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"I'm obsessed with 1-person companies and have spent over 50 hours researching them.

Here are the 10 most impressive ones that have generated millions in revenue with 0 employees"

Unfortunately little information about the technologies used, but it sounds good.

"This is a technical demo showing the status of the current system. The demo features our AI rap voices covering Kendrick Lamar's track "N95".

The inputs to this system are text (lyrics) + tempo (bpm). This preview has eq+reverb added to voice and human composed backing track."

I have no deeper insights into hackernes userbase. But here is another recent example:

"Wikipedia blames pro-China infiltration for bans" https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58559412

Btw. casting doubt on unwanted opinions is often used in propaganda. ;)

Maybe, but i think every platform that has a lot of influence or a big audience is a valueable target for propaganda.

If you look what the CCP does elsewhere it's not unlikely, eg. https://www.nzz.ch/english/swiss-phd-students-dismissal-spot...

I wonder how many accounts the chinese state maintains on hackernews to upvote/downvote post and comments. It's an easy way to influence the public opinion and hard to expose.

Silicon Valley techies are turning to a cheap diabetes drug to help them live longer

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/23/metformin-for-cancer-prevent...

I think many (personal) blogs were killed by social media. You don't blog about your last weekend anymore, you just post some pictures on instagram or in your whatsapp groups.

China is less troubling than US if you look at per capita numbers: US 15.52, China 7.38 tons of CO2

i am using dbeaver right now, it uses not much resources, just 250mb of ram

Source?

Samsung, Sony, Xiaomi, LG will demand this feature if they sell less phones because people switch to apple. Or they will implement it by themself and gain an edge about competitors who don't have it.

You can easily replace your apple products, but not your social network apps. all your friends have to switch, too

You can't compare this. There are much less bad actors in mobile traffic that constantly try to steal your keys, try to suck gas from your gas tank, hide in your trunk or trick you into insurance fraud...

And what they can't copy, the will buy with their monopoly money: Yahoo bought Tumblr, Flickr. Google bought Android, Youtube. Apple bought beats, siri. And all do a lot of acqui-hiring which kills competition in early stage.

this can be a good way for europe, too. after the last court ruling: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/16/european-court-rules-on-face... there must be changes. Maybe this means us users can't see eu users in the social networks and vice versa. But then we could finally post our nipples on instagram!

Net cash is "only" 81 billion and long term plan is share buybacks, they already bought back around 200 bil iirc.

You don't know if it's the best because there is no competition to discover better info. All other websites are presented with only 2 or 3 lines of text (search results) and have no free access to presentation forms that googles own content has.

Joe Biden, too

The bloggers went to places where the eyeballs are. If you read a good book, make photo and post it with a comment on instagram. You will get much more reaction than with a blogpost on your private blog. Same for forums. If you are looking for a community with a special interest you will have more luck to find an active facebook group than a independent forum/message board somewhere else.

“It’s a coding issue,” according to Mayer, “and we are gonna recode it.”

A few more details would be interesting.

"Although the evidence is sparse, I feel that you shouldn't start with microservices unless you have reasonable experience of building a microservices system in the team."

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html