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by pyrale 1y ago
The answer is "cartel". They weren't condemned for the algorithmic pricing part, they were condemned because they "participated" (subtext: along with other landlords). The "algorithmic" part is just cartel
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by pyrale 1y ago
You don't need board approval for every recruitment of an executive or every decision to hire a big-three contractor, at least not in large enough companies.
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by pyrale 1y ago
> In general you are not refuting my main point I don't care about refuting a theoretical point. Dissemination of big three alumni into companies, and their use of the services of their former colleagues is a thing I have witnessed,
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by pyrale 1y ago
> Why would I hire an inferior candidate when I can hire a much better one that will make the company grow and make me wealthy as a consequence? There are plenty of reasons why an individual's goals aren't aligned with the org
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by pyrale 1y ago
This looks like a paragraph which is meaningful in the context of a specific school of thought. It reminds me of the classic (that is, classic on HN): > A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem? S
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by pyrale 1y ago
Or that they were hired by former mcKinsey consultants turned executives. That’s the most egregious part imho, how when consultants get fired, the firm gives all the help it can so they can land a good job in a decision-making role at a pot
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by pyrale 1y ago
> It seems clearly better, as a user, to use an uncensored, un-backdoored service based in a foreign country This point of view I could have understood 20 years ago, but Snowden revelations happened in 2013. Before that, US social media
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by pyrale 1y ago
> Why do you think that might be? This kind of rethorical question is annoying. If you have an opinion, state it. > Perhaps the Germans could make their IPOs more business friendly The main reason companies tend to get listed in the U
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by pyrale 1y ago
> Is this not a chance to improve a rather ancient and clumsy system? I seriously doubt that there is any will to improve the system. > My understanding is the grants you're talking about are generally for small student salaries
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by pyrale 1y ago
> For instance the Brits likely never even considered the possibility, in a million years, that they could lose in a military conflict with the colonies. They likely couldn't. The US independence war was part of a larger war between
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by pyrale 1y ago
We need to go further. If a service doesn't include 197 factors including blood samples, showing up at a physical location 50 miles from your home, and sending a picture of yourself in a specific posture, and doesn't require you t
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by pyrale 1y ago
Semver was always a scam. Or rather, people were glad to scam themselves with semver rather than fixing their dependencies. Languages ecosystems who try to make it sane for developers usually end up with some sort of snapshot/bom syste
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by pyrale 1y ago
It's no surprise given the distro name, and DHH's previous use of the word Omakase [1, or, perhaps, 2] [1]: https://dhh.dk/2012/rails-is-omakase.html [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E99Fn
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by pyrale 1y ago
Some people are still looking for source material rather than, say, an imaginary friend summarizing info that may or may not have been made up.
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by pyrale 1y ago
It's not difficult, we know what to do, and we know how to do it. We simply don't want to do it. It's incredibly difficult in the same sense that it's "incredibly difficult" for a teenager to clean their bedroo
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by pyrale 1y ago
A joint venture would work, indeed. There is still the possibility of a supply-chain attack, but it's still better than a subsidiary operating the system or hiring european employees.
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by pyrale 1y ago
Have you heard of many national security letters successfully challenged in court?
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by pyrale 1y ago
Assuming 10 billion humans all using the tech, and 10 year amortizing, and zero operating cost, that requires $30 per user. Not sure if that number acounts for interests either. Yeah, the author could have used "when" instead of &
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by pyrale 1y ago
> Operational control isn't all-or-nothing. When the US government has no issue asking a company to hand over its tls keys, it really is.
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by pyrale 1y ago
> It will operate as a subsidiary company based in Europe. That means it's 100% subject to European law, not American law. As a subsidiary company, does Amazon retain operational control over that branch? If so, it's subject to
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by pyrale 1y ago
Because LLM companies have historically been extremely disingenuous when it comes to crawling these sites. Also because there is a difference between a user hitting f5 a couple times and a crawler doing a couple hundred requests. Also becau
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by pyrale 1y ago
Thanks for the useful clarification. I guess I'm not the target audience, then. I was a bit surprised by the article, given other works from that blog were much more to my taste.
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by pyrale 1y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the author's conclusion. While python was never a great language for large codebases and it thrived because people with little development knowledge could get going pretty easily, a large part of its curr
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by pyrale 1y ago
> I wonder if this is the uncomfortable truth behind low birth rates in the modern world Well, you could ask people in age why they don't get in couple and have children, you could look at studies trying to understand why otherwise
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by pyrale 1y ago
The article seems to revolve around defining an archetypal average peasant, which reminded me of [1]. While the article is well-written, I feel like I walk away with very little, given the story's focus on generalities. [1]: https:&#x
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by pyrale 1y ago
> The risks of vendor lock-in, losing control of your files, or price hiking sucks though, but convenience outweighs this for most. Coming from a dev background, I'd love open file formats and being able to pick where the files are
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by pyrale 1y ago
One side, a ragtag group of civilians who barely find food, and the other side, a well-armed modern army without too many moral dilemmas. "Let's not spend resources to support either" looks awfully like allowing a genocide.
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by pyrale 1y ago
So basically the international community should allow a genocide by "whoever" is stronger?
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by pyrale 1y ago
> most of them would probably physically assault you for suggesting they agreed with domestic terrorists Poe's law working overtime here.
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by pyrale 1y ago
> Isreal proposed international peacekeeping forces in Gaza Given the history of Israel with the UNIFIL...

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