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by schnable 2y ago
I find these guys are pretty insightful when discussing tech and VC news. The politics talk is awful. Chamath is a lightweight who doesn't know anything about how our government works but speaks confidently -- I remember one time he wa
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by schnable 2y ago
> I agree building codes in places like California make houses expensive, but the current market in the United States does not incentivize building affordable housing Because the building codes drive up the costs!
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by schnable 2y ago
Non-citizens/residents are the juiciest targets for taxes (tourism taxes at hotels and whatnot, pumped up taxes on restaurants/alcohol)! This actually makes no sense at all.
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by schnable 2y ago
What's the Flutter Foundation?
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by schnable 2y ago
The lines between points can be drawn to show curvature, like an airplane route map.
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by schnable 2y ago
Ok, but as long as the institution is taking public money, the government can impose rules and regulations on the school.
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by schnable 2y ago
> This is because universities are paid from tax money in Germany and most of Europe. Almost every university in the US takes federal money and relies on federal loan guarantees to keep the high revenues pumping through. In exchange, the
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by schnable 2y ago
Are the high level policies of the IRS really incentivized to generate extra revenue via fines? I think its more likely a statute or policy issue and then collecting on underpayment is incentivized downstream. If the IRS could just send a b
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by schnable 2y ago
People be so busy they need to buy a hacker-friendly device and build bespoke integrations with it.
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by schnable 2y ago
I had the same feeling when I read this. This engineer needs a product person pushing them to rethink their architectures, and shows that it's helpful to have technically minded Product Managers that can call BS on engineering when war
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by schnable 2y ago
There's a few products for this out there. Roon is a popular one.
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by schnable 2y ago
Their site still has a COVID-era banner about "unusual times." Talk about a neglected product.
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by schnable 2y ago
Couple more notes: * Besides Excalidraw diagrams and Bear notes, I also often use Mind Maps. Something to consider if my brainstorming style is similar to your target market. * I used to be a dev, but this flow works great for other technic
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by schnable 2y ago
As someone who regularly brainstorms using Excalidraw for drawing and Bear for words, this is pretty much perfect for me. I couldn't get Obsidian to fit my brain for most of my use cases. Nice work! Please let me give you money so I do
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by schnable 2y ago
In the post-9/11 world, whats the current status of "free" countries and how they vet people crossing the border?
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by schnable 2y ago
It also really stinks at resizing raster images, as does all Gsuite apps. It makes diagrams look terrible.
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by schnable 2y ago
I prefer this in an FAQ format with an omniscient-like asker.
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by schnable 2y ago
> In August 2022, Business Insider reported that Oracle Advertising made $2 billion in revenue. At the time, revenue was only growing by 2% a year and many employees had been laid off as part of a reorganization in 2022, Business Insider
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by schnable 2y ago
and I thought these were just jokes!
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New Sonos App for iOS, Android, and web launches today(sonos.com)
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by schnable 2y ago
Does TypeSpec work well with asynchronous and event-driven APIs?
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by schnable 2y ago
Bingo. The time period of this study is pretty much the golden age of peace and stability worldwide.
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by schnable 2y ago
Why is this done as a law rather than negotiated by the media outlets?
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by schnable 2y ago
I have an RO system, which seemed great until I realized the nicely filtered water runs through plastic tubing before coming out the faucet.
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by schnable 2y ago
In my first couple years of professional programming, I put in a little joke for other devs and testers. The URL shown to users to update their app was stored in the Windows Registry. I added some code that defaulted this value to the &quot
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by schnable 2y ago
I am so tired of clicking through cookie acknowledgements on every freakin StackExchange subdomain. Somebody please make it stop.
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by schnable 3y ago
"Scrappy" on a massive budget. Must have been fun to work at these tech companies when money was cheap!
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by schnable 3y ago
Ironically, uniform pricing was itself an innovation over haggling.
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by schnable 3y ago
The tech may be good but as Stratechery[1] point out, the failure modes here indicate a serious culture problem inside the company. They thought tuning the AI in this way was a good product. That's hard to fix. Ben compares it to Micro
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by schnable 3y ago
GSuite/Google Docs is just a bad product at this point. Very marginal changes and feature additions while day-to-day limitations never get fixed.

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