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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
He's totally fine with Nazis, although he will use his identity to deflect criticism.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Shopify is absolutely fine with selling hate products as long as you give them their cut. If you're using them for free web hosting they draw the line. They probably also didn't splash out for the premium plan where you get a dedi
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
It's wild to me that despite tremendous resources and 100+ years of time capitalism still kills millions of people a year with starvation and preventable diseases. But every right winger has a pet wikipedia page about a failed communis
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
I don't really see how doing collusion through a Python backend is separate from my point? They're doing an obviously illegal and immoral thing but wrapping it in a layer of technology which obfuscates and apparently legitimizes i
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Scavengers Reign is an amazing, 10/10 show and it's so depressing we'll never get a second season. I miss my telepathic dead wife salamander addiction metaphor.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Pretty sure the answer is ads. "Long-form" content has more opportunities to insert ads or sponsored content. There's not a lot of money to be made being quick and to the point. People's viewing habits have also changed
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Given the sudden urgency and pulling the old software, I'm assuming they're trying to avoid aging batteries exploding.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
I think the key insight that the article misses is that when consumers interact with an app they have an excess of trust in "the app". I run an ecommerce site. It's hard as a small retail operation to keep inventory in sync a
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
I would argue that stuff like Iceberg is really aimed at Data Platform Engineers, not BI analysts. Companies I've worked with in the past have 10-15 people on a Platform team that work directly with stuff like this, to offer analysts a
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Yeah working in the data space I see a ton of customers using Iceberg and some using Delta Lake if they're already a Databricks shop. Virtually no Hudi.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
The problem in The Big Short was that lenders bundled many loans with correlated risk and advertised the resulting bundle as less risky. Because of the demand for these bundles they issued and bundled increasingly risky loans as time went o
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
I'm gonna say the people are real but they're green screened onto AI backgrounds. Although the man leaning on the pillar one is just uncanny for multiple reasons.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Does trump also support needle exchanges and safe consumption sites?
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Ask HN: Is HN Censoring Posts?
41 points by bdndndndbve 2y ago|29 comments
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Ah yes high tech, an industry where there's famously no weird distorting influence from VCs subsidizing unprofitable business models to grab market share.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Unlike in America where... they say it's a national security threat and vote to remove it?
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Spark is "in-memory" in the sense that it isn't forced to spill results to disk between operations, which used to be a point of comparison to MapReduce specifically. Not ground-breaking nowadays but when I was doing this stuf
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
"don't have much in common with warehouse workers" is so demonstrative of the American lack of class consciousness. The people making 200k a year are still workers. They may have savings and insurance that make them feel more
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
It is definitely tough to get tech workers to unionize. There's a lot of possible lines of organizing like not destroying the Earth, or not contributing to genocide, or solidarity with staff who don't make 200k a year. But histori
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
This sounds conspiratorial but where I live this is literally the case. Owners of buildings and large businesses in the downtown core (which has been vacant due to WFH) are collectively lobbying large employers to force RTO. It's not a
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
How can you get the definition of fairness so backwards? The King provides literally everything you take for granted and he should be punished because you are envious? I don't get it. There's a reason why every vassal with a sizea
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
I think OP is coming from the "temporarily embarassed billionaire" perspective where if only we had a libertarian hellscape without pesky laws they would be a funeral baron who runs Bartertown.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
The idea that abolishing IP protections and letting AI companies run rampant is an offramp for wealth inequality is such a wild take to me? Realistically billionaires are using racist and homophobic populism as a way to direct working class
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
There's a good Money Stuff episode about this btw. They talked to someone whose job is to assess commercial properties on behalf of investment funds. There's a lot of obvious tricks that places use to make their occupancy seem bet
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Unlike famously chill billionaires of the past like William Randolph Hearst or Howard Hughes
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
I'm not saying they're single-handedly propping up real estate, but they benefit from "number goes up" in the economy. If WFH becomes a durable trend and a bunch of commercial properties get written down it's going
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Have you followed this at all? The man has been in HN threads arguing about posts about himself for months. He's on some kind of scorched earth ego trip. His profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=photomatt
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
People have theorized that RTO mandates are shadow layoffs, but I think they might actually be commercial real estate investors trying to prop up the office market. If large companies are able to force RTO those working conditions will tric
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
It's not just thought, but also effort. If you have downtime you have time to organize and advocate for yourself. If you have savings you can withhold labour. The ideal conditions for capitalists are that every worker has the bare mini
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
What kind of radicalization do you mean? The kind that tries to violently overthrow the government after an election they don't like?

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