rjvir

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by rjvir 3y ago
Sure, online polls have obvious flaws (non-response bias, how many people actually saw the poll, who was motivated to actually respond to the poll, did voters actually understand the protest would last more than 1 day, should logged out lur
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by rjvir 3y ago
> Next, they'll hand over fan-built communities to the entities that own the IPs they're dedicated to. Eg. r/starwars to Disney, r/startrek to Viacom/Paramount, etc. This isn't an accurate extrapolation. In
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by rjvir 3y ago
The users of a subreddits drive all the value, not the handful of moderators. If a competitor magically got the support of all the moderators, that wouldn't get them very far.
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by rjvir 3y ago
Spez is CEO because the board and investors deem him to be the best person for the job. Of course, he founded Reddit, so he has a strong case on merit for why he is the #1 person on the planet to run the company. The process for selecting m
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by rjvir 4y ago
There are use cases where Figma and Adobe already directly compete: - Product wireframes/mockups - Memes/social media posts - Simple vector creation/editing And that list is only expanding.
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by rjvir 5y ago
It's merely an informative blog post on a topic many people are interested in. I see nothing wrong with Cloudflare just explaining what happened, even though they had nothing to do with it.
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by rjvir 5y ago
I think it's plausible that they'd offer E2EE for all of iCloud. They already do it for iMessage, and it makes it easier to turn down subpoenas if they can credibly claim that they can't even access the data themselves. Likew
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by rjvir 5y ago
Done, load it up!
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by rjvir 5y ago
This should be an NFT, I'd love to own an NFT of the RNA sequence of the Moderna vaccine.
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by rjvir 6y ago
I tried Wozi, I heard about it through Pioneer. I really enjoyed it. Once I applied the powder, everything in my fridge tasted like candy - fruits, yogurt, etc. Now whenever I'm hungry for a snack, I quickly apply some of the powder, a
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by rjvir 6y ago
Looks like "vimtutor" is primarily text explaining the hotkeys. For me, the bottleneck to picking up vim has not been merely knowing the hotkeys, but more internalizing the commands and building muscle memory. The interactive game
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by rjvir 6y ago
Different people learn in different ways, but personally I’ve had more success with the opposite approach, ie “top-down”. As in, rather than learning in depth all the low level parts then finally putting it together at the end, start with a
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by rjvir 6y ago
A pandemic is indefinitely shutting down most of the country. This is hardly evidence that the economy is "fragile". That would be like calling your iPhone fragile if it breaks after throwing out the window of a skyscraper.
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by rjvir 6y ago
If the article is accurate, this is clearly not "end-to-end" in the way that most people believe it. If Zoom was considered "end-to-end" encrypted, then any site that uses HTTPS should be able to claim so as well. I inte
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by rjvir 7y ago
It's possible to be predatory without holding people at gunpoint.
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by rjvir 7y ago
It's a money sink right now, but has an obvious path to becoming a juggernaut.
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by rjvir 7y ago
Many factors can influence an outcome. But it's reasonable to focus on the illegal (or just shady) ones. For instance, if a team loses a sporting event by 1 point, and their Gatorade was poisoned, it would be understandable to call out
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by rjvir 7y ago
> If I bought Tumblr in a $3 million fire sale, I don't think I'd keep 200 employees on the payroll Keeping most of the 200 employees on payroll may have been a condition of the $3m sale price.
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by rjvir 7y ago
I think this article by Jeremy from fast.ai lays out a compelling case: https://www.fast.ai/2019/03/06/fastai-swift/
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by rjvir 8y ago
What happens if a user's card can't be scanned? For instance, bad lighting conditions, or an unusual card format?
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by rjvir 8y ago
One way this better than Spotify & Apple Music - it contains user-created remixes and mashups that aren't available on the streaming platforms. But for users who are interested in that content, I don't know how this is much be
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Scooter use is rising in major cities. So are trips to the emergency room(washingtonpost.com)
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by rjvir 8y ago
I bet Apple will crack down on these location tracking SDKs, but it likely wouldn't eliminate this type of tracking. The main reason these apps are getting caught is because they are blatantly including the SDKs of the monetization fir
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by rjvir 8y ago
Security for the normal user is a nice benefit of having an App Store.
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by rjvir 8y ago
Everything being in 1 commit seems perfectly normal for this situation. He likely wrote the entire thing without Git (because he's the only one working on it), then decided to push it to BitBucket when he wanted to publish it.
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by rjvir 8y ago
It's interesting how so many techies initially had the knee-jerk reaction of "well, despite this accident, I bet these Uber autonomous cars are still safer than humans". It seems like all information available to us suggests
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by rjvir 9y ago
> the self-driving car was, in fact, driving itself when it barreled through the red light, according to two Uber employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they signed nondisclosure agreements with the company, and inter
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by rjvir 9y ago
The goal is to use the best set of information available to us. I merely cited the normalized numbers because it's been asked various times in this thread - questions along the lines of "how does this rate compare with human drive
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by rjvir 9y ago
Scaling those numbers paints a poor picture for Uber. Assuming 3 million total miles autonomously driven thus far from Uber's program: - Uber autonomous: 33.3 deaths per 100 million miles - Waymo: 0 deaths per 100 million miles - Natio
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by rjvir 9y ago
Why would Uber agree to such regulations? They were unwilling to legally obtain a self-driving license in California because they did not want to report "disengagements" (situations in which a human driver has to intervene). Uber

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