pc_edwin

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by pc_edwin 3y ago
To go further, its crazy how much cognitive dissonance can penetrate even the smartest among us.. If you had some understanding of how modern systems at twitters scale works, you'd know such a bug is highly unlikely. You have multiple
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Its funny how the entirety of silicon valley just forgot that Twitter was infamous for their unholy mess of a codebase which at some points looked like it had a secret mission to increase world entropy and terraform the planet. I still reme
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
I'm inclined to agree with your line of thinking but my comment was on the second and third order consequences of what just happened. When you put rational people in extremely chaotic situations, they tend to make very irrational choic
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
I've had the exact thought, it looks as if we are further descending into apocalyptic territory. You have people capable of extreme destruction being cornered into an existential state, leaving them with very little rational options. T
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Was it risky? Yes. Should they have hedged? Yes. Was it a "huge gamble"? NO! Banks are literally in the business of long duration. The Feds were draining liquidity at the fastest rate in recent history and they did this right afte
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
The particular case of SVB is rather illuminating. They weren't risking money on some high risk mortgage bonds or memecoins for that matter (illegal). They were literally buying US government bonds based on outlook given by THE governm
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
These articles and comments are to put politely, very silly. Banks and the government have an agreement where banks operate as if deposits are stable in order to buy long-term assets, while the government insures deposit stability. These as
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
The funny thing is, Adobe greatly overpaid for Figma and they know it so this is like a godsend. They would much rather just pay the $1 billion breakup fee and forget about that 2 years when all of tech got a little "loose" than b
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
It doesn't kill of 3rd party Apps, it just requires them to do a minimum amount of monetisation. The pricing is actually reasonable. 1/4the of Twitters price.
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Its not ridiculous though. Its 75% cheaper than the Twitter API pricing and the free tier is good enough for MVPs & experimentation.
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
The pricing is actually reasonable, thats the annoying part. The free tier is good enough for tweaks and MVPs, this is the opposite of what Twitter did which effectively ended experimentation on their API. The paid tier is reasonable, $12k
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Its unfortunate for Reddit, they have been forced in between a rock and a hard place. They need to become profitable asap since the markets have dried up but users have gotten so used to being subsidised.
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
There is where the Netflix side of the equation comes in. You can sell or gift your MovieKey like a DVD but at the end of the day its a license to stream on our platform. All content is DRM protected and we'll ban your account from the
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
The world we live in today is very different the world web0 was created for, its older than me. Don't get me wrong, standardised protocols play a very important role in the current world and it will play a bigger role in the future of
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Yeh most of decentralised cloud companies are very silly.
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Again I'm in agreement with everything you are saying here including the part with "other efforts". I just think we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Just because the space got ravaged by zero interest rat
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
I tend to agree but where we diverge is in the thinking that these problems cannot be solved with technology, I believe the opposite. The point of web3 is to abstract away things like sysadmin by commoditising consensus. Once a blockchain g
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
I believe we'll have more of these oh s** moments soon when people will finally realise why we need web3. Yes the whole space was full of scammers, charlatans but the technology and point was to create a substrate for networks on the i
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
There is a huge difference between being homeless and choosing to camp on a public street in metropolitan areas. Its not only illegal, its immoral. If they aren't mentally ill, you forcefully remove them to the outskirts of the city. I
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
I don't get how these ideas are draconian. Forget the fact that its whats the most liberal countries do, what else do you propose? Whats draconian is the current state of affairs. Letting these people rot and devolve further whilst rav
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
California spent $4 billion a year on homelessness. Thats roughly $35,000 per homeless person (115,000). IMO it shouldn't even that much to institutionalise/imprison/forcefully remove these people but even if it did cost as m
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Ready my OP again, thats my exact point! This is not caused by some unprecedented economic crash or poverty crises. As I've said in the OP, "this is an epidemic of uninformed tolerance and apathy ravaging an entire nation." T
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
I grew up around poor people. I remember watching my cousin cry to my aunt for money to buy pens/pencils whilst my aunt knew she didn't have the money nor did her husband working 12 hours on a pineapple plantation. I have another
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
I can solve it in under a year. These are either mentally I'll people or people who refuse to maintain the minimum amount of civility required by modern humanity. They should either be forcefully institutionalised or forcefully removed
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
This might sound tone deaf but thats seems extremely cheap to me. It means the cost range for chatGPT is between $300m - $500m per year. If the 100m users is accurate, it means they only need to convert low single digit percentage to paying
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by pc_edwin 4y ago
At best you can say, its an unnecessary burden which is artificially created with the purpose of dissuading customers from leaving. Only a small group of cloud customers would find this "burden" meaningful enough in monetary terms
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by pc_edwin 4y ago
I don't troll, I just use chatGPT to rewrite some of my comments so that I don't get flagged/banned. I'm slightly autistic so I find myself constantly being scrutinised not for the substance of my comments but its insens
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by pc_edwin 4y ago
Regarding the political aspect, I strongly disagree with the notion of attacking these companies just for the sake of being actually really good (and big). The EU alternatives are notably inferior, they constantly find themselves playing ca
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by pc_edwin 4y ago
This is exactly the type of intervention that crippled Europe's tech ecosystem. The cloud market is one of the most competitive in tech, with numerous strong and emerging players. In addition to established giants such as AWS, Azure, a
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by pc_edwin 4y ago
Just be brutally honest with yourself and do the right thing, what ever that intrinsically means for you. Even if you don't believe in god, you have an unconscious that keeps a track of these things so act in a way where you might get&

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