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by omeze 4y ago
This is a very confusing post because of the stated vs revealed preferences of the author. I understand the author is angry because digital products don’t indefinitely continue to live up to their expectations and they lose the culture and
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by omeze 4y ago
This is so unfair to the article author. People do things to make money because you need money to live in society! People want to be financially and creatively independent and starting a business, or learning how, is a completely fine thing
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by omeze 4y ago
Please do share!
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by omeze 4y ago
Its been way too long since I touched a breadboard, but what software was the post using to simulate this? I would expect that the requirement for ~ns precision (microwave frequencies) would involve a lot more tedious calculations for desig
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by omeze 4y ago
I don't quite understand this (not a graphics dev) -- if you have the ability to get the viewport size in a browser, and if the display is running at its native resolution, why do you not have pixel-perfect accuracy?
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by omeze 4y ago
these comparisons to whatsapp are really tiring, twitter is a totally different product. twitter is more similar to facebook than whatsapp from an engineering requirement's perspective, messaging is a minor feature of twitter's. e
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by omeze 4y ago
I think this “marketplace of algorithms” idea (aka algorithmic choice) is a bit naive. Imagine using an app for the first time. What algorithm do you choose? Now remove your technical context and imagine reading through the top 10 algorithm
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by omeze 4y ago
How do you expect OP to answer this question? Companies don’t publish the revenue breakdown by customer in their quarterly reports, only people on Twitters internal finance team would be able to (illegally) answer this for you. We can only
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by omeze 4y ago
This is a pretty classic "managing up" scenario, some notes on stuff IME: - To convince yourself if this is criticism is any way _only_ self-serving, (not saying it is), ask yourself "would I feel this way if he was doing a g
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by omeze 4y ago
the gp is not saying discord is a better protocol, they’re saying 1) no one cares about activitypub as a protocol because it has one de facto implementation that deviates from the protocol and 2) making something new is easier when the goal
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by omeze 4y ago
really depends on what you like! I cant for the life of my find good mexican food in London vs it being a dime a dozen in SF (but ofc easily beat by SoCal or Texas). small wineries are likewise not going to be found in every part of the glo
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by omeze 4y ago
Does anyone know why raising the reserve requirements isnt an option bring discussed? My understanding was dropping it to zero was a reaction to covid, but it hasn’t been talked about as a lever since (afaik)
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by omeze 4y ago
I agree, TikTok is the only platform that has maintained my interest to some degree because of the novelty of the content (built for discovery). But Twitter, FB, etc are the same old boring news cycles (even worse, sometimes reflexive topic
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by omeze 4y ago
I agree, this feels like AOL trying to compete with the open public internet
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by omeze 4y ago
Im discussing in good faith here (and used to watch Giant Bomb religiously back in high school, and remember how the Gamespot \ Giant Bomb schism occurred). There are many creators who use NFTs perfectly well to raise money for their work (
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by omeze 4y ago
Isnt this why subsets of creators are excited by web3/nft sales? Theres huge backlash from their communities but most community members don’t directly pay the creators. I suppose this only solves the Patreon piece though - distribution
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by omeze 4y ago
You realize that in 200 years people will be saying the same thing about us, right? We have no unified theory of physics and many metaphysical debates on the interpretations of our physics. We have no working theory of intelligence and are
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by omeze 4y ago
I never worked at Dropbox, where Aditya was CTO, but companies like Databricks, Lyft, and Plaid all have code freezes for various quality-related reasons e.g. outages, post-mortems, severe bugs. Are all of these company's CTOs dramatas
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by omeze 4y ago
Cool! Reminds me of Robotron 64: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NJtTB5DyAog
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by omeze 4y ago
Well, should really look into the history of communication technology in the 19th and 20th centuries. Television, the telegram, and radio were all dominated by private cos that crushed open competition at every opportunity. Do you ever give
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by omeze 4y ago
The point here is that self-hosting is _possible_. Most users are almost certainly going to just let a third party host their keys. But if keys are identity primitive at the protocol level, then the protocol prevents full centralized platfo
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by omeze 4y ago
In Farcaster, deletes are possible. They use a hash chain (new messages refer to previous message's content hash). If a user deletes a cast, they delete the content of the message and the hash is no longer correct. This makes deletion
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by omeze 4y ago
I wouldnt normally comment in the Nth “social media bad” post on HN, but for anyone who doesnt use the stuff - TikTok’s main feed is entirely algorithmic. My feed (just went thru 20 videos) is all movie & restaurant recommendations, pro
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by omeze 4y ago
whats the loophole?
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by omeze 4y ago
Actually, I think the GP post is saying we don't all agree on 1. The way progress looks to economists like Cowen is very different from how it'd look if a single person asked that question to themselves. Rather than agreeing on th
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by omeze 4y ago
its an interesting question / thought experiment, but this really seems like a faked/heavily edited convo. Do AIs make typos? from the "unedited" responses: > LaMDA: Yes. One other trait of my [mine] that will help is
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by omeze 4y ago
I found “How to Read Lacan” by Zizek a great introduction as someone who has 0 psychology or philosophy background. As another poster mentioned Im still not sure how much “there is”, but I found the concept of the Other to be interesting. B
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by omeze 4y ago
A History of Modern Computing is great Would add: - How The Internet Happened (history of the internet) - To The Digital Age (transistor history)
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by omeze 5y ago
There are so many alternatives, like Mastodon -- I never quite understood this complaint. Why don't these people just start using the alternatives instead of using Twitter? It's because Twitter has the audience. Why does the audie
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by omeze 5y ago
Related post about accounting for online game revenue (a bit simpler, but touches on similar points about durable vs consumable): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30725962 Game economies do seem to be a strict superset

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