scumcity

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by scumcity 5y ago
hrm, bgp and dns. It's weird when decades old technology somehow fails like this. The main reason distributed systems is hard is because of the time component. Whenever you add timeouts to an algorithm, everything becomes orders of mag
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by scumcity 5y ago
I think the connections are actually pretty obvious. Covid was like an atom bomb. No kind of sane invisible hand could have intelligently responded. Which is why the evil fed has very incompetently responded. You could write the same story
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by scumcity 5y ago
The Fed strikes back. The most disturbing thing about this article is that Mailchimp is worth 12b and that Intuit had 12b to spend on it. Couldn't have happened 2 years ago, regardless of demand/supply, product market fit, busines
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by scumcity 5y ago
Interesting. I'm not a big fan of digital advertising, so I didn't click on your link. I found this, which was much more informative. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/invertedyieldcurve.asp
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by scumcity 5y ago
twtr is also bad (requires an account just to read its amazingly intellectual social media content), but people still use it. Sigh. Let's blacklist this blogger guy for his perpetual crimes against civilization.
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by scumcity 5y ago
From his perspective: he is set regardless. Much better to ride out the amazing windfall of his own creation than vesting in peace at some mediocre ladder-driven megacorp.
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by scumcity 5y ago
Would be cool if the US economy could be driven by supply and demand. Housing is needed - more houses are built. Not sure why that can't be the case. This isn't Tokyo.
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by scumcity 5y ago
Why on earth is Apple, a good tech company, with a culture of secrecy, using slack? Can it not build its own secure version of slack?
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by scumcity 6y ago
Dragon book is solid, but just a regurgitation of Knuth, etc. Hardly worth a Turing Award. The bar lowers more every year, sigh.
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by scumcity 6y ago
Fortunately TWTR's market cap is worth more than a solution to problems like this because...
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by scumcity 6y ago
lol, that is nonsense. Palantir's success, for example, is entirely due to covid. It would still not have IPO'ed today without the insanity taking place today due to the fed buying corporate bonds and keeping insane/illogical
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by scumcity 6y ago
Wherefore? FB and other such platforms are much better at display ads technology, as they don't care about user privacy at all. User tracking is the only real discriminator when it comes to display ads, where as search queries are very
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by scumcity 6y ago
Well if you are such a badass just listen to it in 2x speed or faster like the rest of us.
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by scumcity 6y ago
The US federal government is making poor choices in monetary policy - it's "fixing" the covid problem by printing US money, which, until now, was the new gold standard. As result, people are going back to an old, albeit, arch
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by scumcity 6y ago
Corporate politics likely came into play - he was sidelined at Chauffeur and didn't show up to work, if you read the bloomberg articles. Likely he just wanted to make a difference and politics or corporate stupidity got in the way. The