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Seems bad for Snowflake? Iceberg is a big part of Snowflake's data lake offering, and I assumed it was a Snowflake-originated OSS project until this announcement (all Snowflake pro…

Having worked with a team using Snowpark, there are a couple things that bother me about it as a platform. For example, it only supported Python 3.8 until 3.9/10 recently entered p…

I think you are trying to pigeonhole Eskenazi's argument into the standard "progressives don't care about crime" punditry that's popular on the right. I would suggest re-reading th…

The current CEO of YCombinator regarding an article in Mission Local a few days ago: Mission Local seems to serve their local bureaucratic masters over the basic public safety need…

> It's easy for a childless bohemian to have no problem with needles in parks, but for those of us raising future citizens, it's not fun. > Your entire statement to me seems driven…

I think he's doing a bit.

Reminiscent of the 606 shelving system Vitsoe produces. Given the section dedicated to the desk's "Field Rail," I assume TE is going to release a couple more projects using it as p…

This article just pulls quotes the Ben Thompson interview from yesterday. direct link to the interview: https://stratechery.com/2022/an-interview-with-coinbase-foun...

To a certain extent, isn't this all a moot point? The sanctioned ETH addresses associated with the Ronin hack didn't use the immutable TC contract, they used the proxy contract[0][…

Couldn't you just deposit ETH in an exchange and then send it to a fresh address? Seems like a hassle to use TC for that specific use case.

An abridged history of decentralized storage: * DHTs are "invented" at Berkeley/MIT. Online storage is too expensive for most end users, so the target market is helping large compa…

> Did it make Reddit a more friendly place? Probably not as tensions have never been higher. Did allowing hate speech make 8chan/Voat friendlier? There are plenty of unfriendly com…

That research was published by a libertarian think tank in 2013. Since then, there have been numerous examples of lone wolf terrorist attacks where the perpetrators appeared to hav…

I believe this is wrong. Creator percentage isn't coded into the Ethereum-based NFT's themselves, it's done at the marketplace level. Currently, if you bought an NFT on Foundation …

For visual reference, Evan Collin's Are.na block is the most cohesive collection of this aesthetic I've found online https://www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/memphis-general-g...…

> Google isn’t abandoning second-price auctions for products where it controls the end-to-end buying experience. YouTube, Google Search, AdSense for Search and other Google propert…

Looking at the actual press release this listicle was based off of, the countries with highest media trust are, in order: Indonesia (73%), China (70%) and India (69%)[0]. These cou…

That's the guy who got banned from Twitter for harassing the authors of Stochastic Parrots right? Dude seems like a piece of work[0]. > On his resume, Lissack said he’d been a visi…

> This was a widely cited poll that asserted for the first time ever, the majority of Americans mistrust the mainstream media A poll released by the largest PR firm in the world[0]…