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by jfasi 1y ago
For the people rushing in to call this the beginning another great financial crisis: remember that back then the tower of cards that collapsed wasn’t the mortgage backed securities themselves but the spiderweb of derivatives and secondary s
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by jfasi 2y ago
> Right now Netflix is only hiring engineers in Poland This is patently false. Source: I’m an engineering manager at Netflix who’s hiring in the US and whose peers are all doing the same.
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by jfasi 2y ago
Interestingly, ChatGPT correctly points out this exact issue: https://chatgpt.com/share/6793a2d1-5f84-8006-8e78-16be4d4908...
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by jfasi 2y ago
Original article archived here: https://archive.is/9Yytc
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by jfasi 3y ago
Libertarianism is a two-part ideology that holds that first, despite all the clear signs around us, the world is simple. In a simple world, what is the point of regulation, policy, or any other collective action, for that matter? Why not
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by jfasi 3y ago
https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/16693988535309
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by jfasi 3y ago
An indefinite blackout is not a protest, it's extortion. It's saying "if I can't enjoy this subreddit the way I want to, no one can."
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by jfasi 3y ago
And if they allow popular subreddits to remain private indefinitely then a lot more users will leave than just the ones who oppose the API changes. Better to force communities back open and let the most obstinate users leave than keep them
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by jfasi 3y ago
> Doing this would have nullified mods’ strongest justification for protesting Reddit has announced they're providing carveouts for apps that provide critical moderation tools, that justification is already gone.
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by jfasi 3y ago
And that's their right. Many subs announced they would protest for 48 hours to prove a point, at which point they returned. But a moderator who continues to keep their sub private indefinitely is not protesting a decision, they are def
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by jfasi 3y ago
If the community decides to leave, it won't be because of API pricing, it'll be because the content and spaces they used to enjoy were taken offline because of a minority of moderators.
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by jfasi 3y ago
Honestly, good. Protest is fine and good, but what exactly are we protesting for here? The rights of a minority of users to freeride on a platform that gave them ten years of free API access? The right of third party app developers to make
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by jfasi 4y ago
Looks like most of the layoffs are in marketing and sales, and that they're still hiring on engineering and product. Honestly, I'm surprised they had marketing and sales people to begin with. Those sorts of efforts pay off most wi
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by jfasi 4y ago
I’m about as far from a crypto defender as you can get, but I think this page misses the point. If El Salvador is planning to use Bitcoin as a medium of exchange, which by all accounts they are, their being “up” or “down” must be measured
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by jfasi 4y ago
I find that something magical happens when you write things out by hand. Thinking slows down, you subconsciously explore the problem, and your expression becomes much more deliberate. Also, you activate more of your capabilities as a thinki
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by jfasi 5y ago
Out of curiosity, can you name the company?
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by jfasi 5y ago
Same information, minus the hit piece angle: https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/6/24/22549157/google-unrelia... https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-reliable-sources-... https:&
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by jfasi 5y ago
> America’s billionaires avail themselves of tax-avoidance strategies beyond the reach of ordinary people. Their wealth derives from the skyrocketing value of their assets, like stock and property. Those gains are not defined by U.S. law
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by jfasi 6y ago
I recently read a very detailed and very compelling argument for why COVID-19 did not originate in a laboratory from a specialist in high risk biocontainment viruses. Compare the hand-wavey and fluffy arguments presented here with hard an
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by jfasi 6y ago
This is the relevant response. What the commenter is trying to imply is that the authors of this study are so staggeringly stupid that they overlooked the possibility of false positives when designing this experiment. In reality, this test
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by jfasi 7y ago
I hate to say it, but I’m not optimistic about Google’s case here. From a purely technical point of view, APIs being free to reuse is an awesome thing that makes for a more vibrant and competitive software ecosystem. At the same time, Oracl
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by jfasi 7y ago
> Lenders have bundled more than $18 billion worth of these loans into bonds this year that they then sold to investors... Compare this to the ~$17 trillion of mortgage backed securities that existed prior to the financial crisis. $18 bi
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by jfasi 7y ago
I’ve always believed that if you want to see a person’s true colors, look at how they treat people poorer or otherwise socially weaker than them. In other words, if your date is charming to you and nasty to the waiter, run like hell. The sa
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by jfasi 7y ago
I used to work at a company that gave our two machines: a beefy desktop with lots of RAM, many cores, two GPUs, a fast disk, etc., and a mid-range Apple laptop. For consistency reasons, my main development environment ended up being a tmu
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by jfasi 7y ago
This isn’t bad news. This is exactly the sort of cost cutting and fat trimming a company in Uber’s position should be performing. From a tactical standpoint, Uber’s IPO acts as a promise to Wall Street that they will continue their existing
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by jfasi 7y ago
Is it just me or has the usefulness of Google Maps declined substantially over the past year or so? A miscellaneous listing of complaints: * It supports double-tap to zoom, but the first tap always causes it to lose context and open whateve
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by jfasi 7y ago
I just spent three months hiring in NYC, and now that I think about it, I haven't seen a single person mention they were considering counteroffers from Facebook. For context, Facebook and Google are the two largest tech companies with
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by jfasi 7y ago
Are you personally managing 40+ people, or are you a director with a layer of managers beneath you? I can't imagine how stressful it must be personally to manage 20 people, never mind 40...
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by jfasi 7y ago
We live in a society
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by jfasi 7y ago
I'm disappointed I had to go this far down into the comments to read an actual sensible rebuttal. I stand by my calling it a disorganized mess, but you'll notice I never actually say this strategy isn't paying off for the com

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