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by Pils 2y ago
Seems bad for Snowflake? Iceberg is a big part of Snowflake's data lake offering, and I assumed it was a Snowflake-originated OSS project until this announcement (all Snowflake products have snow related names).
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by Pils 3y ago
Having worked with a team using Snowpark, there are a couple things that bother me about it as a platform. For example, it only supported Python 3.8 until 3.9/10 recently entered preview mode. It feels a bit like a rushed project desig
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The Russian Soldier Who Surrendered to a Ukrainian Drone(wsj.com)
12 points by Pils 3y ago|1 comments
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Jump Trading Did Secret Deal to Prop Up TerraUSD Stablecoin, SEC Says(wsj.com)
3 points by Pils 3y ago|0 comments
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by Pils 3y ago
I think you are trying to pigeonhole Eskenazi's argument into the standard "progressives don't care about crime" punditry that's popular on the right. I would suggest re-reading the column with a more open mind. His
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by Pils 3y ago
The current CEO of YCombinator regarding an article in Mission Local a few days ago: Mission Local seems to serve their local bureaucratic masters over the basic public safety needs of the people. [0] This is gaslighting. You should be a
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by Pils 3y ago
> It's easy for a childless bohemian to have no problem with needles in parks, but for those of us raising future citizens, it's not fun. > Your entire statement to me seems driven by emotion > Sorry, but the whole c
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by Pils 4y ago
I think he's doing a bit.
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by Pils 4y ago
Reminiscent of the 606 shelving system Vitsoe produces. Given the section dedicated to the desk's "Field Rail," I assume TE is going to release a couple more projects using it as part of some modular system. A brand with simi
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by Pils 4y ago
This article just pulls quotes the Ben Thompson interview from yesterday. direct link to the interview: https://stratechery.com/2022/an-interview-with-coinbase-foun...
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Kraken lays off 30% of staff(blog.kraken.com)
206 points by Pils 4y ago|223 comments
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CEO of Crypto Exchange Kraken Steps Down(wsj.com)
3 points by Pils 4y ago|0 comments
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by Pils 4y ago
To a certain extent, isn't this all a moot point? The sanctioned ETH addresses associated with the Ronin hack didn't use the immutable TC contract, they used the proxy contract[0][1] which can be updated from the Governance addres
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by Pils 4y ago
Couldn't you just deposit ETH in an exchange and then send it to a fresh address? Seems like a hassle to use TC for that specific use case.
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by Pils 5y ago
An abridged history of decentralized storage: * DHTs are "invented" at Berkeley/MIT. Online storage is too expensive for most end users, so the target market is helping large companies index data in their filesystems. * A bun
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by Pils 5y ago
> Did it make Reddit a more friendly place? Probably not as tensions have never been higher. Did allowing hate speech make 8chan/Voat friendlier? There are plenty of unfriendly communities that lack overt racism/fatphobia, bu
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by Pils 5y ago
That research was published by a libertarian think tank in 2013. Since then, there have been numerous examples of lone wolf terrorist attacks where the perpetrators appeared to have no offline contacts with extremist groups. See: New Zealan
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by Pils 5y ago
I believe this is wrong. Creator percentage isn't coded into the Ethereum-based NFT's themselves, it's done at the marketplace level. Currently, if you bought an NFT on Foundation and sold it on Opensea, there isn't a wa
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by Pils 5y ago
For visual reference, Evan Collin's Are.na block is the most cohesive collection of this aesthetic I've found online https://www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/memphis-general-g... . The Memphis-esque style is
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by Pils 5y ago
> Google isn’t abandoning second-price auctions for products where it controls the end-to-end buying experience. YouTube, Google Search, AdSense for Search and other Google properties will continue to use second-price auctions.
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by Pils 6y ago
Looking at the actual press release this listicle was based off of, the countries with highest media trust are, in order: Indonesia (73%), China (70%) and India (69%)[0]. These countries are ranked #119, #177 and #142 on the Press Freedom I
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Substack Is for Independent Writers(blog.substack.com)
2 points by Pils 6y ago|0 comments
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by Pils 6y ago
That's the guy who got banned from Twitter for harassing the authors of Stochastic Parrots right? Dude seems like a piece of work[0]. > On his resume, Lissack said he’d been a visiting research professor at George Washington Univer
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by Pils 6y ago
> This was a widely cited poll that asserted for the first time ever, the majority of Americans mistrust the mainstream media A poll released by the largest PR firm in the world[0], famous for their work with Walmart, GEO Group, Keysto
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by Pils 6y ago
I think the recent NYT article on DLive laid out a theory that I find particularly convincing. > In messages obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Wayn told employees last year that he wanted to suspend some of the white supremacists and
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by Pils 6y ago
> Google bans Parler, conservative Twitter Shows up for me: https://www.google.com/search?q=parler If they didn't want to get banned from the app stores, they should've at least tried to follow the TOS. There
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by Pils 6y ago
> How do you do notifications from a CRUD app on a mobile device if you can't have a native app on the device? Facebook and Twitter are older than push notifications. SMS and email are pretty obvious replacements with little functio
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by Pils 6y ago
This is speculation, but apparently there were protesters on both the civilian entrance side as well as the promenade (where you saw the protesters scaling walls). When the protesters breached the promenade entrance, I assume there was some
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by Pils 6y ago
> You have Android, iOS and PinePhones. I mean, Parler is a CRUD app. You are posting a comment on another CRUD app that doesn't even have an official mobile app client!
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by Pils 6y ago
> Clamping down is not notoriously effective. "We find that the ban worked for Reddit. More accounts than expected discontinued using the site; those that stayed drastically decreased their hate speech usage-by at least 80%. Though

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