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Something definitely was lost with the addition of ranked ladders and global skill-based matchmaking systems. It was quite a long time, maybe 10y, before TF2 even got one. And yet …

This is a step in the right direction. Everyone hates public surveillance until they become the victim of a crime, but it's critical that the surveillance is owned and controlled f…

No!! That is the Front of Pareto[1], a totally different group. Our Pareto Front only causes 20% of the casualties. [1] - http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Life_of_Brian/8.htm

Yes, thanks. Corrected.

The core tradeoff here is "Push vs. Pull". Webhooks are a model for pushing data to subscribers. A traditional API allows clients to request and pull data. The data flow is in the …

Why? Science is wildly unprofitable on the scale of an individual private firm.

Right. What about the scientific hardware (instruments, sensors, robotics)? Partnerships with existing research institutions? Dealing with restricted data? Modernizing science is a…

It is a fact that Kushner (plus Witkoff) has been playing the role of primary diplomat of the USA in critical matters of peace and war. In many cases, Rubio is not even present at …

This comment might hold water in 2006 or 2016 but it rings hollow in 2026. Who elected/congressionally-approved Jared Kushner to run US foreign policy?

> The goal of ClickHouse Labs is to establish a best-in-class industry research organization focused on databases. It will not operate as an isolated research organization that thr…

I think it comes down to some people having a strong aesthetic aversion to imperative programming and the practical value of side effects (including exception bubbling), often mani…

Nope, negative feedback is dampening and stabilizing. Antitrust enforcement represents a healthy negative feedback for the natural runaway concentration of wealth and power.

This proposal is literally about making it easier for ordinary code to be written without defining new generic types or iterators.

At this point, the "damage" has been done and even skeptics of generics/iterators should applaud this proposal since it means burying some of that added complexity behind straightf…

Exactly. If you ask anyone on the street, "is it easier for a fast food worker or a business-owning millionaire to make their next million dollars?", common sense will prevail. Mon…

I got a cold email recently and was happy to engage, but I warned them upfront that LLMs change the game, and asked for more info about their background (to authenticate them as a …

> For us, that means interactive work, automatic work, and production work would share one well-crafted underlying system instead of living in separate tools. Unless this is only f…

People clown on Alex Karp for his unedited maniacal "crashouts", but this is a real public crashout that made it past a team of publicists.

It's standard regulatory capture. You don't say "let's ban my competitor". You say "let's create laws that make it uneconomical for my competitor to access the market".

Personally I don't trust the (real, actual) barbarian horde when it tries the ole switcheroo and projects barbarism, without evidence, onto its victims. "The baby I just sniped in …

Completely different geopolitical scenario. If USA exterminated Germans/Japanese then their Soviet/Communist neighbors would fill in the power/population gap. It's also worth menti…

Iran will never surrender because US/Israel proved themselves unequivocally to be brutal savages that will torture, rape and kill you if you surrender. There is literally no point …

I did not first bring up fairness in this thread.

And what does Iran get in return for America butchering 160 innocent kids, or assassinating their leader? Or does "fairness" only flow in one direction?

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