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by ryandvm 4y ago
Google's proclivity for aggressively wiping the spaghetti off the wall is starting to work against it. I think maybe they need to start promising to open source any products they lose interest in.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
> We look the other way when people are doing things that seem bad, until they pick up a gun, then we blame the gun for the outcome, not the fact that government agencies looked the other way instead of intervention. This always struck m
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by ryandvm 4y ago
> I'm not saying Tesla doesn't have it's own merit, of course it does, but Elon personality cult helped a lot marketing it, and popularizing Tesla stock. Elon seems to have fully embraced the Trump technique of being a bom
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by ryandvm 4y ago
A good multiplayer, browser-based RTS in the style of Age of Empires (yes, I'm old).
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Because hydrogen is a real pain in the ass to store/transport since it needs to be kept under extremely high pressure or very low temperature. That said, you can take hydrogen and some carbon and make hydrocarbon / long-chain hy
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by ryandvm 4y ago
That was a great exposition with some very fascinating insights.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Bitcoin as an investment always struck me as a rather silly idea. Bitcoin was supposed to be useful because it was a decentralized currency, but a functional currency should, by definition, not be a good investment (that is, something that
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Not looking forward to seeing "bush meat preparation" turning into a red vs blue issue...
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Wait until these kids discover embedding BerkleyDB...
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by ryandvm 4y ago
I own the Quest 2. Right now it's still a gimmick. It comes out of the case for about 45 minutes a month.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
They sell Quest units at a loss and absolutely nobody is using VR to interact with any of Facebook's properties in a meaningful way. As of right now, it's a total distraction to their core business.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Couldn't agree more. I think "unhinged" is the perfect descriptor. I like a lot of what he proposes and how he thinks (when he's not attention seeking), but I absolutely cannot stand the pathetic meme crap and shit-posti
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by ryandvm 4y ago
"How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?"
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by ryandvm 4y ago
You should eat sardines and other small fish. They eat plankton and krill and other tiny things and therefore do not bioaccumulate the nasty stuff like mercury and PCBs. https://www.webmd.com/diet/canned-sardines-good-f
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Not taking PPP money that your business is eligible for is akin to paying more taxes than you're required. Maybe it's honorable in some strange way, but it's certainly not rational.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Strange how over thousands of years we've been able to selectively breed incredibly specific variety in canine physical form but we've been completely unable to breed for specific behaviors... /s
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Mmmm. I call bullshit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_dog_attacks_in_t... Funny how you never hear about a golden retriever mauling anybody...
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Based on my experience with Mensa members, being obsessed with your own intelligence is seemingly the primary criterion for joining Mensa. A long, boring test was probably exactly the selection filter they're looking for.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Unsolicited advertising is theft. Bold claim, I know, but some axioms to back this up: * My attention is a finite resource * My attention has a non-zero value (the advertising market wouldn't exist otherwise) * Advertising consumes my
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by ryandvm 5y ago
> the fanbase usually acts as a cult pretending that issues are features JavaScript kind of went through the same thing a few years ago. While everybody else was complaining about Callback Hell, the JS guys were insisting it wasn't
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Twitter was kind of a shithole that I was thinking of quitting anyway, so being bought by an obnoxious billionaire meme lord was just the kind of push I needed.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
I think the name change pretty clearly indicates that Facebook, er, Meta agrees with the OP. The Facebook property itself has pretty clearly already reached the high water mark. So they change the parent company name to make the distinction
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by ryandvm 5y ago
I agree with the sarcastic sentiment from another poster on this. These companies don't take care of their employees, constantly dump trash and waste in international waters, inundate their ports of call with pollution and hordes of un
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by ryandvm 5y ago
This. How is it that I paid for Windows (begrudgingly) and yet it's constantly undermining my efforts to control it? Microsoft has at least a dozen shitty apps that no matter how many times you disable or uninstall them, always seem to
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by ryandvm 5y ago
I'm not sure I believe that any particular religion is correct, but it doesn't take very much faith to believe that there is a God. Look at it this way: scientifically, the best explanation we have is that there was nothing and th
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by ryandvm 5y ago
That almost everybody is faking it. There are outliers of course, but by and large, your colleagues, your mentors, your leaders, your enemies (you shouldn't have very many); they're all just normal people doing their best. And the
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by ryandvm 5y ago
I disagree. If you have a practice that isn't effective (e.g. code reviews that aren't preventing bugs), doubling-down is almost never the correct solution. Code reviews are like unit tests; they're helpful under the right co
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by ryandvm 5y ago
I hate that this is flagged. HN's penchant for self-stifling interesting discussions is probably its worst feature. Does astrology work? Almost certainly not. (Though I will suggest that the position of ONE PARTICULAR STAR could have s
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Ugh. As much as I am against the invasion, I absolutely do not want to have to start examining software licenses for obscure political litmus tests. Especially pointless ones like "I believe Putin is a bad dude". I mean, if we&#x2
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Thank you for writing the comment I didn't have the energy to make.

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