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by pavlov 2y ago
But then he goes around saying he actually found massive evidence of fraud. It’s not like he tweets: “Guys, my admittedly cursory examination gave me a feeling this old system which I’ve never seen before could be prone to fraud.” What proo
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by pavlov 2y ago
I think he means that Microsoft bought his own startup whose product was written in Delphi.
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by pavlov 2y ago
That’s leftist? It’s a very basic statement of fact, on the level of “Earth is round” and “vaccines prevent diseases.” But I suppose quite a few people consider those leftist positions nowadays too…
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by pavlov 2y ago
Billionaires and totalitarian ruling parties both pretend that they’re polar opposites, but they’re mostly two sides of the same coin.
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by pavlov 2y ago
A question perhaps to help anybody else who finds themselves in this situation... If one doesn't have the cash to prepay the taxes, where do you find a short-term lender for this? Let's say your RSUs are worth $1M and you need to
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by pavlov 2y ago
Hundreds of millions of people living relatively close to Syria can use ESTA, so it’s a relevant warning.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Honestly it’s more the case that X is not a first-tier social network anymore. It now plays in second league with the likes of Threads and Pinterest. It retains important bubbles like Silicon Valley VCs and media people, but globally it’s j
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by pavlov 2y ago
Elon Musk's trans daughter Vivian has been very active on Threads. Maybe she's on BlueSky now too, but I think she started on Threads. (She's 20 years old, her father is the richest man in the world, and he regularly does int
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by pavlov 2y ago
Threads has 320 million monthly active users and 100 million daily. It’s certainly not a flop. It’s almost as big as X globally. There’s a tremendous locality bias around Meta’s products. Social media use is very localized by geography and
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by pavlov 2y ago
But in today’s media environment you just double down, pretend it’s exactly what you meant, and get outraged that the journalist must be a deep state agent for even daring to suggest otherwise.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Windows Phone 7 had a genuinely unique twist on the unified inbox. The operating system deprioritized apps with their own feeds, and instead provided a number of "hubs" that were like topical inboxes that collected data from multi
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by pavlov 2y ago
Meta provides data to qualified researchers, which seems to satisfy the European law.
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by pavlov 2y ago
> “prioritize the constitutional order […] try to drive a wedge between Musk and Trump” How does one follow from the other? This sounds like looking for the “one weird trick that will drive them crazy!” It does nothing. The moneyed int
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How Big Business Bailed Out the Nazis (2016)(brennancenter.org)
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The wall of text is horrible UI, but at least there's a checkbox with an obvious label: "Do not sell or share my personal information (CCPA/CPRA)." Most other websites try to hide this fundamental choice from you behind
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by pavlov 2y ago
Kids these days have much less exposure to boredom. Anywhere you are, you can get lost in TikTok or other social media feeds in three seconds. As a parent I struggle with this a lot, trying to teach some patience to my children who seem con
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by pavlov 2y ago
It’s true, Vladimir Putin never did a coup either. He became a dictator through ostensibly democratic steps (without any actual democracy of course). I wonder if Trump and Vance in 2029 can somehow pull the Putin/Medvedev switch, where
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by pavlov 2y ago
The whole point of Mad Max is that your TC and RSUs and whatever aren’t worth shit anymore, and the people you thought useless and weird and poor suddenly have the chance to kick you in the face.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Do they pay podcast creators from the same pool? It really sucks if my subscription money goes to Joe Rogan because some dummy listened to him 10x more than I listened to music.
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by pavlov 2y ago
“Glorified accountant” is essentially how Adolf Eichmann described himself. It’s not a get-out-of-jail card if you’re just crunching some numbers while following illegal orders.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Except it’s Congress spending the money, and Congress is the one who has the authority to hand the keys and do the checks (called “oversight” in that boring old world of government). Maybe you see the inherent problem with the setup where P
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by pavlov 2y ago
Wernher von Braun was a brilliant young engineer, one of the best minds of his generation. At age 25 he joined a patriotic party that was full of curiosity and creativity, disrupting the stale status quo of his home country. For the next ei
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by pavlov 2y ago
I worked at Facebook when the Libra thing happened, and it was obviously meant to be a global bank that evades banking regulations by sprinkling crypto magic. When it launched, employees were told that we'd soon be able to receive a po
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by pavlov 2y ago
3rd world currency is often barely worth the paper it’s printed on. Making it crypto removes even that value. Seriously though, the reason is that they can do digital currency without crypto just fine. For example there are many popular pay
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by pavlov 2y ago
Because it’s happening outside of any legal oversight. One man is telling you “this is waste and fraud and abuse”, and you’re just supposed to believe it. There also happens to be lots of historical precedent to this kind of aggressive purg
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by pavlov 2y ago
"Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky is an excellent sci-fi novel that also includes ants that were uplifted by a human terraforming experiment. They're interesting semi-aliens because the colonies are incredibly capable
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by pavlov 2y ago
Severe enough burnout at a startup (or crunch-mode game studio, or similar) can give you a reasonable simulacrum of that. Come in, go home, come back. Did something actually happen that wasn’t work? Unclear.
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by pavlov 2y ago
“The Americans” doesn’t get enough love as one of the top shows of the past decade. The darkness sneaks up on you. The people who start out seeming like James Bond characters end up carrying the full intolerable weight of their lies and des
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by pavlov 2y ago
Working at a startup before product-market fit can feel like this. You don’t know why the work is important, but it must be done so we can at least discover whether it was important. You may not get that information, but you can take comfor
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by pavlov 2y ago
I find myself in Cubism and realize I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere, but perspective has collapsed all around me and the way out is blocked by fragments of guitar strings and noses of long-dead Parisian mistresses.

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