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by ric2b 5y ago
The collapse of MTGox already proved this theory wrong many years ago.
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by ric2b 5y ago
It has a window, that already makes it better than a cheap hostel room I stayed at once. Go look at US prison cells, they're so much worse, there's often no separation between the toilet and the sleeping area.
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by ric2b 5y ago
> and the git-history seems also be missing. The article says otherwise: "The entirety of Twitch’s source code with commit history “going back to its early beginnings”"
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by ric2b 5y ago
> It's quoted in the GitHub link Is it? I don't see it, just a link to a Twitter thread that also never links to the actual joke.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Facebook is not a neutral platform. It has a lot of moderation and algorithmic ranking of posts.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Yup, they make a new chat app if the previous one is down.
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by ric2b 5y ago
> and allows subpar employees to continue existing at an organization when their position could be filled by a more qualified employee. Not really, their incompetence is just noticed earlier at the review/testing stages instead of i
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by ric2b 5y ago
Facebook is well known for having really good PR, if they go after this guy for sharing such basic info that's yet another example of their great PR teams.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Too easy to get around, as soon as company A starts making $11B they make a new company B that charges $1B for some random service, probably "consulting".
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by ric2b 5y ago
Yeah, let's ignore all the breathing related symptoms which are usually the most talked about and pretend people are just stressed.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Citibank managed to do it with USD and still hasn't gotten it back. Meanwhile in this case the miner gave back the money so maybe the tech isn't the issue?
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by ric2b 5y ago
Gibraltar is a British territory under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United Kingdom, not much different from the US.
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by ric2b 5y ago
> iVPN (because they're based in a non fourteen-eyes jurisdiction, namely Gibraltar). Gibraltar is an British territory under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United Kingdom, it's part of the fourteen-eyes.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Really? What amazing things did Tim Cook do to single-handedly make the company 10x more valuable that another CEO wouldn't have?
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by ric2b 5y ago
It has provided quite a few high rise buildings that are used by a lot of people. That will keep happening as long as it is allowed, making it possible for more people to enjoy the city.
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by ric2b 5y ago
At some point they can't go lower because it becomes cheaper to store physical money than to pay negative interest rates, so it will stop somewhere.
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by ric2b 5y ago
> If you have a busy highway and add more lanes will traffic jams go down? Yes, but perhaps in neighboring/older roads instead of the fancy new lanes on the highway.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Death and Windows licensing fees, like B. Franklin said.
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by ric2b 5y ago
We're talking about teenagers, not adults with several years of household finance experience.
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by ric2b 5y ago
But those extra 15 min in the air cost money, so it's still an incentive to not plan on arriving before the curfew ends.
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by ric2b 5y ago
As opposed to client supplied string but with Javascript?
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by ric2b 5y ago
> only really popular consumer cloud provider with a proper e2e implementation, so they can’t scan photos in iCloud. This is wrong, photos (and most data on iCloud) is not e2e: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT20230
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by ric2b 5y ago
People forget that nuclear MAD works both ways when they write these power tripping comments. If China takes control of chip supply the US will have to play along and try to apply soft power, never war, because China is a nuclear nation wit
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by ric2b 5y ago
> The U.S. has incredible, unexpected power over global companies and trade. True, but the more it uses it for self-serving purposes the more the rest of the world tries to find alternatives, weakening that soft-power in the long-term.
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by ric2b 5y ago
> but I suspect buses and cars have similar tire wear per passenger mile, with only a slight advantage for buses. Why do you suspect that? The amount of vehicle weight per passenger that those tires have to carry is significantly higher
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by ric2b 5y ago
> it wasn’t an offer to sell one thing to lure people in and sell them something else. Clearly they wanted to lure people in to sell them Pepsi cans...
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by ric2b 5y ago
So that means that any possible laser coming out of the shooter's position eventually passes through one of these 16 specific infinitesimally small points _before_ ever hitting the target? And that is always possible for any position o
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by ric2b 5y ago
The difference is that copilot is memorizing and reciting code verbatim without mentioning the source. If a human does that we call it plagiarism.
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by ric2b 5y ago
> The land is so expensive that it doesn't make financial sense to waste it on low margin affordable housing. Isn't part of the problem that these places have regulations against high density housing? If San Francisco allowed f
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by ric2b 5y ago
I assume performance is a lot less predictable with that method, no?

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