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The sad thing is that they own much less(how much?) than 58% of the stock. Just like FB, Google and many other companies. You can sell majority ownership and still hold the majority voting power due to dual(and triple) class shares. This is
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As an ex-Soviet teenager I loved reading Forbes in the early 90s. Thomas Sowell was my jam. The business success stories were so addicting. It was the time when their advertising slogans were: "Meet Michael Dell. He started reading For
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Lyons is an interesting case. Good writer by most measures. His later work on Fake Steve Jobs and Silicon Valley was hilarious. I can't grok whether his hatred of Linux was genuine or was it simply motivated by some external motivation
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Let's assume those are mostly legitimate (BAYC being cool is highly questionable but ok) Even then all of those are services and goods for the crypto ecosystem. So much of crypto space is turtles all the way down. Besides evading capit
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If AlphaCode had access to full test suite then the result is not surprising at all. You can fit anything given enough parameters. https://fermatslibrary.com/s/drawing-an-elephant-with-four-c...
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Really hoping that this year brings direct Framework sales to European destinations.
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For a look at hyperinflation in 1920s Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Obelisk is highly recommended.
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Thank You! Interesting there are two unicorn Bolts then.
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Bolt is huge in Eastern Europe (taxis, food delivery). They are not exactly without controversy. Bolt announced and defended further expansion in Belarus amid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_Belarusian_p
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Silly question, did this person/entity selling Mickey permutations on opensea actually pay around 400k USD equivalent in Ether to mint those 4000 NFTs? I am guessing there is some way around minting fees.
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Basically the gun: https://xkcd.com/1217/
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I would like to use Nim for data wrangling tasks - for shipping compiled data munging CLI utilities. Looking at https://nim-lang.github.io/Nim/lib.htmlIt seems to have many of the batteries built in - HTML, JSON parsin
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From the testimonial on the page: 4 CPU cores, 16 GB of RAM, and automated backups for barely €15 a month. Where can you get a VPS for so cheap, I do not think even Hetzner goes that low?
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I seriously love Li Haoyi Scala libraries especially the JSON one. The hilarious thing is/was that Scala tutorials/books would show writing JSON parser as one examples. Yeah Scala makes it easy to write a JSON parser but you still
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Scala is almost as terse as Python for data munging/wrangling tasks (unlike say C#,C++ or Java) Scala is almost as much joy to write data munging tasks as Python (unlike say C#, C++, Java, and I have to say Golang). Chaining multiple m
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Anecdotally Amazon seems to be more loose with accepting money than say eBay. I've had multiple occasions where my Amazon purchases should have thrown red flags - mixed up Amazon accounts, wrong ip, wrong country, wrong name and it sti
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Decided to try Golang this year. Compared to Python and Scala it is way more verbose for simple challenges as this. I almost feel like I am back in the early 1990s of writing C. I miss zip, sum, map and list comprehensions...
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geeksforgeeks actually has humanly created articles. The quality varies (kind of like W3Schools does). With ublock origin I have not seen any modal logins. For example this article on red black trees: https://www.geeksforgeeks.or
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Was going to ask why would someone choose Metabase or Superset over PowerBi. PowerBi pricing($10 per seat) is so nice compared to Tableau($85 per seat last I checked). Then I realized that Metabase and Superset both can be run on promises f
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GoDaddy will also be able charge your old expired credit card. A few years ago my dad had mistakenly signed up for some dark pattern "premium" SEO/marketing service on GoDaddy for one of his domains. It was over $600 a year a
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I wonder what language would be considered post-punk? Scala (experimenting with various styles) comes to mind. How about proto punk? Something like ML?
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Fantastic workflow! Is there anything immutable like that on the Debian side? Half a year ago it looks like there wasn't anything https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/lbyo9o/is_there_any...
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Very interesting and a good sample notebook. The big question is how well will it work on non English languages? It seems for non English languages you have to depend on what Spacy (which Pyconverse depends on) offers. Spacy is neat but sad
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I am well aware that Django is a framework and yes it is quite strict about the way you set it up. That is a reasonable price to pay for the batteries included approach. What I am saying that I do not grok the big picture of Django flow. Fo
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Django seems to add too much magic for me. It is mostly manage.py this manage.py that. I can't grok it completely. All the books that I read on it skipped the architecture part. Maybe there is a good guide to Django architecture - the
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I have a feeling that reMarkable hired some remarkable hardware wizards with GPL in their blood and then let some beancounters ruin the frontend. reMarkable is great looking hardware with subpar software. I should not need to SSH into a dev
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I teach 15-30 sized courses to adults but I also teach at a university. My solution - I installed Moodle on a cheap Hetzner VPS. Added Let's encrypt for SSL and it seems to work pretty well for 100ish students. I looked at alternatives
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What is amazing that apparently investors are fine with having no say how the company is run: "Scaringe will hold all outstanding Class B common shares after the IPO and get 10 votes per share," The new normal (see Google, Faceboo
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Usually that is a signal but not always. Official Rammstein videos have comments disabled but for a different reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeQM1c-XCDc would attract ugly comments from all extremes
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I have GPD Micro PC and have turned it on maybe twice this year. It is an extremely niche product. I had fond memories of Toshiba Libretto from late 90s and also how I loved the very first Asus Netbook. Those were distorted memories. GPD Mi

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