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by villasv 3y ago
There’s one about a lady addicted to coffee
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by villasv 4y ago
The card is just the gateway. All of these startups eventually expand into more profitable products later on. As a customer, it’s just a matter of trying something modern - which should mean a better digital-first experience, but not always
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by villasv 5y ago
Moderators have always been working for "free" (or for their own reasons, there are monetized subs). The fact that Reddit is public or private doesn't change a thing. Why would working for free for a privately owned company w
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by villasv 5y ago
This has always been the drama of urbanism. Only a minority is pushing for it, while the rest furiously resist thanks to years of car-centric propaganda (and vested interests).
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by villasv 5y ago
And are regretting that they didn’t, and are considering something analogous
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by villasv 5y ago
If I had a dollar every time this Williams Group study is brought up... I'd have no trouble making my descendants permanently rich! Funnily enough, that consultancy offers the service of fixing that problem, so I guess de authors of th
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by villasv 5y ago
Sounds very cool and inspiring, but we’re talking about rich people. Rich people historically have been able to just stay rich whatever happens. Sometimes a little less rich, sometimes much richer. A few notable exceptions, but then again…
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by villasv 5y ago
Rich parents don’t want epoch changing discoveries, they want good wealth management.
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by villasv 5y ago
I see the opposite happening. Strong currency and remote work further aggravates brain drain. 2 years of COVID has already impacted terribly the tech startup ecosystem in Brazil. Well, at least in terms of talent. At least, VC money is even
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by villasv 5y ago
Those definitely don't look like the anime I watch
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by villasv 5y ago
Because they want to.
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by villasv 5y ago
I’m enjoying it like I enjoyed Black Mirror. Science fiction is very hard to worldbuild right, so often the science minded audience has to turn a blind eye to a few things and think in terms of metaphors. Humanity traveling faster than ligh
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by villasv 5y ago
It's usually a matter of framing to me. Criticizing and finger-pointing is always easier than a nuanced and tradeoff-minded view. It is also easier to engage people with negative feelings, so much of the media/Internet follows the
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by villasv 5y ago
https://archive.md/dylwy
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by villasv 5y ago
It doesn't become useless though, the menubar is still there. It just makes the menubar black so the notch is less noticeable.
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by villasv 5y ago
He won mobile. He didn’t have to build phones to dominate mobile advertising. Facebook was a great beneficiary of mobile adoption and that’s why we’ve been seeing Apple attack their business model.
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by villasv 5y ago
Yes, that’s how Ben himself says it in his podcasts
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by villasv 5y ago
TL;DR venture capital is becoming regular capital because tech companies keep growing fast well after the IPO; “the next big thing” is not coming on the short term, just more techy companies surfing VC money and more growth for tech compani
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by villasv 5y ago
Same news, from a better known and local source (in PT_BR): https://g1.globo.com/tecnologia/noticia/2021/10/25/youtube-l...
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by villasv 5y ago
The first habit you need is journaling. The NoOp journal (which requires no further habits) would be gratitude journal or dream journal if you’re able to consistently remember them. What matters is that you make it daily. Then, any other ha
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by villasv 5y ago
Yet many rich democracies have been using electronic voting without issue. There’s an entire field of science and engineering for securing digital democracy, don’t take a single YouTuber as your source (ftr, I like Tom Scott’s videos too)
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by villasv 5y ago
It doesn’t seem common to write single file libraries in Python; and it doesn’t seem to be too unreasonable to add an entrypoint script for version checks.
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by villasv 5y ago
But he’s Back
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by villasv 5y ago
You just explained the meaning of the “meaningless” quote. Thanks, I guess.
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by villasv 5y ago
Not necessarily. Anticompetitive behavior is hard to define, but I like this quote from Ben Thompson: > What makes this distinction particularly challenging is that the question as to what is anticompetitive and what is simply good busin
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by villasv 5y ago
This is a Chesterton's Fence situation. Suddenly the .NET foundation is receiving lots of spotlight on its flaws but one needs to understand the historical progression of the organization. Miguel speaks this clearly: > The transitio
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by villasv 5y ago
I decided not to learn k8s because I really think something should be coming soon to replace it (or hide it). Kind of like how DistBelief became Tensorflow, but now we have keras and other friendly NN libraries on top. I think Borg was Dist
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by villasv 5y ago
Americans are very comfortable in extrapolating the US experience as a global reality. Here they’re talking about the Wild West of small banks that they have.
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by villasv 5y ago
Introducing Elasticsearch to your stack increases complexity tenfold. Elasticsearch itself is a complex beast and if it's your first distributed cluster, beware the time spent operating it ^1. Apart from that, you now have to manage th
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by villasv 5y ago
The title is fine. It's not a general purpose aphorism, it's the theme of the article (using bankruptcy/defaults to profit from liabilities).

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