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https://ernest.oppet.it/ I blog about books, podcasts, courses I've done, product management thoughts du jour, and the occasional rant

The case for doing what they did is that it helped a lot of people access books (eg school curriculum ones) in the middle of Covid (not everyone knows how to pirate things). Not sa…

Someone on Twitter said: > You do realize that grant was issued several years before 2020? This is just how much was paid in 2020 > This is extremely misleading

Can you expand a bit on the quality of Google's internal practices with user data? eg what would an engineer on Google Photos need to do to be able to access my photos, if possible…

No one repping the old drop sort. Just returns the first item of the list, which happens to be an ordered list. Simples.

I just hope there won't be too much of a performance impact on my browser or the page load times

Awesome! I've always wanted something like this to exist. Thanks for building it <3

Here we go again.

Yep, it's not delicious.

Yep, accounting for carbon offshoring lowers the difference (US emissions gain 7% if you count consumption not just production, and China's lose 14%) but it still holds that China …

It's much easier to move teams than move companies, so worth having a look around at other adjacent teams you could move to.

It's from Preston Byrne (added this in my original comment). The reason I think it's relevant is that posts like Palmer's attack only the "scam side" of crypto (the 99%) without ac…

"You can believe that 99% of crypto is bullshit while also believing that the 1% that isn't will change the world" - Preston Byrne

Thanks, I didn't know. I've updated my original comment

Nice post. For permanent storage you should check out https://www.arweave.org/ rather than IPFS + centralised pinning services like Pinata. With Arweave you pay a small upfront fee…

DeFi protocols don't have KYC/AML systems. All they know about is your wallet, and from that wallet you can buy any token, borrow/lend, add liquidity to a market-maker pool, etc.