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by robjan 6y ago
Microsoft are one of Facebook's investors, although a relatively small one.
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by robjan 6y ago
When you work 12 hours shifts sometimes it's hard to cook a healthy meal. The next cheapest option is McDonald's and other fast food.
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by robjan 6y ago
Perhaps this would work for some people, but the majority of people don't have the luxury of living life without responsibilities. If everyone took long breaks, companies would be stuck in a cycle of handovers and making sure that cert
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by robjan 6y ago
I would think the document would quickly become unmanageable if more than a few dozen are editing it at the same time. Even if it's possible technically, we start to enter social problems.
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by robjan 6y ago
The picture / TV sharing feature of Instagram is curated while stories tend to be a bit more candid in my experience. Think this is trying to add another level of more transient sharing.
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by robjan 6y ago
Tbh Tiktok wasn't the first service to offer short videos. Douyin copied (and eventually bought) Musical.ly and before all of that was Vine.
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by robjan 6y ago
If people routinely stored gold bars at home it would improve the cost-benefit ratio of breaking into people's homes.
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by robjan 6y ago
If your account is worth a few million dollars you get a direct line to someone in Google.
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by robjan 6y ago
I don't think GP is looking for an alt-right instance, probably just one where you aren't treading on eggshells all the time. The people on the Fediverse do have a bit of a reputation for cancelling people who they disagree with,
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by robjan 6y ago
I'm not going to get into a debate, but Traditional Chinese characters are only really used in Hong Kong and Taiwan these days.
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by robjan 6y ago
I was offered a bag ~10 surgical masks or a hand sanitizer a few months ago in return for signing that petition by people waiting at the entrance to my apartment building. At this time there was a huge scramble for masks which were in short
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by robjan 6y ago
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by robjan 6y ago
Mainland Chinese stocks have been listed on HKEX and even been components of the Hang Seng Index (kind of like our SP500) for a long time. The main reason that there aren't more HK stocks in the tech index is that there aren't rea
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by robjan 6y ago
* Under usual circumstances
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by robjan 6y ago
Redux is global state. Adding all local state to a global store will result in a complete mess for any non-trivial app.
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by robjan 6y ago
An app with a higher percentage of the population enrolled is probably more successful than sheer numbers in this case.
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by robjan 6y ago
Wil Wheaton was on it for a while and gained a significant following (relatively speaking) but then he got cancelled: https://mastodon.cloud/@wilw/100635779449174251
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by robjan 6y ago
If you are the instance owner you can do whatever you want. Additionally, many instances are installed on a single host ( https://masto.host ) and almost all instances are on VPS in various managed clouds.
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by robjan 6y ago
This is about a CDN though, not Google.
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by robjan 6y ago
I don't think they need a Blockchain solution to serve a few, likely uncontroversial, marketing video files.
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by robjan 6y ago
If OP's potential users are Google users, optimising for DDG (bing) won't do anything. The fact is most people are using Google and if you only care about DDG you are throwing away most of your potential visitors.
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by robjan 6y ago
Doesn't seem like a good deal
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by robjan 6y ago
Let's face it, most notes are actually ephemeral. For me these go on paper or in a random Sublime text window which I never save to disk. Everything else goes into Notion.
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by robjan 6y ago
Isn't it the same when people on Hacker News start telling you to exit the market.
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by robjan 6y ago
This assumes that develop / ops team is no cost and that your uptime would be higher (it wouldn't)
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by robjan 6y ago
The main criticism I have been seeing is its performance, not that people don't like how it's being used.
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by robjan 6y ago
The entity who performs the act of cancelling isn't the employer who fires the "offender", but the angry mob who lobbies the employer to fire said person. The only solutions I can think of involve limiting the dissemination o
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by robjan 6y ago
Even onshore it's about going rate for most of the consulting firms. The 200% markup pays for holiday, sick pay, insurance, CPD, office space and time on the bench
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by robjan 6y ago
I think the alternative boils down to "neglect my child so I have more free time" which isn't really a sensible option.
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by robjan 6y ago
Lucky you weren't abandoned otherwise you wouldn't be in the privileged position to have the time to suggest that abandoning your child is a sensible idea.

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