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by rapind 4y ago
Not sure that VISA or MasterCard are going to roll over on their fees for Facebook.
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by rapind 4y ago
They'll just assume that the idiot species sending out statements of war have already been taken care of (probably by themselves).
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by rapind 4y ago
Slow version of the Death Star. 1) Send Cyanobacteria out. 2) Wait a few billion years for a competitive animal to evolve and nuke the planet to pieces. 3) Profit! (mine the asteroids).
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by rapind 4y ago
Can confirm. VR has already been exciting twice in my lifetime and it ended up sucking both times. I’m still hopeful though (but not for meta).
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by rapind 4y ago
> If stupidity was a disqualification from political office we’d run out of politicians quite quickly. Nah, we’d have smarter politicians. Maybe with a bit less charisma, but clearing out the blow hards would bring them to the top.
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by rapind 4y ago
Yes for sure, but no conclusions were drawn. No summary or opinion was posited. Of course results can be skewed. Seems unlikely in this case, but it's easy enough to verify. I mean if I was going to criticize the data, I'd probabl
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by rapind 4y ago
> I don't know the intention of the author Why does his intent matter unless you think the data is being skewed or misrepresented? Seems like a fairly objective factual post to me (but I didn’t run the numbers myself). I would appre
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by rapind 4y ago
And here I thought it meant; convince the stakeholders that the change should be different in a way that it fits the existing system. Shepherding. I can hear what I want I guess, like most maxims.
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by rapind 4y ago
No one has ever read them, so no one can tell you.
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by rapind 4y ago
I feel like I’m the only person who’s completely uninterested in investing in crypto, but at the same time hoping one succeeds at a significant level and does actually solve this problem.
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by rapind 4y ago
It's all part of the plan... https://www.centuryinitiative.ca/
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by rapind 4y ago
The only time people want to engage with ads, is the classifieds (and even the classifieds have ads ffs). Where else do people want to see an advertisement and it’s not just an interruption of sorts. TV ads, Popup ads, taking up the entire
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by rapind 4y ago
The goal being an SEO takeover of Rust + Volvo...
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by rapind 4y ago
> Had no idea this was political at all or I wouldn't have posted it on here. This might be true, but a lot of people see that and think "yeah right!". The problem when topics become political is any intelligent discussion
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by rapind 4y ago
I can't help but wonder if large families also beget religion just as religion begets large families. Now I personally think every religion I've encountered is ridiculous fiction (no offence, just my opinion), but I will admit tha
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by rapind 4y ago
Varnish is a must for my production apps. The grace period ability to serve stale cache while passing a request through to get the latest is just huge and I can’t live without it.
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by rapind 4y ago
> A windowless room with a community bathroom doesn't sound appealing, but at a certain price point it's better than nothing. You make this legal and tomorrow every RE developer stops putting in windows.
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by rapind 4y ago
I'm guessing Cory Doctorow's spouse knew what she was getting into. For all you know, it might have been her idea to eschew Audible. Plus she sold a company to Disney, so they're probably fine financially. Cory's mortgag
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by rapind 4y ago
It’s just the “Rudder Challenge”. Y’all need to keep up with tiktok.
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by rapind 4y ago
Seems targeted at Enterprise customers, not your average consumer. Kind of a big deal that likely 90%+ of iOS VPN app users assume they're private when they're not. False advertising IMO, and Apple is getting their 30%.
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by rapind 4y ago
Agreed. What most people talking about corporate media and "fear porn" (eyeballs for advertising) fail the mention though is that there's also a ton of independent "fear porn" (fear of government, fear or corporate
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by rapind 4y ago
The latest low end kindle response time is horrendous and the material is slippy. I lost my paperwhite so replaced it last week and the quality has really really dipped. Also it was the cheapest kindle but cost more than I originally spent
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by rapind 4y ago
Good point. I’m still wary of just assuming (if that’s what we’re doing here?) that old established organizations you’d expect to be secure are in fact secure. For example I would have expected credit rating agencies to be secure… Mandatory
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by rapind 4y ago
> Banks are the hardest way to get this data, not the easiest one. Is this statement based on data or a hunch? A quick google turns up a lot of bank data breaches.
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by rapind 4y ago
> I think it's about keeping the masses consuming rather than creating. No, it’s about moderation cost and preventing discussions that can hurt their brand or partners or customers. Also SEO spam whackamole.
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by rapind 4y ago
> Is this how gambling addicts feel about casinos? Or how smokers feel about cigarette companies? More like how gamers feel about modern games. Just gotta swipe…
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by rapind 4y ago
I wonder if the aggregate outage time from misconfigured and over-architected high availability services is greater than the average AWS outage per year. Similar to security, the last few 9s of availability come at a heavily increasing (log
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by rapind 4y ago
> The carbon in plants is largely atmospheric. I think the issue is that we’re artificially increasing feed crop yields with massive use of synthetic fertilizer. And beef is a very inefficient use of those resources. I don’t know if bugs
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by rapind 4y ago
Not sure if it’s the same in the states (but I suspect it is), but in Canada, if your primary residence doubles in value and you sell it, you don’t have to pay tax on that investment income. However you would pay tax on all other investmen
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by rapind 4y ago
Pretty sure this is going to solve itself due to a lack of population (workers) in the near future, unless your country is mass immigrating to keep up with the decline. There aren’t enough future kids for this scenario.

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