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colesantiago

5,294karma·2,469submissions·July 16, 2017
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This is the next grift target into the US.
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This is becoming less true due to the current and incoming taxes that are going to rise in the UK. Many consultant friends I know and business owners have moved away from the UK to low tax areas in Po…
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This is the very very small minority. Jobs in London pay less than peanuts and if you earn six figures in the UK, income tax takes half of it anyway even if you go to FAANG.
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Very common. Sometimes employers lay off people because reasons.
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That is a massive license fee here. IMO A 100-day trial is too short to try it. I would more likely to use tldraw if it had a monthly fee even at $100-$300/mo. But $6K a year and getting only com…
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This is better than nothing at all? I've seen many promising and still in use open source languages and projects that barely even get $500 a month in contributions. Yet these projects have added …
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This will be the iPhone moment, but for chickens.
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So how is this going to make back the $120M or more? What is the monetization strategy? Are we going to be buying lab grown Dodo Birds as pets? Perhaps are we going to be sponsoring a Dodo bird for $1…
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oh sweet summer child. we are asking a shark to spare their appetite of goodwill to their food.
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They don't care that they are wrong. As is with everything that is bait/clickbait/ragebait.
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What do you suggest they do instead?
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How about startups paying the best engineers $996,000/yr for that startup job that requires 996 work culture? These startups want the best right? Oh wait, I have my own company where I am the fou…
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Nice tongue and cheek from the Register and OpenAI to tickle the 'doomer' narrative. But reality is that there will be new high skilled jobs from AI thanks to Jevons' Paradox, the more …
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I don't get it. Why does Stripe want to creatively ruin their reputation by venturing into crypto / blockchain? I don't see anyone in the real world using blockchains at all. I get AI a…
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What does this mean for Mozilla? Where would Mozilla get their 80% of revenue from if Google now has to probably sever and end their search deal for Firefox? [0]. [0] https://www.theverge.c…
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Talk about Clubhouse being forgotten. Even the OP forgot to put the link there.
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Both. Go made this worth it and it also was easy to hand over to another experienced developer.
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The honest truth is that: Nobody outside tech cares about decentralization or federation. At some point, everything converges to centralization. No amount of Mastodon servers or any fediverse self hos…
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I bit the bullet rewriting my app from PHP to Go and it paid off for my company, we're talking 20K lines of PHP code, reduced to 4K lines of Go and with the added efficiency gains with it. I thin…
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He is right. The web is now overrun and now full of rampant AI agents, bots and crawlers anyway so analytics are more likely going to be fake. Especially for a blog where nobody is going to visit it e…
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> RSS is really simple, so it is still very well supported. Notably, all substack publications automatically have an RSS feed included at https://{{substack-domain}}/feed . I wonder …
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Aren't GANs like ancient? Last time I used a GAN was in 2015, still interesting to see a post about GANs now and then.
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(2024)
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sqlitebrowser is 100% open source, cross platform and free. I don't think Base is at all and only supports macOS
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Unfortunately you are 100% wrong and highly naive. > But that does not come as default with the OS, and it requires active user participation, which makes your argument a bit of shifting the goal p…
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Well, maybe you don't know your computer / OS as much as you think you do.
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> What Google tracking is there in, for instance, vanilla MacOS? Mail > Google Internet Accounts > Google As I said: > Absolutely zero Google tracking here and an esoteric OS has zero Goog…
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> If we assumed that this was true, I don't see how switching out the OS makes any difference... Because we want absolutely zero Google tracking here and an esoteric OS has zero Google trackin…
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