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> Is it substantive or a gigantic bubble? It's both IMO. The whole market is in a giant bubble due to various fiscal policies and decisions, but the big tech companies have substantive/reasonably solid businesses within the bub
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Walmart clearly falls under a geographic area. There's a physical store. You can measure the competition in that geographic area and you can look at what other choices consumers have. An iPhone is clearly a different case. Measuring wh
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Where does Apple cross the line from being able to sell a completely closed garden product to having to allow fair competition? If iPhone had no App store and only had official Apple apps we wouldn't be having this conversation, regard
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Geographic area is an interesting term here. If you take "iPhone owners" as a geographic area, then Apple has a 100% monopoly on that market. Geographic area == captive audience, and since iPhone users are a captive audience of th
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The problem isn't that Apple has more of a monopoly than Epic has with Unreal Engine, it's that Apple has a monopoly on a distribution channel to end users.
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The Unreal Engine license is like Epic giving you a toolbox for no upfront cost, but charging you 5% of whatever revenue you generate selling goods made using the toolbox. The App store comission is like Apple charging you 30% anytime you s
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Those are all fair points, but if Firefox has a hard time driving adoption now, I think being on Chromium they'll find it even harder, unless they have some real killer, must-have features lined up. But I doubt they have those features
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Interesting though with Github. Maintaining the MDN docs certainly aligns well with Github's mission. Hard to see MS/Github maintaining a browser after Microsoft just adopted Chromium for Edge, but it would be cool to see Firefox
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That's the death of Firefox. What would "Foxium" offer that Brave, Vivaldi, Edge, Chromium, or Chrome don't already offer? I don't think your speculation is unfounded though.
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Spreadsheets and some other business software can get really gnarly though (especially on RAM usage). Outlook itself can be quite heavy. But I also agree, browsers and web apps aren't exactly lightweight either. Maybe WASM adoption can
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You're not really refuting the points so much as just saying "You're wrong". Granted the parent was anecdotal with their own experiences too, you could at least address the points. E.g. to the point of achieving 100-200M
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You might say what's unusual with Levandowski is that he made so much money while working for someone else; and while not actually achieving any additional revenue. If a battery or metals (or self-driving) engineer comes up with a mate
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Which should allow a Django instance to serve more concurrent requests. Making views async won't do much to make an individual request faster (besides keeping it from being blocked by other slower requests).
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Is that because the Python interpreter has to explicitly handle coroutines differently from normal functions? One difference for Elixir/Erlang (which GP mentioned) is that the BEAM VM can interrupt any function by default. (There'
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Having features like heated seats tied to a subscription crosses the line. It's one thing to install them in all cars as an additional feature that can be enabled, but charging a subscription for it is ludicrous. I don't mind soft
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I doubt the author would make the same complaint if Microsoft wrote similar proprietary extensions for Emacs or Vim or Atom. I also doubt they would make the same complaint if JetBrains or someone else wrote the same proprietary extension f
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The other side is that keeping some extensions closed-source probably allows the VS Code team to access more of Microsoft's work. I would guess that the proprietary parts of ms-code.cpptools are using code from Visual Studio and other
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Scenarios where someone might have my password but not my SMS: keyloggers, password written down at my desk, video surveillance or shoulder-surfing, audio analysis of keyboard and/or CPU tones[0]. The stronger or less guessable a passw
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Apply a similar comparison to the past and it's humbling to realize just how little we know about history, and how quickly we collectively forget the farther back you go.
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Wait, are you arguing that 2FA is a waste of time/not actually effective? What alternative do you propose then to provide additional security to accounts? Or are you arguing purely in the sense of SMS and Email based 2FA?
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It's crazy to think that 40 years worth of video can be uploaded daily, and yet that only captures a minuscule amount of everything that goes on in the world in a given day.
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Crypto in particular has lots of requirements that would be served by Rust and Haskell that might make them more appealing; where a traditional web startup that mainly serves web traffic can easily choose between Ruby, Python, Javascript, E
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You can always answer those doomsayers with one of my new favorite quotes: "Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly"
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It's probably not just a "these days" problem though. Thinking through my own experience and various anecdotes it seems like fighting over-engineering and complexity are staples of software development. Consider also that som
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Do you have a source for your claim that masks are less impactful than distancing?
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I wonder if you could use a retrieval drone (depending on the size of the rocket). Either by remote control or GPS on the rocket, fly over to pick up the rocket with some kind of mechanical claw.
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So basically a giant t-shirt cannon for compatible deliveries. I can definitely agree with the theory behind it. Pair autonomous systems with delivery trucks and let them deliver easy packages (light weight, non-fragile) and let them delive
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Kinda sounds like you're arguing both sides of the issue. Offices are meant to be productive, but real estate in SF, NYC, etc makes it too expensive to design offices for productivity.
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I think it's healthy but small, and growing.
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The biggest "homerun" case for LiveView is all of the forms where you'd typically do server side rendering then add a bit of JavaScript for the few dynamic pieces you need. Think about what you might typically see in a Ruby o

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