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by numair 1y ago
Absolutely. I think the FB CoI within American venture capital, where they have fully infested the LP and GP ranks of most funds, is a much bigger and more important story. It really helped me understand that we need to work really hard to
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by numair 1y ago
> The Information reported on Thursday, citing two people with knowledge of the situation. I miss the old days of journalism, when they might feel inclined to let the reader know that their source for the indirect source is almost entire
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by numair 1y ago
> Source? https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-3568
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by numair 2y ago
Oh man, the irony of this response. Do Kwon very specifically did NOT have USD in this situation, and I’m pretty sure his defense will be that there was no representation that the peg would be maintained indefinitely. Whether the evidence p
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by numair 2y ago
It’s less than one minute of nuclear arsenal maintenance. We can afford both. https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/2024/06/17/us-sp...
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by numair 2y ago
As someone who works in an office alongside Japanese illustrators and graphic designers, I would like to know where the manga-style training data came from, and what is being done to ensure that the artists are fairly compensated?
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by numair 2y ago
This is ridiculous. The EU has a complete axe to grind against Apple, for reasons that I believe border on corruption (if not, veer completely into it). Meanwhile, Meta has a near-monopoly on social networking in the Western world and is su
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by numair 2y ago
> I'm a SysOps engineer at a fairly large online casino. We have around 4 million monthly active users. We had been happy Cloudflare customers since 2018 on the "Business" plan which has some neat features and costs $250&#
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by numair 3y ago
While we are on this topic — can someone, anyone , tell me how to disable the AI autocompletion suggestions in Outlook for iOS? Getting ready to dump Microsoft and Exchange to get away from that utter mess. Perhaps some of the people who a
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by numair 3y ago
The problem isn’t technical, it’s social. I don’t want my bank, and some “global payment network” that can easily lobby its way out of real data oversight, to know my transit patterns and habits.
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by numair 3y ago
Don’t worry! Visa and MasterCard have lobbied the hapless fools who inherited this wonderfully efficient and effective system, and the trains of Japan will soon switch over to join the global payment oligarchy. Japan is about half a generat
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by numair 3y ago
This reminds me of the time at Facebook when one of OpenAI’s current board members was upset that the Director of Facebook Platform was getting more praise and attention than he was, in his role as Co-Founder and CTO (or whatever). That cau
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Steve Wozniak's US Festival(en.wikipedia.org)
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by numair 3y ago
Protip: If someone says they are trying to be like Berkshire Hathaway, and their business plan doesn’t include a strategy for cornering some segment of the insurance market, they do not understand and will not become like Berkshire Hath
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by numair 3y ago
Oh! We are finally going to talk about how PayPal was utterly owned by Russian cyber gangs that made a mockery of the idea that these guys were fraud detection geniuses? checks article Oh, wait, nevermind. More “folklore.”
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by numair 3y ago
https://philosophygeek.medium.com/meditations-a-requiem-for-...
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by numair 3y ago
What’s the easiest way for a startup to poach H1B workers from competitors and large, established companies? Is it even possible, or are they trapped at their sponsoring company? If there is a process or workflow for accomplishing this in a
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by numair 3y ago
Actually, Kelly matched one meme with another: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/09/mariah-carey-i-dont... It’s pretty sad that the parent got upvoted and commented so much, without anyone catching on to
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by numair 3y ago
This exchange is pretty funny to anyone who knows the background on the extremely cozy relationship between Katherine Graham and the CIA. It seems that, in our post-truth world, facts have become conspiracies and conspiracies have become f
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by numair 3y ago
To all of the armchair experts on HN who want to criticize this project and its maintenance costs: you better make sure you understand the (very French) politics that made this an utter pain for everyone involved, along with the constraints
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by numair 3y ago
It’s important to remember that the music business is one of the first places where corporations used technology to replace human workers. Back in my day (not really) you could get a job as a live musician, performing at restaurants, cafes,
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by numair 3y ago
It’s a bit of a dirty secret that Japan actually has abysmal data privacy and enforcement. The budget of the regulator in charge of these matters all but ensures that they will do too little, too late. Japanese companies need to proactively
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by numair 3y ago
> Social media was the first contact between A.I. and humanity, and humanity lost. First contact has given us the bitter taste of things to come. In social media, primitive A.I. was used not to create content but to curate user-generated
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by numair 4y ago
Except for the multi-million dollar home he has (had?) in California, and probably a few others you’re not supposed to know about…
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by numair 4y ago
Sorry, I don’t buy it. I think the redacted product is Siri, and the author’s dismissal of this possibility shows how people underestimate the number of voice searches conducted using that service. As far as I know, it is the world’s most-u
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by numair 4y ago
Oh, the irony! The real “TikTok for text” is Twitter, as anyone who’s clicked a link to a tweet and then ended up lost in memes and randomness for 10 minutes can attest. Twitter is also the product on which these guys staged a vampire att
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by numair 4y ago
Oh, the irony! The real “TikTok for text” is Twitter, which anyone who’s clicked a link to a tweet and ended up lost in randomness for 10 minutes can attest. Twitter is also the product on which these guys staged a vampire attack to seed
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by numair 4y ago
This seems like one of those “unlock greater efficiencies” type deals where both parties earn an effective 0% margin on each others’ business. Both payment processing and cloud computing are very low margin when you’re handling business for
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by numair 4y ago
HyperCard and Macromedia Director remain the gold standard for this sort of visual-interactive design. It was all so early and new and ubiquitous that we never realized how special it was. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TqISb
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by numair 4y ago
You’re the first and only person to point out this fact, which shows how depressingly little history is studied by people who work in this field. It’s a shame it’s become about getting to The Money as quickly as possible…

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