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by nrmitchi 4y ago
I don't think that's exactly the point, but yes, it's what the author here is directly stating. Unless I'm misunderstanding, the underlying concern is that Stytch is: - A new authentication company, that focuses 100% o
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
> If it did turn out that Zatko had been talking to Musk's team, that would be a very big deal, not only undercutting a big part of Musk's current case (which he was set to lose anyways) but also falsifying several statements m
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
So, “I agree to do what I already agreed to do as long as you stop suing me for it”?
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There is a huge difference between "don't use the space at all" and "don't build buildings that are unsuited for the location". There is also a difference between "my roof was damaged by high wind" re
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
Further, the apparently requirement for "money to change hands" falls flat on it's face. The last node in the supply chain for virtually any real-world product is "human beings extract the material from the earth in some
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
That doesn’t change the fact that the current title that Spanner has a “free tier” appears to be wrong.
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
Does that really matter much? There will be additional account authentication after an email is sent, and half of hacker news at this point already knows “email patio11 or Edwin for stripe support”
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
If I recall correctly, Uber literally did an entire post series about how they do all testing in production using feature flags and request routing, because it was "technically infeasible" at their scale to do anything differently
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
This entire thing is so bizarre to me. There is a room full of non-technical senators effectively testifying the unproven and one-sided statements of a single person (Zatko), who was let go from Twitter, with no ability for Twitter (or anyo
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
> they used their initial success acquire/build multiple billion dollar conglomerates Snapchat currently has a market cap of $18B. Snapchat has acquired (at least, from my basic google search) 12 different companies. Your measurin
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
> Evan Spiegel is not a visionary like Zuckerberg I'm not here to defend Spiegel, but this sentence kind of reads as a joke based on the amount of "copying Snapchat to put into Instagram" that Facebook spent years doing.
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
It could say in the document that Jask Dorsey shits unicorns. It being a statement in a complaint document does not in any way mean that it is true (or has been "shown" to be).
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You're on Hacker News . This entire website has a "financial conflict of interest in the industry being covered", given that the "industry being covered" in this story is "security at one of the largest tech
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
I'll agree with most of these statements, but would object to "they show twitter didn't comply with creating and enforcing...". I don't think it's clear that they have shown anything. This is simply a complai
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
When this story first started, there were obviously comments of "this seems timed to support Musk's argument", and counter points of "this would have been in progress long before Musk's offer and has nothing to do w
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
I don’t think anyone believes the technical process does not exist. Someone with enough clout would 100% be able to get accounts reinstated (likely without even needing a police report of no wrong-doing). Google’s refusal to have appropriat
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
The loans are fairly close to an ARM in the US, and they're amortized on (typically) 25yr. They also tend to have prepayment penalties, which the US does not have for residential mortgages anymore.
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Those mortgages are still subsidized though. A 5-yr term before it adjusts, with upward protections on rate increases is still not what a "free market" would provide. These are government sponsored (in some way) programs to incres
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
You don't even have to removal all of them; just make it so you can't use all of them . You're depreciating your asset? You don't get to depreciate, and deduct repair/maintenance costs. You're depreciating?
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
When it comes to realtor prices, you're absolutely correct. It's ludicrous that that effective monopoly has been able to persist. There are other costs and risk though. Many places that have transfer taxes, plus inspection costs,
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
“It should be more expensive month to month to rent vs own” It already is. There are many tax incentives geared towards making owning cheaper. If owning was t already subsidized do you really think anyone would be handing out 4% 30-yr fixed
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
It's whatever maximum renters are willing to pay, combined with whatever minimum property owners are willing to accept and the availability of alternatives. Applying a cost increase across the board, in a way where everyone knows it w
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
"Taxes have no effect on what the renter pays"; by this I assume you mean "market rate is market rate regardless of cost". Sure, to a point. The tax situation of my individual property does not impact the market rate.
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
It's early, so I'm mostly going to stream-of-conciousness this answer, because real estate, and real estate policy is extremely complicated. Tldr, the solution to housing supply issues to to build more housing. Full stop. If the
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
I think the “decentralization of work” will only lead to large scale improvement if it also comes with decentralization of other needs as well; having social, cultural, and other needs met outside of large cities. The decentralization of me
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
The biggest thing missed when proposals like that is that not everyone wants to (or does it make sense to) buy a property. Making it 4x more expensive to own a rental property means that rent will be 4x more expensive for those that have to
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
A couple things, I don't think I've ever seen the word "could" do more heavy-lifting than in this headline. The submitted headline is also not the source headline ("Is the Bitcoin Lightning Network for real?" &
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I thought it was a widely-known-secret that at least part of the insane hiring of engineers without clear teams, projects, etc for them to work on initially was to prevent individuals working for current-or-potential competitors. Purposel
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I'm just going to put my tin-foil hat on for a second. Not entirely sure how I would feel about Amazon having control over a machine full of sensors that can physically move around within my home.
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
$4M is a repercussion for spending years making up conspiracy theories and targetting the families of dead children. Also note that this is compensitory damages only, and hasn't even touch on punitive damagers yet. It has nothing to do

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