cowboyscott

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by cowboyscott 10mo ago
> the change applies to employees in US offices with assigned desks and is part of a broader push to make Instagram "more nimble and creative" as competition intensifies. I don't think RTO or fewer meetings is going to rev
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by cowboyscott 10mo ago
Spec-wise, sure, but I suspect that if you ran a blind test between an Xbox running XBMC and an Amazon Fire Stick, most folks would prefer the XBMC experience (despite the 720p output).
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by cowboyscott 10mo ago
24 year old hardware that is not only useful but punches above most of the set-top boxes you'll find on Amazon. I also suspect that it could run Silksong or Balatro just fine. Sure, it's unfair to compare gray/black market us
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Trump pardons convicted Binance founder(wsj.com)
1055 points by cowboyscott 11mo ago|1221 comments
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by cowboyscott 11mo ago
Wealth is becoming more and more concentrated at the top end of the distribution. Folks at the high end have a lower marginal propensity to consume, and thus invest more in assets. This increase in demand causes all assets to rise.
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Intel x Nvidia: Hammer Lake leaks with "large and powerful" (Nvidia) iGPU(notebookcheck.net)
2 points by cowboyscott 1y ago|0 comments
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by cowboyscott 1y ago
A bit of a tangent, but that’s also roughly the number of americans that have worked at mcdonald’s https://mcdonalds1in8.com/
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Judge Bars Google from Exclusive Search Deals, Orders Data Sharing(wsj.com)
10 points by cowboyscott 1y ago|2 comments
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Meta Leaks Part 1(archive.org)
18 points by cowboyscott 1y ago|0 comments
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by cowboyscott 1y ago
I was wanting this to exist today :) Thanks for sharing the work
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by cowboyscott 1y ago
> This is part of a deeper instinct in modern life, I think, to explain everything. Psychologically, scientifically, evolutionarily. Everything about us is caused, categorised, and can be corrected. We talk in theories, frameworks, syste
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by cowboyscott 1y ago
> 21. On or about March 11, 2025, NxGen metrics indicated abnormal usage at points the prior week. I saw way above baseline response times, and resource utilization showed increased network output above anywhere it had been historically
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Elon Musk's Megadeal Between X and XAI Breaks Wall Street's Rulebook(wsj.com)
5 points by cowboyscott 1y ago|2 comments
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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy: The Doge Plan to Reform Government(wsj.com)
4 points by cowboyscott 2y ago|2 comments
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by cowboyscott 2y ago
An election.
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by cowboyscott 2y ago
So, Fly users, how are things now? I gave the platform a shot a long while back and found that the reliability fell far short of what I needed (probably a few months before this post). They still have some desirable features and I wouldn&#x
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by cowboyscott 2y ago
This provides a good overview of how Purdue accelerated opiate marketing: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-sackler-familys... > A recent study, by a team of economists from the Wharton School, Notre
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by cowboyscott 2y ago
100% agree. Microsoft owns the de facto premium gaming platform, but has never been able to execute on a strategy that takes advantage of it. The money snapping up studios would have been much better spent putting in an aggressive offer to
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by cowboyscott 3y ago
Sure, everything is ephemeral, but these works have impacts on people's lives and ambitions. How many folks are named after movie or TV characters? How many people got into software after watching The Social Network? I follow a couple
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by cowboyscott 3y ago
It's apples to oranges, but it's interesting contrasting this with community-driven efforts in the gaming preservation space. It's a relatively simple matter to find, say, a full archive of the vast majority if not all commer
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by cowboyscott 3y ago
I suggest reading the report by the Minnesota Department of Labor [0]. Some interesting pulls from the summary: > Census data and the driver survey indicate the majority of Minnesota TNC drivers are male immigrants and predominantly Blac
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by cowboyscott 3y ago
This reminds me of the speech Bill Murray’s character gives at the start of Rushmore [0]: > You guys have it real easy. I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schoo
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by cowboyscott 3y ago
“I am very, very concerned that in the near future, a lot of jobs are going to be lost. I really, really feel that very strongly.” I'm very concerned about the impact of this thing that I get to control, and benefit from, the impact of
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Meta Found Instagram Tool Enabled Child Exploitation. The Company Pressed Ahead(wsj.com)
3 points by cowboyscott 3y ago|1 comments
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by cowboyscott 3y ago
How on earth do you coordinate incident response for this? Imagine an agent for customer service or first line therapy going "off the rails." I suppose you can identify all sessions and API calls that might have been impacted and
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by cowboyscott 3y ago
There's probably something to this, and other comments about AI being a source of competition. My experience with generative AI has been that it's neat, the academic papers are always a fun read, but I'm mostly underwhelmed b
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by cowboyscott 3y ago
The best business in crypto is sitting on US treasuries, second only to trading fees.
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by cowboyscott 3y ago
Wow, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time (Diggnation was an early podcast fav of mine)! Glad to see he's still at it.
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by cowboyscott 3y ago
Related: Pindigo is a great tool for tracking high scores and has global and friend leaderboards. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pindigo-social-pinball-scores/... https://play.google.com/store&
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by cowboyscott 3y ago
Has anyone found a good explainer about the politics of (and money behind) this and similar legislation? This morning, my city's Axios newsletter contained Instagram sponsorship on the matter, which included this language: "More t

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