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notsofastbuddy··on 1,000 True Fans (2008)
Wildbow could be probably be monetizing a lot more than he is right now.
notsofastbuddy··on 'Co-living': the end of urban loneliness or cynical corporate dormitories?
It's hard to tell whether you're presenting this as worse or better than the current situation.
notsofastbuddy··on Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut
Perhaps Tarsnap
notsofastbuddy··on Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product
The C&D letter mentioned in the post probably already alerted them.
notsofastbuddy··on Luxury Developers Use a Loophole to Build Soaring Towers for Ultrarich in NY
> the only reason

This is an extraordinary claim.

notsofastbuddy··on San Francisco’s Slow-Motion Suicide
Your examples are more than 2000 years old.
notsofastbuddy··on Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO
A single six-episode season is going to tip the balance?
notsofastbuddy··on Ethereum is Doomed (2016)
I don't know why this is downvoted, it's completely accurate. Source: [0]

[0]: twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/1051160932699770882

notsofastbuddy··on Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo
Is there any public info on the numbers for Google and Apple?
notsofastbuddy··on Ask HN: How did you decide what problems to solve in your lifetime?
There aren't very many axes along which >5% of the population actively try to improve themselves. This makes it easy to reach the top 5% if one is trying.
notsofastbuddy··on Chess World Championship: Stockfish live-analyzing game 7
Exactly 0.00 can also mean that the engine has no idea what's going on.
notsofastbuddy··on Interstellar Visitor Found to Be Unlike a Comet or an Asteroid
My heuristic is that anything co-written by Gentry Lee is not worth my time.
notsofastbuddy··on Interstellar Visitor Found to Be Unlike a Comet or an Asteroid
The final reveal was mind-numbingly bad.
notsofastbuddy··on Google is killing Fabric in mid-2019, pushes developers to Firebase
I think it's the prequel, A Deepness in the Sky. I thought A Fire Upon the Deep had even cooler concepts though.
notsofastbuddy··on Where in the World Is Larry Page?
They did seem to find Sandberg acceptable.
notsofastbuddy··on Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions
This seems orthogonal to the topic under discussion though. I don't believe GP was saying the publications are perfect.
notsofastbuddy··on New York Could Become First Major U.S. City to Cap Uber and Similar Vehicles
This seems orthogonal to the parent comment.
notsofastbuddy··on Find and list all your Twitter mutuals
Someone that you follow and also follows you.
notsofastbuddy··on A Privacy Bomb Is About to Be Dropped on the California Economy and the Internet
Which part?
notsofastbuddy··on OpenBSD disables Intel's hyperthreading due to security concerns
By continuing a security-first mindset that they've been establishing for decades?
notsofastbuddy··on Google Won't Renew Contract for Project Maven, Pentagon Drone AI Imaging Program
Google is, after all, a company famously hurting for business and business prospects.
notsofastbuddy··on We don’t need nearly as much protein as we consume
Food tends to have some nice micronutrients that supplements lack. There's probably nothing wrong with adding supplements to a diet that is otherwise complete.
notsofastbuddy··on Alexa and Siri Can Hear Hidden Commands
> So, security by obscurity?

Obscurity is a perfectly valid layer in a security system. It's just not sufficient as the primary security mechanism.

notsofastbuddy··on To solve affordability crisis, Bay Area housing stock must grow 50% in 20 years
Manhattan has a hard natural geographic limitation. Most other parts of the city aren't nearly as bad.
notsofastbuddy··on Why Do Fantasy Novels Have So Much Food?
I'll check it out. I'll also mention the (prose) web serial Worm, because it has many of the same qualities.
notsofastbuddy··on Why Do Fantasy Novels Have So Much Food?
I'm making my way through Wheel of Time right now. There probably could've been two fewer books if the descriptions of food and female characters' breasts were edited down.
notsofastbuddy··on Protecting Security Researchers
I don't know of any company that publicly advertises the bonuses they give (if any) to employees for finding vulnerabilities in their own software. That seems more like part of someone's job description.
notsofastbuddy··on OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings
Seems fine to me when "Reserve" is, as in this case, a proper noun.
notsofastbuddy··on Bill Gates says crypto-currencies cause deaths
How many deaths has Windows "caused", through military uses etc.? How about PowerPoint?
notsofastbuddy··on US Senator demands review of loot box policies, citing potential harm
This seems like an argument to remove all randomization from purchases.
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