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More distillation please. This is only good for me.

I don't think it's right to categorize "no consequences". Leadership made a decision and that decision was bad. This happens all the time, including allocating budget for staff. An…

The “all human access” is doing work also. Most access will likely be from AI agents.

You used a secret backup test! Truly honored to see the flamingos. We obviously need them all now ;-)

dot-com bubble companies were not good companies. They either built something that was not novel so it could be copied, or had insufficient value to monetize. We'll see the same wi…

I think of certain types of knowledge as one way functions. In order to acquire the knowledge you have to search a huge key space or experience costly elimination of options. Once …

You built a database.

Like air travel and hotel rooms. Even market based approaches like eBay have different prices for the same things. I'm not for dynamic pricing but it's pretty common.

Aren't there wiretapping laws that make recording conversations in certain situations illegal? I love the idea of this type of technology but it seems tricky to deploy from a moral…

Tax the billionaires. Tax the vacant real estate holdings at the high end. Tax short term rentals.

I'm generally a proponent of soft limits on almost everything. It's better to hit some artificial cap than to end up chewing away on a transaction forever or crashing some service …

I suspect your question is rhetorical but I, and quite a few other Marxists, would say yes. Dividends, stock buybacks and other types of profit should be banned.

How is this a workable system!? Why would anyone pay them. This seems like fraud on the part of the phone networks for billing for service that was never provided or should have be…

I am more and more worried that shutting down Twitter is and has been the plan. This is about controlling speech a different way.

Dynamodb is very scalable and effective at keeping operational cost down. It succeeds at it's goals by trading off on lots of things though. As a developer it can feel almost hosti…

You can see the source code on github https://github.com/votingworks/vxsuite Looks to be TypeScript running on node. They have an embedded kiosk browser.

postgres has a version of this preempts idea with default values on columns. postgres will fill in the value at query time without needing to backfill the data. postgres is not a h…

In which I run `order by punsafe desc` and immediately regret it.

Tick bites are not mostly avoidable. It is mostly avoidable to have one on you for > 24 hours by checking constantly. Numbers of ticks have increased the past 2 years in my area of…

I think holding the citizens of a country responsible for the actions of the government of their country is not completely unreasonable.

Is it possible for me to request that Clearview remove any pictures of myself that they have? I'd like to do that.

As a developer your stack goes all the way down. An issue with a TCP 3 way handshake to your application load balancer is still an issue. An error in the filesystem that results in…

Any recommendations for taming the sea of options? I'm going to buy something and I am not able to research every purchase myself. How can I get a better result than random choice?…