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Summary (self-written) Factor 1: vertical integration and different supply trains - US automakers are really just car assemblers that build the engine and frame, and assemble every…

I'd guess that this is to ensure one abusive user doesn't get every other user blocked from a large service (say, Google) for botting over the VPN and constantly rotating IPs. It's…

I was pretty convinced by this article to not use TIOBE as a mark of a language's popularity: https://nindalf.com/posts/stop-citing-tiobe/ Its primary point is that TIOBE is based …

Hi! Co-founder of Wanderlog (YC W19) here - what issues did you run into with it? I'd love to get your take to see if there's anything we can do there.

For me, definitely! It helped us raise our first round of funding, without which we may have failed during the pandemic. I also learned a lot and found the online platform useful.

I did YC when I was 27 after trying to do a tiny bit of fundraising, and kinda agree with you, but I think you can replace "22 year old" in your comment with "anyone not super-well…

I personally also strictly disagree with their feedback: "try many small things, experiment, tinker, and build a portfolio of multiple income streams". This is very much the indie-…

Given there are 3 credit bureaus, is there a way to avoid having a credit score at one of the credit bureaus? I think that's a way that we as consumers could try to increase compet…

While I agree Google is being a bit sly in lobbying against privacy legislation, I think they have a legitimate point, but also think that it'll lead to them concentrating more pow…

While I'd love to attribute this to data harvesting and don't love Meta as a company, as someone who has tried to scrape Instagram in the past (to get recent images users have post…

It seems like this is mostly summarizing what seems to be pretty settled law. Here are my main takeaways: 1. The courts have concluded that just because a price is higher does not …

> Our analyses by testbed instruments that are on or will be sent to Mars unveil that although the mineralogy of Red Stone matches that detected by ground-based instruments on the …

While I don't love this API's idea, I understand why they're doing it, and the API it describes really just sounds like any Captcha API today. > Google's plan is that, during a web…

I think this is actually a pretty balanced and rational take on crypto. There's a lot to be jaded by in the industry, and I'm glad he got a lot out of the experience (attending the…

The article mentions that: > Stratospheric SO2 rains out of the atmosphere after a year or so, so unlike CO2 emissions it is relatively easy to control the dosing and the magnitude…

Housing as a for-profit business kinda makes sense, but I think the main takeaway of the article is this: > The thing is, "the algorithm" should have very little to do with that si…

This thread leaves a lot of unanswered questions: 1. This was likely mitigated through a device update. What version did it roll out with? Which devices are still unpatched? 2. How…

I'm sad that this is happening to an app that's useful to its users, but the reality is that scraping is legal, always possible, but difficult. This particular case is a bit harder…

This seems like a perfectly reasonable way to end a service. The server died, and the effort to bring it back up seems high. This is a reminder to pay for services you depend on. P…

It's fascinating that the article ends with a very pessimistic quote, but the implication is clear: wiretapping was immune to policy solutions, but technical solutions have been fa…

This is really pretty impressive. I think Copilot for these kinds of one-off analysis tasks where specific data manipulation rather than structuring abstractions makes a lot more s…

As someone who has never really understood monads (or tried that hard to) but who has done a good amount of Javascript programming, I really like the description of a monad as a se…