1986

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by 1986 4d ago
He really elides his thoughts on the "RSI business", wish he could have gone into a bit more depth there. Good post, though.
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Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal(bloomberg.com)
195 points by 1986 20d ago|273 comments
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by 1986 2mo ago
IIRC TurboTax has a bunch of loaders / spinners like this, similar idea.
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by 1986 2mo ago
> General NIMBY-ism Mamdani explicitly campaigned on building more, especially housing, so not sure where you got that idea. NIMBYs show up at community board meetings, sure, but your post makes it sound like that's somehow the mayo
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by 1986 2mo ago
In the vast majority of venues, ID checks are happening anyway to verify eligibility for drinking.
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by 1986 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_Silicon_Valley_Ban...
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by 1986 3mo ago
They're being evicted from their home, but from the landlord's property. It would be the landlord's home if the landlord lived there, but they don't, because they're renting it to the tenant.
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by 1986 4mo ago
That's not true, a number of Jan 6 people were convicted of seditious conspiracy, it's just that those convictions have now been vacated because the coup plotters have now ended up in charge regardless through other means.
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by 1986 6mo ago
That's a feature, not a bug
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by 1986 7mo ago
Yeah, we're talking about the guy who leased a new car every 6 months in order to avoid having to put a license plate on it, and then parked it in handicap spots, right? Absolute same "rules for thee, not for me" energy
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by 1986 7mo ago
It's not 2019 any more.
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by 1986 9mo ago
This one is probably popping today because of the simonw post yesterday about using an LLM to basically one-shot port a lib across languages with the help of an extremely robust test suite
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by 1986 9mo ago
So they gutted and destroyed USDS in order to... Create it again?
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by 1986 9mo ago
In practice, "egregious" in English never means very good
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by 1986 10mo ago
We have the opposite problem, where if you live in NYC or LA your vote basically doesn't matter at the national level
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by 1986 1y ago
It could put you in Guantanamo Bay: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W#Usage_in_terrori...
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by 1986 1y ago
Being able to walk to the store "sounds worse than hell"?
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by 1986 1y ago
The Marketwatch link, which is paywalled, just links here: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/novo-nordisk-s-can...
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by 1986 1y ago
a friend recently described bouldering - which I understand is also fairly popular with engineers - as something to the effect of "solving problems in a physical space with your body". this seems not dissimilar
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by 1986 1y ago
The "heist", which presumably gets covered in part 2, is that a lot of these items were originally looted from Iraq after the US invasion in 2003. US Customs ended up seizing a lot of them, and about 15,000 items ended up having t
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by 1986 2y ago
DOGE's shared data has been consistently off: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/doge-says-i... https://www.npr.org/2025/03/01/nx-s1-5313853/doge-savings-re... h
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by 1986 2y ago
*Norquist
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by 1986 2y ago
Which was basically the point of the USDS, which has now been gutted of its original purpose and turned into DOGE
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by 1986 2y ago
Really not enjoying the fascist-eugenic turn this place seems to be taking.
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by 1986 2y ago
I also got this, felt like a cold that just took forever to clear. Wasn't covid, but didn't feel as bad as proper flu. I got my flu shot going into the season late last year.
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by 1986 2y ago
I find that I actually sleep worse the night I've worked out (3x / week)
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by 1986 2y ago
> What I've realized is that the fame of the book is closely related to how interesting and unique the "elevator pitch” of the book. Which makes sense when you think about it; It's the elevator pitch that's spreading
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by 1986 2y ago
> The buyouts were not offered in a random fashion, however. We targeted them to reduce the layers of bureaucracy and micro-management that were tying Government in knots. We made sure that departments and agencies tied their buyout stra
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by 1986 2y ago
WSL is a big improvement over the MinGW era
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by 1986 2y ago
No, it's not, but there's a spectrum of drug experiences. Scrolling social media is more like sitting in a shitty motel by yourself on a meth binge, or being on the nod.

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