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by notatoad 1y ago
i think that's really just a misunderstanding of what "bottleneck" means. a bottleneck isn't an obstacle where overcoming it will allow you to realize unlimited potential, a bottleneck is always just an obstacle to find
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by notatoad 1y ago
okay, so why aren't you doing that. if you can offer domains for $1, you can undercut all the existing players by a huge margin. that's a big opportunity, no?
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by notatoad 1y ago
"standardizing" doesn't just mean ending up with the same stuff. it means making an up-front committment to a supplier that you will buy the same stuff, and getting a better deal in exchange for that committment. if you end
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by notatoad 1y ago
in my experience the rattle is usually from the fittings inside the bus, not the bus itself - mounting brackets for information screens or advertising panels, seatbelts on the accessible seating, that sort of thing. and part of the rattle
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by notatoad 1y ago
running a domain costs money. there's no way around that - it requires server resources to respond to dns queries, and that requires servers and electricity. so to offer it for free means somebody has to subsidize it. letsencrypt can
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by notatoad 1y ago
from context, it should be clear that we're talking about "good" meaning benefit, not good meaning product.
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by notatoad 1y ago
sendgrid has an email marketing platform with list and audience management tools, in addition to just the ability to send emails. think mailchimp.
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by notatoad 1y ago
Yeah, sometimes the random substack is from somebody really respected, and sometimes it’s just from somebody who writes like they think they should be really respected. And sometimes the respectable people can be wrong too. But I think it’
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by notatoad 1y ago
I think, the more extraordinary the claim is, the more proof is required. And I’m with you, I’d normally be incredibly skeptical of a substack post from an author I’ve never heard of before, who writes as egotistically as this. But ther
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by notatoad 1y ago
there is no public good afforded by violating parking restrictions. the public good comes from enforcing them, so that parking spaces turn over quickly and remain as available as possible. circumvention of the rules for a priveleged few (
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by notatoad 1y ago
it's hard to compare a new phone to a three-year-old phone because the old phone's battery has degraded, but in the two days i've had it my air is significantly better than my 14 plus, which i've never really had any com
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by notatoad 1y ago
it is only about 10% larger in overall volume, so for somebody who is most concerned about how much space it will take up in a pack it's a pretty good option.
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by notatoad 1y ago
yeah, this has been obviously a bad thing for so long, and they've been so stubborn, it's hard to believe anything has actually changed in the "economics" of it. it smells like the sort of policy change that happens when
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by notatoad 1y ago
this has always been my understanding as well - it schedules a function to run at time, but it won't pre-empt something that is blocking when it needs to run so there's always the possibility that it has to wait for another functi
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by notatoad 1y ago
ignoring the fact that we live in the real world where money isn't infinite: nuclear provides stable base power generation, and it does it without taking up a lot of space. Renewables produce power intermittently, and require storage t
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by notatoad 1y ago
do people seriously not remember that an iPhone mini used to exist, and definitely did not sell like hotcakes?
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by notatoad 1y ago
total phone volume is what determines how well the phone fits in your pocket. especially on women's pants with small pockets. a thin phone with a bump will fit better than a thicker phone. the argument that the bump defeats the purpo
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by notatoad 1y ago
garmin has been selling $1200 watches for a long time, so they must have some data by now on whether or not it's a good plan.
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by notatoad 1y ago
ah, okay, i see the part i'm missing here. the GENIUS act doesn't let "tech companies" act like banks, it specifically lets stablecoin issuers act as banks. so this is stripe's play to take advantage of that.
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by notatoad 1y ago
so the short answer to the question of "why crypto" is just to work around regulation, to be able to act as a bank without the regulations that apply to banks?
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by notatoad 1y ago
i think that's exactly it, it's not fundamentally a scam, but it's not as simple as 1:1 "5g in, 5g out" because there's always some formula to calculate how much carbon has been "saved" by the compa
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by notatoad 1y ago
i'm still unclear what the crypto really adds to this play. stripe customers need to move their money around, and they need a trusted source to hold money. stripe could just do that. why add crypto into the mix?
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by notatoad 1y ago
carbon-free energy on every grid where they operate also sounds like a significantly more ambitious goal than net-zero across the company, because it means actual reduction in emissions, rather than relying on offsets. if it's a seriou
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by notatoad 1y ago
i'm fairly sure they're not going to be force-feeding the leftovers to anybody
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by notatoad 1y ago
this seems to be making its way to western shows as well - when taskmaster has a food based challenge, they often include a reassurance that the food didn't go to waste. and i've seen similar on some youtube shows. for example:
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by notatoad 1y ago
this was my initial experience with python async as well (which i now use heavily) the documentation is directed at people who want coroutines and futures, and know what that means. if you don't know what coroutines and futures are, t
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by notatoad 1y ago
>Cloudflare are positioning themselves as the gatekeepers i don't really understand how people on this website seem surprised to find out that cloudflare is in the business of blocking unwanted website traffic. this is literally wha
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by notatoad 1y ago
The inevitable conclusion of this battle is an acknowledgment that you never really own an iPhone or android in the first place, and the companies stop selling the hardware at all. You’ll only be able to rent a device as part of your servi
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by notatoad 1y ago
“Everyone” in this context being bot operators who want to access websites who have decided to use cloudflare to block unauthenticated bot traffic. Which is not everyone.
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by notatoad 1y ago
Which is really all that cloudflare is building here that people are mad about. It’s a way to give bots access to paywalled content.

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