notsofastbuddy
Re:1,000 True Fans (2008)
on Sunday October 27, 2019 @03:04PM (#21371705)
Wildbow could be probably be monetizing a lot more than he is right now.
Re:'Co-living': the end of urban loneliness or cynical corporate dormi...
on Friday September 06, 2019 @01:02PM (#20897404)
It's hard to tell whether you're presenting this as worse or better than the current situation.
Re:Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut
on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @12:44PM (#20626889)
Perhaps Tarsnap
Re:Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product
on Monday April 22, 2019 @12:17PM (#19720134)
The C&D letter mentioned in the post probably already alerted them.
Re:Luxury Developers Use a Loophole to Build Soaring Towers for Ultrar...
on Saturday April 20, 2019 @12:26PM (#19707385)
> the only reason
This is an extraordinary claim.
Re:San Francisco’s Slow-Motion Suicide
on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @10:15AM (#19614859)
Your examples are more than 2000 years old.
Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO
on Sunday January 20, 2019 @10:44AM (#18953496)
A single six-episode season is going to tip the balance?
Re:Ethereum is Doomed (2016)
on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @02:09PM (#18913907)
I don't know why this is downvoted, it's completely accurate. Source: [0]
[0]: twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/1051160932699770882
Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo
on Sunday January 06, 2019 @05:28PM (#18841147)
Is there any public info on the numbers for Google and Apple?
Re:Ask HN: How did you decide what problems to solve in your lifetime?
on Sunday January 06, 2019 @08:59AM (#18838323)
There aren't very many axes along which >5% of the population actively try to improve themselves. This makes it easy to reach the top 5% if one is trying.
Re:Chess World Championship: Stockfish live-analyzing game 7
on Sunday November 18, 2018 @03:24PM (#18482338)
Exactly 0.00 can also mean that the engine has no idea what's going on.
Re:Interstellar Visitor Found to Be Unlike a Comet or an Asteroid
on Friday October 12, 2018 @11:10AM (#18201923)
My heuristic is that anything co-written by Gentry Lee is not worth my time.
Re:Interstellar Visitor Found to Be Unlike a Comet or an Asteroid
on Friday October 12, 2018 @10:24AM (#18201619)
The final reveal was mind-numbingly bad.
Re:Google is killing Fabric in mid-2019, pushes developers to Firebase
on Friday September 14, 2018 @01:54PM (#17989302)
I think it's the prequel, A Deepness in the Sky. I thought A Fire Upon the Deep had even cooler concepts though.
Re:Where in the World Is Larry Page?
on Thursday September 13, 2018 @10:22AM (#17978798)
They did seem to find Sandberg acceptable.
Re:Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions
on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @09:59AM (#17909047)
This seems orthogonal to the topic under discussion though. I don't believe GP was saying the publications are perfect.
Re:New York Could Become First Major U.S. City to Cap Uber and Similar...
on Friday July 27, 2018 @11:30AM (#17626677)
This seems orthogonal to the parent comment.
Re:Find and list all your Twitter mutuals
on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @02:18PM (#17500774)
Someone that you follow and also follows you.
Re:A Privacy Bomb Is About to Be Dropped on the California Economy and...
on Sunday July 01, 2018 @09:21PM (#17438718)
Which part?
Re:OpenBSD disables Intel's hyperthreading due to security concerns
on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @05:58PM (#17350612)
By continuing a security-first mindset that they've been establishing for decades?
Re:Google Won't Renew Contract for Project Maven, Pentagon Drone AI Im...
on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:45PM (#17209343)
Google is, after all, a company famously hurting for business and business prospects.
Re:We don’t need nearly as much protein as we consume
on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @06:35PM (#17139055)
Food tends to have some nice micronutrients that supplements lack. There's probably nothing wrong with adding supplements to a diet that is otherwise complete.
Re:Alexa and Siri Can Hear Hidden Commands
on Thursday May 10, 2018 @05:18PM (#17043054)
> So, security by obscurity?
Obscurity is a perfectly valid layer in a security system. It's just not sufficient as the primary security mechanism.
Re:To solve affordability crisis, Bay Area housing stock must grow 50%...
on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @10:18AM (#16967201)
Manhattan has a hard natural geographic limitation. Most other parts of the city aren't nearly as bad.
Re:Why Do Fantasy Novels Have So Much Food?
on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @03:25AM (#16856253)
I'll check it out. I'll also mention the (prose) web serial Worm, because it has many of the same qualities.
Re:Why Do Fantasy Novels Have So Much Food?
on Monday April 16, 2018 @04:21PM (#16852354)
I'm making my way through Wheel of Time right now. There probably could've been two fewer books if the descriptions of food and female characters' breasts were edited down.
Re:Protecting Security Researchers
on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @02:54PM (#16641212)
I don't know of any company that publicly advertises the bonuses they give (if any) to employees for finding vulnerabilities in their own software. That seems more like part of someone's job description.
Re:OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings
on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @04:42AM (#16527865)
Seems fine to me when "Reserve" is, as in this case, a proper noun.
Re:Bill Gates says crypto-currencies cause deaths
on Thursday March 01, 2018 @10:30AM (#16492716)
How many deaths has Windows "caused", through military uses etc.? How about PowerPoint?