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by ponker 6y ago
Few people on this website will ever be able to understand what it is to be poor like this. I cannot even grasp one corner of the idea.
602.
by ponker 6y ago
These same people would have had the same ire for a rich guy of the wrong politics building a mansion in the wrong style there.
603.
by ponker 6y ago
I don't own one right now. Thinking about an Oculus Quest for Beat Saber or the HP Reverb G2 for Flight Simulator. Obviously the first is better for exercise.
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by ponker 6y ago
It absolutely is free capital, in the same way that a 0% interest bank loan would be free capital. You don't have to give any interest, any equity, or any collateral in case of failure. How much freer does capital get?
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by ponker 6y ago
All of your sales? Have you founded multiple public companies or are you an investment banker or something?
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by ponker 6y ago
Why is a YC company, perhaps the kind of company with the most access to capital, on Kickstarter? I get that it's free capital but it's a terrible look. I will wait until you have something to ship, or if YC underwrites you and sa
607.
by ponker 6y ago
I am a couch potato who is eating and lazing myself towards an early death... but I've played VR games and found myself only noticing how exhausted I was when the game ended, as opposed to exercise, where I hate what I'm doing whe
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by ponker 6y ago
If you think that malfeasance at the federal level is bad (and it is at a historically bad level right now), the local stuff is a thousand times worse. A local Indiana city will absolutely be able to completely fuck with Netflix access of t
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by ponker 6y ago
Why get paid once when you can get paid twice? This isn't about right, it's about might... let's see where this shakes out. The corporations have much more national political power but the cities can run a backhoe through you
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by ponker 6y ago
For all the whining from the rich about how they'll found their next Google in the Cayman Islands or whatever there still seem to be an awful lot of them left in California and New York.
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by ponker 6y ago
These promises are made from acquirers to acquirees so that they can save face, and tell everyone that they received these promises so that they have a rebuttal to accusations of being a "sell-out." They aren't done with a wi
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by ponker 6y ago
Yes, I think they can tell the difference, but I don’t think that they’re somehow in an unguarded / safer frame of mind in apps, especially with how iOS will immediately transfer you to native apps. It’s an extraordinary claim by Apple
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by ponker 6y ago
I think you're replying to the wrong comment. The software companies (Google and Apple) would buy Nikon and release a device that looked and operated like a Nikon FM3HP camera with a 24x36mm sensor, interchangeable lenses, and all of A
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by ponker 6y ago
That's not necessarily p-hacking. It becomes p-hacking when the model is hyperoptimized to the test set and thus fails when applied to new data from outside the test set.
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by ponker 6y ago
There isn't really code in an ASIC (there can be, but the more there is, the less of an ASIC it is), it's a physical configuration of transistors to accomplish a specific task. Can you change the code in a drill to make it a hamme
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by ponker 6y ago
The camera companies are so bad at software that the software companies are building better cameras than them... in the few millimeters thickness of a phone! I salivate for the day that Google or Apple buys Nikon or Leica or whatever and sh
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by ponker 6y ago
I do not think it's true that Apple's decision to ban Microsoft's xCloud is to protect their customers from games that are actually trying to defraud players. If this is deflecting then I guess call me the Great Deflector.
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by ponker 6y ago
"It's not fair to execute anyone." That's just an opinion, and mine is different. I believe that with very few exceptions, every first-degree murderer should be executed. Note that "first-degree murderer" is NO
619.
by ponker 6y ago
That is not in scope for this case. The facts of what the Sacklers have done are not in question. You can make an argument against their execution but it can't be "they got the wrong guy."
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by ponker 6y ago
Why? Why is it fair to execute someone who murders 20 hitchhikers, or 3,000 Americans on 9/11, but not someone who knowingly takes actions that lead to the death of (i.e., murders) 500,000 people? It's not "better" to ad
621.
by ponker 6y ago
The FBI can commit crimes with impunity, that much has been made clear. So given that, the best thing you can do to your hardware is make sure that even criminals can't get in, which also restrains some of the rights of the original ow
622.
by ponker 6y ago
makes sense, thanks. How would this be better than the logs you'd get from each service?
623.
by ponker 6y ago
Those wouldn't be IBM's top competitors in semiconductors would they? I don't think Facebook or Amazon or Microsoft is spending more than 1% of their R&D budget on semiconductors.
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by ponker 6y ago
Hmm this is very clear! Thanks.
625.
by ponker 6y ago
You’re giving the same answers that Apple Marketing would.
626.
by ponker 6y ago
> a senator on the technology committee saying he has never sent an email Senators who don't send emails don't do so because they don't know how to send emails -- they do it because they're doing seriously fucked up s
627.
by ponker 6y ago
Thanks. So an event that goes in would be something like, “user logged in,” and services that care about that data would be...? Sorry still having some trouble understanding it.
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by ponker 6y ago
If the app review process is supposed to ban objectionable content then why is Netflix allowed? What stops Netflix from putting bestiality porn on their service (and thus onto iDevices) any more than Microsoft putting objectionable games on
629.
by ponker 6y ago
Who are the Big 5? Googling turns up no definitive list.
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by ponker 6y ago
I hear so much about Kafka, could someone give the two-sentence description of what it is and who uses it and for what?

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