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by pradn 6y ago
There are plenty of writers - I know several - that seem to think Hemingway's style is the "correct" one. And it may be, for business use-cases, where clarity is more important than beauty, insight, nuance, individuality, or
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by pradn 6y ago
It's best to read his work - and the work of many philosophers - metaphorically, and with a grain of salt. His statements are vectors that point in certain directions, not destinations in themselves. I think his work is deeply humanist
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by pradn 6y ago
Git is too complicated. It's barely usable for daily tasks. Look at how many people have to Google for basic things like uncommitting a commit, or cleaning your local repo to mirror a remote one. Complexity is a liability. Mercurial ha
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by pradn 6y ago
It has always been like this, since about when it stopped being a little community for programmers. r/politics, for example, has never been any better than it is currently.
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Which communities do you mean?
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by pradn 6y ago
Prime has 4k UHD for free, while Netflix doesn't. For me, that's quite an advantage. Also, given the choice, I'll rent a movie on Amazon because they even give refunds if they detect the quality was low.
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by pradn 6y ago
People have even chuckled when I reached to put a seatbelt on in India. :)
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by pradn 6y ago
Super interesting, thanks for sharing! Quotes from this article: "But even many grown-ups enjoy [animation in North Korea] because it is one of the rare television programs in the North free of political messages" "Actually m
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by pradn 6y ago
There's some real comedy in this line: “The Company remains focused on our two corporate strategies of growing our enterprise analytics software business and acquiring and holding bitcoin ...”. What even is the connection!
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by pradn 6y ago
He gets the good will of reasonable prices while keeping the prestige of long wait times, so from a brand perspective, he's still doing well. He can't prevent scalpers right now. But even if he sold to maximize profits today, peop
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by pradn 6y ago
Maybe he wants to ensure those who love his pens can get them for a reasonable price? There's a democratic quality to waiting. Maximizing profit is only one way to run a business.
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I can't imagine calling Satyricon boring. Kidnapping a young hermaphrodite cult figure? A tour of Roman tenements? A pink sand villa? A raucous dinner party? It's unforgettable.
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by pradn 6y ago
The daily upload quota for a user is ~750 GB. It'll take a few days to upload that much data to Google Drive!
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If anything the top-5 format doesn't capture the long tail you might be listening to.
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by pradn 6y ago
There's a joke about how quickly Austin's weather can change. It's not unheard of to see 30 degree swings over the course of a few hours. Austin has no protection from polar winds coming down from the north, nor is it near wa
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by pradn 6y ago
Gold isn't the best store of value if stability of value is the only concern. In places like India, gold jewelry has a prominent cultural value (a part of most wedding rituals, for example). So its desired and even required no matter i
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by pradn 6y ago
It's not mental gymnastics to have a legitimate concern about energy usage.
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This is really unfortunate - their ice cream is some of the best I've had. They took a risk in trying to scale up rapidly and paid the price. It is what it is.
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It's open because it's out in the open. It's not corruption as in behind-doors bribery or such, but it is getting there. It's certainly a moral corruption - it's absolutely not conducive to her representing the the
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by pradn 6y ago
What's even more pernicious is expectation of future payments. Even if Yellen had never taken any money from Citadel or even if it was 7 years ago, how do we know her decision-making isn't affected by the prospect of making $400k
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by pradn 6y ago
Haha, a catch-22. That is true to an extent I think.
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The more absurd thing is criticism of Yellen on this part is being defended - by the White House press secretary no less - as a woman's right to use her skills to make money. Yes, women should absolutely be able to rise to their talent
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by pradn 6y ago
Apple gets ~$12 billion a year for making Google the default search engine on Safari. Apple's revenues in 2020 were $274.5 billion, so this counts to something like 8% of Apple revenues. 8% is either big enough not to discount in the f
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by pradn 6y ago
For context, Caravan magazine, which had its account suspended, is something like the Atlantic in the US.
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We can hope that initiatives like LetsEncrypt will continue to exist so there's an alternative to paying for certs. LetsEncrypt does rely on a private company for it's certs, but at least it exists.
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The practical effect is a massive decrease in tracking information for companies- defaults are powerful. I agree with Apple’s decision. It’s just going to have negative effects for some businesses, which is a price that must be considered a
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b) Apple blocking tracking is only a net benefit if you value privacy enough to overweigh the drop in customers for niche businesses well served by targeted ads.
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It seems reasonable to me that data collection enables more cost-effective targeting for small businesses. At the same time, it's done involuntarily and has privacy and self-censorship implications. It's likely that reducing user-
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One can imagine someone writing a love note by moving stars to form a constellation for the beloved.
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Do you remember exactly what was described in Ringworld? I'm curious!

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