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by wilde 5y ago
This article misses both the PPP program and the drop in supply of immigrant workers. Seems like they wrote the conclusion before doing research… https://www.cato.org/blog/us-issued-12-million-fewer-visas-w...
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by wilde 5y ago
Oh sweet! Programming searches definitely feel underserved since Google isn't quite literal enough for me a lot of the time. The concept is to build a search marketplace that feels like a normal search engine to the end consumer. The h
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by wilde 5y ago
Prediction markets are super fascinating. Their use is hampered in the US both by the insider concerns mentioned in the article and a web of state laws that sometimes classify them as gambling. For the Solana ignition hackathon I played aro
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by wilde 5y ago
Censorship! /s
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by wilde 5y ago
The dirty secret is that no self-serve tech UX is good. For valuable clients you hide the pain behind an account manager. As an aside, get Authy if you can and replace the SMS 2FA. As someone who worked in account security, changing phone n
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by wilde 5y ago
Lowering friction amplifies your ability to make mistakes. Yes, this is legal. But the increase in scale of these actions is probably bad. I’d hate to see what Hertz would do with this tech. https://www.cbsnews.com/news&#x2F
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by wilde 5y ago
Top beneficiary of policy defends it. More news at 11. Unusual whales has done some fun analysis of this. Given the data, Pelosi’s position is almost uniquely unsurprising. https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate/cong
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by wilde 5y ago
I’ve been using https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/ but haven’t done much in the way of independently confirming their rankings.
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by wilde 5y ago
Funnily enough this used to be a benefit Microsoft touted.
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by wilde 5y ago
I mean yesterday their result page for “twitter new CEO” looked like this: https://imgur.com/a/Zyze2Bt So… yeah. The funny bit is that the actual search algo got it right. I’m with others on appending Reddit to your se
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by wilde 5y ago
I assume you live outside the US? Our home connections here haven’t improved in two decades.
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by wilde 5y ago
When the number of people you work with becomes the proxy you are rewarded on, the organization grows. The alternative is for management to understand the work ICs are doing, but everyone is too busy meeting with each other for that to happ
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by wilde 5y ago
A web search suggests that it’s this: https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter
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by wilde 5y ago
How do you debug? Human readability is valuable regardless of the size of the dataset.
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by wilde 5y ago
Apple invited the comparison during their keynote. ;)
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by wilde 5y ago
Most companies are running some sort of copy of Google’s hiring pipeline, which doesn’t evaluate the ability to learn (the key to finding good junior candidates). The startup I used to work at tried to fix this by pair programming with the
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by wilde 5y ago
That’s not clear at all. I’d be twitchy too if I had $100k on the line and the other party had repeatedly messed up over months of interactions.
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by wilde 5y ago
This is great! Finally putting an end to that stupid growth hack of “sign up online, cancel via phone”.
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by wilde 5y ago
Even that could be a better outcome. When I worked at Microsoft we often had to “dogfood” some other team’s product even if it was vastly inferior to the front runner. Orgs past a certain size give their managers too many brownie points for
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by wilde 5y ago
If YouTube were spun out tomorrow, would they make the same choices in how they source ads? If Google’s exchange is actually servicing the highest quality ads, then great. But if they’re only using it because it’s Google’s it becomes more s
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by wilde 5y ago
Can Etherium run contracts written in Dafny? This is cool, but it doesn’t guarantee that the Solidity matches the proof at all, does it?
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by wilde 5y ago
We force all hospital workers to get it. They have greatly improved outcomes. The more interesting studies show that the flu vaccines become really effective when both the patients and the health care workers are vaccinated at high rates. T
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by wilde 5y ago
Measles and rubella were also once declared eliminated in the US in the early 2000s. Parents who refused to vaccinate brought measles back.
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by wilde 5y ago
Do we want to eradicate COVID? Or do we think that it’s mild enough to not be worth the effort? There is no evidence that waiting for natural immunity will work. There is a list of diseases (polio, etc) where we’ve shown we can eliminate us
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by wilde 5y ago
Ah, it looks like it only applied to the free trial of Apple Arcade. https://ios.gadgethacks.com/news/psa-dont-cancel-your-apple-...
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by wilde 5y ago
Managing all subscriptions from one location is great, but Apple already exempts themselves from cancelling subscriptions without losing time remaining. I expect most of these to go away as processors compete for app business.
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by wilde 5y ago
Love Pivotal, but also their software development methodology is so different from the rest of industry. Not sure how much the findings of this paper generalize since they’re from a relatively non-standard dev process.
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by wilde 5y ago
The browser is also a native app. https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/12/adventures-in...
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by wilde 5y ago
WebRTC has had plenty of implementation issues. https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/08/exploiting-an...
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The content that encouraged people to storm Congress didn’t contain overtly illegal overtures. And yet that’s what happened, relatively predictably from the scenario.

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