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by paulgb 3y ago
During the Equifax debacle, I was so pissed that they tried to foist an arbitration agreement on their own victims that I offered to mass-mail opt-outs for people for free[1]. I ended up printing and mailing over 1,000 opt-outs, and they ev
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by paulgb 3y ago
> The Bitcoin network might actually reduce spam by diverting zombie farms to generating bitcoins instead. It's fun to see that the “Bitcoin will fix everything” genre started with Satoshi himself!
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by paulgb 3y ago
It’s hard for me to think of an example where thoughtfully-designed slides alone set a presentation apart, partly because good slides are often the result of someone clearly putting the time/thought into their presentation. But they
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by paulgb 3y ago
It’s hard to prove a law that has a deterrent effect, since you can see the number of people it “caught” but the people it deterred are invisible. The best proxy for the deterrent effect is how much criminals need to pay to launder money. I
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by paulgb 3y ago
It would be framed that way, but the irony is that mandatory parking minimums are more anti-poor, it’s just that the burden on the poor is hidden in the cost of housing making it less obvious. Car ownership is lower among people with very l
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by paulgb 3y ago
Not immediately, but internalizing the cost of parking could nudge two-car households towards becoming one-car households, or encouraging people to carpool instead of owning.
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by paulgb 3y ago
I always thought that too, and the official capitalization appears to be Potopea everywhere. But it has a performance test tool called PeaMark, which has me questioning my assumption.
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by paulgb 3y ago
Between that and the introduction of ads on Prime Video, I’m tempted to cancel as well. I probably won’t yet, but it’s no longer a no-brainer to renew.
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by paulgb 3y ago
I interpret “let the market decide” as also charging market rates for street parking, in which case the resources are only as limited as the market decides -- if more people want to park than there is room for, the private market can meet t
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by paulgb 3y ago
Why? Worst case scenario is that the market decides it does want cars, but the burden of paying for space to store them falls on the people that want them instead of everyone buying/renting a dwelling.
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by paulgb 3y ago
I get the analogy, but I don’t see what this actually solves in the JS/TS case. The jvm can’t run Java source files directly and needs a build step, so to the extent that the build step is not portable, it makes sense to ship the built
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by paulgb 3y ago
Why? I’m not primarily a JS/TS dev, but when I’m dealing with the JS ecosystem, operating across two languages is one of the pain points (e.g. clicking a function in my editor and getting the typedef instead of the code). Now that runt
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by paulgb 3y ago
That would be the ideal, but a secondary deterrent is the Streisand effect. If I had the time, I would love to aggregate listings from Lumen that use sites like uniontimes and thetribunepost to instigate false takedowns, and list them all s
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by paulgb 3y ago
Yeah, many of the quoted examples miss the “universal” part: > recurring cash relief to low-income residents for 2 years > Finland launched a program to give €560 ($616) a month to 2,000 unemployed citizens > doled out monthly unco
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The Carry-On Baggage Bubble Is About to Pop(theatlantic.com)
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Yeah, it was modeled after doing an in-person session like that and realizing that I liked it. Nobody is forced to do it, but by doing it over Slack they are aware that it's happening and know to expect not to expect an immediate respo
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by paulgb 3y ago
It was modeled after “deep work” sessions I have participated in the past (with non-colleagues) where saying what I worked on at the end was a useful reflection and to get in the habit of not (e.g.) getting sucked into responding to an emai
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by paulgb 3y ago
I wrote an internal Slack bot that my team uses to coordinate “deep work sessions”. It creates a thread, we say what we plan to do for the next 45-90 minutes (the time is up to the person who invokes the bot), and then we have an understand
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Jamsocket (YC W22) is hiring a senior Rust engineer for a WebSocket PaaS (NYC)(jamsocket.com)
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by paulgb 3y ago
I’m a fan of all three, but my mindset is that I’m not just paying for raw infrastructure, I’m paying for the engineering work I don’t have to do when I use them.
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by paulgb 3y ago
My point is not that it should be legal (as an NYC renter I’d be glad to see a cap on broker’s fees), but that we shouldn’t delude ourselves into thinking that artificial price ceilings would work if only we plugged one last loophole . For
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by paulgb 3y ago
If it weren't legal, we'd instead just see deals like this go to friends/family of the owner, or the payment would be under-the-table instead of an upfront broker's fee.
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by paulgb 3y ago
This is a sweeping generalization to make, and I think you underestimate how easy it is to achieve redundancy with modern tools these days. My company uses redundant services because we like to deploy frequently, and our customers notice if
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by paulgb 3y ago
I think a lot of startups have a set of requirements that is something like: - I want to spin up multiple redundant instances of some set of services - I want to load balance over those services - I want some form of rolling deploy so that
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by paulgb 3y ago
> I will not rent <650 credit score, good savings, income ratio, recommendations, work etc. tenant protections are so strong and courts so backed up now its just wildly expensive to get rid of people. This speaks to a fear of mine, wh
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by paulgb 3y ago
It's unfortunate that the name is derived from a locked-down device, but that was never a limitation of the technology (which had nothing to do with Apple); I used to listen to podcasts before I ever owned an iPod.
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by paulgb 3y ago
No, you are absolutely right. Episodic shows that call themselves “podcasts” are trying to capitalize on the popularity of podcasts as an open system while shirking the openness that makes them popular. We should refuse to call them podcast
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by paulgb 3y ago
If I post a video on TikTok, you need to use the TikTok app to play it (with all the privacy implications of that). If I give you a podcast URL, you can play it in pocketcast, overcast, or even write a few lines of Python to download it and
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by paulgb 3y ago
I tried a bunch of podcast hosts recently and was disappointed that even the ones that allowed a custom domain typically served the RSS feed itself off of their own domain. Many do say they will serve a redirect from that domain in perpetu
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by paulgb 3y ago
Oh interesting! I found this as well: https://jsmpeg.com/ I didn’t realize enough of the work in decoding mpeg was paralellizable enough to do on the GPU, let alone in the constrained world of WebGL, but apparently it is.

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