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by pradn 5y ago
This both enriches Google, impoverishes name-brands, and allows new entrants to compete.
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by pradn 5y ago
Who is doing the promising? Sci-fi writers? Popular science magazines?
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by pradn 5y ago
This argument never makes sense. Why keep senior engineers if they aren't contributing to the business?
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by pradn 5y ago
And? This is a complaint in the genre of "I had magical expectations and they weren't met because the world is complex and these problems are hard or impossible." It's like people complaining about us not having hoverboa
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by pradn 5y ago
Buying stuff through QR codes is very common in India now. You can pay for everything from groceries to street food using QR codes. It runs off the government-sponsored UPI standard. However, AFAIK you need an Indian bank account to be able
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by pradn 5y ago
I'm not making a case either way. I'm stating why I think this is being raised as an issue. You are absolutely right in that moving the conversation to be about the relationships of the two countries makes a big difference in how
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by pradn 5y ago
People ascribe a different moral calculation for continuing to buy Russian oil and gas and newly buying Russian oil and gas. The end effect is the same, Russia gets money in return for its fossil fuels. But the rhetoric and the morality
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by pradn 5y ago
If Disney can't make Luke Skywalker, one of their most iconic characters, look good in a show with a budget the size of the Mandalorian, I can't say I'm too worried for this technology yet. Everyday misinformation techniques
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by pradn 5y ago
A feeling of progress is hard to convey to users if the iceberg is mostly invisible. I assume much of the work on Google Docs is harder to see like backend improvements/scalability, rendering compatibility across platforms, file-format
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by pradn 5y ago
One issue with Markdown is that there's many flavors with subtle differences in parsing/interpretation. If you're looking to be able to parse the file in the future, you have to be careful to pick a flavor with wide support o
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by pradn 5y ago
I am a man. Yes, it is unfortunate that the differences in experience persist. :(
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by pradn 5y ago
Twitter has the highest signal/noise ratio of any social media platform, for me. I've curated it so 1) I don't follow people I know in real life so I don't have to deal with their completely different ways of using Twitt
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by pradn 5y ago
I've heard wonderful things about Dahab! I'd love to visit if I get to go back to Egypt. I didn't mind the overcharging too much when it was obvious. Like it was funny to me and the taxi driver that he was charging too much,
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by pradn 5y ago
I went to Egypt a few months ago and was met with incredibly warm people, with perhaps even an excess of hospitality. Yes, you do get charged extra for being a tourist at the tourist spots. But that's only a small part of the country.
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by pradn 5y ago
He has a long history of speaking the truth even if has led to him upending his life (never being able to go back to his home country.) That's a good track record.
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by pradn 5y ago
The greatness of Picasso's formal skills can be seen in one genre: his prints for the Vollard Suite. His lines are quick and delicate and invoke a whole body and its suppleness. The economy of line is astonishing.
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by pradn 5y ago
There's an interesting push-and-pull here. Keep the existing dialect to make it easy to switch, or add differentiating features that may introduce dialect incompatibility. An issue as old as time for SQL DBs.
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by pradn 5y ago
The US could issue special visas for workers in chip fabrication fields, but that'll probably anger our ally Taiwan. There's also top workers in South Korea and Japan, other US allies.
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by pradn 5y ago
All this sounds irrelevant when an ASML machine costs $100 million a pop.
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by pradn 5y ago
I think peak performance, even if it gets thermo-throttled quickly, is important. Web site JS parsing during loading is like that, and that's an essential function of my computer these days. And perhaps for bursty sections of AAA games
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by pradn 5y ago
For home use, that's fine. I don't worry about the power peak usage of my computer since it rarely gets to that level. For servers, that's a no-go.
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by pradn 5y ago
There's still plenty of money in PC and console games, especially AAA ones. It's a good thing that games expand to mobile. My little cousins in India have no consoles or PCs to play on, but they happily play PUBG or Minecraft with
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by pradn 5y ago
Once in a while, some DRM does work in buying some time for the copyright holder. Denuvo has sometimes led to games taking longer to be cracked, in some cases for a few weeks or even months, enough to perhaps capture some of the initi
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by pradn 5y ago
It's unclear to me whether democratic governance is capable of reducing consumption. People want to buy bigger cars, for comfort or perceived safety, or for how they make them feel.
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by pradn 5y ago
I think it's possible to use IPNS to create a key-value mapping where the value can be changed. https://flyingzumwalt.github.io/ipfs-tutorials/curriculum/fi...
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by pradn 5y ago
The difference between a single node backed by PostgreSQL and OpenSea offering an API to interact with the blockchain is that in theory you could interact with the blockchain yourself. It's something like Wikipedia. I could run my own
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by pradn 5y ago
I think that trip to Hawaii was a reward trip for one team which had a large presence in Boulder. That sort of thing seems to be pretty clearly in the rear-view mirror.
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by pradn 5y ago
The Battle at Lake Changjin was the first time a non-Hollywood film was the highest grossing film worldwide since like the 1910s or 1920s. (We don't have good records before then, when a bunch of French silents were popular.)
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by pradn 5y ago
A rapid or PCR test from within the last calendar day is required to enter the USA. It's pretty hard to get that in many countries now b/c the winter/omicron surge. Plus, it's often expensive.
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by pradn 5y ago
Yes, you're right.

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