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by numair 4y ago
> I am more bullish on ETH personally because it has the best underlying economic model of any web3 asset. It's amazing how, after wiring money to a few winners, venture capitalists who make such insane statements can be perceived a
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by numair 4y ago
> Signal’s users may not be the product, but they are the witting or unwitting advocates of the moral views of the 40 or so people who operate Signal. Whether you agree or disagree with the article, this is 100% true. We (the tech comm
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by numair 4y ago
Oh man, where do we even begin. $1.5B would be a great number if it's true. The fact that the commenter compares that amount to the $300M they claim Netflix spends each year shows that they ... are ... a lot less intelligent than the
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by numair 4y ago
A lot of large companies did a tremendous amount of back office using VB6 applications. I remember visiting Disney and seeing it all over the place in the late 90s.
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by numair 4y ago
Thank you for this very thorough and honest explanation. Really appreciate what you’re doing with Ruffle!
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by numair 4y ago
Really great writeup. So people stop asking the obvious question, here is the GitHub issue that clearly shows Ruffle doesn’t support ActionScript 3: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/issues/1368 I recently
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by numair 4y ago
Of course Japanese people do it as well, including in their own country (see: Miyakojima). The escapist fantasy problem is something you see in almost every “cool” place. Island paradises, ski towns, Australian country towns, etc all have
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On Apple, Twitter, and Elon(numair.medium.com)
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Bomb Robots: NPR Report on Dallas Police Incident(npr.org)
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by numair 4y ago
Thanks, this is very helpful. It would be wild if this was a very carefully crafted campaign meant to bait The Wire into blowing itself up over an almost-true but totally fake news story. Now I really want to know where this all ends up.
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by numair 4y ago
I think that the key takeaway from the entire Wire vs Meta fiasco is that there is a lot of absolutely weird Spy vs. Spy behavior going in the Indian political and media industries. I was initially extremely sympathetic to the story present
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by numair 4y ago
I think this article is equally critical of both companies. Which is quite remarkable given the narrative that was popular a few years ago. We've gone from an obvious winner to a dead heat. Goes to show: if you've got perfect comp
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by numair 4y ago
> Paypal's inclusion of fraud prevention makes it about 50% cheaper than Stripe with Radar. The money quote. (No pun intended!) I doubt this article will stay on the front page for very long, because HN seems to have a difficult tim
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by numair 4y ago
I’m pretty sure that this ban is impossible to enforce, because it’s not just AirTags that use the Find My Network — AirPod cases and other Apple devices have the same functionality. Someone who knows more about the technicals of the Find M
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by numair 4y ago
Based on my experiences with some of the board members of Dwell, I'm not at all surprised that they've ripped off someone else's idea and presented it as their own innovation. But really, I can't believe they're try
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by numair 4y ago
I guess you’re right… but there really isn’t anything that has replaced the ease of use and functionality of Flash. It is a definite loss for society, as large numbers of non-programmers are unable to use a tool to create rich interactive e
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by numair 4y ago
Wow. The fact that you did this work, and Adobe didn’t do anything useful with it, indicates that you had some extremely lousy managers and executives above you in the org chart. I’m glad you left, for your sake!
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by numair 4y ago
“Industry analysts anticipate that the next Grand Theft Auto will be out sometime in Take-Two’s 2024 fiscal year, which runs from April 2023 through March 2024, but developers are skeptical. The game has been in development in some form sin
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by numair 4y ago
I think this is overhyped as damaging and negative. In fact, GTA VI seemed to be on the path to becoming the “new Duke Nukem Forever,” which is no longer the case. Everything I’ve seen from the leak indicates this will be a really great gam
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by numair 4y ago
Someone already beat me to the “this is a bogus attempt to project a fringe local behavior onto the entirety of Japan” post, so I’m just going to post a link to the post Italian maggot-cheese (which I am surprised hasn’t already happened!)
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by numair 4y ago
So you’re stating that you have been involved in a situation in which a merchant account was frozen due to circumstances involving the Bank Secrecy Act? I just want to be completely certain that this is the assertion?
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by numair 4y ago
Unless you are a federal prosecutor, law enforcement officer, or bank executive that has actively worked on a Bank Secrecy Act case, I don't think you can authoritatively state that this sort of cowboy-style, "Move Fast and Break
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by numair 4y ago
https://www.vox.com/recode/23297459/axios-facebook-advertisi... Axios receives direct financial and distribution assistance from Facebook, Snap's main competitor. Since Axios is such an ethical news outlet, t
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by numair 4y ago
I think these sort of "Responsible Innovation Teams" and whatever else they are called are double-evil for various reasons: 1) They are literally created by these companies as a means for deflecting attention from the real problem
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by numair 4y ago
The most amazing thing about this story is that Robert Morris , of all people, was the one who dismissed it as a spam company. Ironic, hilarious, something like that… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
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by numair 4y ago
Is Hacker News turning into Product Hunt for YC, and is YC turning into a CPG incubator? If this weren’t a YC company, it would be flagged and voted off the site in an instant. If this is the future of HN, there’s going to be a market openi
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by numair 4y ago
Aren’t there Chinese navy vessels running around that patch of the South Pacific? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian I have a feeling the professor will be able to raise the funds he needs for his expediti
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by numair 4y ago
Regardless of people’s opinions on crypto, they should be concerned that the SEC stood by and watched while billionaires and unsophisticated investors got together and pumped and dumped LUNA. And after the whole thing blew up, the SEC went
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by numair 4y ago
This is dangerous political rhetoric which sets the stage for all sorts of tit-for-tat regulation that seeks to optimize for the protection of local companies (in this case, Meta/Facebook/Instagram, which have the world's lar
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by numair 4y ago
So Pulse is just one big Excel macro in the cloud…

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