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by pokstad 2y ago
If my metronome app stops complying with iOS developer guidelines, it will stop working or Apple will pull it. This doesn’t happen to a real dedicated metronome. The App Store is a problem for iPad. Developers need the freedom to develop so
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by pokstad 2y ago
“The Redemption of Time” It ties together loose ends and goes into more detail about what happened to that brain.
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by pokstad 2y ago
The fourth book blessed by the original author is also great. Don’t sleep on that.
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by pokstad 2y ago
Fast lanes are the biggest selling point of 5G due to limited backhaul bandwidth. Instead of eliminating fast lanes, force ISPs to provide access to fast lanes equally ( must issue, not may issue).
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by pokstad 3y ago
iCloud private relay
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by pokstad 3y ago
Part of the USAs superpower is letting the market decide where to invest. China micromanages its economy and can’t anticipate everything the market can.
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by pokstad 3y ago
What part is so bad? Care to quote?
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by pokstad 3y ago
I spent the start of my career in Defense in the late 2000s. People told me it was foolish to leave defense for less money/benefits in tech startups where nothing was guaranteed. I ended up finally leaving and it was the best career de
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by pokstad 3y ago
It’s called hustling. Not everyone makes it, but putting in extra effort improves your odds. It’s pretty amazing to me that this is now considered controversial.
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by pokstad 3y ago
That’s not how humans actually work. Driving is one of the last big job sources for millions of Americans and when it disappears there will be many people out of work. Expect more homeless and drug use when people have difficulty transition
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by pokstad 3y ago
George Hotz said it best: “self driving is already here, it’s called Uber”
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by pokstad 3y ago
I agree, humans should write tests. Humans are the oracles of the program output who know whether the code did the right or wrong thing. I’m guessing they want to automate tests because most engineers skimp on them. Compensating for lack of
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by pokstad 3y ago
The size of the USA is a better argument. Infrastructure needs to spread to cover the populated areas which are huge.
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by pokstad 3y ago
In case someone stumbles upon this in the future, I want to preserve the original comment they replied to: > This is a mistake. Housing restrictions are what keep breeding populations from overrunning the world. Berkeley becomes Mumbai.
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by pokstad 3y ago
Nextdoor emails and notifications suck. I’ll get “safety” notifications that have nothing to do with my neighborhood.
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by pokstad 3y ago
Files seem less useful for small bits of information. I feel the urge to fill a file with a minimum threshold. A database makes more sense for that.
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by pokstad 3y ago
The sky belongs to everyone. Hard to get sign off from everyone on making a change to it.
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by pokstad 3y ago
Technically the US dollar is backed by the US government which includes a massive military to protect its interests. The government and military require enormous energy to do this. So the printing of the money by itself is not the only ener
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by pokstad 3y ago
Who said OP was American? Also, there’s plenty of affordable places in America to have kids if you stay away from expensive cities.
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by pokstad 3y ago
If it’s useless, then why are they mining them in the first place? Seems to be a subjective thing to determine.
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by pokstad 3y ago
This is a joke. I go to my store and now they give you beefier “reusable” plastic bags. There is many times more plastic in these bags than the old ones.
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by pokstad 3y ago
Why does the government care about Bitcoin specifically? Why not focus on how much energy Facebook spends on analyzing user activity? Why not focus on how much energy analytics companies spend on tracking every click in the browser? Or vide
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by pokstad 3y ago
It’s a UX trainwreck
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by pokstad 3y ago
Alcohol and tobacco websites have been doing fine without checking IDs.
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by pokstad 3y ago
The new movies made no sense. At least the crappy prequels followed some sort of logic despite the bad execution. No one is gonna dig into the new trilogy for spin offs.
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by pokstad 3y ago
How is Apple going to have better quality? Apple specializes in making devices with almost no moving parts. Mechanical products are very different.
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by pokstad 3y ago
I think Germans are more likely to pay with cash because of privacy concerns. Maybe we need a society that values privacy more.
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by pokstad 3y ago
Doesn’t AWS do that for a lot of ecommerce companies?
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by pokstad 3y ago
The real conspiracies are always in plain sight
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by pokstad 3y ago
His companies drive people to depression to sell ads. How is achieving AGI aligned with that business?

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