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cocoa19··on IBM quantum computers now finish some tasks in hours, not months
Chip is fairly common nowadays in the USA.

Fraud liability was shifted from card brands to retailers if they don't support chip. That was a big deal to start supporting it.

cocoa19··on Transfer Stocks Out of Your Robinhood Account
Maybe Gmail was not the first free email, but was definitely the first massively adopted free email with a very high storage capacity.

At Gmail's launch, Hotmail was offering only 2MB of free space, while Gmail was offering 1GB. At the time, that was a game changer, and how they captured a good chunk of the market.

cocoa19··on WallStreetBets vs WallStreet: It's not about the money anymore
"How will I pay my rent this month?"

That's something I'd say to be funny, especially on reddit.

cocoa19··on The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company
I don't buy the single payer/Obamacare/more regulation speech as the single healthcare fix. NHS has a ton of problems of their own.

We need a lot of doctors, more than what we are producing. It's baffling you need 100s of thousands of dollars to become a Dr in the US.

Remove the undergrad requirement to apply for med school, like most of the world, and fix the college affordability problems.

If the amount of money to produce doctors keeps escalating, it's not surprising medical care only goes up.

cocoa19··on Idaho company to block Facebook and Twitter for censorship
I do applaud Twitter and Facebook for blocking dangerous rhetoric.

I also applaud this ISP for blocking Twitter and Facebook, but not because they blocked Trump. Both platforms are a cesspool of misinformation, echo chambers, self esteem issues in children, mental manipulation and many other problems. Good riddance.

Please sign me up for this blocker service.

cocoa19··on The Tweets That Got Trump Banned Were Far from His Worst
"silence all conservatives"

No, only those with extremist and dangerous views.

cocoa19··on I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year
Might be more convenient to use on a smart watch.
cocoa19··on Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
Immigrants won't give up their high salary in the developed world.

Employers won't pay a first world salary while living in a low cost country.

cocoa19··on Autism and Invention Are Connected
Huh, I don't have an iPhone but the offer sounds very good.

I pay much more than $10 for only WSJ subscription. Sounds like I'm getting the shaft.

cocoa19··on Elon Musk Decries ‘M.B.A.-ization’ of America
That reminds me of my time at IBM under Palmisano a decade ago.

His goal was to increase the share price by x%. It was no secret one of the strategies was to cut jobs in high cost regions (US) and hire in low cost regions. You'd actually hear this in all hands meetings. It was shockingly shameless.

cocoa19··on S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch cryptocurrency indexes in 2021
It shouldn't be considered an investment vehicle if we follow Benjamin Graham's philosophy (father of value investment, Warren Buffet's mentor).

I'd say it should be called a speculative vehicle. The word speculative carries a negative connotation, so financial companies won't make money off of bitcoin trades, so hence the name investment vehicle. It's as manipulative as the name almond milk, which is not really milk.

cocoa19··on PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available
Probably in a developing country. Most of latin america uses WhatsApp, a result of carriers charging a lot of money (compared to median salary) for SMS/MMS, while WhatsApp has always been free.

When I came to the US (mid 2010's), I was surprised a large number of people never even heard of WhatsApp.

cocoa19··on Post PC
I wish this was true, but everyday I see more dev shops moving from windows to mac than the opposite. I don't see as many moving to linux.

Moving applications to the cloud and the slow deprecation of old windows apps made this possible.

cocoa19··on Ask HN: Where are the Beautiful clean HTML/CSS templates?
Positioning jokes aside, learning CSS is easy.

Where most of us developers struggle with is making beautiful websites vs just something that works but looks ok.

One of the reasons bootstrap is so successful is that it's easy to use/integrate and produces a website that is very pleasant to look at.

cocoa19··on Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County CCW case
Yikes... I guessed they skipped the mandatory corporate ethics training videos or they just didn't care.

This is the reason large employers have mandatory yearly training videos on ethics, sexual harrassment, insider trading and a plethora of other topics. I used to feel severely inconvenienced every year, "wasting productive hours", until I was aware of the world out there and how frequent are problems in these areas.

cocoa19··on Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt
They can't sell the keys since they don't have them.

