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by zaksoup 6y ago
The payout for mining bitcoins was cut in half. The number of total available bitcoins in the system remained stable.
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by zaksoup 6y ago
Will this support Teletype style multi-cursor collaboration? I'm very excited about this for easy dev environment setup but if it had easy collaboration it would be immediately adoptable at my org for pair programming while we're
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by zaksoup 7y ago
But what does "break even" even mean in the context of public infrastructure? If you're okay with calling that income a "tax" why doesn't public subsidy through... taxes count as breaking even? Nobody complains
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by zaksoup 7y ago
The author of the original tweet is the CEO of Gravity Payments, a Square competitor that mostly serves smaller retail and restaurant businesses. In further tweets he talks about how they're losing tons of revenue right now. I agree th
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Correlated: Discovery surprising correlations between seemingly unrelated things(correlated.org)
2 points by zaksoup 7y ago|0 comments
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by zaksoup 7y ago
> However, because of a strong societal preference for saving children, the Task Force recommended that young age may be considered as a tie-breaking criterion in limited circumstances. This document has really fascinated me. It exists a
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New York State Ventilator Allocation Guidelines (2015)(health.ny.gov)
2 points by zaksoup 7y ago|1 comments
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by zaksoup 7y ago
1/500 dead for all 20-40yo even with medical intervention is not a small cost...
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by zaksoup 7y ago
> That’s okay though, just hand off the company to your bloated, slovenly, zero-posture assistant whose name literally means “I’m going to rip you off.” This is where I got lost. I worked at Pivotal from 2014 to 2017. There's a lot
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by zaksoup 7y ago
The costs associated with this policy seem much more likely to be based on decreased sales if folks buy a game, play it as much as they want (within 30 days), and return for a full refund. Less that they spend bandwidth/compute costs t
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by zaksoup 7y ago
To be clear, it wasn't that he was "anti-gay" it was that he donated $1000 to Prop 8 in 2008, a California Proposition that made gay marriage illegal in CA until Obergefell struck it down 7 years later. This is important beca
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by zaksoup 7y ago
I think it’s also interesting to point out that the kind of person who hears “improve your social life” and thinks “that’s impossible because there aren’t enough women willing to date me” is probably dealing with some self fulfilling prophe
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by zaksoup 7y ago
I like this a lot. I often phrase this question as "can you tell me about the trade offs of your method vs. something that uses sshd?"
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by zaksoup 7y ago
Your points are great and valid but isn't it even simpler to point out the flaw in OPs argument: if the end-all and be-all is the economics of the company then they should surely be fine going in to work tomorrow and offering their bos
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Google fires activist Rebecca Rivers and 3 others(venturebeat.com)
97 points by zaksoup 7y ago|37 comments
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by zaksoup 7y ago
On the page they also bring up a great point: a bunch of optimizations allowed by JMAP (including storing attachments as blobs and separating their payloads from other content) wouldn't be possible if the individual messages were E2E e
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by zaksoup 7y ago
This is a really easy question to answer. I duck-duck-went "1password what happens if I stop paying" and the first link was https://support.1password.com/membership-billing-policy/ From the link: > Your da
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by zaksoup 7y ago
It's like everybody who's replying to you didn't read your last paragraph
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by zaksoup 7y ago
I really think we need new language around digital content. I'm not a lawyer but it seems intuitive to say "the reason theft is bad is because you're taking something from somebody else that they, then, no longer have" o
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by zaksoup 7y ago
Here's the explanation I like to use every year when this makes it to HN: You pick door 1. Out of three doors you have a 1/3 chance of having a car behind your door. The chance that the car is behind one of either of the other two
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by zaksoup 7y ago
I was able to ask my doctor to prescribe a halter monitor for 24 hours after similarly having intermittent "irregular heartbeat". I have fantastic insurance and have access to a major cardiac research center so ymmv but may be wor
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by zaksoup 7y ago
Neither cleanly pass the duck test, though
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by zaksoup 7y ago
I'm not sure why there are downvotes on this comment. It's pretty clear this is the case - what Google Products have dedicated account executives that give you their phone number? Ads and Cloud. The two direct-buy relationships yo
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by zaksoup 7y ago
Headline modified because original headline was 7 characters too long for submission.
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Caviar employees claim mistreatment over acquisition offers(theverge.com)
4 points by zaksoup 7y ago|1 comments
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by zaksoup 7y ago
There's no evidence to support this and it's pretty easy to describe intuitively how this is irrelevant, untrue, or both. If unions raised wages enough to offshore jobs those jobs would no longer exist, that union would not exist,
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by zaksoup 7y ago
> democratic states are consistently better than non-democratic ones Union wages are consistently higher than non-union wages, so we have evidence that unions are an improvement compared to direct relationships with employers. Source: li
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by zaksoup 7y ago
Oh please. Is "embrace, extend, extinguish" bad because it is slowly closing off the open web, or is it fine that Apple, Spotify, etc are buying podcast producers and moving away from RSS for their own proprietary delivery methods
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by zaksoup 7y ago
Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from genuinely felt beliefs...
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by zaksoup 7y ago
I feel like there is near universal agreement that service-exclusive content fragmentation is terrible for consumers regardless of media format.

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