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by spoonjim 4y ago
The NYT could do long risky exposes on power when they had a near media and print advertising monopoly in NYC. There’s not enough money for this anymore now that they compete for eyeball-seconds with Buzzfeed listicles like “what celebrity
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I don’t think likeness rights should outlive a person. I can leave assets to my children but why should they have any right to my face? They didn’t create my face, my parents did.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Yes, this is one of the drawbacks of Congress delegating broad swaths of authority to regulatory agencies… there is no protection from ex post facto changes.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The problem with all “proper” cameras is that they have multiple frames of latency and latency is by far the most important thing in a call. Has anyone found a “proper” camera pipeline as low latency as a webcam?
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Show me a blog post like this that has led to shipped hardware
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Cui bono? If China engineered COVID, to what end?
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Note that these researchers define an “active” user as one who has posted a Tweet in the last two months. This is a very different definition than the standard “MAU” definition of “active” which means having used the site at all in the last
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Pre-vaccines, China’s Zero COVID approached seemed wise and impressive. Now it is clear that they were just paranoiacs and now have a policy that doesn’t meet the moment.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
What matters for something like this is not the idea but the execution. This page is little more than “I’m going to build a battery car” or “I’m going to build a reusable rocket.” What you want to see instead is descriptions of the hardware
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by spoonjim 4y ago
LOL. None of these ideas are significantly better than a “Jump to Conclusions” mat.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
America still does “larger than life” better than anyone. If you want to be the biggest the baddest the richest the quickest the Sun God above mere mortals — this is the country to be in.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Yes, but your story only exists because you found a bag holder who may or may not jump off a bridge when the chickens come home to roost.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
You cannot just spend your way into making higher quality artistic output. You can spend money to get from a $100,000 60-second commercial to a ~$1,000,000 60-second commercial and the difference in output will be immediately visible. But t
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Fourth option is that the deal doesn't go through. Deals fail to go through all the time. If you just sit around and the deal doesn't go through you're fucked. The CEO's job is to manage the company as though the deal wo
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by spoonjim 4y ago
TE is following the Apple playbook to a T: fanatical obsession with appearance/image/brand positioning PLUS absolutely excellent engineering PLUS extreme price markups. The result is a product that has a bananas price tag but also
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Some people genuinely believe in their work. Jonas Salk worked hard because he believed his work mattered. This guy works hard at Replit because he believes his work matters. My family friend with Down Syndrome works hard at his menial job
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by spoonjim 4y ago
There are relatively few people in America who don't listen to music, and almost zero black people who don't listen to music. I'm sure whatever is on his "favorites" list is a political calculation, but the idea tha
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Who would have thought that a concept of value so quickly memed into existence could lose its value so quickly?
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The kids toys are probably all manufactured by VTech which has solved this problem once across all of their products
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Yes, a high functioning government would essentially wipe out 2/3 or more of consumer lending. As an example, Singapore literally forces some of your income into a savings fund that's just for housing, retirement, and healthcare.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
It's things like this that make me believe that open democracies like the US are doomed to be outcompeted by countries run like China/Russia/Singapore (some work better than others). Buy Now Pay Later for consumer goods is ob
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by spoonjim 4y ago
That’s what business owners want you to think so they don’t have to change what they’re doing. But the entire post is proof that it doesn’t have to be this way. Set a date when the trucks have to be gone. When the day comes, enforce it with
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by spoonjim 4y ago
How does encryption work? If it’s truly end to end encrypted then you can’t see your messages on multiple devices or recover your old messages from another device, right? If your encryption key is not in the cloud then it’s on the device ri
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Yeah, I know I'm not really in the target market. Like, I would absolutely spring for a locally controlled Vestaboard, but I know that most of these are probably sold to businesses.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Is there a replacement firmware already available that allows local control? I feel like for all these connected hardware products, they should ship with an open source server and the phone apps that control them should have an "Serv
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I would have bought so many devices like this, Vestaboard, etc. if they had a hardware local control option with completely open docs. I refuse to spend time engineering a data pipeline that’s dependent on someone else’s cloud service.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Yes, "both" is a good idea. A tax + a progressive penalty.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I don't want rich people to be able to buy their way into making an infernal racket.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
It's not that they don't care about the neighbors... actively harming the neighbors is the entire reason it's fun. It's the school bully who grows up and can't keep punching people willy-nilly, but they can aggravat
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by spoonjim 4y ago
There are startups today that automate this process with machine learning. They record the vibrations from your equipment and notify you when something changes or is likely to fail given historic patterns for similar equipment.

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