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by yojo 2y ago
My understanding is DropBox was trying to transition from sync and share to being a multi-product document-centric company (look at acquisitions like HelloSign). One possibility is they staffed up a bunch of projects on bets that ultimately
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by yojo 2y ago
I think Houston being a cofounder means the financial picture looks different. Last year he made $1.5M in total comp. Which is a lot in absolute terms, but cutting his pay to zero would only allow keeping ~6 of those laid off. OTOH, he owns
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by yojo 2y ago
Annual net income last year was $87B. So they’ve been fined a little over one month of profits.
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Replace “being on a plane” with “being outside of the house” and you’re describing the 1980s. I’d happily give wireless everything back.
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by yojo 2y ago
I won’t claim this is by design, but at the very least a side effect of writing term papers is getting practice at organizing your thoughts and drawing conclusions from them. While writing term papers is a skill that is only minimally usefu
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by yojo 2y ago
JavaScript gives you the ternary operator (?/:) to handle conditionals plus switch/case. Plus you get map/reduce methods on iterables, and you can write procedures with “const thing = ()=> {}” I think I could write an arbi
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by yojo 2y ago
For a while, the login for TreasuryDirect (the gov site for buying US bonds) disabled paste and typing! It required you to click out your password on an onscreen keyboard. I pity the folks who don’t know how to use dev tools.
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by yojo 2y ago
I went through that thought exercise a few years ago, and decided the metals might end up worth more as weapons. If you maneuver a big asteroid into Earth orbit, you can always just drop chunks of it on the heads of people you don’t like. B
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by yojo 2y ago
The hardware serving web requests on Facebook is very different from the hardware used to generate these videos. It’s different kit, that is currently quite expensive and power intensive. Facebook absolutely does not have a fleet of GPUs id
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Generally, anything published by the guy who maintains your most-installed plugin is by definition high profile. That’s why we’re talking about this case on HN. If Mozilla is providing tiered support by plugin rather than publisher, this la
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by yojo 2y ago
I think it’s reasonable to expect that one of Firefox’s most popular extension publishers gets a higher tier of review service. Gorhill (and other top extension devs) are providing real value to Firefox, and have demonstrated good behavior
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by yojo 2y ago
I think you are talking past each other. The grandparent’s point was that these things retailed for lots of money when new, so they make the claim that the relatively small $250 LCD repair is reasonable. I don’t agree that this is a logical
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by yojo 2y ago
I disagree with the way he made his point, but the facts look right. The S300XL apparently retailed for £1799.[1] that would have been ~$2800 USD at the time, or north of $5k in today’s dollars. 1: https://web.archive.org/we
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by yojo 2y ago
Reminds me a little of RECAP ( https://free.law/recap ), an automated scraper/saver/sharer for PACER (the US court electronic records system). Obviously the content is very different, but the technology is basically
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by yojo 2y ago
Do you have a recipe or resource you can point me to? I'd love to try it.
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by yojo 2y ago
Ah damn, there goes another one – thanks for flagging. We oven-cook fish packets and recently switched from using foil to unbleached parchment, but that was more about sustainability. Guess there's another good reason to avoid the foil
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by yojo 2y ago
Yep, my kid is into making very detailed little animal sculpts that endure. Playdough fails on both of those dimensions. We've switched to air dry clay (Crayola Model Magic), which is closer to the polymer clay, but still doesn't
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by yojo 2y ago
The one that recently shocked me was modeling clay. My elementary school kid loves playing with clay, so I bought him some Fimo, which is proudly marketed as “non-toxic.” On a lark I looked it up anyway. It’s 11-14% phthalates by weight![1]
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by yojo 2y ago
Depending on the era, clay pots often had led glazing, which could leach out into acidic foods/beverages. Generally glass is going to be fine, as long as it’s not painted/coated on the surface that touches the food or your lips. T
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by yojo 2y ago
Before, if you read a sci-fi story and wanted an explanation of a plot point or how some tech worked, you would just imagine it and move on. Maybe you had a friend you could talk it through with, but there were a lot less of us back then.
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Now I want the version with a hidden camera and machine vision so it can follow me around like an obedient puppy. “Be back in a few hun, just taking the table for a walk.”
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Talking on your phone while driving (hands free or otherwise) is associated with a 4x increase in likelihood of accident.[1] Correlation != causation etc, but it seems reasonable to forbid talking on the phone while driving a giant delivery
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I will never have this kind of money. It is still interesting to me from the perspective of understanding whether there is validity to claims that the rich are/aren’t paying their fair share. Assuming the write-up is correct, it provid
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I think there’s an interesting question of why housing has outpaced inflation, but I’m not sure you can just pin it on “landlords.” A small, individual landlord has no pricing power. They’re competing in a market against all others. You’d h
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by yojo 2y ago
In my market (Portland, OR), the cost for new construction seems to be in the range of $250-350/square foot. A buildable lot in a decent neighborhood costs $300k-ish (if you can find one). Assuming you’re building a family sized buildi
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I assume that any piece of technologically backed infrastructure is a potential target for state-level actors. If rando security researcher finds the vuln in 15 minutes, I guarantee China already has it. Anyone operating infrastructure hard
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One of the most popular threads was about a diesel repair shop.[1] Probably a context window issue. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41008009
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Man I love those things. I have warm memories of standing in Italian train stations as a kid and letting the clacking wash over me when they did a full board refresh. It’d fade out like a rain stick as the stragglers that started furthest f
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by yojo 2y ago
Cloth bags are problematic. The Danish EPA put the break-even on cotton bags at 7,100 re-uses (or 20,000 for organic)[1]. Most people won’t shop enough in their life to pay back that organic cotton bag - reusing twice a week, it will take y
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The PH was 7.5, so it’s actually slightly basic! Presumably this is related to the organic compounds decaying.

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