind of money people expected a site with that many loyal users to make. Give up on your ambitions and you can lose people. Meta did the sam
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by moomin 1y ago
He definitely started a trend, but the takeaway was a mess. The company makes less money, the technology/UX is objectively getting worse. Yes, some parts of the audience have proven sticky, but I don’t think that was ever a huge revela
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by moomin 1y ago
American support before the US entered was crucial on the western front. But it's generally agreed that the turning point of the war against the Nazis was the Battle of Stalingrad, which the US played no part in (other than occupying N
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by moomin 1y ago
Minor point of fact: neither Switzerland nor Norway are EU members.
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by moomin 1y ago
I never understand this idea that Europe is somehow in a bad place compared to America. Go ask people, it’s really not.
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by moomin 1y ago
And clearly some people believe it will work for America, given the TikTok ban.
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by moomin 1y ago
You need to spend more time looking at your suppliers when they come from politically unstable regimes. That’s international procurement 101. The only real argument is about what, economically and practically, can be done about it.
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by moomin 1y ago
The thing is: who benefits from a loss of trust in systems? The answer, inevitably, is those for whom the system was a problem. The fewer places people can trust for accurate information, the more disinformation wins.
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by moomin 1y ago
This argument has been made, at length, in court. It was found wanting.
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by moomin 1y ago
To misquote an adage: Elon Musk can stay irrational longer than I can stay solvent.
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by moomin 1y ago
I think it’s hard to conclude that the people weren’t needed given how spectacularly it tanked.

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