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by nip180 6y ago
It’s worth saying Boise Aries is a top 5 city in the Americas by population, and has a long history of being very immigrant friendly. I wonder if there was some tax evasion happening...
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by nip180 6y ago
I’m not typically one to “vote with my wallet”, and I think it’s very impractical to do so with all of big tech. I do however tend to buy products and services that align with my values and shy away from products and services that go agains
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by nip180 6y ago
This is a critical growth period for smaller platforms.
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by nip180 6y ago
I imagine if you wanted to 100% stop buying or using products from FANNG (+Microsoft & Twitter) it would be impossible without doing anything short of living completely off the grid. Imagine, you ditch your smartphone. You switch to Lin
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by nip180 6y ago
Who owns the tests? Developers.
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by nip180 6y ago
It’s interesting in the lack of transparency Facebook provides over which groups or individuals are banned for which reasons.
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by nip180 6y ago
Also “management” and “devops” needs to trust every dev to push out a high quality update. Twice daily deploys don’t happen if QA goes through a 48 hour test process for every release.
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by nip180 6y ago
Physics engines and graphics engines take a lot of resources. Games that invest enough resources to develop their own highly detailed physics/graphics engines are almost by definition AAA. So what you’re suggesting is that AAA games
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by nip180 6y ago
Squeezing a short is different then a pump and dump.
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by nip180 6y ago
I know plenty of people benefiting from the stock market with average and less than average IQs. This is a matter of classism not intelligence. If you have enough money to invest your benefiting, and the more money you have to invest the
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by nip180 6y ago
One small design suggestion. You should include a battery so that if the electricity were to go out you could still see the time or be alerted at the time of the alarm.
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by nip180 6y ago
Dr. Fauci’s salary is good but not fantastic for any person with an MD. Considering his level of expertise it’s safe to say he could make much more in the private sector. The fact that public roles pay less than private roles opens them up
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by nip180 6y ago
It’s very risky to build a service that relays directly on the API layer of other commercial services. If any of there chat apps change their APIs to stop Beeper traffic then they will lose users. Some services will cause a larger loss th
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by nip180 6y ago
I purpose the phrase “deceased loved ones” is an editorial spin on the technology that missing Microsoft’s goal. If the goal is to revive a dead mother as a chatbot we can say that has a high probability of landing in the uncanny valley. Pe
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by nip180 6y ago
Exactly. Reimplementing GitHub is not building a rival to GitHub. Like Wikipedia the value isn’t in the platform but the content hosted by the platform. Until there is a critical mass of open source software hosted Chinese GitHub provide
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by nip180 6y ago
I don’t think this article was written for a technical audience so it’s not surprising that it’s light on technical details.
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by nip180 6y ago
That greatly increases the level of sophistication. The article doesn’t say that the emails received were “@harvard.edu” only that they appeared to be valid Harvard ids. That means she made a judgement call that the email were legitimate,
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by nip180 6y ago
How do we establish trust in a virtual world? There are a lot of cues in an meatspace social interaction that can trigger a “gut reaction” one way or another on trust. In digital interactions it’s significantly easier to be social enginee
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by nip180 6y ago
I had a similar thought: I would be more and more suspicious the longer I didn’t get an email from an @harvard.edu email.
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by nip180 6y ago
> no copy may be retained This is the key element. A copy may exist, but it must also be deleted. Totally a technical problem that has already be solved.
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by nip180 6y ago
Taking an action that will directly result in a decrease in stock value.
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by nip180 6y ago
Nuking your RSUs will also make an enemy of every other person in your company with RSUs. You might not be fired, but you’ll likely lose most of your social capital at the company.
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by nip180 6y ago
> if you’re positive you can probably start isolating now. If you experience symptoms you should start isolating, regardless of the results of a rapid test.
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by nip180 6y ago
It could also be funded by tax dollars solving the targeted advertising problem, and all data on it could be given 4th amendment protections solving the big brother problem.
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by nip180 6y ago
Imagine a spam filter for social media. I actively want this.
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by nip180 6y ago
The results on limiting discussions are largely the same if it’s done by the government or done by corporations.
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by nip180 6y ago
I think it’s quite a step to say all comments with the phrase Stop the steal want to overthrow the government. We, as a society, should be allowed to be very critical of our election process. Stifling discussions about the legitimacy of th
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by nip180 6y ago
I think you misunderstand me. I was surprised that the domino effect started with Parler, but that was several days ago. Now I’m surprised that the domino effect hasn’t reached everyone they do business with.
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by nip180 6y ago
Let’s be clear, access to cloud computing companies like AWS is a competitive advantage because it requires less upfront capital and less engineering time to manage. I can 100% see why Parler would prefer having access to AWS compared to ru
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by nip180 6y ago
The low hanging fruit of social engineering.

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