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by qq66 4y ago
Netflix had great streaming tech years before anyone else did. I wonder why they decided that the right move was to compete on content. If they had just set up a platform where any content provider could sell their content (on a monthly or
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by qq66 4y ago
Their target market measures the value of this thing in number of Snapchat Stories it can create so really the flights does make more sense. Their target market isn't going to want to divide 3 minutes by 20 seconds.
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by qq66 4y ago
The default flight is 30 seconds.
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by qq66 5y ago
I was a heavy Usenet user but the Usenet population was such a small fraction of the world's population (and the Usenet post mechanics were much less targeted) that I didn't have the same kinds of interactions on Usenet as I do on
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by qq66 5y ago
I don't intend to refute anything you've written because I agree with pretty much all of it. But there is more to Twitter than that. Twitter is also a collective mind in a way that has only previously existed in science fiction. T
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by qq66 5y ago
The macro lens is the reason I bought the iPhone 13 Pro and the extreme sizem weight, and poor ergonomics of the phone are why I returned it. I'd buy an iPhone the dimensions of an iPhone Mini (but say, twice as thick) with the fancy c
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by qq66 5y ago
The reason they do this is to give you that little warning "You're muted" when you speak while on mute (if they weren't listening to the mic, they wouldn't know that). This is such common behavior (even with the war
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by qq66 5y ago
One way to make this clear to yourself is to observe how much more difficult it is to "define bread" than it is to answer "is this bread?"
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by qq66 5y ago
Yes, but the chance of becoming one of the ~10 most powerful people at Apple or Goldman Sachs is extraordinarily small, and you pretty much know if you even have a shot at it after you've been working at the company for a year. If you&
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by qq66 5y ago
You cannot meaningfully change any organization without being one of the ~10 most powerful people in it.
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by qq66 5y ago
I think deep learning is better thought of as "science" than "engineering." Right now we're in the stage of the Greeks and Arabs where we know "if we do this then that happens." It will be awhile before we
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by qq66 5y ago
There needs to be something like the SAT for computer programming. Getting a 1500 won't mean you're a genius but it will mean you can do the job, and then there can be 1-2 interviews for domain-specific skills and culture fit. I k
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by qq66 5y ago
Keep working at it and eventually you will rebuild "tradfi."
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by qq66 5y ago
The one I miss most was Microsoft Office Picture Editor.
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by qq66 5y ago
How can you get a known safe drug if it's illegal? If I buy a box of processed food at Walmart I can be pretty damn sure that it is what it says it is. Not so for illicit drugs.
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by qq66 5y ago
They are frequently given special laws, principal among them tax-exempt status.
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by qq66 5y ago
This either should be illegal or already is.
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by qq66 5y ago
I don't even think you need a hostile actor, you could just have an incompetent actor who flips the sign on a value, and instead of designing a biological agent to maximize wheat production, designs one that minimizes wheat production,
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by qq66 5y ago
Basketball is a major sport worldwide, honestly probably #3 after soccer and cricket and ahead of tennis because of its popularity in China. Baseball and ice hockey are region-specific (Japan/DR/Cuba/Venezuela for baseball an
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by qq66 5y ago
I mean, did you read the content of the piece? I know the Caribbean isn't exactly a tech hot spot but this can't possibly be in even the top 50% most interesting work happening in the Caribbean tech scene.
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by qq66 5y ago
It's (sad) celebrity news for the people who frequent this website.
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by qq66 5y ago
A lot of these are just observations about what you can do with a product when you're not trying to make money from it.
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by qq66 5y ago
In that situation you don't keep guessing at the word... you enumerate the possibilities and guess a word that you know is wrong but will cut down your search space.
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by qq66 5y ago
LOL at "peacekeepers." He is essentially saying that this is Russia now, so that he's only deploying internal security personnel.
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by qq66 5y ago
You can get access to people at age 12 that you wouldn't get in a million years at age 20.
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by qq66 5y ago
I think these 200 IQ tech CEOs have lost their minds and don't realize that their power is like that of an ant next to a lion when compared to the power of the 89 IQ politicians that run governments. Except for Satya Nadella they are a
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by qq66 5y ago
"Oaxaca" isn't Spanish, it's a Nahuatl loanword.
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by qq66 5y ago
You can only "spell it exactly how it sounds" in languages like Italian or Spanish, not in English.
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by qq66 5y ago
The hex was clearly corrupted manually, something had been typed there. I don't think it was just the word "fuck" but I think the word "fuck" was in it. Was decades ago.
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by qq66 5y ago
LOL this was a common thing in high school for me but one teacher was more technically literate than we gave him credit for and in class (with overhead projectors LOL) called the student out in front of the whole class and had printouts of

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