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by 988747 5y ago
My point is that landlords still do realize that "more money for the broker == less money for me", even if this money is not coming directly from their pocket. So they still have incentive to choose a cheap one.
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by 988747 5y ago
> at least 1000x the mass of the water Minor nitpick but: Typical glass of water weights 250g, but typical (even obese) human weight is very far from 250kg :) Guess you put one too many zero.
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by 988747 5y ago
Both of those things happen regardless of who formally pays the fee: one side of the transaction has a desirable good (apartment) the other side only has money to bargain with, so it's obvious from who's pocket the fee will come f
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by 988747 5y ago
Century ago United States tried to ban alcohol, and it simply didn't work - it is way too easy to produce it from innocent food products. Exotic mushrooms or artificial drugs are much easier to ban.
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by 988747 5y ago
In Poland we have 4 big telecoms and they compete like crazy with each other. I can't see why having 3 would be any different.
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by 988747 5y ago
No, I've never seen this. Except maybe in rare cases when the joke is really idiomatic and the translator screwed up the job by explaining joke rather than translating it.
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by 988747 5y ago
There are worse things than dubbing... In Polish TV all movie dialogs are read by a single person, typically male. I guess they came up with this horrible idea during communism, because dubbing was too expensive, and now we're stuck wi
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by 988747 5y ago
Which is why some forms of Buddhism are basically a cult of death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu
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by 988747 5y ago
1 million 8TB hard drives. you can probably put at least 100 of them in the single rack, which means 10.000 racks, put in 100x100 grid that means a single 300mx300m factory hall. Treat that as an upper bound, probably it is possible to pack
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by 988747 5y ago
Is 1TB/person really that common? I mean, my iPhone has 64GB of storage, mostly used for storing photos, which I might want to backup. Other than that, what else do I put on iCloud?
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by 988747 5y ago
I think it's because it's much harder to shop for groceries in the US. I mean: in Europe you have a small grocery store around the corner, in the US, with single-use zoning, your closest grocery store is probably 3 miles away. So,
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by 988747 5y ago
>> all our jobs would be outsourced to India I guess now, with arrival of Github Copilot the jobs outsourced to India will simply vanish.
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by 988747 5y ago
Which is perfect for creating "spying platform".
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by 988747 5y ago
But if you do "song-replacement" then the video is now edited, and loses all credibility.
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by 988747 5y ago
Professor Geoffrey Hinton would have 30+ years of experience with machine learning, I think.
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by 988747 5y ago
On iPhone Firefox has QR code support - you click on the address bar and tiny QR icon appears on the right. Maybe Firefox on Android does the same?
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by 988747 5y ago
Some scientists seem to disagree [1] They theory is basically that for the first few millions years of evolution we were eating mostly meat, and switched to more plant-based diet when we ran out of big animals to hunt, which was quite recen
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by 988747 5y ago
1. This is happening in Europe is, which is the place where they are already losing market share 2. If they agree to open their network in some markets, the rest of the world will soon demand the same.
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by 988747 5y ago
Tesla MARKET VALUATION has grown like crazy, but their sales and profits are lagging behind. And you're wrong: Tesla might have an advantage in infrastructure (Supercharges) but their technology is not far ahead of others, and their ma
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by 988747 5y ago
Total market valuation of Tesla is over $600B, so $3.6B is 0.6% of it.
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by 988747 5y ago
And let's not forget jewellery - some people still like wearing gold rings or bracelets.
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by 988747 5y ago
As opposed to Iluminati, who try to do the same with smart lightbulbs?
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by 988747 5y ago
Of course UBI will create new money - how else are you going to finance it? Giving each adult American $1000 per month would cost at least $2.5 trillion. Let's assume that UBI replaces all other Social Security spending - that's c
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by 988747 5y ago
I always thought that humans are more resistant to dehydration than all other mammals except camels. That (plus the fact that we do not have fur) is what gives us an advantage used in persistence hunting https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by 988747 5y ago
On the other hand: with UBI even the landlords in the middle of nowhere can demand higher rent, since everyone now has a spare $1000 per month Laws of economy are like laws of physics: you cannot cheat them. All the UBI will do is it will r
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by 988747 5y ago
> the definition of market in a digital economy is global. You do realize that global average GDP per capita is $11k? If you are in the US or Western Europe then the switch to "global economy" would probably push your salary d
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by 988747 5y ago
That's exactly what i did - for now I'm hosting it on OVH with their "Professional Email" service, which looks a lot like Outlook.
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by 988747 5y ago
I live in Europe, but past few years I've been working for US-based company, using their VPN a lot. Google wants to associate me with USA instead of my home country, and when I tried to fill support request to correct them their answer
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by 988747 5y ago
And somehow you did not become a world-class football player... UEFA does sponsor a lot of initiatives that aim not only to encourage kids to play football but also train them properly, helping them reach their full potential. Just ensurin
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by 988747 5y ago
Isn't that unnecessary quadratic algorithm (nested loops, m*l iterations, instead of m + l)?

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