comice

much harder than was expected.

yeah currently working with Azure. what a PITA.

I wonder if the extended downtime is just due to the on-call engineers waiting for their azure auth tokens to refresh within azure's own damn network.

The comment was about heroin. Were you offered heroin?

Is cocaine and marijuana available from the government too? If not, what relevance is your comment?

Was this the first and only time you were waiting at a bus stop in Switzerland? If so, perhaps a notable story, if not then we'll need more information to conclude how bad this thug problem really is in Switzerland.

The right and left people should probably work together in future ;)

it's definitely increased recently. despite it being at best inconslusive and at worse, false.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250530-are-seed-oils-...

Wait for them? or buy them?

I came across a player piano in a charity shop - they really wanted rid of it and I bought it for cash I had in my wallet, and much less than it cost have a piano movers deliver it for me (which was surprisingly cheap itself tbh!).

It's in quite some state of disrepair, with most of the tubes rotted. I'm (very slowly) restoring it. It's fun but it's a piano too, so that part needs restoring first, and then the player mechanism next. So many small parts to attend to.

Anyway, they can be quite cheap to get if you're happy with a broken one, because they're hard to move (they are even heaver than a normal piano!). Just try get one that at least works ok as a piano!

https://johnleach.co.uk/posts/2023/06/27/i-went-to-the-denti...

Democracy is the rule of the people.

Companies and banks aren't interested in investing where the people have power. They want to invest where the companies and banks themselves have power.

So long as the companies and banks can influence the gangsters, they don't care.

Worth keeping in mind that many plastic surgeons are in competition with drugs like Ozempic.

Not to be nitpicky but it's not quite that simple. BlueSky is a Public Benefit LLCs which is explicitly for-profit but does have some other limits - so it does count for something. I can't find exactly what BlueSky's public benefit is claimed to be though.

https://theintercept.com/2023/06/01/bluesky-owner-twitter-el...

"Liu, who answered some of my questions, did not respond when I asked for the exact language the Bluesky PBLLC used to describe its public benefit mission when incorporating the company. She also didn’t say whether the company would publish its annual benefits reports — reports that PBLLCs are required to create each year, but PBLLCs incorporated in Delaware, where Bluesky was incorporated, are not required to make them public."

That's not what MMT basically says.

MMT is more like: "printing money is not limited by the things you think it is".

This thunderf00t video made me avoid "Undecided by Matt Ferrell": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQDXqOfC61U

Nice to see that the haproxy people had spotted this kind of issue with http/2 and apparently mitigated it back in 2018: https://www.mail-archive.com/haproxy@formilux.org/msg44134.h...

if you want your stuff to stay online for 100 years, then the question should be: is this wordpress deal the most likely way to achieve that (within your budget).

Do you know of an option that is more likely to succeed, for the money?

I don't know what it means but it is his usual mail signature so not related to his statements here.

Personally, I put far more value on giving people an unparalleled (and in some cases life changing) experience than a few years of commuting.

but they will be doing both those things.

people who go to space don't stop driving cars when they get back.

I'm curious what candidates make it through.

compliant ones I would expect, which seems to be the aim of the process.

OP is very clearly able to make some guesses himself, as he does so in his comments.

yes very common. therefore it's highly unlikely to be what OP is asking about.

by this point, it's hard not to conclude that OriginalMrPink and I are being wilfully misunderstood here.

OP is interested in more details about the deal, particularly what power the investors might have, to ascertain for himself to what extent the investment might change the business.

this might be the weirdest conversation I've ever had on this weird site.

you are telling us what fly will be spending the money on.

what OP is asking is, what did the investors receive in exchange for giving fly the money.

yes and I reread it a few times in case I was missing something. I even turned my adblocker off in case it was removing the section that answers OP's questions but it didn't appear.

It's obviously perfectly fine if you don't want to or can't answer those questions and nobody is owed answers to them.

Just, you're known for a straight talking style so the omission is conspicuous.

as the OP says:

but what are you giving away for this? Are founders selling their shares? Where is the beef? $70M can be everything and nothing at the same time.

We’re all adults here, we can talk about this stuff, right?

proceeds to not really talk about it

The rational thing for a secret rule-breaker to do would be to publicly argue against secret rule-breaking at any realistic opportunity. So the more airgapstopgap argues against it the more fundamentally untrustworthy we should assume they are.

Have you read any moral philosophy before?

yes a fair bit, thanks for showing an interest in me!

Again, his follower Sam Bankman-Fried has demonstrated this very clearly

I think it's much clearer that Bankman-Fried had absolutely no expectation that his rule-breaking would meet Singers requirements and, you know, he was just lying for the many normal reasons people lie.

People who profess to believe in Singerian doctrine can not be trusted to mean what they are saying

in which case, nobody who believes in (this) Singerian doctrine should reveal that they do so.

Anyone telling you they follow this doctrine severely compromises their ability to actually execute on it. The rational thing for a Singerian secrecy advocate to do would be to publicly attack the doctrine, as you are doing.

yeah my autobiographical memory is like this, but I still remember bugs in software I fixed 20 years ago. I did feel bad about not remembering these things as I thought it was me not paying enough attention to my life, but recently realised that's not really true - was helpful to read that it's a recognised thing (and particularly affects autobiographical memory).

A bit sad, but as you say, I think I live in the moment and I'm generally quite happy. I don't remember many of those cringey and painful things (whereas my partner has well above-average autobiographical memory and is always replacing those cringey moments in her head). I still take photos and enjoy looking at them, to see all the fun stuff I've done :)

just going from your own quotes here, he describes the cases in which one might "apparently unacceptably" as "rare", and the example he gives has lots of conditions. and he believes you could never recommend the action to others.

so I don't think "any utterance" of his or his followers is inherently untrustworthy no.

they could have been intending to insert the advert into other places, which wouldn't be quite as outrageous (though I happen dislike them inserting them anywhere, but some places are definitely worse than others).

That sounds pretty bad but what do you mean by "browser chrome"? Isn't the claim here that they injected an ad into an actual page?