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by ufmace 6y ago
FWIW, I'd argue that Theil's actions were a rare example of that sort of thing happening semi-openly. It's probably always happening behind the scenes to all other publications by all people of that class. The rest of them ju
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by ufmace 6y ago
It feels to me like "science" has become something of a religion unto itself. We started out with the well and good ability of science and engineering to understand some things and produce revolutionary useful goods. Now it seems
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by ufmace 6y ago
I'm pretty sure that nothing they printed is technically libel. They should at least know by now how to write a good hit piece without technically committing libel. I'm afraid there's not going to be a solution for what the A
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by ufmace 6y ago
That sounds like a quality sales team. Things like the OP tend to happen when you take inexperienced and desperate sales people and make them work on straight commission with no mentorship. Exactly as the person you spoke to feared, this ha
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by ufmace 6y ago
Probably a little late to be second-guessing exactly what happened there, but a few comments anyways: It's almost always worth doing some concurrency/scaling sanity checks on anything you're preparing to demo IME. There'
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by ufmace 6y ago
Keep in mind also that there's probably 2x to 5x overhead between what the customer pays and the paycheck of the person doing the actual work.
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by ufmace 6y ago
They're really not actually. To turn your userscript into an extension, you just save the code to a single file on disk in a new folder, then create a manifest.json file with like a dozen lines, and load the folder as a development ext
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by ufmace 6y ago
Start writing code in the browser console. It's a Javascript REPL with full access to the DOM for the site and the browser API. Once you put together a few lines that do something useful, paste them into a new userscript for the page a
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by ufmace 6y ago
Lately, whenever I've been wanting to make some changes to a site, I've been writing browser extensions instead of userscripts. It's only a little bit clunkier to get started, but the interface is a lot more supported and doc
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by ufmace 6y ago
I do kind of like the idea of alternatives to a completely free plan, like pay a few bucks once to be able to use the basic plan forever with low limits etc. Another one I've seen that I like is to allow free use with registration, but
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by ufmace 6y ago
> No good; people working for the Iranian state will DM. They'll probably try, but it's not very scalable. It's tough to build and maintain a Twitter account with a history that looks like a real regular person, much less
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by ufmace 6y ago
It was only a failure at what Google wanted it for - displacing Facebook as the dominant social media company. IMO, they failed primarily due to network effects, as in they can't bootstrap without some killer feature to get people to s
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by ufmace 6y ago
I don't think the "responsibility" part is all that important. There are many points about it that can be argued, but I think the more important part is means. Private companies' only effective means to do anything are t
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by ufmace 6y ago
Would also want to know, once you decide the maximum size of a corporation, exactly what happens to it once it exceeds that size, and who determines that it has infact exceeded it, and carries out whatever the plan is for what happens at th
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by ufmace 6y ago
It's on the protocol designers and promoters to determine what it ends up being of course. It seems like a bit of a mismatch to me right now. The client cert support as the exclusive way to identify users is a really cool feature of th
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by ufmace 6y ago
That's kind of the trouble with Gemini now. Since you can't send significant amounts of text to the server, you can't really make a message board kind of thing in pure Gemini. The content submission has to be done via HTTP or
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by ufmace 6y ago
I've been messing with Gemini some off and on. A little unsure about what to build given the limitations. It seems to expect the user to use direct SSH access to servers for anything that would normally involve sending more than trivia
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by ufmace 6y ago
Fat chance. Have you seen the way politics is going these days? It's far more likely that they'll pass legislation to do the opposite - bar anyone from making, using, or distributing a communication system that can't be monit
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by ufmace 6y ago
You're kind of both right IMO. The great majority of products created by techies interested in startups are priced much lower than the market will bear, and so their prices should rise. There definitely is a market out there for the ch
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by ufmace 6y ago
It's usually fine to open an issue on the repo. It should have a detailed description of what's wrong, reproduction steps if appropriate etc, basically enough to show that you know what you're doing, have put some effort into
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by ufmace 6y ago
Yes this. These days, I'm not gonna bother without communication directly from a maintainer that a PR to do whatever I'm interested in doing would be welcome and can be reviewed and merged in a decent timeframe.
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by ufmace 6y ago
I'm wondering about this. I was a little skeptical of the whole David-vs-Goliath bring-down-wall-st thing. But if it's really true that this is just one small and low-relevance hedge fund getting their ass handed to them for doing
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by ufmace 6y ago
I seriously have no idea whether this is serious or sarcasm. Either way, once it is decided by all who have the practical ability to distribute information to large numbers of people that only "correct" viewpoints approved by &quo
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by ufmace 6y ago
I doubt any do. Those things take maintenance. It'd be tough to transport them and any repair parts and needed personnel in and out without anyone ever noticing. Risks of discovery are pretty high, considering how many bugs and spies h
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by ufmace 6y ago
They're still useful indeed for those reasons. What's now much less useful is to maintain some number of bombers with live weapons airborne at all times to guard against a possible sneak attack on airfields. Missiles don't tu
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by ufmace 6y ago
It doesn't really make sense to fly armed weapons around as a strategic deterrent now, since you can mount them on missiles instead, which can be stored in safer and faster to launch silos and are harder to intercept anyways. And put t
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by ufmace 6y ago
It feels like it would be pretty bizarre if a court somewhere actually ruled in favor of a gun manufacturer for lost revenue in a trademark suit because somebody was genuinely confused between a weapon in a video game and ordering an actual
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by ufmace 6y ago
Because a modern browser is about as complex as an operating system, and moves even faster. Check out the complexity of ES6. You're gonna need an interpreter for that which performs acceptably well, plus a DOM interface to the rest of
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by ufmace 6y ago
It's things like this that make me a lot more reluctant to install extensions that might be moderately convenient. Maybe they're okay now, but it's too much of a burden to keep track of what I have installed and which ones ar
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by ufmace 6y ago
We're talking about the context of a cold call here. It's extraordinary unlikely for something that is genuinely beneficial to me to come to my attention via a cold call. Maybe your product is actually good, but there's a wav

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