NSA could still mount an attack by asking the CA to register NSA's certs as valid, and tamper the victim's network connection. What makes certs secure is our trust in certificate authorities.

cocoa19··on Full text search on 400M US court cases
In other countries, if you are speeding, you get a ticket by mail. If you are driving under the influence, you are sent to jail for the night.

Why do taxpayers have to pay expensive court proceedings, and offenders have to spend a lot of money for an attorney, and waste a bunch of time.

cocoa19··on Why I chose Electron.js for my side business
Perfectly valid decision.

For my own desktop apps, I'd choose Qt, since cross platform support is top notch.

With that said, I understand that nowadays, C++ developers are harder to come by, and memory corruption issues are not fun to work with.

cocoa19··on Danish study finds face masks provide limited protection to wearer
Technically wearing a mask helps "protect themselves" by second order effects.

We should never encourage lying or deceiving people (pushing not technically true narratives). This just erodes trust in society.

cocoa19··on Accelerating TensorFlow Performance on Mac
Call me old, but I can't understand how people can sit in the most uncomfortable chairs for hours, tilting my head and neck down towards my laptop.

A workday at Starbucks would cause me head and shoulder pain for days.

cocoa19··on Graphics for JVM
And Eclipse was hands down the best tool for Java development... Until it was left to rot, and JetBrains came along.
cocoa19··on Rant: Why Bluetooth Sucks [video]
Pairing is so painful, that I use two headphones. Wireless headphones for TV, wired headphones for everything else (cellphone calls, laptop, desktop computer).

I'm considering buying one of those multi-point bluetooth headphones, but I'm not very convinced it will be less painful than my current setup.

cocoa19··on Nearly 28M licensed Texas drivers hit by data breach
"He says drivers should freeze their credit and change their account passwords."

Why would I want to change passwords? Either he doesn't know what he's talking about, or breach is worse than reported, e.g. DMV website passwords were stolen and they were stored without salting/hashing.

cocoa19··on Bias in radiology resident selection against the obese and unattractive?
I dunno.

Maybe he's so skilled that his employers (e.g. hospital) disregarded his appearance?

Or perhaps you were thinking if he's sloppy with his appearance, he'll be sloppy providing care.

cocoa19··on macOS file diff app, Kaleidoscope, acquired by Letter Opener GmbH
IntelliJ Idea Community is for Java without Spring support.

If you want Spring support, or you want to use other JetBrains IDEs for other languages, you have to pay.

Personally, I'm happy to fork my money to them. They make the best IDEs out there.

cocoa19··on USPS patent for reliable voting system secured with blockchain
And plenty in our current times as well.

Mexican politicians buy votes with a one time delivery of grocery bags or 20-50 dollar grocery store cards.

cocoa19··on Signs you might be a micromanager
The opposite of micromanagement can be damaging as well. Let's call this "no management".

I quit a job where I would only see the manager on 1-1 meetings, and was clueless about the state of the business and how to help team members succeed and get promoted.

I stopped discussing work topics on the 1-1 meetings since I didn't see any point, and eventually quit, as well as other team members.

cocoa19··on How Do You Know When Society Is About to Fall Apart?
Life extension, disease research (cancer, viruses, etc), new physics discoveries, astronomy.

Plenty of things would be exciting to work on that makes human society better.

cocoa19··on eBay removing Raspberry Pi listings as they “encourage infringement”
Amazon and Craigslist are competitors and serve most people's online shopping needs.

Everyone used eBay like 20 years ago. Now, not so much.

cocoa19··on eBay removing Raspberry Pi listings as they “encourage infringement”
Ironic that people buy it for streaming media (pirated or not), but RPi is terrible for video playback.

I have an RPi4, tried kodi (libreelec OS) and vlc on raspbian, both apps stutter with most videos at 1080p. Luckily I repurposed it for IOT so I'm pretty happy with it.

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