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by squokko 4y ago
There is nothing to say that additional stakeholders cannot be added in by law, though. Companies would dump mercury into the rivers to make a buck if the law didn't prohibit it.
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by squokko 4y ago
1) Excel just has a fucking ton of features, it's really hard to compete with a product that is responsible for at least $100 billion of Microsoft's value as a company. Any competitor tries to convert Excel spreadsheets but is alw
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by squokko 4y ago
Sure, but cash is also an important privacy protection and if tax evasion is the cost then it's worth it. A society without cash is impossible to have true freedom of association.
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by squokko 4y ago
> Speaking of cutting costs, the company is still pouring multiple billions of dollars into vaporware called “the metaverse”. News flash: no one wants to wear VR goggles to spend any time in a digital heaven where the role of God is play
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by squokko 4y ago
Look into Dallas Semiconductor 1-Wire. Could do it with 2 pogos.
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by squokko 4y ago
I know you probably have nothing besides the display in the card to keep it small, but that probably increases the number of Pogo pins you need if you need to run the entire display protocol over Pogo. If you had a demultiplexer in the card
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by squokko 4y ago
I think this is just a corporate version of a pattern that has become very common - people doing more and more outrageous stuff to garner attention in an overcrowded world, and then stepping over the line which is becoming thinner and thinn
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by squokko 4y ago
Let's be clear who really destroyed the value - it's the people who took money from pension funds saying they'd invest in cutting edge technology and instead put it into computer meme money startups
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by squokko 4y ago
That is nuts. 20,000 people? Do they have large armies of people debugging individual conversational failures?
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by squokko 4y ago
There are some percentage of those 550K homeless who just need a home, but it's much lower than 50%. If you've seen a homeless person screaming at their reflection in a car window and then punching it repeatedly until their hand s
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by squokko 4y ago
LOL. I thought this was going to be an article about why people in Manhattan don't wear deodorant because the city already smells so bad.
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What is a good intro programming class for a 14-year-old?
2 points by squokko 4y ago|9 comments
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by squokko 4y ago
I don't think this is virtue signaling - it's just walking away from a business partner that is in a period of extreme chaos.
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by squokko 4y ago
Twitter is a very weak advertising channel. It's not going to move the needle in the broader advertising market.
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by squokko 4y ago
Yes, also anyone spending money with a company and can afford not to, expects to be treated like a king. They expect a real person to pick up the phone and kiss their ass.
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by squokko 4y ago
1) Why enrich the CEO of a competitor car company? 2) Why do business with a company whose CEO makes public posts like a 9-year-old edgelord? 3) Why even bother? Twitter can't have been more than 1% of VW's ad budget.
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by squokko 4y ago
If he beat someone to death with a hammer, sure. If he unreasonably thought he was going to invent a mathematical breakthrough? No.
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by squokko 4y ago
Huh, interesting. But in 2013 he was 19 years old. I'm not willing to ascribe such malice to a 19 year old for something like this.
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by squokko 4y ago
What's disappeared isn't the small independent super-low budget movie... as you said, that market is more active than ever. It's the >$10 million movie that everyone in the country can enjoy, has a name brand actor or two,
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by squokko 4y ago
I feel bad for Vitalik because I think that he's a well-meaning 200IQ guy whose talents are being used to help scammers fleece ordinary people of their life's savings.
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by squokko 4y ago
There are ingredients beyond potatoes and ketchup
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by squokko 4y ago
This is like saying "potatoes are all you need to make a meal." I mean, no, you're not wrong. But nobody really wants to eat what you're making.
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by squokko 4y ago
Then you have no state power to deal with misuse of money.
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by squokko 4y ago
1) A lot of people learned about this stuff to make money with it, which many of them did 2) A lot of people learned about this stuff because it is a very meme-able concept: mathematicians will upend the entire global system of power with..
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by squokko 4y ago
Most of these layoffs are mimetic: Meta is insanely profitable and does not need to lay anyone off, this is just an excuse to get rid of some people. So they try to copy everyone else in most of the details.
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by squokko 4y ago
This entire market sector creates nothing of value: the way to parse this is something like "Daniel Negreanu wins $15 billion pot against Phil Ivey in non-televised hand."
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by squokko 4y ago
More, because the House is not a deliberative body. Reps could stay in their districts and just vote online.
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by squokko 4y ago
But you can manufacture new areas of mathematics. For example, Conway's Game of Life, and then prove theorems on it.
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by squokko 4y ago
There is a simple solution here: everyone gets a serial number with their ballot, the list of serial numbers for each candidate is published, and you can verify that your vote was counted in the right spot. Yes, this is susceptible to coerc
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by squokko 4y ago
This was how the US Constitution was designed by the smart people, before various idiots screwed it up with the 17th Amendment and Permanent Apportionment Act. Your US representative was supposed to represent about ~30,000 people and your s

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