joebob42

Is price gouging in this context illegal (genuine question, I know very little in this area, but I would not have thought so). It seems to me like they are effectively just selling at the price the market will bear, which is artificially inflated at present.

The fact they rolled back hours of trades is astounding to me. I'm surprised it would be legal, to be honest.

Another theory: type 1 is fun now, type 2 is fun in hindsight, type 3 seems like it would be fun looking forward but turns out to be awful.

Is type 2 fun a good idea? I haven't been able to decide for myself. I'm never sure whether doing these sorts of things has actually been a good use of my time. It probably helps me grow or something, but God does it suck a lot of the time.

I dunno. I agree this work is important, but I also find it boring and frustrating. Its like adding logging, plumbing configs, etc. Obviously it has to happen, but at least for me it's neither interesting nor exciting.

I think it's hard to buy it, but it's easy to "sell" it / lose it over financializing.

I don't like that OSI seems to somehow come away with this (at least as framed here) with control of the term. I agree just calling whatever nonsense open-source is problematic, but I don't agree it has to be one of their licenses to be open source at all.

I am not sure this myth the author is claiming is anywhere near as pervasive as they seem to think? I kind of know what they mean, but I don't think it's something most or even all that many people I've met would agree with.

"In my research, I’ve persistently encountered a stubborn myth—of the savvy strongman, the rational, calculating despot who can play the long game because he (and it’s typically a he) doesn’t have to worry about pesky polls or angry voters. Our elected leaders, this view suggests, are no match for the tyrant who gazes into the next decade rather than fretting about next year’s election."

I liked "Whatever features within their algorithms that are creating the addictions, especially in teenagers — they can disable those features. That could be another thing."

The algorithm isn't trying to help, but YouTube or Reddit or FB or whatever is addicting anyways unless they design an algorithm explicitly to reduce engagement by giving you stuff you don't like.

I've always felt quite safe in Airbnb's.

I also kind of feel that if this was really a huge safety risk we'd have stories of disaster from the 20k Afghanistan refugees, which I'm sure would have been mentioned here if they were readily available.

Not to say there is no risk but... I dunno, everything is risky when you've been forced to leave your home and kind of have nothing.

$5b seems pretty low to me to be honest, especially given the way tech valuations work.

It's hard. You can love and be excellent at all the things a field of study entails, but if no one wants to pay you to do those things it isn't a career.

I think encouraging people to study and enjoy these things as a hobby, and providing a solid, structured way to do that without it being a full career, would go a long way. I used to love literary criticism, but I sure as hell couldn't have made a career out of it and I don't have a super obvious path to do it as a hobby that doesn't require a bunch of self starting many people will have a hard time with.

Something about the article was weird. I didn't grok that it was a book review until after I finished reading it, but I'm not sure exactly why that was.

Thinking more, I guess I'm comparing to more creative / niche competitors or different approaches, rather than just doing the same thing on azure / gcp.

Probably not literally, but in my experience the answer is more or less just "yes, aws is more expensive than competitors"

I'm at a big tech company. I literally think I'd leave if they stopped feeding me. It's such an amazingly valuable perk. It's worth substantially more to me than the raw cost of the food. Having to do my own food during wfh killed me. I'm a perfectly fine chef but it just sucks up so much time.

I think it's more just that they don't feel they have a choice.

The whole peace in our time thing didn't work out super great last time. At some point you can't just cave indefinitely.

I agree though that I can easily imagine Putin feeling too backed into a corner and bad things happening as a result.

It seems a bit reductive to me. I'm also not sure oil and gas extraction is simple in quite the same way growing avocados might be.

It has a thread of internal consistency but it's not super convincing to me? Just comes off as someone who hates Putin, which is fair, but I'm not sure that makes it accurate.

Come to think of it, I was relatively unbusy, knowledgeable about c++, in van nuys, and kind of a dick at around that time. Perhaps I, too, creates Bitcoin.

The article is amusingly direct about calling them spam / malware.

I appreciate the taking individual action and making a statement but not corrupting their Foss project.

Isn't that going to be carbs? I mean they certainly have less carbs per unit of weight but to the extent they have calories it's mostly carbs right?

If Im exercising 5-6x a week and I can't eat much protein I need calories from somewhere.

Well this sounds awful. What am I even supposed to eat, just fat?

Sure, but the startup that does this is going to lose, because usually a given risky dependency isn't actually going to turn out to be malicious, and reviewing all foreign dependencies as if they were your own code is wildly time consuming.

I think not quite just debt and favors. In my mind at least the key differentiator is that with money, I can take some money from Paul for some good or service, and expect to be able to get a similarly valuable good or service from basically anyone for that same money.

Meh, I think it's still a good step. At some point you've got to take action to make progress. If more countries ban it we might eventually see a decrease in total mining.

I think the whole "Putin wouldn't allow this" aspect is being dismissed too readily.

For whatever reason I read it as sort of affectionate rather than really expressing "ownership." I would have been perfectly happy to be one of this person's engineers.

I'm not sure I follow. At least from my perspective if war were to happen "on his watch", even if it wasn't really his fault / a different president wouldn't have avoided it, there's effectively no chance I'd vote for him. How is this crisis a good thing for Biden?

I have no idea. It kind of reminds me of a Yes Prime Minister sketch where he's not sure if he'd push the button.

The impression I get from what I know is that Putin is the sort of person who really could push the button, if he felt it would help him somehow, but I'm not sure to what extent I can trust my sources.