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by todd-davies 3y ago
I think it's a false dichotomy to say that businesses either succeed by IPO/acquisition or fail. Can't a startup "just" be profitable within its niche, serve its customers well and make money while being privately h
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by todd-davies 3y ago
There are a sizeable bunch of antitrust scholars/economists/lawyers who are very much against stronger enforcement. For instance, see [1]. [1] https://laweconcenter.org/
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by todd-davies 3y ago
I don't think it's correct to paint Khan as following a "big is bad" standard. For instance, in [1] she explicitly says the opposite: > Antimonopoly does not mean ‘big is bad.' The New Brandeisians—like Justice B
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by todd-davies 3y ago
There are lots of different views about the goals of antitrust law and policy, but few (if any) are hostile to business. Khan is pro-business but also, broadly speaking, pro-dispersion of economic power within the economy. That means having
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by todd-davies 3y ago
The "antitrust community" is people working in antitrust law/policy/academia who write, tweet, speak at conferences, etc. Two caveats are that a) this is my view based on personal observations, and b) that a consensus do
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by todd-davies 3y ago
Khan is massively pro-startup and pro-innovation. Her vision of a more decentralized economy is well aligned with the hacker mindset of the Bay Area. The core of her agenda for antitrust is not about being anti-merger or anti-bigness. Rathe
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by todd-davies 5y ago
Perhaps allowing Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram to merge was efficient after all - now that they have synchronized outages, people finally have a chance to get on with their lives, free of clickbait news and misinformation.
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“Inescapable” Covid-19 Antibody Discovery – Neutralizes All Known Covid Strains(scitechdaily.com)
26 points by todd-davies 5y ago|3 comments
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by todd-davies 6y ago
Yeah, I agree. We'd be open to re-branding the site at some point which wouldn't be too hard. We'll keep open eyes and ears for a potentially improved name! And, whoa, I'll check out that book!
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by todd-davies 6y ago
Some friends and I wanted to make a recipe website without cookie notices, ads, long descriptions, etc. We focused on making it simple, privacy aware with no tracking (why should recipe websites need tracking cookies?), and accessible. It&#
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Show HN: Minimal Recipe – Recipes without the bloat(minimalrecipe.com)
4 points by todd-davies 6y ago|5 comments
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The impacts of climate change on sport(purpose.nike.com)
1 points by todd-davies 7y ago|0 comments
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The Economic Impacts of the Advanced Encryption Standard (2018) [pdf](nvlpubs.nist.gov)
43 points by todd-davies 7y ago|2 comments
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by todd-davies 7y ago
Wow, it's really fascinating to see the differences in the targeting strategies between different parties: - The Conservative party rarely targets large groups of people in comparison Labour - The Brexit party's targeted audience
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by todd-davies 7y ago
I think this has a point, though the author's meaning is ambiguous. To elaborate, if the Swiss govt directly implemented popular policy viewpoints, then fears of immigration could have brought about a Brexit type situation in a way sim
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by todd-davies 7y ago
The BBC comes under fire from both the left and the right for being biased, and a quick Google search shows that if anything, there appears to be more concern about it being bias towards the left [1, 2]. Here's a really detailed Wikipe
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Ask HN: How to contribute towards a sustainable society as a software engineer
3 points by todd-davies 8y ago|0 comments
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Implementing Recurring Todo’s with Habitica and Google Cloud(medium.com)
3 points by todd-davies 10y ago|0 comments
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How I plan(medium.com)
1 points by todd-davies 10y ago|0 comments
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by todd-davies 10y ago
When we talk about the term 'computationally hard', we usually mean an NP-hard problem. I assume that here, 'memory-hard' means that no other hashing algorithm can have a greater lower bound on its memory complexity than
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by todd-davies 10y ago
> AMONG number systems, the hexadecimal system of counting (or 'radix') has a special place in the hearts of programmers, being closely related to binary, the fundamental number system used by all modern computers. Could somebo
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by todd-davies 10y ago
It looks that way from looking at the README and skimming the code; I'd be interested to know if it differs somehow.
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by todd-davies 11y ago
Does anybody else think that Software Engineers might benefit from a master/apprentice learning style? Experienced devs could take on an apprentice for a year, kind of like an internship, and the apprentice moves does 3-5 of these befo
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Ask HN: Interlectually philanthropic tech companies?
1 points by todd-davies 11y ago|0 comments
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by todd-davies 11y ago
I'm lucky enough to have Professor Furber as a lecturer at Manchester. His insights into how mobile systems are designed and engineered are fascinating, as is his work with SpiNNaker project.
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Cool new Lobste.rs interface(lobste.rs)
2 points by todd-davies 12y ago|3 comments
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by todd-davies 12y ago
When I was starting out with programming aged 13 (not very long ago really!), I was inspired and taught by the community at (the now defunct) cyberarmy.net, and I knew nobody else who could code until I was nearly fifteen. Cyberarmy, to me,
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Styling LaTeX for the Kindle(todd-davies.github.io)
2 points by todd-davies 13y ago|0 comments
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by todd-davies 13y ago
I suspect the favour of the Internet Gods would be greater if the user had 1337 points ;)
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Show HN: A programming language with a JSON parsable syntax(gist.github.com)
3 points by todd-davies 13y ago|0 comments

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