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by paulgb 2y ago
Exactly. The one example they use gets a 5.2 on IMDB and 42% on rotten tomatoes. Not all movies are high art, nor should they be. It’s for a certain audience. We’ve had crappy made-for-TV movies since long before streaming and it hasn’t bee
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by paulgb 2y ago
Makes sense, thanks! We run Y-Sweet in Plane.dev (also our open source project). Plane runs a process for every document across a pool of compute, so each process effectively has a lock on that document’s data and can persist on a loop with
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by paulgb 2y ago
Great write-up! > If we extend it further with a fairly simple distributed mutex mechanism, we can now persist and share state across any service which can access the Redis instance! I’m curious to hear more about the approach you took h
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Encrypting offline storage for local-first apps(digest.browsertech.com)
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by paulgb 2y ago
He recklessly caused a lot of pain to families that already suffered a horrific tragedy, and profited from the attention by being (almost literally) a snake-oil salesman. He deserves a large punishment.
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by paulgb 2y ago
So this is a clear case of this, right? https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html (No shade to the company, good on them for getting coverage!)
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by paulgb 2y ago
I had to get some bloodwork done. I sent emails and made calls until I found a provider who would actually tell me the prices. Then the bill came and it was 3x higher. I wanted to know if it was the doctor's error or the lab's, so
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by paulgb 2y ago
I'm aware of jury nullification, but it doesn't change what evidence can be introduced.
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by paulgb 2y ago
> That will be part of the defense argument presented to the jury. That evidence wouldn't be admitted. There's no “the guy deserved it” defense for murder, it's always illegal to kill people.
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by paulgb 2y ago
I'm also a New Yorker and I think that most of us actually do not believe that assassinations are a net benefit to society, no matter how dissatisfied with the health care system we are.
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by paulgb 2y ago
I can understand the reasons for wanting to incorporate in a state other than Delaware, but I think it's one of those things where if you have to ask on HN, the right answer is still Delaware (assuming you want to raise funds with equi
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by paulgb 2y ago
https://electric-sql.com/ does this, running a stripped-down version of postgres on the client. https://www.powersync.com/ is a similar approach, but using sqlite on the client. https://zero.roci
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by paulgb 2y ago
I think GP is https://www.ekzhang.com/ (hi Eric!), not http://ezyang.com/
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by paulgb 2y ago
97 million views, 50k likes. https://x.com/NickJFuentes/status/1854015641218355621?lang=e... X is not actually a free speech platform (e.g. https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/2425529
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by paulgb 2y ago
Clive Myrie is not an immigrant, he was born in northern England. The post is blatantly about race (“how often do white hosts”, “stop the racism”). You asked for something high-engagement, but the stuff that tends to be “in your face” is lo
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by paulgb 2y ago
Twitter has search if you really want to see examples. Took me a few seconds to find this one with 16k likes from a couple of days ago. https://x.com/GarethDavies007/status/1861477780778529043
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by paulgb 2y ago
The taunt of “your body, my choice” in the days after the election ( https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/11/11/business/your-body-my-cho... ) Kasey links to some examples of how prevalent anon accounts spewi
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by paulgb 2y ago
Bluesky reminds me of Twitter around ~2008, and Twitter only really got enshittified to the point that I barely use it this year. So I'm optimistic that we'll get a good decade in at least.
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by paulgb 2y ago
Thanks, this is the summary I’ve been looking for!
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by paulgb 2y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32860742
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by paulgb 2y ago
Are you assuming that they are assuming? ;) They may have asked, which is common in this situation.
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by paulgb 2y ago
The SSRN link doesn’t have a login-wall: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3778525
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by paulgb 2y ago
Congrats on the launch, this is really cool! Is the durable cache an attached disk, or are you using a separate AWS product for that?
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by paulgb 2y ago
I used to run a cron job that would scrape my university's daily bulletin and post every day right after it was updated. It may have been the first “presence” the university had on twitter. I remember following things like weather stat
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by paulgb 2y ago
It’s worth noting that twitter itself owes a lot of its popularity to its openness in the early days. In the early days there were third-party clients, RSS feeds, XMPP support, etc. You could post from a curl command in a cron job, leadin
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by paulgb 2y ago
I don’t think of myself as less tolerant, but I’ve definitely become less patient with the qanon-level discourse that has come to dominate the reply section on twitter, which used to be a place for interesting conversation. Maybe somebody b
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by paulgb 2y ago
> It means that you can't spin up a stack for an hour if the system calculates that leaving it online for a whole month would breach your limit. Sort of related, another wishlist feature I have is a way to start an EC2 instance wit
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by paulgb 2y ago
A compromise solution to this could be to block creation of new resources if their monthly cost would exceed the monthly limit, unless the customer increases the limit. It wouldn’t solve the problem for usage-based billing, but it would h
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by paulgb 2y ago
Hopefully the actual bill wording doesn’t leave this ambiguous, but I think the intent of “exclusively” here is meaning that they don’t also represent the buyer’s interest (dual agency), not that they have an exclusive deal with the la
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by paulgb 2y ago
Ah thanks, good to know. I guess I've just been lucky with it and developed a superstition that it works.

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