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by nevir 4y ago
Absolutely (once your business reaches a certain scale). It can give competitors the ability to estimate the size/success/etc of various aspects of your business. This was a major motivation for a certain online retailer to genera
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by nevir 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem Preventing competitors from estimating the size of your business (or of your customer's businesses, if generating sequential IDs on their behalf) is one big reas
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by nevir 4y ago
> We propose moving towards a three-tier architecture where presentation (client), business logic and data are separated. This has also been called a service-based architecture. The applications (clients) would no longer be able to acces
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Iranian security forces beat, shot and detained students of university in Tehran(cnn.com)
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Iran is literally locking in and shooting its best and brightest students(twitter.com)
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by nevir 4y ago
If you weren't aware of what's going on in Iran right now. Here's my TL;DR: * Iran's "morality police" beat a woman to death for improperly wearing a head scarf. * This has triggered a major uprising throughout
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by nevir 4y ago
Here's the relevant Reddit commit on the OP (might be a better link for the post) https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/xtwnvj/iran_says... And for some more detail on what happened - plainclo
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Brave: Blocking annoying and privacy-harming cookie consent banners(brave.com)
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by nevir 4y ago
I think it begins to address mistrust of new Google products. Which is worth a lot to Google. If they consistently take this approach for other cancellations, it could change the the common view from: "why use this? They're just
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by nevir 4y ago
I think you'd be surprised...
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by nevir 4y ago
Wouldn't be surprised that the conversation is happening behind the scenes, and Google doesn't want to make a public fuss about it. Happened before with Kindle, for example (that originally had a store built in …which Apple blocke
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by nevir 4y ago
Sinks are such a great example of what seems like a device with deceptively simple requirements for its design – but turns out to have so much complexity.
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Musk to Tesla and SpaceX workers: Be in the office 40 hours a week or quit(arstechnica.com)
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Biden administration lays out plan for four carbon-capture facilities(arstechnica.com)
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Nvidia takes first step toward open source Linux GPU drivers(arstechnica.com)
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NiceHash defeats Nvidia’s GPU crypto-mining limits, does not appear to be a scam(arstechnica.com)
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by nevir 4y ago
This seems so much more likely
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Software helps design ways to convert chemical waste into drugs(arstechnica.com)
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One of the most powerful DDoSes ever targets cryptocurrency platform(arstechnica.com)
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Samsung.com’s exploitative chat system makes employees work for free(arstechnica.com)
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by nevir 5y ago
Solved is a strong word here. They've certainly made a lot of progress
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by nevir 5y ago
The size of the cut seems to be the main surprise: ~50% (25% to Horizon Worlds, and another 30% via the Oculus store)
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Meta announces plans to monetize the Metaverse, and creators are not happy(arstechnica.com)
10 points by nevir 5y ago|4 comments
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by nevir 5y ago
On the trucking side of things, I think it'll actually be a positive for the industry in the short term (a decade or two), before the jobs really start to dry up. Rail freight will probably be impacted by automated trucks sooner than r
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Lapsus$ and SolarWinds hackers both use the same old trick to bypass MFA(arstechnica.com)
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FTC sues Intuit in bid to stop “deceptive” ads that claim TurboTax is free(arstechnica.com)
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by nevir 5y ago
https://beta.openai.com/playground
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by nevir 5y ago
For what it's worth, the author's CTO is the one that shared this article ;)
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by nevir 5y ago
It's also worth noting that another way to reduce the cost to maintain your existing functionality (priority 0) is to actively _remove_ rarely-used or less valuable functionality
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by nevir 5y ago
> They had a ton of spare resources that they only needed once in a while and figured out a way to make use of them. Not actually the case. AWS was a completely independent stack (from hardware on up) - we couldn't use it internally

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