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Or perhaps rather they were referring to the classic Erlang in Anger document:

https://erlang-in-anger.com/

Is now a good time for someone to write the "Unbundling Mozilla" start-up post on substack? I'd love to see something cogent written up about it. Something like this[0]?

[0] - https://latecheckout.substack.com/p/the-guide-to-unbundling-...

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My bet is that some of the biggest categories for personal credit card spending are related to travel and bars/clubs, including the specialized clothing and accessories that surround those activities. Folks may have paid some debt off, but not many were spending for these big activities at all. I imagine there’s a lot of cross-over with demographics that tend to carry more debt or be more impulsive to begin with.

Edit: ...also dining out

Taleb wrote an analogy to this in “Antifragile” when he introduced a banker and a London cab driver to illustrate a similar conclusion. It was (for me) one of the key insights I took from that book.

Fujifilm has also released their own native webcam utility for X and G series cameras. I think it only happened a week or two ago.

https://fujifilm-x.com/en-us/webcam-support/

An orchid species exists that has a 25-25 cm long flower spur (the comet orchid), and 19th century botanists were puzzled as to how it could be pollinated in the wild. Darwin speculated that an insect with a long proboscis would be found to exist and researchers soon discovered the Sphinx Moth. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angraecum_sesquipedale#Reprodu...

This github issue is from 2016– Atlassian sold Jitsi to 8x8 in 2018.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/29/atlassian-sells-jitsi-an-o...

Anectdata: I set up an old computer with this in 2009, but a few months later I heard about this thing called cryptocurrency mining...

EDIT: The article notes that they are reaching a point of diminishing returns with the distributed nature of the SETI@HOME tasks, but I can't help wondering if things like crypto had an impact on participation with this and other @HOME-style academic projects[0].

[0]: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php

Lowering interest rates makes borrowing cheaper, and it has the effect of putting more money to work faster. It’s one of the basic tools of economic policymakers.

Post dotcom bust and 9/11 interest rates were dropped significantly to spur consumer spending.

This is true- but for perspective in 2010 around 100 U.S. banks went under (actually seized, closed, and merged out by the FDIC).

But yes, it’s far easier to get funded as a bank than an individual, mostly because there are laws, institutions, and processes to try and remedy problem banks if trouble happens and individuals are really on their own to find advice and resources.

EDIT: I was wrong, according to FDIC it was 157[0].

[0]: https://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/bank/

How does a person without a facebook account accomplish this though? Even without an account it’s likely that fb has several dozens of photos of me via other people’s posts.

I'm a big user of Pythonista on an iPad. I also use Continuous[0] for editing C# files, and occasionally play around with Replete[1] (a ClojureScript REPL for iOS).

Obviously they aren't JetBrains/Visual Studio class, but for the specific things they do while I'm on the go they're fantastic. This is increasingly the way I'm doing things with code and text. When I want to open Excel, however- that's when things start falling down for me.

[0]: http://continuous.codes/ [1]: https://replete-repl.org/

A nitpick, perhaps-- but isn't that the same faith? You don't know a hypothesis will be correct but you believe it will, so you test it. That IS faith as defined by (at least Christian) scripture [1,2]

[1] - https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/heb/11.lang=eng [2] - https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/32.18,21,26-27,29-3...

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I’ve toured an artisanal bourbon distillery in Kentucky that does something similar while the bourbon ages in barrels. The music plays loud around the clock to keep it vibrating (among other things).

Classic gold rush pattern: the people who outfit the miners do better overall than the vast majority of people who do the mining.

(Generalizing here, but seems similar to California in 1849, Yukon in 1898, and several others)

Perhaps, but serving a specific niche is exactly the origin and general mission of credit unions in the US. Most CUs now try to have as broad a membership as possible but this is a recent trend.

The rebelious streak in me has been seeking out and reading so-called “banned books”— books that were at one point banned by a community for some reason or another— since I was a teen. Many of these are classics that ran afoul of norms or the party line at some point, somewhere.

