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by qzw 5y ago
Don’t we always go for the lowest hanging fruit first? Why would that be a surprise when it comes to water?
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by qzw 5y ago
Polonius is an awesome name for a borrow checker! Just hope there’s a —no-verbose flag.
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by qzw 5y ago
From the point of view of a billionaire, the world probably looks like it’s working exactly as it should.
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by qzw 5y ago
They also collected $64K from a Kickstarter while boasting about having "secured the majority of our funding from some of the best investors in Silicon Valley." So arguably they did promise some tangible results to some non-profes
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by qzw 5y ago
What about the video embedded in the article with the title "DreamWorld - Exposing the Scam Game" and "Ultimate Scammers" in big yellow 60pt font?
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by qzw 5y ago
Having a clear cause for asset value inflation is not mutually exclusive with having asset bubbles. In fact, a reasonable explanation for inflation can well serve as a catalyst for asset bubbles. Asset prices that increase modestly due to i
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by qzw 5y ago
Yes, most likely. Being VC backed means they will want to be able to show pretty growth charts every few months.
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by qzw 5y ago
Good points. I'll add that the "disclosure by ransomware" risk is definitely not just theoretical anymore.
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by qzw 5y ago
No offense, but the only way I'll believe a company will "never sell data" is if it never collects any in the first place. Even if I have ultimate trust in the current founders, what happens if/when you're acquired
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by qzw 5y ago
> Many, many businesses shuttered due to the road work median limiting left turns, and the widening reducing available parking to next to nothing. Quite true. Yet, as you would expect, today's Orlando doesn't lack for restauran
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by qzw 5y ago
This law is largely a way for FL governor DeSantis to further solidify his conservative bonafides ahead of a likely 2024 run for president (assuming a certain former president doesn't enter the field). Whether it stands up in court eve
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by qzw 5y ago
Disney makes its own gravity in Florida. Ever wonder why Orlando, unlike most cities its size, has next to no strip clubs and doesn't even have a zoo? Because the Mouse doesn't want them in his backyard.
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by qzw 5y ago
The mRNA based technology underlying both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are expected to power a whole slew of applications in the future. I think these companies are quite happy that they just got an expedited, large scale demonstration o
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by qzw 5y ago
> Maybe we'll actually reach some future where all production and maintenance labor is fully automated and most participants in an economy won't be human and we can just ethically enslave them for the benefit of human owners, b
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by qzw 5y ago
Native Windows on M1 would be interesting. But it could potentially embarrass all of Microsoft's hardware partners as well as Microsoft itself (cough, Windows On ARM). Also the market for it would probably be measured in whole handfuls
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by qzw 5y ago
4K+ video production workflows will happily eat that many cores anytime. Or you could run up to 5 Electron apps simultaneously!
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by qzw 5y ago
Everything is about sex, except sex, which is about power. — Oscar Wilde (maybe)
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by qzw 5y ago
I know a search engine that ranks pages the way you like. It's called AltaVista.
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by qzw 5y ago
> Instead, we decided to add the [IntoIterator] trait implementation in all editions (starting in Rust 1.53.0), but add a small hack to avoid breakage until Rust 2021. Eh, why not. We nerds are used to retconning in all the sci-fi univer
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by qzw 5y ago
Billionaires are surrounded by servants, er... staff, all the time. Their sense of privacy is not like a normal person's.
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by qzw 5y ago
I would have though it was when some Russian billionaire's yacht supposedly had its own grenade launchers. Nominally it was to ward off pirates, but we all know it was really to stop James Bond.
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by qzw 5y ago
That’s why I only drink Pepsi.
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by qzw 5y ago
It’s usually just nepotism. I know a retired principal of an elite high school, and he’s full of stories of the shenanigans surrounding admissions. He would get calls from governors and mayors offering favors and applying pressure. He told
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by qzw 5y ago
Don’t forget that the pure Soviet meritocracy also resulted in a utopian society with unparalleled economic prosperity.
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by qzw 5y ago
China also has an education system that’s supposed to be based on exam results, yet funny how the scions of high-level officials and billionaires usually end up at the most elite schools. Of course, it’s possible that they all got there on
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by qzw 5y ago
From the FAQ: > Brave Playlist supports most open web standards. However, it does not currently support Digital Rights Management (DRM) tools or media delivery services (e.g. Spotify or Netflix). Other than that, seems like a handy app,
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by qzw 5y ago
Am I the only one who doesn’t want a future without passwords? There are problems with them, of course, but all the alternatives also have serious usability/security issues. And just when we’re starting to get wider 2FA adoption, compa
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by qzw 5y ago
Isn’t the underlying issue planned obsolescence as a business model? It’s anti-consumer and anti-environment, and maybe we shouldn’t incentivize it as a planet.
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by qzw 5y ago
Linode and DO could always offer a physical x86 core instead of a virtual SMT core. It would cut into margins somewhat, but maybe Intel and AMD would be more willing to discount when they have to play defense. I think one problem for the x8
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by qzw 6y ago
Only if they're not panicking and thrashing about.

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