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by pwinnski 4y ago
I'm sorry, how is "greater than 50%" not the same as "most common?" Either it's two players with 51% and 49%, in which case the 51% is "most common," or it's many players, with 51% and a bunch of
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Most episodes of "hour-long" shows from ten to twenty years ago are 42 minutes long. That's because US television had standardized on 18 minutes of ads per hour. I don't think YouTube is quite there yet.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Those stories are mostly there to avoid delisting by Google. That some people might enjoy reading them is very much a distant secondary consideration.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The "two people talking" podcasts are popular, but my all-time favorite is still a one-man production: Mike Duncan's The History of Rome [0]. Even his follow-up, Revolutions , was great. No other podcast has grabbed and he
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Hi from Texas, where real-life candidates belonging to one of the two major political parties spew open hate and then win office.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Kiwi Farms is offline not because CloudFlare refuses to do business with them, but because everybody collectively refuses to do business with them. Otherwise they could just have gone to a competitor. One can still find what happened to t
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> Ignoring network effects and existing libraries aka Ignoring the fact that it's easy to hire developers that already have widespread experience in C++, and ignoring the cumulative effort that thousands, if not millions of develope
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by pwinnski 4y ago
That is exactly the sort of assumption that caused Ehrlich to miss the target in The Population Bomb: there turned out not to be a finite amount of food. Or, if the amount is finite, we were "currently" (at the time) producing a t
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The percentages add up. Are you certain that for every $100 in USDT they issue, they acquire another $2.94 in T-bills, $3.87 in cash, take out a secured loan for $12.55, and so on? They could indeed have all of those percentages, in exact
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by pwinnski 4y ago
It's not even that! It's just that most people seem to have no idea how long most scams are able to run. Bernie Madoff was operating for 17 years before things fell apart, and he was just one man. The layers of scam involved in cr
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The irony burns. I should commute to an office so that the only way I can achieve the quiet I have at some is to climb into a booth smaller than any closet in my home, and somehow that's not a completely-useless office perk?
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I missed that, thanks for the call-out. Now I'm curious about how well these systems work, whether they are able to tell the difference between someone inebriated and someone sick, etc. Making a note for a future rabbit hole.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
So-called "self-driving" systems, or the more-accurately-named lane-keeping and distance-keeping systems, may or may not be safer than human drivers driving equivalent cars, but they are much safer than alcohol-impaired drivers.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
President Biden gave a speech about a specific person and what he perceives that person's threat to America to be, and Snowden omits any mention of that person, describes Biden's speech as being only about "his political oppo
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by pwinnski 4y ago
On the one hand, there's your claim that a web version of TwinCalc should be 56.3K or so. On the other hand, there's a world of existing web apps which are generally very much larger than that. A smaller footprint than 563K would
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Indeed, it's a solved problem on iOS too! This story isn't about someone releasing a new app into a desolate marketplace without any calculator apps (and hey, turn that iOS default calculator sideways for some fun), it's a hu
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by pwinnski 4y ago
This link seems best-suited as a comment on the existing thread, then, rather than a whole new thread.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Maybe? With current systems, a surprising number of people vote without any belief that their vote will make a big difference. And yet, if enough people do that, those votes do in fact make a big difference. Celebrities have been elected qu
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Most democratic processes have limits. While it's amusing to have subs named Boaty McBoatface, completely unfettered democracy isn't as amusing when there are serious consequences, such as long-term elections to national office. W
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I am not seeing where I suggested that Apple doesn't want to sell more ads, or that they don't care about money. Yes, it's profitable for Apple to sell ads. They tried once before and failed because they refused to violate pe
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by pwinnski 4y ago
It could be that the people do care about the values listed, but don't know an effective way to guarantee them, and that existing diversity statements are a stopgap measure until something better is figured out. But no, let's jump
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I get the arguments, I think, I just... don't want to be spending any percentage of my time supporting a task queue I've written. I don't want to respond to feature requests or bug reports or questions. I want to use somethin
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by pwinnski 4y ago
You get that ads can exist without invasive personal targeting, right? Ads used to be based on the location in which they were shown, rather than the person to whom they were shown. That's still an option for Facebook and Google, a
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by pwinnski 4y ago
You might get downvoted because your comment is evidence-free, filled with hyperbolic value judgments, and runs counter to general observation. It is difficult to imagine what Apple could do to top Google, Facebook, or even Microsoft on a l
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by pwinnski 4y ago
They've faced down several angry groups of shareholders that demonstrate you are incorrect. Apple as a company has a few values that reduce potential profits, and refuse to violate them. They should probably have more such values, bu
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> They don't actually care about user privacy, but rather want exclusive rights to all of your data so that they can sell it for a markup. This flies in the face of everything Apple has ever done. I'm more cynical than most, bu
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> They can take ~3-4% of the transaction, net like 0.5% for a 6 week loan, which is like a 4.5% APR. Their margins may be better than peers since they can use their own cash instead of raising debt. Maybe 6-7% APR. It's also short-t
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by pwinnski 4y ago
My M1 Pro with 16GB handles it fine. My M1 with 8GB does not.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
There are software companies outside of FAANG, and programmers at software companies, by and large, are seen as more essential that "just" cost centers.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The question was specifically about software developers. It could be that the US underpays on average relative to the rest of the world, but they definitely overpay software developers relative to the rest of the world.

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