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by tazu 2y ago
Russia's debt to GDP ratio is 20%. The United States' debt to GDP ratio is 123%.
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by tazu 2y ago
It's probably because of the poorly-designed "flamewar detector" that censors posts if they are upvoted/downvoted too quickly. @dang explained it to me a few weeks ago[1] on another YC-related post that conveniently got
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by tazu 2y ago
Setting aside the political reasons for less advertising revenue, it's still running and there are 200M DAU. Many ex-employees swore the servers would catch fire by now.
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by tazu 2y ago
Letting 80% go seems to have worked for X.
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by tazu 2y ago
I used this to index and store a subset of Wikipedia's archive and it works great.
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St. Petersburg Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by tazu 2y ago|0 comments
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by tazu 2y ago
Does anyone have some real-world use cases for something like this? The algorithm is cool but I'm struggling to see where this is applicable.
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by tazu 2y ago
"Any previously failed messages via SMTP would need to be retried." 8 hours is pretty awful.
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Postmark SMTP sending down for 8 hours due to SSL certificate expiration(status.postmarkapp.com)
4 points by tazu 2y ago|1 comments
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by tazu 2y ago
There is no cost, overall it all raises US GDP. Military lives are not considered.
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by tazu 2y ago
I thought the non-random nameserver assignment was interesting. Seems like a flaw, actually.
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by tazu 2y ago
The American way is creating problems and selling solutions.
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by tazu 2y ago
I doubt more than 2% of the fentanyl in the US comes direct from China. China just ships to Mexico, which makes it to the US through the wide open southern border.
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by tazu 2y ago
"AI reminds me of the internet in 1999." -- Peter Thiel[1] [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYRunzR9fbk
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by tazu 2y ago
Yes, it's misleading to share averages for power-law distributions. Median take home pay is probably $20 annually.
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by tazu 2y ago
Mike Pompeo told him it was a bad idea. Why would he do it this time? He'd pretty much have nothing to lose.
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by tazu 2y ago
There's a 50% probability that RFK Jr will be a part of the future administration, and I believe he is sufficiently motivated to force Trump to uphold his promise.
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by tazu 2y ago
It's promising that RFK Jr could potentially be in a future administration and push to declassify these documents[1]. It would really only take an executive order. He probably has enough of a chip on his shoulder to accomplish this. [1
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by tazu 2y ago
I am eagerly awaiting the complete declassification of the JFK assasination documents, which will further damage the CIA's reputation.
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by tazu 2y ago
It was at #3 for me and then suddenly demoted to the second page. It's pretty common for these touchy-YC threads.
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by tazu 2y ago
> Pave is a YC-backed startup This thread is getting removed from the front-page in 3... 2...
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by tazu 2y ago
> "take a screenshot of my webpage with Chrome | set it in isometric with nice shadow using Photoshop | send it on my iPhone Twitter app" This is basically Apple Shortcuts. It would be nice to have a CLI interface for Shortcut
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by tazu 2y ago
This is why Textualize[1] concerns me. I've tried a few of the applications using their framework, and they have noticable keypress latency . I didn't think it was possible to make a bloated TUI, but they have somehow succeeded.
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by tazu 2y ago
> ~ an actual antitrust guy So, unfirable? Essentially useless and beholden to little if any performance metrics?
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by tazu 2y ago
I'm having a hard time understanding what this is about. Is it about Kubernetes tradeoffs?
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by tazu 2y ago
The keypress latency is infuriatingly noticable for me with Chrome + Sonoma. It's beautiful though!
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by tazu 2y ago
> It's not enough simply to have elections. The elected representatives also need the power/will to change things, which has unfortunately not been the case in my voting lifetime. The King of England is technically the king on
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by tazu 2y ago
Yes, the administrative (deep) state sometimes needs a "rewrite".
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by tazu 2y ago
I'm a fan of including benchmarks in CI pipelines. The Windows developers should have a historical record [1] of the performance degradation and be forced to look at it daily. [1]: https://x.com/jmmv/status/16
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by tazu 2y ago
> We need more optimization in this industry. The Windows 11 context menu lag (and overall Windows bloat) is a product of Conway's law. Microsoft creates bloated software because it's a monopoly. So, "optimization" in

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