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by tpurves 3y ago
I think about that sort of description when people talk about colonizing space, or mars or the moon. Would it even be ethical to bear children on such a colony who, not by choice, would have to live their lives confined to a cramped habitat
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by tpurves 3y ago
Florida's don't say gay laws. Florida banning books. Florida's reprisals against Disney. Florida's 'anti-woke' laws whitewashing the history of slavery and racism in the US.
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by tpurves 3y ago
Somewhat niche but for Fintech and Product Management : https://fintechcpo.substack.com/
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by tpurves 3y ago
It looks cool, what primary problem does it solve vs AWS?
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by tpurves 3y ago
Agreed. OS design (at least as far as the user experience) peaked with windows 2000.
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by tpurves 3y ago
I think the main point the parent comment is making is that, today and historically, the great majority of contract disputes today don't involve disputing (analog or digital) signatures. People usually dispute about all the other terms
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by tpurves 3y ago
Visa takes zero from interchange but charges volume based service fees in the single-digit basis points (each) to the acquirer and issuer. Visa makes additional yield from cross-border payments and grosses up revenue from value-added servic
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by tpurves 4y ago
Damn you! Now all I can think about is that xkcd problem.
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by tpurves 4y ago
The problem is that nobody needs this shit. And we need a social network that doesn't have incentives to promote and create an environment conducive to toxic content. Compare to HN. (I think) We all enjoy HN, mostly because it's q
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by tpurves 4y ago
Okay, lot of bad takes here. As a real-world sailor, here is how this works. A flag will only stream forwards in the special case of sailing dead down wind (DDW). An even in this case, the flag will tend to be limp as the boat will likely a
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by tpurves 4y ago
The best part? Nethack still is relevant and IMHO still one of the better video games you can play on the internet. Played it in the 90s, played it off and on again ever since, including this week!
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by tpurves 4y ago
What many people don't realize is that the operational and customer service costs of payments don't scale with payment amount. Customers will cost almost just as frequently dispute, have questions, have problems, ask for help, att
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by tpurves 5y ago
This is the simplest and correct answer. Intentionally or otherwise, finding yourself operating as an unlicensed securities dealer, deposit holder, brokerage or money transmitter is going to give you a very bad time with any number of fede
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by tpurves 5y ago
Best new restaurant tech I've seen so far is Grabbi. 10sec tab order and pay thanks to Apple App clips. https://grabbishop.com/
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by tpurves 6y ago
Also not to be confused as photography by 'blackwater' the notorious company of private military contractors.
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by tpurves 6y ago
My understanding would be that Ananphylaxis can never ve a zero risk for severe allergies. After all, most anaphylaxis is triggered by accidentally eating an allergen or a tiny cross-contamination with an allergen. Everything depends on sen
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by tpurves 6y ago
Well, as long as you are spending 6 or 7 figures a year on advertising with Google, you'll have a account rep at Google that you can always reach out to. Your ad spending level works as Google's filter for which websites on the in
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by tpurves 6y ago
My main recollection of DOS was never ending fiddling with autoexec.bat and config.sys to try and free up enough conventional memory to run some game... Does DosBox help emulate back all that nostalgic experience?
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by tpurves 6y ago
If you can hang on for a couple more weeks. Supply side is supposed to get a lot better on the AMD cpus by the last two weeks of december.
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by tpurves 6y ago
Why not consider nVME in this case then as cheaper than RAM, slower than RAM, but faster than network storage? I don't know how you handle concurrency btwn VMs or virtualize that storage, but there must be some standard for that?
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Swiss report reveals new details on CIA spying operation(washingtonpost.com)
234 points by tpurves 6y ago|127 comments
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by tpurves 6y ago
I didn't realize it wasn't first on yhe list until I read your post! I though to myself, of course, why would YC fund a contract development shop, such a wrong model for VC no wonder they must have failed.
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Ask HN: How many of you are actively making contingency plans to leave the U.S.?
21 points by tpurves 6y ago|21 comments
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by tpurves 6y ago
The maintenance is still happening and it's killing the airlines on costs too. There's one (of several?) small regional airport 2.5hrs north of Toronto where Aircanada parks a dozen large planes from canceled routes. A few times a
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by tpurves 6y ago
For all those wondering. CRDTs appear to be unrelated to some revival in Cathode Ray Tubes.
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by tpurves 6y ago
Interesting. Logically is it ‘god’ providing the work in this case of heating the hot spring therefore exempting the person?
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by tpurves 6y ago
Sensationalized article. The real story looks like all of TSMCs 5nm capacity for 2020 is booked by Apple, not all 5nm for all time. That said, TSMC is the world leader in process these days, and cimoetion between customers has been fierce
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by tpurves 6y ago
Tech for automating ATC has been available for decades. The biggest resistance has come from the major US airlines, and associated regulatory capture. Automating ATC would significantly increase efficiency and landing slots. Increasing land
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by tpurves 6y ago
This was a big problem in the early days of online banking (early ‘00s). A fair number bank fraud losses were due to rogue internal employees at call centers creating or changing then selling off online banking passwords. Ran into this when
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by tpurves 6y ago
I agree with you, but raise you with Skype for mac.

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