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by tw04 3y ago
In the case of Broadcom they actively seek technologies that are extremely difficult to pull out of large organizations. Then they make their money back by gutting all sales staff and r&d and jacking up prices for everything. They belie
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by tw04 3y ago
Which is odd because every government program torn down in the last 50 years has almost immediately resulted in a resurrection of the bad behavior by private corporations it was meant to stop.
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by tw04 3y ago
Sure it is, this problem has been solved for a long time: SCIM. Any modern idp should support SCIM and if the app doesn’t I’d question using it at all.
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by tw04 3y ago
>It seems clear to me that the problem comes down to customers not actually paying the cost of using a particular card or network. You absolutely pay it; you just don't see it. Go to small town America and deal with a small busines
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by tw04 3y ago
>The IRS now provides free tax filing. For federal taxes only... and with silly limitations that exist... because lobbying? And oh by the way, the IRS isn't actually offering anything, they'll refer you to third parties that w
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by tw04 3y ago
For the same reason we have tax preparation software and private health insurance (but somehow government flood insurance on vacation property). Valid historical reasons that no longer apply, and lots of lobbying.
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by tw04 3y ago
That will always be the case with Apple. Their default behavior is to cater to a user that will shoot themselves in the foot anytime they have the opportunity. I applaud them for giving users the option to be secure, but I don't blam
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by tw04 3y ago
>2. raised the local price to monopoly prices, creating a great reward for the first local manufacturer to achieve parity. The government was both going to demand, and fund local companies creating a competing product and was already doi
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by tw04 3y ago
>Amazon's customer first policy is really true. Which part of customer first drove their egress fee policies?
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by tw04 3y ago
They need to actually listen to users. Signal needs to support SMS, they need to support backups, they need to support easily migrating to new devices. I don't care if it makes me slightly less secure, make it a checkbox in the clien
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by tw04 3y ago
I've literally never come across an L2 charger not working anywhere in my state. I have seen one offline in the last 4 years. Looking at plugshare I see one site that had an outage for 2 days across all L2 chargers in the last 90 day
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by tw04 3y ago
>The problem is that this network is so large and slow that it can't give you anywhere near the performance of a local SSD. *As implemented in the public cloud providers. You can absolutely get better than local disk speeds from SAN
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by tw04 3y ago
>Buying stocks based on non-public or not-yet-publicly-dissiminated knowledge is mostly perfectly legal. Only when such knowledge has been acquired by being an insider to the company, or through personal relations with insiders from that
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by tw04 3y ago
>Have you tried using non-Tesla charging stations? It's a disaster! Those charging terminals are hastily thrown together pieces of junk, frankly. The hardware, software, billing, everything. I've used public CCS charging for se
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by tw04 3y ago
This is also part of the reason you find reliable reseller partners. They can burn cycles figuring out what new tech is useful and what is a waste of time so you can spend your cycles actually getting things done with cool new tech that wo
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by tw04 3y ago
>If I know some information you do not and I make a trade with you based on that information to my gain, that is not fraud. It quite literally is fraud, whether you want it to be or not. If you KNOW a stock is worth more or less based o
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by tw04 3y ago
> Trading with someone when you have knowledge they don't is not "theft" in the general sense of the word. It’s not theft, it’s fraud which is also illegal. If I sell you a gold necklace I know is fake and worthless, that’
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by tw04 3y ago
> they have some legitimate advantages like charging network and software that competitors can’t match. Ford and GM gaining access to their charging network this year. I always hear how their software is an advantage, but how? At point
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by tw04 3y ago
>I’m not one to be bullish on Tesla under Elon Musk but I don’t see how the Cybertruck was a waste considering that it’s squarely placed in the most popular and profitable segment of the automobile market in North America. If you think a
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by tw04 3y ago
You also forgot stomping on all of his engineers and designers and demanding an untenable design for the cyber truck. All of that wasted time and effort could’ve been spent on a smaller EV vs a truck that’s going to struggle to gain any ma
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by tw04 3y ago
> A lot of bitcoin miners use stranded power, which would otherwise go to waste. A lot of bitcoin miners are keeping fossil fuel spewing power plants from being retired because the regulations that keep power affordable for Americans hav
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by tw04 3y ago
There will be an inflection point where you’ll want all of your media to be 3D. Things you watch today in 2D you’ll want in 3D and then your old 2D television will seem like a relic of the past. The entire industry is onboard, the shift is
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by tw04 3y ago
Sure: he's flat out wrong. This has been played out again and again - "winning a war" is meaningless if you can't retain the territory. Unless the world is going to stand by and allow Russia to commit genocide of the e
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by tw04 3y ago
Respectfully: that's an absolute copout. Facebook determines what's on your feed, not you. Twitter drove news agencies to try to fit stories into 140 characters because it got clicks and eyeballs. Youtube's engagement algo
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by tw04 3y ago
Social Media was invented long before I was 35. I could get a job in it but I don't want to. It isn't exciting or revolutionary and is destroying the fabric of society. So there's that. I'd imagine after seeing what S
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by tw04 3y ago
>That is a lie. EU and European countries has given more than double that of the US. Based on what number? You tell other people not to make things up, then throw out outlandish claims without citation. And as for the "by GDP numbe
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by tw04 3y ago
I find it interesting they keep saying “small investment”. What does that mean? By all accounts Andy Bechtolsheim made a “small investment” in Google, and it turned him into a billionaire. Even back then $100k was a rounding error in fund
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by tw04 3y ago
>I was expecting Apple would reinvent that with a concept nobody had imagined before. They didn't. Zero innovation. Probably why the engineers didn't want to release it. I seem to recall a bunch of folks at Apple were pretty u
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by tw04 3y ago
>Give it a couple years for there to be some really groundbreaking apps, and Apple will open the floodgates with a cheaper/more ergonomic version. But what are the "ground breaking apps"? The "we just haven't th
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by tw04 3y ago
>most other VR headsets benefit from 3rd party straps that make a hugely significant difference in comfort Every other VR headset in question costs a fraction of the price and has sold a multiple of the units. The way their strap interf

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