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Seems unlikely for there to be two different Moxies Marlinspike in any case, but appreciate your confirmation. Indeed his Wikipedia page didn’t need a disambiguation section.

The companies that want a piece of FIFA, I assume. Edit: I just realized you meant who here on hn, in which case I assume the hardcore capitalists/libertarians. But they can speak …

Doesn’t most of the developed world already have various forms of socialism? The U.S. is an outlier here, which is due a number of factors unique to this country.

That doesn’t answer the title question of why it’s quadratic wrt speed.

I use it on iOS daily and there’s no ad blocker. The page you linked only mentions tracking blocking. If you actually have ad blocking enabled, I’m sure a lot of us would love to h…

Almost all wealth tax proposal I’ve seen start at the level of 8-9 figures of wealth. Why are we now talking about it as if it’s going to apply to your average person’s savings acc…

Only in theory. In practice it’s not equivalent at all because once you reach a certain (very high) level of wealth, there’s the “buy, borrow, die” strategy that avoids realizing m…

Maybe “great” is going a bit far for some of those. “Not bad” vs “bad” seems more realistic.

Planned obsolescence really only works well if someone else is paying.

Just to well actually your well actually... What you've described is how the base level mortgage-backed securities (MBSs) work. The tranches work because there actually exist mortg…

> The problem w this model is that it only works if assets are relatively uncorrelated (it was true in the past but ignored systematic risk and adverse selection in originations). …

I just want to make the observation that this whole SpaceX IPO is turning out entirely unlike the CDOs that led to the 2008 financial crisis. There's no mixing of AAA level assets …

On Monday a crane company announces it’s pivoting to AI, followed by a quick 600% boost to its stock price. I wouldn’t even be surprised at this point.

There really should be a special category for business books written by people who’ve gone bankrupt. I know at least two well known examples, but there’s got to be a whole lot more…

You know what's an even more acceptable casualty that would greatly reduce ransomware? Cryptocurrencies.

Wow I had to hop over to check it out. It’s indeed still alive! But I didn’t see any stories on the first page with a comment count over 100, so it’s definitely a far cry from its …

Did you miss the part where they generated tests too?! I mean what do you want, for him to actually review the code or something? That's what kills the love of coding , man.

While that’s definitely true, I think it’s maybe more fair to say that their actual strength has always been to take a personal computing technology that’s just about “ready-for-pr…

Wait, are you parodying Madonna or meta-parodying Weird Al?

But then we have the same complaint against Electron, namely large deployment sizes and no shared memory, no?

Doing a mindless chore in the background to satisfy a meaningless metric sounds like the perfect task to give to an AI agent…

Definitely worse. This sort of thing still happening in 2025 is completely bonkers to me. Recently a financial institution sent me an email asking me to "re-validate my ownership" …

Well, one man's junk is another man's treasure. In any case, none of the requirements you listed seem that exotic. There are computer cases with hot-swap ready drive cages, and sta…

Doesn’t that name make it confusing for your users? A tribute maybe shouldn’t be identical ?