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hrm, bgp and dns. It's weird when decades old technology somehow fails like this. The main reason distributed systems is hard is because of the time component. Whenever you add tim…

I think the connections are actually pretty obvious. Covid was like an atom bomb. No kind of sane invisible hand could have intelligently responded. Which is why the evil fed has v…

The Fed strikes back. The most disturbing thing about this article is that Mailchimp is worth 12b and that Intuit had 12b to spend on it. Couldn't have happened 2 years ago, regard…

Interesting. I'm not a big fan of digital advertising, so I didn't click on your link. I found this, which was much more informative. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/invertedy…

twtr is also bad (requires an account just to read its amazingly intellectual social media content), but people still use it. Sigh. Let's blacklist this blogger guy for his perpetu…

From his perspective: he is set regardless. Much better to ride out the amazing windfall of his own creation than vesting in peace at some mediocre ladder-driven megacorp.

Would be cool if the US economy could be driven by supply and demand. Housing is needed - more houses are built. Not sure why that can't be the case. This isn't Tokyo.

Why on earth is Apple, a good tech company, with a culture of secrecy, using slack? Can it not build its own secure version of slack?

Dragon book is solid, but just a regurgitation of Knuth, etc. Hardly worth a Turing Award. The bar lowers more every year, sigh.

Fortunately TWTR's market cap is worth more than a solution to problems like this because...

lol, that is nonsense. Palantir's success, for example, is entirely due to covid. It would still not have IPO'ed today without the insanity taking place today due to the fed buying…

Wherefore? FB and other such platforms are much better at display ads technology, as they don't care about user privacy at all. User tracking is the only real discriminator when it…

Well if you are such a badass just listen to it in 2x speed or faster like the rest of us.

hrmh, this is about the level of stupidity I expect from hn at this pt.

The US federal government is making poor choices in monetary policy - it's "fixing" the covid problem by printing US money, which, until now, was the new gold standard. As result, …

Corporate politics likely came into play - he was sidelined at Chauffeur and didn't show up to work, if you read the bloomberg articles. Likely he just wanted to make a difference …