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   by seatac76 3y ago

   I know PE can act as vultures and clean up dead companies sometimes, but aside from that what good has PE done? Doesn’t the negative greatly outweigh the positive. What mechanism exists (in the U.S) to deal with this excess?
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   by seatac76 3y ago

   This was always coming, there is no better permanent customer than the DoD. Opens all kinds of revenue doors.
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   by seatac76 3y ago

   Siri is objectively worse in almost every way imaginable. I find that hard to believe. I have both an iPhone and a work Pixel Pro, the difference between them is night and day. Siri can’t get basic spelling right, let alone accomplish compl
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   by seatac76 3y ago

   ^^
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   by seatac76 3y ago

   Getting ahead of antitrust I see. Big tech has gotten so big that we will now see this peace meal stuff being done to appease regulators to stave off any major action.
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   by seatac76 3y ago

   To have Hitch alive right now to comment, the Rollingstone article was pretty on point but his would have been special.
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   by seatac76 3y ago

   It helps that Sony is also a big player in the music rights business so it was probably in Sony’s interest to make it easy.
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   by seatac76 3y ago

   So what was going to happen 5 years from now is happening now I.e MS acquiring OpenAI
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   by seatac76 3y ago

   Man, lot of games I played were due to them, good times. They had such a trusted reputation.
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    by seatac76 3y ago

    This reads like a resume.
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    by seatac76 3y ago

    Love Brady’s work. I bought his book too. While I was hoping for a more coffee table type book, it is more dense than that but still a delightful read. Book Title: Engineering in Plain Sight.
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    by seatac76 3y ago

    Brightland (also based in California) makes good olive oil too, though it is on the expensive side.
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    by seatac76 3y ago

    This was blatant monopolistic behavior, control over prices outside your platform with the threat of platform access to enforce it is a slam dunk case.
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    by seatac76 3y ago

    Tech is omnipresent, is flush with cash that it frequently uses to disrupt (drive existing businesses out and then monopolize) and has an outsize influence on people. It absolutely should be first on the list for anti trust action. and it’s
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    by seatac76 3y ago

    Ten Ragas to Disco was my first but very brief introduction to Indian Electronic music, feels like forever ago but I remember liking it.
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    by seatac76 3y ago

    $19B to not build a competing search engine, this is essentially a pay off. I don’t see how the courts don’t atleast put an end to this. Apple is free to make a search engine which Spotlight essentially already is.
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    by seatac76 3y ago

    Thanks for sharing your experience. Do you think Amazon dropped the planned fee they were going to charge for those sellers who don’t use prime, in anticipation of this suit? Would that have impacted you?
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    by seatac76 3y ago

    They use RTGs[1] as the power and heat source, I think CY3 was just solar powered and did not have thermal protection you get from RTGs for electronics. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_...
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    by seatac76 3y ago

    Tangential but kudos to Rohit Chopra, he has done a stellar job at CFPB, between the credit reporting changes and the elimination of bank fees alone he has had quite the impact. Just a few years it looked more likely that the CFPB would be
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    by seatac76 3y ago

    How interesting. Would you happen to know any good labels and vintages that might be available for purchase in the US?
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    by seatac76 3y ago

    Oh wow did not know this was something that was user facing. 40 cards do seem reasonable though?
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    by seatac76 3y ago

    Came to post just that. Great read!
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    by seatac76 3y ago

    Genuine question: are people using this in a business use case ala ChatGPT?
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    by seatac76 3y ago

    That’s so not how things work . Facebook is a US company first of all if anything it is only liable to US laws. It has stated that it’ll respect local laws as needed, so if India wants to remove posts it should be geo restricted in India no
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    Tell HN: 1Password Passkey support now available on iOS 17

    2 points by seatac76 3y ago|0 comments
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    by seatac76 3y ago

    It wasn’t active, reasons were not given. [1] [1] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/f-35-cant-be-found-aft...
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    by seatac76 3y ago

    I don’t think I’ve ever heard of Square having an outage let alone a total one.
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    by seatac76 3y ago

    Ahh yes, good point it is mostly the US, but US allies do own a lot of IP and supply chain capability, particularly Japan and SK. I don’t agree China will have the advantage though, it will certainly develop its own standards and mandate it
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    by seatac76 3y ago

    Expect more and more of this. The ultimate prize are technology standards, right now the West dominates that and China is actively trying to dethrone them. The world will sort itself in two camps again, Cold War is back functionally.
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    by seatac76 3y ago

    I know they say Aeropress switched to a better thermoplastic but I always worry about micro plastics with mine, but it is so damn easy to use though.