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by _skel 3y ago
What makes you think everyone is mega rich there? VC firms have a lot of employees making normal salaries just like every other company.
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by _skel 3y ago
Everyone I know who had cancer (and that is a large and increasingly growing list...) found out about it because they went in to the doctor for a non-routine appointment because they felt pain, or felt a lump, or had a weird reaction to a v
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by _skel 3y ago
We don't need to resort to cultural tropes like "face" to explain this. This is about power and control. The Communist party does not want any other centers of power or control to emerge which might challenge the party. Jack
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by _skel 3y ago
Point 2 does not logically follow from point 1. That's the entire problem here. Between point 1 and 2 there must be quite a few other steps, causally linked, otherwise it's just a massive imaginary leap based on assumptions that n
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by _skel 3y ago
EY's arguments aren't really possible to engage with because they don't have much of a causal basis. Nobody who says AI is likely to kill us all can demonstrate a plausible sequence of events, with logical causality linking t
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by _skel 3y ago
I'm not calling UBI communism. That's not the point. My point is that if we could simply invent any economic system we wanted, communism would have worked. Communism failed because it's not possible to do that, because there
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by _skel 3y ago
You can't just engineer whatever the heck you want out of an economic system, or a government, or an entire society. There are at least some fundamental laws of nature, including human nature, at play. After a century of failed commu
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by _skel 3y ago
Even if it does, it will simply mimic the systems other companies have created and documented, because GPTs don't create anything new. They recombine what already exists. Plus let's be honest, the technical problems are the tip of
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by _skel 3y ago
There is always going to be a chorus about something. Power users are impossible to please because they all have strong opinions but not the same opinions. People will still want different screen resolutions, aspect ratios, keyboard layou
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by _skel 4y ago
Banking has been a quasi-government-operated industry for over 100 years, since the creation of the Fed in 1913, the creation of the FDIC in 1933, and the increased regulation since 2008. In 2008 the Fed created a two-layer banking system:
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by _skel 4y ago
VCs are a convenient scapegoat but if you look at what actually happened, this is the fault of bankers and bank regulators. Are we supposed to blame people for putting money in a bank that had a solid track record since the 1980s, and didn&
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by _skel 4y ago
Why do people think VCs are libertarians? Most of them are Democrats! So are most major tech CEOs. Political contributions are publicly recorded if you want to see where any individual stands… And when did VCs rail against “bailouts” in the
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by _skel 4y ago
Of course it is irrelevant to depositors, that is why the bank failed. However, it also proves that holding bonds to maturity is different from selling them at market rates. It demonstrates the distinction between solvency and liquidity. Ev
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by _skel 4y ago
The whole subscription box industry consists of undifferentiated companies with zero moat. Look at any category: beauty products, men's grooming products, wine, watches, etc. and you'll see a bunch of companies that all look the s
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by _skel 4y ago
I suspect that if Linus had tried to actively contribute to BSD he might have gotten fed up and done his own thing anyway.
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by _skel 4y ago
I don't think the upsides are worth all the work. You can spend a lot of time getting databases and other stateful workloads to work -- mess around with StatefulSet and PVC on top of all the normal Kubernetes concepts, and what do you
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by _skel 4y ago
I never would have believed such an offer, and I can't imagine why anyone would. The writing has been on the wall since the vaccines were available.
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by _skel 4y ago
There is also a ton of legal and compliance complexity. Imagine you sell things in 100 countries -- whether it's apps in an app store, or games, or movies, or physical goods. Now you have at least 100 legal and regulatory regimes to de
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by _skel 4y ago
The article is grouping things together that don't belong in the same categories. OO, functional, imperative, declarative: these are ways of controlling dispatch . Monoliths and microservices are both ways to organize codebases and
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by _skel 4y ago
I'm not anti-blockchain, although I have to say that so far the blockchain has not really been useful for anything other than crypto. I am anti-crypto, because I know some history, and I know that the situation that existed before stat
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by _skel 4y ago
I suspect the initial negative take on the license change was correct, and this is the dying gasp of the company. It's just taking longer than expected to replace Docker Desktop. But I am seeing a lot of progress on Podman and Rancher
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by _skel 4y ago
Being culturally Japanese didn't prevent Japanese companies from achieving dominant positions in electronics, automobile manufacturing, video games, shipbuilding, steel production... Why is software so special? I would argue that the k
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by _skel 4y ago
No amount of laws and regulations will make it possible to sustain jobs that the market participants are not willing to pay for -- not unless the government starts paying the wages of employees at uncompetitive firms to keep them from losin
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by _skel 4y ago
Everything about this case has been the system working as intended, and faster than normal. If the conspiracy theorists had just sat back and relaxed, they would have seen the guy get arrested, extradited, and charged for a crime, which is
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by _skel 4y ago
It's always sad to see people in the tech industry who are opposed to learning things. Quite a lot of the anti-Java, anti-abstraction, anti-complexity crowd seem to actually just be people who are one step above a sysadmin in their men
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by _skel 4y ago
A competent Java programmer is not slower than a competent Python programmer. Time to market won't suffer. There is definitely a higher barrier to entry with Java, and starting new projects involves a bit more setup, but that is never
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by _skel 4y ago
As an engineer, Java would be one of the languages I would choose for maintaining a large codebase over time. It is far better for that than most other popular languages.
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by _skel 4y ago
> Example number ten thousand of why the "vote with your dollars and don't do business with them" defense of capitalism fails completely in practice. Example number ten thousand of how everything bad is blamed on "cap
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by _skel 4y ago
People don't get convicted for doing bad things. They get convicted for breaking specific laws. In this case, the laws against defrauding investors were clearly broken, to the extent that a jury unanimously agreed they were broken. Wha
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by _skel 4y ago
Seriously. If there was an obvious alternate metric, we'd already be using it. Measuring well-being and happiness will never be straightforward and uncontroversial, despite what the authors of the article say. You don't need to lo

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