the_reformation

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by the_reformation 2y ago
iPhones are 10x better than $500 Androids, so a steal at 2x the price.
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by the_reformation 3y ago
I think Apple TV+ may even be a part of this. On its own, its a below average streaming service. But as a proprietary production studio that can bootstrap a VR content library by force of will...?
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by the_reformation 3y ago
There are similar tools to this but this is nothing like Lambda or CF Workers. Lambda doesn't do anything remotely close to generating frontend UX for a script.
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by the_reformation 4y ago
this is a feature, not a bug
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by the_reformation 5y ago
Hey guys, big fans of Substack (writer/reader since 2019.) My favorite part of Substack was how it built on top of email, an (actual) distributed protocol. I'm able to access my Substack writers alongside other writers/public
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by the_reformation 5y ago
Living in Missouri and not knowing where Minnesota is absurd. Did you move there recently?
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by the_reformation 5y ago
You can't be pleased?
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by the_reformation 5y ago
It's real, it's because of humans, it's not a civilization threat, and it probably isn't in the top 5 most important problems facing us this century.
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by the_reformation 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy
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by the_reformation 5y ago
I think the idea was the anxiety was that tweets aren't ephemeral enough.
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by the_reformation 5y ago
Monarchies have to respond to the threat of populist uprisings, but they're still monarchies.
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by the_reformation 5y ago
Worth considering the argument against ranked-choice voting: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ranked-choice-voting-is-second-...
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by the_reformation 5y ago
I wonder if this is the way Apple and Google will eventually retreat from their 30%* cut, by using their app store chokepoint to nudge developers to their platform. Seems like a worse monopolistic practice than the 30% cut to me. For Google
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by the_reformation 5y ago
“If there were 315,507 excess deaths due to Covid-19, why is the difference in all-cause deaths between the end of 2020 and the end of 2019 only 61,654? That’s 61,654 more all-cause deaths in 2020 than in 2019, where the increase in all-cau
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by the_reformation 5y ago
S3 (and most AWS services) are extremely price elastic; i.e., the lower you make them cost, the more people use it (a la electricity.) That's why they've done stuff like drop from 50ms billing to 1ms billing, etc.
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by the_reformation 6y ago
Keeps you in the ecosystem, on Apple's services. And a top-end MBP will cost >$3k, which I don't think people buying laptops every 2-3 years spend.
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by the_reformation 6y ago
The series of Arabic states opening diplomatic relations with Israel was definitely American-led.
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by the_reformation 6y ago
The Substack crowd is already on Twitter, and is where they got their audience from.
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by the_reformation 6y ago
Yeah who knows what Biden could get up to.
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by the_reformation 6y ago
How is increasing consumer choice and offering a cheaper product detrimental to society? It's beneficial to everybody besides Elastic's shareholders.
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by the_reformation 6y ago
As somebody who's somewhere between mediocre to good at whiteboard interviews (passed the loop at 1 FAANG, rejected by the rest), I think they're pretty solid. Most programming challenges, even at FAANG-scale, ultimately decompose
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by the_reformation 6y ago
Here's a good debate on whether Walmart is net positive or negative for America's working class: https://www.independent.org/events/transcript.asp?id=125
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by the_reformation 6y ago
Here's a good debate on whether Walmart is net positive or negative for America's working class: https://www.independent.org/events/transcript.asp?id=125
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by the_reformation 6y ago
It's his profile picture, dude is almost a spitting image.
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by the_reformation 6y ago
A virtual experience happens entirely in the Airbnb app right?
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by the_reformation 6y ago
What's the reason for Las Vegas?
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by the_reformation 6y ago
I think its not realistic to expect employers to know this right now.
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by the_reformation 6y ago
In the second episode the show, one of the copy writers literally states that all the firm's value is in its ad-placement team (radio, print, billboards, soon television), and the copy is just thrown in as gift-wrapping.
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by the_reformation 6y ago
It does, as mentioned in the article.
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by the_reformation 6y ago
It's invaluable when reverting other's changes during an on-call emergency. Atomic commits that encapsulate one feature vs. trying to piece together five commits that are named "trying out singleton approach", "addi

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