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by kaffee 4y ago
Essential context: Seymour Hersh is a big deal. "Hersh first gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
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by kaffee 4y ago
For anyone scratching their head, I suspect "Brooks" == Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick Brooks Jr.
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by kaffee 4y ago
Ben Thompson nails it, as usual: "The brilliance of paying on a subscription basis is that a company can buy exactly what it needs, when it needs it, and no more." From https://stratechery.com/2019/microsoft-s
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by kaffee 4y ago
>> Not all of science is interesting to the private sector. > My research area is famously hard to fund even within academia, so I substantially changed the way that I frame my research and the type of work I was proposing. I don&#
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by kaffee 4y ago
Not having access to the js libraries seems like a feature rather than a bug. With rare exceptions, third party code written in javascript distributed via npm is a liability.
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by kaffee 5y ago
The most recent episode (#118) of Law Bytes with Michael Geist (a respected Canadian law professor) goes into the legal nitty gritty about the use of the Emergency Measures Act. Here's the link: https://tunein.com/podca
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by kaffee 5y ago
Can you see in the history how they are setting the price? Are they dripping this into the market somehow? What's the standard strategy for fundraising this way?
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by kaffee 5y ago
What's the current best tool for generating redlines from two PDF/Word documents? Makes sense that this would be important (e.g., when comparing contract versions).
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by kaffee 5y ago
It's not well known that the (US) CAN-SPAM act does not apply to political and religious organizations. They can spam as much as they want. First amendment law is full of surprises.
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by kaffee 6y ago
Thanks. This makes some sense. Honestly, I'm sympathetic to Yelp. The money has to come from somewhere. And there's at least superficial evidence that you cannot operate a honest review platform at a reasonable profit rate (e.g.,
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by kaffee 6y ago
Anyone spot an official response from Glassdoor to this?
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by kaffee 6y ago
Is this true? I thought Yelp still did a decent job of moderating reviews.
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by kaffee 6y ago
I thought this was mostly unenforced or unenforceable in cases like this -- where it would be really hard to prove that someone took a payment. I'll keep digging. Thanks! One more thing -- this isn't an explicit endorsement. It&#x
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by kaffee 6y ago
Does anyone know about the legality of this? My suspicion is that this black-hat content marketing is perfectly legal under US law. It's only potentially a violation of individual platforms' TOS (or publishing agreements). Is this
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by kaffee 6y ago
Seems like it requires a Google or Microsoft account (or corporate SAML). No thanks!
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by kaffee 7y ago
> "... would probably be a few cycles of students ..." This sort of delay would be priced in by the person buying the ISAs from Lambda. I agree with the grand-parent post. Lambda school definitely has skin in the game. If they
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by kaffee 7y ago
This blog is excellent. But there's no RSS feed. What do other people who rely on feed readers do in these scenarios? Is there a good service (which will not disappear) which will either convert the thing into rss or alert you when the
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by kaffee 7y ago
I'd like to understand this better. My understanding is that the Netherlands has had a wealth tax on assets which are not financial assets for some time. And income from financial assets is taxed at 25%. https://en.wikipedia
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by kaffee 7y ago
Is WIP https://wip.chat/ ? First I have heard of it. Are there other well-known communities doing this sort of thing?
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by kaffee 7y ago
I would pay about $250 a year for software with these features. I don't think I'm alone.
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by kaffee 7y ago
So you can't censor sci-hub.now.sh (at least in the US, where linking is typically protected speech). So that's one thing. Also, the actual DNS system doesn't have a way of redirecting you to another site when the record has
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by kaffee 7y ago
I really enjoy the Containers. The only problem is that you can only have a single container tied to an individual site. I'd rather like it to be tied to a subpath or url "root" so I could use it with GitHub.
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by kaffee 7y ago
Where does it say that they record your visit to other websites?
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by kaffee 7y ago
I think this is right. It is possible to sell on your own site. Luxury goods do it right now. For example, if you want to buy perfume directly from Chanel, you cannot do it through Amazon. My sense is that Chanel wouldn't give Amazon p
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by kaffee 7y ago
Which "Traction" book is this? There seem to be a few with this title.
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by kaffee 7y ago
This is cool. But it needs to be updated for ES6. The "Code Examples" could look even better now.
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by kaffee 7y ago
Something like this happened to me. It certainly prompted me to look for alternatives (e.g., Mastodon). You can start small: sign into Twitter every other month. IIRC, this will decrease the number of active users they report to investors.
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by kaffee 8y ago
I like the slogan "JavaScript-free"! Finally something to rally around. I don't mind projects which use a tiny bit of hand-coded, vanilla ES6. Would be nice if there were a slogan that included these. Looks like it actually d
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by kaffee 8y ago
Aaron Bady is one of the best writers on the Internet right now.
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by kaffee 8y ago
I had not heard of Simafri. Looks good actually. It's true that you need a hosting provider in addition to a domain name. It's good to discuss privacy-enhancing domain name registrars and privacy-enhancing VPS providers in the sam

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