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by secos 4mo ago
| I would add the caveat "...as long as you have no competition." If you're in a market where alternatives exist, and they have the certification, you're definitely transparently losing sales. I wouldn't say that it
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by secos 4mo ago
Talked with someone this morning who is using "formal methods" to validate their AI generated code. They are using the same AI to generate the proofs.
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by secos 4mo ago
ah yes. Lets indeed treat non-deterministic output exactly like we treat deterministic output.
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by secos 6mo ago
This. I remember many a time pmarca getting so upset and just blocking everyone who disagreed with him on Twitter. It was the weirdest thing.
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by secos 7mo ago
3x deeper than MBTI... ... that sounds horrible
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by secos 7mo ago
He didn't say anything close to "Shooting people in the street is wrong!" How did you get that from the linked videos?
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by secos 8mo ago
You do not need optimism to do good. It helps motivate, but its not required.
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by secos 1y ago
To me it feels like an awkward API that creates opportunities to work the limitations of a normal API... which to me is not a great thing. Potentially useful, sure, but not great.
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by secos 1y ago
Blitzscaled? Yep.
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by secos 1y ago
Ranked Choice Voting goes a long way to solving this as well.
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by secos 1y ago
I meant the article was dumb. The clickbait title on HN doesn't match the meat of the article.
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by secos 1y ago
Really? This is... dumb.
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by secos 1y ago
I'd forgotten all about this library, its certainly come a long way!
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by secos 2y ago
or raise taxes.
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by secos 2y ago
This planet money article lays out the arguments for both with lots of interesting links to follow. https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2025/02/18/g-s1-49...
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by secos 3y ago
Well said.
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by secos 3y ago
The ones I use today: - Facebook - Instagram (finally opened in the last two years) - Youtube - Linkedin Perhaps I'm not getting your point, but... most of the major social platforms in the US are still open, except for Twitter.
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by secos 4y ago
Thank you for reminding me why I dislike this place so much. I've literally got the email right here: "As I mentioned on the phone, we structure them as a monthly subscription based on an annual agreement. Variables that affect p
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by secos 4y ago
"Trust us, bro"
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by secos 4y ago
That remains to be seen... I would not be surprised if he could have offered the api $420/mo and 100x more apps were willing and/or able to pay.
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by secos 4y ago
The last time I talked to Twitter sales (about 2 years ago) they were asking for 6k/mo.
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by secos 4y ago
That's something we can all agree on.
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by secos 4y ago
The only person I saw suspended during that insane period was PG. Hundreds of people in my TL were saying "FU heres my mastodon ban me if you want Elon" and didn't see any repercussions whatsoever.
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by secos 4y ago
Do you still feel this way after they suspended PG?
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by secos 4y ago
> Plus I don't think he realizes that the techniques that work for cars and rockets don't work in social media. This argument made sense a month ago. Unfortunately he really hasn't shown any improvement since then that wou
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by secos 4y ago
Awesome - Thanks for the kind words! :)
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Show HN: TwitterBreak.app – quickly find/follow your Twitter follows on Mastodon(twitterbreak.app)
8 points by secos 4y ago|2 comments
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by secos 4y ago
Usually the case. Patio11 wrote about this forever ago: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2006/08/14/you-can-probably-stand-...
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by secos 11y ago
Do you really see it being that difficult to get a few hundred customers for this after your statement "A lot of companies need exactly this"?
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by secos 11y ago
This is exactly why this product doesn't exist yet - I looked at building this exact app 18 months ago. Yelp expressly forbids this, and without Yelp, you don't have a product. That said, I think it's stupid that Yelp disallo

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