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vhvjkyhkogvv··on Startups are pummeled in the ‘great unwinding’
It may be that travel never has big enough margins to support a 10k employee middleman.
vhvjkyhkogvv··on WHO launches global megatrial of the four most promising coronavirus treatments
Kinda makes you wonder why they aren't using methods from the multi armed bandit literature.
vhvjkyhkogvv··on WHO launches global megatrial of the four most promising coronavirus treatments
Do you have a source for the last part?
vhvjkyhkogvv··on Discord is not an acceptable choice for free software projects
Which company do you work for and does it share your values in this question?
vhvjkyhkogvv··on Discord is not an acceptable choice for free software projects
"The grapes are sour anyway" is the standard open source answer for decades..
vhvjkyhkogvv··on Discord is not an acceptable choice for free software projects
Because I don't have static ip.
vhvjkyhkogvv··on Quadsort: a stable non-recursive merge sort
Too late to edit but I read the article again and they compares it favorably to qsort so it makes sense to point out it's worse than std sort.
vhvjkyhkogvv··on Quadsort: a stable non-recursive merge sort
Comparing a stable sort to a normal sort is unfair. Compare it with std::stable_sort.
vhvjkyhkogvv··on Living without a SIM card
The reason cafes offer wifi is that otherwise people would stop coming.
vhvjkyhkogvv··on I found a WhatsApp security flaw that allowed hackers to read the file system
If you base it origin couldn't that have false positives too? Like say other, less privileged apps?
vhvjkyhkogvv··on The cup-of-coffee pricing fallacy
A cost of doing business is one of the most essential expenses there is.
vhvjkyhkogvv··on Too much locality for stores to forward
If the single line one delegates to the batch one it should solve most of them.
vhvjkyhkogvv··on South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal' sale of .amazon
Well it could refer to a specific one.
vhvjkyhkogvv··on South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal' sale of .amazon
> the amazon

I think of tall female warriors

vhvjkyhkogvv··on Yes, Ageism Is a Problem in Tech. But Vanity Is a Bigger One
There are key differences between startup investing and that model. You just have to get sufficient amount of investors to recognize the diamond in the rough. Not a majority or anything near that. With enough money you don't have to convince anyone else.
vhvjkyhkogvv··on Disprove quantum immortality without risking your life (2019)
One thing to keep in mind is our understanding of physics is only approximate so it's dangerous to draw too extreme conclusions.

Approximate immortality is after all very different from actual immortality.

We may well discover that the number of worlds is enormous but ultimately finite, and that the number of worlds you're in decreases exponentially with every risk you take.

vhvjkyhkogvv··on What is music? A unified theory of music and dreaming
Lucid dreamers were able to respond to stimuli while dreaming iirc
vhvjkyhkogvv··on The Silurian Hypothesis
I'd build something that's impossible to miss, and hard to destroy. A stone henge on the moon maybe.