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gberger··on Trump signs executive order targeting protections for social media companies
He can't control the narrative if he depends on what journalists choose to report (or not), and how the story will be editorialized.

Twitter gives him direct access to his electorate, which is extremely valuable.

gberger··on We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline
> integratability

interoperability?

gberger··on Stop Watching the News (2019)
And where do you go to read those paragraphs?
gberger··on Stop Watching the News (2019)
> When was the last time you watched the news and thought, “thank God I saw that. Let me go take action.”?

> I’ll answer for you: probably never.

The article is dated "July 29" so I'll assume 2019.

We have a pretty huge counterexample right now: the pandemic has led to a lot of critical information needing to be conveyed to everyone very rapidly. For example, people need to be aware that they cannot leave home, or that they should wear masks when doing so, etc.

Often, the government doesn't have a reliable way to reach the entire population quickly. For example, in the UK, the government sent a letter to every household outlining coronavirus guidance. This letter takes a few days to reach everyone.

The news can be leveraged by the government to relay important messages to the population without any effort.

gberger··on London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline
Interesting, I hadn't heard about this. Do you mind sharing the reasoning around this?
gberger··on Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
But how can DoorDash advertise and impersonate someone else's restaurant without their consent?
gberger··on Testosterone, a key hormone in the context of Covid-19 pandemic
I'm not a doctor, but my understanding is that women have a different hormonal profile than men and thus having a lower absolute amount of testosterone is not necessarily a problem; the problem is when the balance is not right between testosterone, estrogen, and others.
gberger··on Building a subsea cable to better connect Africa
Well, I mean, this is capitalism. What else do you expect? Every business "makes the world better" but also expects to turn a profit.
gberger··on Uber loses $2.9B, offloads bike and scooter business
Good point
gberger··on Uber loses $2.9B, offloads bike and scooter business
> 2.9 billion is 3 unicorns.

Hmm, unicorns are usually defined by $1B valuation, while the number of $2.9B in loss is related to revenue. So I think the comparison doesn't hold, it's apples to oranges.

gberger··on We Chat, They Watch
Is the company Chinese?
gberger··on Popcorn Linux
Can someone ELI5 what this is?
gberger··on Git wishlist: aggregate changes across non-contiguous commits (2019)
What do you do when there's conflicts?
gberger··on A one-line package broke `npm create-react-app`
What you do is you pin dependencies, then automate regular dependency upgrade PRs. If your test suite and your CI/CD pipeline is reliable, this should be an easy addition.
gberger··on Patreon lays off 13% of workforce
Nitpick: the expression is 'sleight of hand'
gberger··on Oil plunges below zero for first time with May contract ending
I guess we'll find out tomorrow
gberger··on Swedish expert: why lockdowns are the wrong policy
What is the conclusion that you make from these select quotes? Or are you just summarizing what you consider to be the most important information?
gberger··on Show HN: Video conference and synchronized YouTube video to do fitness in groups
That's not how workouts work, though. Each body is different, and people have different skill levels too. It's not like Just Dance
gberger··on Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet
> This way one can hardly be sure the cultural value of this move is enough to outweigh the practical aspect.

How much context do you have on Mongolian culture to be able to make this assertion? Honest question.

gberger··on Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro reportedly tests positive for coronavirus
Jair Bolsonaro. Edit: sorry, I had mistyped my original comment. Edited.
gberger··on Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro reportedly tests positive for coronavirus
Haha, of course Eduardo is in touch with Fox News.
gberger··on Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro reportedly tests positive for coronavirus
He met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago last weekend. This might escalate very rapidly.
gberger··on Shopify is giving its employees $1k to furnish their work-from-home setups
I did that. Now I eat dinner at my work desk. It sucks.
gberger··on Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet
Is this what is called chaos engineering?
gberger··on Robinhood goes down again, during another historic trading day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_president#Use_in_financia...
gberger··on Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of Stories
Top influencers definitely curate what they post on their stories, to maintain an image of a perfect everyday life.
gberger··on The oldest company in almost every country (that is still in business)
Thank you. That map was incredibly hard to read.
gberger··on MSPaint in JavaScript
You can bring in other images into Preview by pasting
gberger··on Reddit Status
According to [], they had $119M revenue in 2019. That's about $14k/h.

[] https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/04/reddits-monthly-active-use...

gberger··on Ask HN: What are some examples of good database schema designs?
How do you perform joins without foreign keys? Do you just have a column that is effectively a foreign key but is not marked as such?
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