semiotagonal

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by semiotagonal 7y ago
If the stock starts tanking after an IPO, and the company is in upheaval, there might be blackout periods where you cannot sell your stock and can only watch as the price plummets.
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by semiotagonal 7y ago
Not yet, I'll give it a look.
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by semiotagonal 7y ago
No, but if it doesn't have software that works on my Mac either, that's one less reason to stay on the Mac. At this point I'm down to one remaining reason to stay on the Mac (Logic Pro) and I'd like to find a feasible a
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by semiotagonal 7y ago
I have a 32-bit application I use regularly to interface with old hardware (which isn't on the list incidentally; I suspect there are many other niche applications like this). The hardware vendor isn't going to re-write it. As su
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by semiotagonal 7y ago
And when they're caught lying, they should be criticized and penalized in the marketplace.
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by semiotagonal 7y ago
The founders are male, but the author of the post isn't one of the founders. I edited my previous comment to reflect the authorship.
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by semiotagonal 7y ago
If Apple was transparently a profit-at-all-costs operation you'd have a point, but if you look at their advertisements you'll see them invoking humanistic values constantly. They should, at the very least, be criticized for hypoc
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by semiotagonal 7y ago
The AGPL is exactly the thing that MongoDB dropped because their software was being monetized by cloud providers without adequate benefit to themselves.
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by semiotagonal 7y ago
For the most part, I already know how to not step in shit on the sidewalk, but I don't know which way to jump when a scooter comes barreling through, or whether or not I can throw a scooter in the garbage if I find it in my yard. Deal
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by semiotagonal 7y ago
The creators of this tool chose to create a company and try to actually make a living off of their idea. I don't see why this should count against them; in fact with the open-source tools of the 2000s now experiencing "license re
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by semiotagonal 7y ago
How meaningful is the benchmark for handling idle connections? Handling more is better, of course, but if the server melts down when 0.1% of them have any activity, maybe maximizing idle connections isn't the right place to expend o
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by semiotagonal 7y ago
If China has decided that its economic relationship with the US is contingent on American citizens (e.g. Morey, the NBA executive) not criticizing Chinese policy, then the economic relationship becomes impossible. Criticism cannot be stopp
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by semiotagonal 7y ago
> I think if you look at evolution more closely you'll see that it is messy and is constantly creating dead-ends. That's my point. The natural selection process for self-driving automobiles is just beginning, as they meet the
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by semiotagonal 7y ago
Any human is the product of eons of natural selection honing our perception and reflexes. The process was unpleasant.
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by semiotagonal 7y ago
Even if the algorithms more-or-less know how to drive, the best algorithms will eventually be chosen by natural selection. I wouldn't want to be along for the ride during this process.
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by semiotagonal 7y ago
In the long term, it isn't even necessarily damage. Chinese manufacturing won't be cheap forever; wages are already too high there for them to continue sorting through and recycling the US's plastic. Rebooting US manufactur