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by CivBase 5y ago
Can you elaborate on how you feel this sentence relates to catcalling or flirting?
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by CivBase 5y ago
The Risks and Limitations section is particularly interesting to me. It's like a time capsule of society's current fears about technology. They talk about many ways this tech could be misused, but I don't think they've e
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by CivBase 5y ago
Yeah. We could hold elections for union reps amd call the dues "taxes" and the union "government".
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by CivBase 5y ago
> When users click the “Order Online” button, they’re directed to a page that in many cases contains large links to food delivery companies, complete with their logos. The restaurant’s own site gets a link as well, though it’s a small, g
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by CivBase 5y ago
Kinze, Case IH, New Holland, Massey Ferguson... yeah, there are many competitors to John Deere in the tractor industry. Sort of like how there are many competitors to Apple in the smartphone industry. Saddly, "repairable" just isn
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by CivBase 5y ago
I have zero interest in crypto, but that was seriously the only ad I even remember. My friends and I talked through most of the ads (and even the game), but when that came on we all patiently watched it, waiting for the floating QR code to
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by CivBase 5y ago
> If it's not broken why do so many devs refuse to support it because things they code in Chrome don't work in it. This mentality is exactly why Internet Explorer was dominant for so long. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. There a
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by CivBase 5y ago
> it just means more people would be working in the farming industry and the cost might go up. You say that like it's a small thing. Keeping most of the population out agriculture and allowing them to produce other goods and service
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by CivBase 5y ago
> Do you agree that advertising on the Internet should exist? Yes, but not targeted advertising. The mechanism which serves the ad should not try to collect information on the user and tailor the ad to them. As far as I can tell, there
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by CivBase 5y ago
I doubt this has anything to do with "customers voting with their wallets". I suspect it's due to investors realizing the fragility of Spotify's business model - thanks to some (high profile? ish?) artists abandoning the
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by CivBase 5y ago
So basically "If you are a proponent of the free market economy, you shouldn't complain about things a company does as long as they're compliant with the letter of the law." That's an especially rich take considerin
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by CivBase 5y ago
The same could be said of critical reviews of HughesNet. Its value is usually in being the least bad of a limited, very bad options. That doesn't make the critisism any less valuable. Say I'm considering moving to a rural location
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by CivBase 5y ago
Some are. Some aren't. I know farmers on both sides. You can't paint massive demographics with broad strokes like that.
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You assume the customer has the information needed to make that decision before the purchase. In reality, most people don't have a reliable way to compare the repairability of products/brands before making a purchase. Even if they
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by CivBase 5y ago
It's not just replication that's the problem. It's poorly designed studies, intended from the start to support a narrative, whose results are poorly interpreted by members of the media for their own benefit.
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by CivBase 5y ago
I think it is generally a sign of maturity when a developer recognizes the flaws with their software and desires to improve them rather than piling on new features. Cynically asking "who wrote this shit?" is probably not a very ma
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by CivBase 5y ago
To put that into scale, here's some quotes from TSMC's Wikipedia article[0]: > In November 2020 officials in Phoenix, Arizona in the United States approved TSMC's plan to build a $12 billion chip plant in the city. [...] I
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by CivBase 5y ago
How so? The rich don't benefit from profits being tied up in a business account. If they want that money, they either have to receive it as immediate compensation or invest it in hopes of receiving even greater compensation in the futu
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by CivBase 5y ago
Investments and bonuses are not part of any of those categories. Profits don't just get dumped into a Scrooge McDuck-esque money pool. Businesses obviously keep some money on hand, but it doesn't benefit anyone involved to have th
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by CivBase 5y ago
Where do those profits go? Presumably TSMC doesn't just sit on it. Surely they either invest it back into their business to stay competitive or deal it out as compensation.
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by CivBase 5y ago
> Pull requests discourage trust. Good. You shouldn't trust my code until it's been reviewed. I don't even trust my own code until its been reviewed! I've gotten much better with time specifically because of the thi
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by CivBase 5y ago
> Pass a bill to provide additional support to schools? What do you suggest? More funding? The US has one of the most expensive public education systems per capita. We keep pouring more money into it and it keeps getting worse. I'm
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by CivBase 5y ago
Here's a few features I'd like to see for Notepad which I don't think would compromise its performance or minimalist design: - multi-cursor support - tab to indent selection - encoding selection - fully controllable
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by CivBase 5y ago
Same here, except I went with a self-hosted Emby server. For me, one of the real valuable features of GPM was the ability to sync playlists and albums locally on my PC or phone. Emby lets me do that, but it infortunately doesn't sync p
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by CivBase 5y ago
How do you enforce laws with zero police? Not arguing that the state of law enforcement in the US is acceptable... but it's a huge leap from there to zero police.
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I don't think that's true. https://brython.info/static_tutorial/en/index.html > In the <head> zone we load the script brython.js : it is the Brython engine, the program that will find and execut
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by CivBase 5y ago
One approach I've still never seen is native browser support for Python - something like what Google's Dart team did with Dartium. Of course that means your site would be inaccessible to anyone with a normal browser so you couldn&
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by CivBase 5y ago
Yeah, that's one thing that's always bugged me about startups and VC. There seems to be general agreement that two big problems we're facing in the economy are 1) a slow consolidation of businesses into a handful of mega-corp
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> The CMA said the acquisition could be used to deny or limit other platforms’ access to Giphy GIFs and drive more traffic to Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram. It also raised concerns that it could be used to require other platforms to
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by CivBase 5y ago
In some places it's far too hot or cold most of the school year? Or inclement weather is common. Or students have severe alergies. Or there isn't enough space for school buildings to be designed that way. Or the local air/noi

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