The problem isn’t that the voices of hate are being banned. The problem is that the mechanisms used to lower the volume on or silence hate speech can lower the volume or silence any other form or speech. This is why the US enshrined free speech as the first amendment of the constitution.

Technical means of defying censorship, like this one, help to preserve that right.

Not at all! But that’s what all the other security whitewash on financial and ecommerce sites say, so to most folks it, like, totally means it’s really really secure— pinky swear!

I, too, want to know the implementaion details. That said I’ve watched hundred of eyes gloss over as I emphatically implored lay-persons about password policies and tools like password managers and Frankly their definition of ‘secure’ can be encapsulated in ‘256-bit encryption’.

An oversight on Mozilla’s part for security-types and engineers, but maybe they have the masses in mind with this tool & it’s marketing site.

It’s possible to post from the mobile site. I do it often from mobile Safari, Firefox, etc on iOS.

Isn’t this what the (mobile) web app is already? I deleted the app a couple of years ago and used the web app exclusively, it sheds much of the bloat (so far...).

I'm hearing multiple anecdotes that it's increasingly common for some new enterprise machines to be built with huge amounts of DRAM, like in the 512GB - 2 TB range. That would help account for the steady demand and favorable pricing power Micron has for it's core product.

Crypro-miners are taking advantage of the same asymmetries that the FAANG data centers enjoy. They were built in those same areas of WA/OR for the same reasons. They just don’t use as much power as mining rigs...

An older friend of mine died suddenly several years ago while joining his young (6-7 y/o) son on an overnight school trip at the Presidio. He suffered from severe sleep apnea but thought he'd be ok for the night without his CPAP. His son was the first to find him in the morning, it was terrible.

I applaud the people experimenting with this and pushing the envelope to enable apnea-sufferers to live un-tethered from their homes.

Some interesting previous discussion regarding the limitations of Apple's differential privacy can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15224312

The only problem with that theory is that Apple is a much older company stemming from the days that the only way to make money was to sell things to consumers. Nearly all of that company's infrastructure and inertia has always been that way. They may be opportunistically touting privacy now like they're doing us a favor (and they kinda are...), but the main favor they did was simply never commit massive resources to a pivot to data-driven services. iAd, for example, was basically a "me too!" way of creating revenue for early iOS app devs (because Google's Android was the only competition in that market).

For all of the other companies mentioned: data was basically their only asset and business model, and they were started 25+ years after Apple.

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I’ve lived in Wyoming in the past (one of the pretty parts), it’s different than most places.

The key to understanding this bill is that Wyoming is subsidized entirely by energy exploration. There is no corporate or individual income tax, low property and sales taxes and no will to raise them any time soon. With coal, natural gas, and oil prices permanantly sagging they’re thrashing around looking for ways to replace those royalties. This is one of the prongs in the state’s new approach, they are also drafting legislation attempting to capitalize on blockchain tech using thier biz-friendly culture and cheap energy.

I hope they figure it out, people I care about have jobs tied to state funding.

A new twist on an old game. I hear people ask why short-selling exists, but’s a good check against corruption but prone to it’s own abuses. Citron Research (a short-sell shop) is a good example of this— they savaged companies like NQ Mobile, Lumber Liquidators, etc. and make a bundle doing it.

The security angle is a fascinating and concerning new development, however. That said it may encourage more secure practices (as opposed to theater) through the hardware/software lifecycle in response to serious fundamental design problems.

It will also serve to increase the premium on 0days...

You joke, but I'm looking for a way to pay Signal / OpenWhisperSystems something. Having an excellent, secure, n00b usable, cross-platform, privacy-first messaging service this good is worth paying for. I understand they are funded largely by licensing the Signal/Axolotl encryption protocol to Facebook and Google. I don't mind that business model until I consider that those are the very services I'm specifically avoiding when I use Signal. As I work to move more of my contacts to using Signal over FB Messenger, WhatsApp, Google Allo, etc. doesn't that (at the extreme case) create a conflict for Signal/OWS?

Signal/OWS: now that you've beat the chicken/egg problem will you find a way to take my money, please? Thx

EDIT: replaced Hangouts with Allo