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Yeah how can you launder money with ATMs, all the cash in and out is accounted for in the system.

They are scam but not for money laundering. Just scam.

I was working on a Grab competitor, you would be surprised about the number of subsystems running there.

There are entire teams that are working on just internal services that connect some internal tools together.

There was also very little effectivity and efficiency in the era of cheap capital so there were tons of talent wasted on nonsense. Uber built their own slack for a while!! (before just going to mattermost)

People always ask who actually makes money on Uber... I think it's not the cab drivers, not the investors, who makes money is the programmers. It's a transfer of money from Saudis to programmers.

Well it was, anyway.

This really feel like a supervillain origin story though

Now Sam should make a green goblin mask and learn how to fly around town

In my experience Teams is great for calls (both audio and video), horrible for chat. I guess because it's built on top of Skype codebase? (just a guess)

But it's out of the scope for this discussion.

Didn't they do some sort of cryptocurrency thing. How is that going?

edit: it was called MobileCoin right

edit2: they do

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057625692-In...

is that generating any revenue?

(HN capitalised CVs to CVS, not me.)

I don't get it, didn't Google sold their domain business?

It doesn’t surprise me that twitter engagement went down. It’s worse in every imaginable way (except for community notes, those are nice I guess)

What does surprise me is how little it decreased. The site is barely usable now and, the usage did not go THAT down?

Epic is underperforming

Ahhh how did I miss that!!

That is amazing. Goodbye gorilla mux.

Didn’t notice that.

But makes sense.

sr.ht does that

I don’t find it very user friendly (well, at all), but if you want a git forge that does that, you can use it.

that reminds me of the famous “don’t anthropomorphize Larry Ellison” talk

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246

this “assault on senses” is normal in these Chinese/Asian shopping apps, even the more “standard” ones. I know more the SEA ones than Chinese ones but they are all like this.

I don’t know who likes it, but it obviously works, as everyone over there is doing it.

Funnily enough, literally the previous article from the same series praises Margaret Thatcher.

Lol.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/how-the-ownership-re...

I was as shocked as you, but then I remember, the paleo-conservative right doesn’t like big tech as they are seeing them as censors.

I honestly didn’t know that, thanks for telling me.

However shrimps do need to be cooked alive, right?

There is a gradient, I think

I’m fine with for example cooking lobsters or prawns and other seafood that needs to be basically cooked alive. Because they are less sentient and less closer to human. I’m not fine with cooking chicken alive. There is a grey area about eating dogs and cats. I am generally fine with that, other people aren’t.

Monkeys are closer to human.

I think some amount of experimentation is necessary and can be good for science experiments. Monkeys are not human after all, never will be; but they are close.

I think excessive and useless experiments are bad.

But there is a gradient and I guess it’s hard to define. I don’t think sacrificing one monkey is evil. I also don’t think that needlessly torturing it is fine. There are gradients.

You can’t make parallel with experiments on human in 2nd world war though; that is a mockery of those people actually tortured back then. Saying that they are on monkey level

(I am not who you are replying to)

why can’t they just give them oculus pro glasses and make them meet in horizon?

see: flowtype by facebook.

I think it died out because no javascript dev wanted to learn OCaml.

The Closure Compiler is so much more than just "JavaScript but with types". It also provides minification, provided a namespacing system, additional standard library and such.

That’s literally what the article is about if you read a few sentences more

What a fascinating article.

I never knew about these treasure hunts - and while I am not at all the type to get into it, the background with all the backstabbing and all the people going wild is fascinating. Both this and the Masquerade case.

There are many graphics editors that still support eps (Illustrator, Affinity stuff, Inkscape); the format is well described and as it basically does not move anymore, the existing convertors will work, like ghostscript (although the Affero GPL is annoying but thats not for this discussion)

It’s much better than to have docx or photoshop.

It’s just removed from the base OS for probably both licensing and security reasons.

yeah that’s a good point

OpenOffice is dead but who cares? ASF doesn’t really spend any funds on it, it doesn’t eat away any attention, doesn’t really fork the community because nobody really cares about ooo, at least there is something stable there. I don’t know, there are things that gets me from my chair more.

Like the weirdness with “libreoffice versions” forced by collabora. (I understand, collabora spends a lot of money developing libreoffice so they want some money back on support, but it is so hard to understand those versions…)

edit: ugh fixed the company name. sorry

It doesn’t look malicious, it seems he is randomly looking and fixing the codebase and the ASF lets him because who cares.

I have just bought aranet4, a CO2 meter, which uses eink and I think partly because of that has a ridiculously long 5 year battery life.

But I understand why… it’s 169eur, the cheaper CO2 meters are just much cheaper.

call Sarah Connor

If it was so profitable there would be many copycats, like with their streaming business.

I don’t know of any copycat.

you can set up a new state the way it always worked.

With either a large swath of population to break away, or with a large army to take over some other population’s land.

I mean even Joshue needed to kill all the Canaanites to get to Israel (it’s the point of Exodus that “your people will live in other people’s houses”).

I don’t think Jedlička is 21st century’s Alexander the Macedonian.