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It might indeed be easier to develop automated surveillance, reinforce police states, and isolate themselves, than create working robot-plumbers, automated 3 star worthy kitchens, and self-cleaning boat decks. And it might be cheaper for th
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Yes. But I’d be afraid we might reach mass unemployment before we get to robots performing well on infinite variations of what would otherwise be simple tasks, but in wide arrays of utterly unpredictable environments and situations.
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> If the answer is ’no one’, then I’m afraid we’ll need significant advances in automation and robotics […] I would also add that many activities would seem much simpler to automate, even today. Such as cobalt mining. And yet, we can’t s
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To me, a major obstacle on the path to UBI is that it seems to conflict with the interests of those who benefit from the current status quo. If everyone receives a sufficient basic income, who will fix their toilets or clean their yachts? I
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Still. Everyone will earn x more dollars, every landlord will know for a fact that, no matter what, all their tenants will at least earn x dollars, every house seller and every lending bank will know that every prospective buyer can afford
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And also massively implemented in the UK, with "council homes". An initiative that was thoroughly gutted in the 80s, which might have contributed to the current housing shortage.
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How do we prevent UBI from driving inflation and just becoming another way to funnel money to the rich?
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It’s also quite fun when you ask niche questions that haven’t been asked or answered yet ("How do I do X with Y?"), and just get downvoted for some reason. That’s when I stopped investing any effort into that community. Turned out
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The analogy starts breaking down when you start paying your home builder. I would suggest not relying on some joker’s code and write your own instead. Open source is open source. That’s all that’s promised, and we aren’t entitled to anythin
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Oh. That would be fun on the Vision Pro. Don’t know wether or not it would be productive, that remains to be seen, but it certainly would be fun.
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I see. It’s possible. I personally believe, considering their track record, it’s more likely they simply don’t care about it. More experienced macOS and iOS developers will probably be able to confirm that Apple basically only invests effor
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And just like the original PSP’s batteries, you would be able to jailbreak an iPhone simply using a jailbroken iPhone.
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> it’s documented reality that the elites practiced exactly the authoritarian response they used mere months before the virus outbreak. Isn’t that point of training and exercises? To be ready and have a plan when the situation you traine
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> deliberately blocking What do you mean by that?
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Do any cloud providers have this? AWS has slightly improved with their "budgets" and "budget actions", but it’s far from something I’d call a "spending limit".
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For those interested, Xcode lets you configure sounds to be played when a breakpoint is reached. It can also be set up to conditionally play a sound. Those breakpoints can also be configured to continue running the app instead of pausing. I
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Samuel L. Ipsum[0]: > Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That show's called a pilot. Then they show that show to the people who make shows, and on the strength of that one show they decide if they're going to
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Again, it exists. It’s not where the advertising money is. It’s not where most in-app purchases income can be found. Don’t believe me? Have a look at Meta’s ARPU on a per country basis. Over $50 in the US, around 15$ in Europe, $5 in Asia-P
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I’m not from the US. And while Android has the largest market share in Europe, it still doesn’t change the fact that the iOS app store captures most of the global app store revenue. Including in Europe.
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> So it doesn't feel like a benefit to start on the least diverse platform and then move on from there. On the contrary. What are you trying to validate? That enough people are interested in your product. Anything that gets in the w
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> In terms of forethought, I can't imagine anyone outside of the US/EU developing an app solely for an iOS user base other than creating an MVP. And then even still, once you have proof it can work why build something that inte
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The Colgate one is probably still based on Kolibree[0]. I remember the KL prefix. I don’t know about the Oral-B app, but the Colgate / Kolibree at least had some mostly accurate mapping of brushed areas (when using one of their "s
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It’s also great for key-value store like DynamoDB. Much cleaner than compound keys prefixed with a timestamp or iso date (or worse: wasting a secondary index on timestamps).
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It also means no self-sustaining project can be built with it. Which to me is something important to know when thinking about what can be built and the amount of effort it represents. For better or worse, that ultimately shapes what can rea
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The Creative Commons seems to be Non-Commercial [0], meaning it’s very interesting and quite inspiring, but ultimately useless outside of research and side projects. The Apache parts seem to be dependencies. [0]: https://github.c
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Or that the writers were oblivious, and the documentation shouldn’t be relied upon.
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Or a key-value store, if the size is limited and speed is essential.
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You also need strict QA and minimal deviation both from specs and between engines. That was another issue the Soviets had a hard time dealing with.
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And yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41164240 It isn't much, but I'd like to see that as a start.
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I will remember that one.

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