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by arciini 4mo ago
Summary (self-written) Factor 1: vertical integration and different supply trains - US automakers are really just car assemblers that build the engine and frame, and assemble everything else - EVs are uniquely good for vertical integration,
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How the West Lost to China in EVs [video](youtube.com)
3 points by arciini 4mo ago|2 comments
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by arciini 4mo ago
I'd guess that this is to ensure one abusive user doesn't get every other user blocked from a large service (say, Google) for botting over the VPN and constantly rotating IPs. It's a practical measure, but definitely has a pr
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by arciini 1y ago
I was pretty convinced by this article to not use TIOBE as a mark of a language's popularity: https://nindalf.com/posts/stop-citing-tiobe/ Its primary point is that TIOBE is based on *number* of search result
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by arciini 1y ago
Hi! Co-founder of Wanderlog (YC W19) here - what issues did you run into with it? I'd love to get your take to see if there's anything we can do there.
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by arciini 2y ago
For me, definitely! It helped us raise our first round of funding, without which we may have failed during the pandemic. I also learned a lot and found the online platform useful.
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by arciini 2y ago
I did YC when I was 27 after trying to do a tiny bit of fundraising, and kinda agree with you, but I think you can replace "22 year old" in your comment with "anyone not super-well-networked in the startup scene". The tr
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by arciini 2y ago
I personally also strictly disagree with their feedback: "try many small things, experiment, tinker, and build a portfolio of multiple income streams". This is very much the indie-hacker route, but honestly, if you have one thing
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by arciini 3y ago
Given there are 3 credit bureaus, is there a way to avoid having a credit score at one of the credit bureaus? I think that's a way that we as consumers could try to increase competition in the field. I did some Googling and it didn&#x2
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by arciini 3y ago
While I agree Google is being a bit sly in lobbying against privacy legislation, I think they have a legitimate point, but also think that it'll lead to them concentrating more power in the ad market. Google clearly believes that they
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by arciini 3y ago
While I'd love to attribute this to data harvesting and don't love Meta as a company, as someone who has tried to scrape Instagram in the past (to get recent images users have posted for specific restaurants), I believe this is a
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by arciini 3y ago
It seems like this is mostly summarizing what seems to be pretty settled law. Here are my main takeaways: 1. The courts have concluded that just because a price is higher does not mean it is necessarily in the fiduciary interests of shareho
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by arciini 3y ago
> Our analyses by testbed instruments that are on or will be sent to Mars unveil that although the mineralogy of Red Stone matches that detected by ground-based instruments on the red planet, similarly low levels of organics will be hard
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by arciini 3y ago
While I don't love this API's idea, I understand why they're doing it, and the API it describes really just sounds like any Captcha API today. > Google's plan is that, during a webpage transaction, the web server coul
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by arciini 3y ago
I think this is actually a pretty balanced and rational take on crypto. There's a lot to be jaded by in the industry, and I'm glad he got a lot out of the experience (attending the conference, meeting people, including other skept
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by arciini 3y ago
The article mentions that: > Stratospheric SO2 rains out of the atmosphere after a year or so, so unlike CO2 emissions it is relatively easy to control the dosing and the magnitude of the desired effect Is this not true? I'm curious
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by arciini 4y ago
Housing as a for-profit business kinda makes sense, but I think the main takeaway of the article is this: > The thing is, "the algorithm" should have very little to do with that sick feeling. The coldness of the interface and r
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by arciini 4y ago
This thread leaves a lot of unanswered questions: 1. This was likely mitigated through a device update. What version did it roll out with? Which devices are still unpatched? 2. How was it compromised? Was it an OEM? An internal leak at Goog
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by arciini 4y ago
I'm sad that this is happening to an app that's useful to its users, but the reality is that scraping is legal, always possible, but difficult. This particular case is a bit harder since it's not purely using public data, but
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by arciini 4y ago
This seems like a perfectly reasonable way to end a service. The server died, and the effort to bring it back up seems high. This is a reminder to pay for services you depend on. Per the Pinboard founder's post: > I love free softwa
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From Belonging to Burnout, Five Years at Airbnb(news.techworkerscoalition.org)
266 points by arciini 4y ago|148 comments
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by arciini 4y ago
It's fascinating that the article ends with a very pessimistic quote, but the implication is clear: wiretapping was immune to policy solutions, but technical solutions have been far more effective at solving this problem. > Futility
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by arciini 4y ago
This is really pretty impressive. I think Copilot for these kinds of one-off analysis tasks where specific data manipulation rather than structuring abstractions makes a lot more sense. Structuring libraries or building UI requires a lot mo
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by arciini 4y ago
As someone who has never really understood monads (or tried that hard to) but who has done a good amount of Javascript programming, I really like the description of a monad as a series of nested data structures describing the next steps of
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by arciini 5y ago
This looks great, but I think it'd be great if you submitted this (if you haven't already) as an issue to Jetbrains! They may integrate a similar fix and that'd be much more discoverable
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by arciini 5y ago
> In Pan & Schleifer (1996), subjects experienced more arm discomfort/pain/fatigue the more keys they pressed while doing a data entry task.[23] Finally, Feng et al. is a recent (2021) cross-sectional study that found that
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by arciini 5y ago
> Be careful where you store your money. One of his puppies (obviously Sam kept several for himself) ended up digging up one of his stockpiles and started eating his money. I imagine this isn't a common problem, even for North Korea
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by arciini 5y ago
I think it's reasonable for regulators in the long run to rein in these cash cow businesses a bit, when they're a crucial bottleneck in an ecosystem, just like long-duration patents or copyright. The extra fee likely stifles innov
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by arciini 5y ago
Similarly, I think powerful people have always behaved as poorly as in the examples he mentioned. It's just that nowadays, data-driven traditional and social media uses the outrage to make money. This does unfortunately lead more peopl
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by arciini 5y ago
Sorry about that - I don't think that comparison made sense and it was also really inflammatory so I removed it

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