bradleybuda

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by bradleybuda 5d ago
I answered the quiz and it said "you must be a Javascript developer", which is true enough - that's probably my second-most-proficient language. In fact, I'm a Ruby developer partially because I hate the idea of async&
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by bradleybuda 6d ago
I agree. It's too easy to get a license and too hard to lose one. You should lobby your government for these things. I have; good luck. Meanwhile, profit-driven private industry is actually out there making things better.
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by bradleybuda 2mo ago
Not one Pringles can utilized. We have failed to pass along the ancient knowledge.
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by bradleybuda 2mo ago
Given that the median household income in the US is $83k, I don’t think that losing $1k on a busted phone is likely to put many into “spiraling debt slavery”
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by bradleybuda 2mo ago
Yes, but landlords are inherently evil so if you want to keep the slopulism going you gotta hit them first.
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by bradleybuda 2mo ago
Inshallah
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by bradleybuda 2mo ago
Is United Airlines “just about making more money”? Yes. Has it done so by offering people a valuable product and generating massive consumer surplus? Also yes.
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by bradleybuda 2mo ago
It’s very difficult for the average person to use a ten year old browser; in fact I’d offer that the only way to use a ten year old browser is to be an expert and do so intentionally.
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by bradleybuda 4mo ago
This could also be a story of technological progress. A thought experiment - imagine you, an archaeologist, recovered the remains of our civilization, from roughly 1925 to 2025, but the only surviving artifact was televisions. You know that
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by bradleybuda 4mo ago
Not buy these index funds. If you don’t want to own the entire market, don’t buy funds that seek to own the entire market. Funds like ESGV which exclude companies with poor governance have existed for a very long time - I can’t find a clear
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by bradleybuda 4mo ago
> Fewer people go to concerts Scalpers don't buy tickets and not sell them. The most scalped concerts are obviously the most attended > fans can’t afford the tickets See above. I assume what you are upset about is that rich fans
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by bradleybuda 4mo ago
Standing in line is (today) a digital process that a scalper can trivially scale
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by bradleybuda 4mo ago
Transferring tickets to friends is functionally indistinguishable from scalping
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by bradleybuda 5mo ago
> This is an implementation problem, not a problem with the underlying concept. I agree. The question remains - why do U.S. municipalities universally and repeatedly fail to successfully implement rapid transit at an efficient price poin
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by bradleybuda 5mo ago
That wasn’t insider trading. You’re changing the topic.
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by bradleybuda 5mo ago
There was a downward trend during the Biden years [1] but "both sides same" is not even a little bit true. [1] https://www.citizen.org/article/biden-doj-2024-corporate-cri...
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by bradleybuda 6mo ago
> Unfortunately it is their employees that are paying the price of leadership making it rain [...] Epic's employees reaped the gains while it rained in the form of paychecks. While it sucks that people are losing their jobs, those i
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by bradleybuda 6mo ago
Overview video: https://youtu.be/YmPTfPh3T-Y
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Steer your Waymo with your phone(waymo.fraud.llc)
2 points by bradleybuda 6mo ago|1 comments
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by bradleybuda 6mo ago
This is all good advice but it's not what I would traditionally think of as "logging" - it's something more like what the industry calls APM or tracing. > For a web service, that usually means one log event at the end
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by bradleybuda 6mo ago
XHR requests to cookiebot.com -> dig cookiebot.com -> 141.193.213.20 -> ipinfo.io -> Austin, TX
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by bradleybuda 7mo ago
Don't underestimate travel + hotels + airport transfers when you're paying corporate prices
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by bradleybuda 7mo ago
There is excellent recent (last 10y) research on this; summary here: https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/five-things-about-deterr... Unfortunately, the US and many other countries have chosen the other path (spora
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by bradleybuda 8mo ago
Last I checked, in the US there has not been a single instance of the TSA detecting and preventing a terror attack in its 25 year history. And presumably they wouldn’t be shy about telling us if they had.
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by bradleybuda 8mo ago
HN: VC is a cancer, businesses don't need to grow forever at all costs, products can be finished, what we need is sustainable small companies Also HN: No, not like that
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by bradleybuda 9mo ago
“I only pirate because evil corporations make it too hard to pay for my favorite content” is a multi-decade ever-shifting goalpost. Some people just like to steal shit and will justify it to themselves on the thinnest of pretenses.
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Autoland saves King Air, everyone reported safe(avbrief.com)
283 points by bradleybuda 9mo ago|185 comments
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by bradleybuda 9mo ago
Wow, sucks to bE yoU!
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by bradleybuda 10mo ago
Reminds me of "Miracle Flights", in which dozens of people require wheelchairs to board but only a few require them to deboard. Of course, if you are in a wheelchair, you get to board first. https://www.explore.com&#x2F
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by bradleybuda 10mo ago
In fairness, no company’s mission statement says “maximize shareholder value” because it doesn’t need to be said - it’s implicit. But I agree that AGI is at the forefront of OpenAI’s mission in a way it isn’t for Google - the nonprofit root

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