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by nfw2 3y ago
Everything was free because interest rates were nothing, and every startup could use investor capital to cover their costs
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by nfw2 3y ago
Fine then because they owe me money
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by nfw2 3y ago
In order to have secure client-side storage, it seems like you would need to be able to verify that the client-side application that is accessing it is unmodified -- which is what WEI would allow for.
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by nfw2 3y ago
No serious business is going to block the majority of their traffic
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by nfw2 3y ago
I don't see how this will end the "free web." No publisher will be forced to use DRM. Anyone can still create a website and make it accessible to anyone for free with an internet connection. If certain publishers want to requ
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by nfw2 3y ago
Actually the free web ended with net neutrality. Didn't you notice when that happened?
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by nfw2 3y ago
Because they have my money?
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by nfw2 3y ago
Tiktok is literally controlled by the CCP. If consumers don't care about that, they aren't going to care about DRM.
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by nfw2 3y ago
If you google "most beautiful college campuses", three of the first five articles use Notre Dame's dome as the primary image for the article. The other two don't have a primary image. - https://research.com&#x
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by nfw2 3y ago
It’s essentially prompt engineering as a service with some basic quality-control features thrown in. Sure, your engineers could implement it themselves, but don’t they have better things to do?
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by nfw2 3y ago
Literally my primary motivation to be productive at work is maxing the ratio of my code to other people's code that I have to deal with
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by nfw2 3y ago
I would say it's more akin to AR/VR as far as hype. In other words, the tech is real and amazing, but it doesn't seem as immediately useful in the short term as some people expect.
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by nfw2 3y ago
If you rely on human-operated cars for transport, your ability to go anywhere is already controlled by large institutions. - You require a car manufacturer like Ford or Toyota to manufacture and sell you a vehicle. - You require an insuranc
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by nfw2 3y ago
The ironic thing is that standardized tests are the most objective metric we have. Things like extracurriculars reflect more on the parents and community than the kids.
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by nfw2 3y ago
All else equal, poor white kids probably get a leg up as well if they can articulate it in some way in their application. For example, my (white) dad got into Yale and Princeton, and it probably helped that he was from a podunk town in Wyom
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by nfw2 3y ago
He figured out a sustainable way to keep giving money away. I call that smart philanthropy, not selfish philanthropy. Yes, he makes a lot of money but it mostly goes back into growing his channel and charities.
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by nfw2 3y ago
"Rates of mental illness among people who are homeless in the United States are twice the rate found for the general population" https://www.apa.org/pi/ses/resources/publications/homelessne...
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by nfw2 3y ago
I agree blaming the homeless is oversimplifying a complicated issue, but I don't think it's evident that shortage of housing is the primary cause. There are plausible explanations for non-causal correlations between housing costs
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by nfw2 4y ago
It was not a confident statement, at least not the way ChatGPT is confident. There are multiple ways the commenter conditioned their statement: > Based on my understanding > it is PROBABLY very close The author makes it clear that the
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by nfw2 4y ago
This whole conversation is speculative, obviously. The AI doomers are all speculating without evidence as well. The tendency GPT and other LLMs to hallucinate is clearly documented. Is this not evidence? I think it's fair to predict th
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by nfw2 4y ago
It seems to me that even a lot of technical people are ignoring this. A lot of very smart folk seem to think that the ChatGPT either is very close to reaching AGI or already has. The inability to reason about about whether or not what it is
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by nfw2 4y ago
I've been working on a library that is basically what you're describing: https://github.com/nealfwilliams/style-kit-n Feedback welcome
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by nfw2 4y ago
Heroin can also reduce stress and anxiety and improve mood (at least in the short term). It's great to be exploring ways to help cancer patients cope, but the overall thesis of this article is hardly surprising.
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by nfw2 4y ago
Podcasts may not be a particularly efficient way to convey information, but they make up for it in convenience. You can listen while doing other things like walking the dog and make use of otherwise wasted time.
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by nfw2 4y ago
They all just got half a million in funding. That may not meet your definition of “rich”, but it at least makes the economics of stealing a $500 phone pretty silly
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by nfw2 4y ago
FYI, checkout doesn't seem to work (with no error message, except in console) if the user has an ad blocker (at least uBlock) installed.
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by nfw2 4y ago
Does opentelemetry also support mocking outgoing requests values on replay? Or is something else used for that part?
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by nfw2 4y ago
I worked on something like this briefly years ago and caching and mocking the downstream calls was a beast of a technical problem. For example, suppose a startup has an Express app that made downstream requests to Postgres, Redis, Kafka, ot
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by nfw2 4y ago
> If "Query" in "SQL" means it's for querying data, then evidently "Query" not being in say Java or Python means those languages are NOT meant for querying data If X then Y does not imply if not X then
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by nfw2 4y ago
I think there may be an error in part 2 of this guide where it talks about ACID. To my understanding, the C (Consistency) in ACID is referring to the structure of the database. In other words, a SQL table can't be updated in such a way

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