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by otoburb 6y ago
>> I’ve spent some time thinking about why these Fantasy UIs are so fascinating despite the fact they seem not very user friendly. Fantasy UIs are often flashed up as eye candy to communicate high complexity for power users that an o
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New York’s Quontic Becomes First US Bank to Offer a Bitcoin Rewards Debit Card(coindesk.com)
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The Empire Strikes Back(omid-malekan.medium.com)
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There's always Goodhart's Law as a counterpoint.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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>> Instead, he's decided to use the existing business he founded decades ago as an outlet for his enthusiasm for Bitcoin. This is why God created activist investors, I think. In MSTR's case an activitist shareholder will be
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Mylan and epinephrene in the US comes to mind as the most egregious[1]. The reason we don't see as many clear examples is because, as you noted, reputational effects will usually influence market leaders to try to generate more profit
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Huge momentum in the BPF space. This is welcome news indeed. Minimizing "adoption drag" is unique in BPF's regard in that I can't think of any other major Linux initiative that has been coordinated as effectively over a
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>> Linux kernel developers quickly come to the same conclusion the DTrace people came to 15 years ago: if you're going to have a compiler and a kernel-resident VM, you might as well use it for everything. So, the seccomp system c
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Glad to hear. Good luck! EDIT: I had thought that a commercial franchising agreement implicitly assumes that the purchaser would be operating the franchise directly. However, in this case, it looks like Wifi Dabba will be operating the POP
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>> The ask - This is where you come in HN, buy a piece of our network and help shape the future of the internet. We're offering minimum guaranteed revenue I'm not a lawyer, but since you're part of YC, you may want to
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I believe Team Blind does this and tries to deflect the gaming through blind anonymous reviews but where Blind validates the poster possesses a company email. The problem is that if it gets too successful then it's easy for companies t
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>>* From what I can tell, my Korean friends have an easier time picking up Japanese than English.* I think it also helps that Japanese and Korean sounds share similar sounds, where as English has sounds that are difficult to pronounce
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>> Undermining competition: Such a move would unfairly benefit large players, preventing smaller players who can’t pay these fees or shoulder equivalent obligations from competing against them. Limiting its application only to those c
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>> This post is from 2016 and now the Korean Goverenment passes the law that makes the fee even higher. The Korean Government keeps favoring their ISP over other internet companies. The Korean Government also sees an opportunity to b
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>> how much effort have you made to understand the improvements? you show no recognition that the concensus-based ietf working groups are in agreement that this is a worthy & good enhancement to http3. Most network stacks in majo
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Curious if Whitney agreed to a non-compete when he formed Shakti[1], or if Shakti is supposed to complete gracefully against Kx Systems when it's finally ready. [1] https://shakti.com/executive-team/
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Yes, they bootstrapped their way entirely to $1M ARR. Huge accomplishment. HN hug of death on the original link so it's hard to read that right now.
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One of my friends made a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle[1] of the CNCF Landscape for a laugh (all sold out). It was fun and challenging to put all the pieces together, especially because my children were a little confused with the various logos.
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Many of the comments in this thread refer to the sheer inertia of millions of LOC of bash script in the wild. This seems to be the main reason why Oil shell[1] aims to be "an upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime&quot
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Ontario used to have a fifth year of secondary education (grade 13) which was phased out in 2003[1]. The expectation of secondary school students in Ontario prior to the abolition of the OAC year was that there were additional periods to us
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Since we're focusing on that last chart, the week the national emergency was declared was also the same week where schools started shutting down en masse; NYC DOE shut down week of March 15[1], and during the enuring weeks and months h
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The next best thing I miss from online team games was training newbies and seeing them perform at a high level (over time). The conversion rate was very low (20-25%), but if I'm being honest that made the reward all the sweeter. Howeve
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The one thing that always drove me to keep playing when I had more time was the sweet nectar of being part of a high-performing team . When everything clicked together and you knew that you could rely on your teammates during the ebbs and
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Sounds like a possible progenitor to Diplomacy[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy_(game)
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Except we can't grep for our or other people's names because the FinCEN leak isn't necessarily available publicly. It was only (rightly) given to the ICIJ -- even though it was a global team of over 40 journalists trawling th
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And the Phonak Marvel's retail price is north of $1,000 USD. Can some of the cost to the individual be defrayed through medical insurance in the US?
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Daniel would agree with you that this is an underappreciated and overlooked area of AI research. A 2018 blog post[1] gave an indication that he'd started to turn his attention to this particular area (mathematics) more forcefully. [1]
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How is this much different from BRK.A and class B super-voting shares for Facebook, Pinterest, Shopify, and Alphabet? It's certainly more byzantine, but the end result is the same: founders and insiders ensure majority governance and r
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Since HW is their interest, you might want to probe a little bit why they specifically chose "Computer Engineering" and not "Eletrical Engineering". I know this is dating myself, but I faced the same question about 25 ye
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I understand that the sales cycles are also long, even if you already have the warm connections ahead of time. The combination is pretty deadly, although this also offers a slight ray of hope as a real barrier to entry for the right type of

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