skizm

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by skizm 3y ago
How does this system impact the normal person? Like who is the customer for this? Can I uninstall Venmo and Paypal? Or is this something banks would use under the hood and consumers would never interact with? e: ah I see the diagram now. mo
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by skizm 3y ago
Gambling is already regulated for teenagers. They can't until they are 18. Companies caught allowing underage gamblers get fined and/or shutdown.
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by skizm 3y ago
Classify it as gambling, tell them to apply for a license, fine them heavily every day they are not in compliance, shut them down if they fail to comply for long enough or make obvious attempts at getting around the law.
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by skizm 3y ago
Yea, it should all be allowed and just as regulated as gambling is the point.
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by skizm 3y ago
To less of a degree, when applying for law enforcement jobs, family members and sometimes friends have to surrender a lot of personal data. I had to hand over my SSN along with pretty much all my PII and do interviews on behalf family membe
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by skizm 3y ago
> Experts say it spells the end of social media as a reliable platform during an emergency. I draw the opposite conclusion here. I think governments should be using more platforms to blast their messages. Redundancy for mission critica
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by skizm 3y ago
Put the credits on a blockchain. Allow hosts to accumulate and sell them. When you're in the VC meeting for this keep using the phrase "blockchain meets the road". Once the VCs run out of money to give you, make sure you give
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by skizm 3y ago
This can be a cool German tank problem type deal where you have a bunch of random numbered accounts and don't know what the top numbered account is and have to estimate how many total accounts there are assuming the accounts are number
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by skizm 3y ago
> I suspect that injecting cash and attempting to achieve an unnatural growth is probably not good for both the quality of the product and the long term stability of it. Right, but that's not the point. VCs (and most founders /
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by skizm 3y ago
FWIW, most Ivy League and other top schools (MIT, Stanford) offer extreme discounts on tuition for students with household income under around $150K. Often times they'll pay somewhere between 0-10% of the actual tuition. If your family
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by skizm 3y ago
Forcing hyper/non-sustainable growth and then trying to IPO before the crash-and-burn phase is just SOOO much more profitable for everyone involved than continuing to run a good product that is profitable. If your company is bringing i
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by skizm 3y ago
Honestly I like it better. The entire industry pauses at the same time vs random people getting hit at random times. It is like when us-east-1 goes down. Everyone takes a break at the same time since we're all in the same boat, and we
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by skizm 3y ago
Most (all?) of these are open source and can be used outside of Meta infra. https://github.com/facebook/sapling
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by skizm 3y ago
Didn’t cars end up making the most money despite the poor ratings? They were able to cash in on merchandise sales too. I think once they did cars they realized (their definition of) quality didn’t matter as much as broad market appeal.
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by skizm 3y ago
Right, but the number of RSUs is fixed at the beginning of each year, so you won't know how much each vest is worth until you actually sell them, and the price can take a shit (or moon) in the meantime.
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by skizm 3y ago
Same vibes as when someone describes anything as "perfectly good". It always sets off alarm bells.
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by skizm 3y ago
Depending on how the stock does lol, but yea, generally agree.
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by skizm 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25375921
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by skizm 3y ago
I'm pretty sure I was considering the same one lol. Used, but still. Tiny is a feature (for me at least) because I wanted it to fit where most cars would fit and not have to take into consideration what sorts of bridges and roads I wou
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by skizm 3y ago
Right, agreed, which is why the very long sunset period would make people grumble but theoretically not yell for blood. That said I’m not sure if it would work. Just speculating.
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by skizm 3y ago
I wonder if Reddit just bought Apollo and sunset it over like 2 years (think darksky), if this would have all blown over.
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by skizm 3y ago
The force awakens grossed above $2B, and the next two grossed around $1B each. Their budgets were around $250-300M. They'll be fine.
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by skizm 3y ago
I remember when hacker news would shut down signups during reddit outages to prevent the mass migration lol. Great move IMO. I don't think they do that any more. Probably because reddit doesn't have nearly as much downtime as in t
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by skizm 3y ago
The old “I.Reddit.com” (which was just completely turned off) was very good IMO. Just titles and up/downvote buttons basically. Gear icon to expand for more options per post. My only real gripe was infinite scrolling. I don’t like it i
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by skizm 3y ago
Unfortunately I think academics fall into the category (trap really) of "passion jobs" that are exploited due to the large amount of people willing to take slave wages to "do what they love". It is why video game develop
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by skizm 3y ago
If things today are similar to they were ~10-15 years ago when I was in college, deciding not to cheat was actually pretty tough. So many people were cheating in every class I was in I felt like I was handicapping myself by not also doing i
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by skizm 3y ago
Eh, that’s kind of like saying banning guns is pointless because criminals will still get them. Banning tools is effective even if there are “easy” workarounds, but in this case it will end up hurting law abiding citizens more than protecti
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by skizm 3y ago
They hire ad / "lead" companies to collect emails of people who have clicked on an ad, or entered their email saying they support A, B, or C and give them permission to post a comment on their behalf. So in theory each commen
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by skizm 3y ago
I lost a pair of airpods (swiped out of my office at midnight! wtf!?) and to this day I casually open the find my app to check on them, and they bounced around locally for a few days before making their way to somewhere in Turkey. They stil
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by skizm 3y ago
Does msft do refreshers? And if so, are those also frozen?

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