Fargren

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by Fargren 4y ago
I'm not totally sure that's allowed under GDPR. I know you can't say "consent to data collection or you can't use the website" [1]. So I doubt "consent to data collection OR PAY or you can't use the w
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by Fargren 4y ago
I have a hard time reconciling this comment. If you gave each homeless person a house/apartment, in what way wouldn't you have solved homelessness? Are you saying many/most of them would abandon, destroy or otherwise not use
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by Fargren 4y ago
Taking full responsibility would be liquidating his assets to make all customers as whole as possible, even if it leaves him destitute. Lack of responsibility/consequences for the capitalist class is the root cause for many of the soci
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by Fargren 4y ago
Emulation is legal. Freely sharing roms of copyrighted content isn't. You can dump a cartridge you own and emulate it on a device you own.
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by Fargren 4y ago
Maybe not in wealthy countries. In Argentina hacked PS2s are still pretty commonly used, and repair shops service them (OK, maybe not anymore? I left six years ago). Jail-breaking absolutely extends the lifetime of consoles.
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by Fargren 4y ago
I don't like this argument. It's true that without copyright we would not have the current status quo, that much is obvious. But what we could have instead if everyone was allowed to remix any content and create things freely base
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by Fargren 4y ago
The failure that is being talked about is the fact the we reward risk-taking much more than we reward effort. No one is saying there was no risk involved, rather what we're saying is the proportion of how much we reward risk vs. how mu
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by Fargren 4y ago
Everything that happens or is done in public is political, and the more it affects the public the more political it is. C̶l̶i̶m̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶n̶g̶e̶ The climate emergency is a deeply political topic as it affects basically everyone.
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by Fargren 4y ago
I was trying to be flippant, which is fun for me but obviously not very helpful, so let me rephrase my answer. I agree there is a non-zero amount of grains that is healthy to consume, but your answer doesn't say anything about what tha
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by Fargren 4y ago
Even more pedantic: The right amount is 0. I did include that case in my answer.
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by Fargren 4y ago
That's a vacuous argument. It's true for literally anything. an excessive consumption of water is bad, drinking the right amount of clean water is solely beneficial an excessive consumption of eggs is bad, eating the right amount
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by Fargren 4y ago
Thanks for this, I had a pending action item to look for something like this for my robot. On a spin-off topic from this project: it says on his website > The Apache-2.0 license is a very permissive license and a lot of work is being sha
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by Fargren 4y ago
One thing that I have noticed about Spanish natives in my five years of living in Spain, is this frequent comparison with every other richer country. By almost every measure, life in Spain is great. Public transport is great, but you compar
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by Fargren 4y ago
Wouldn't manufacturing tend to move to the next cheapest place, rather than to the USA? Not that I know where that would be, maybe India or Latin America?
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by Fargren 4y ago
If they stop calling it "buying", I would consider it an improvement.
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by Fargren 4y ago
In general, I'm much more concerned with private actors than state actors. I'm aware of multiple ways in which companies use information to try to extract money from me, and they actively make my life worse in the attempt. I have
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by Fargren 4y ago
Living in Spain, I love trains and take them over airplane when it's an option. However, trains are often around twice as expensive as flying for may routes. I know nothing about trains, but intuitively I would expect the opposite, and
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by Fargren 5y ago
What do you mean by install their own software? What are people installing on their Kobos? I bought mine just because Kindle doesn't have ePub support[0]. Now I'm curious what else I could do with it. [0]I know about Calibre. I&#x
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by Fargren 5y ago
That's one issue. Another more complicated issue is which country's legal authority does the owner of the data have to respond to. If the answer is USA, then the data can be requested by this government regardless of where it&#x27
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by Fargren 5y ago
> You could also say that the user is opting in to loading a font from google when he actively sends the request to google. Consent is not consent unless it's informed consent. If the user was not made aware of the request in a clea
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by Fargren 5y ago
Different places have different definitions of good service. For me good service is a server that is there quickly to take my order, brings food at when it's ready (bringing all dishes at the same time unless requested otherwise), real
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by Fargren 5y ago
I use notepad++, but it nags me for updates more often than I would like. If I only need a quick dirty note, notepad is still better.
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by Fargren 5y ago
Oh, same name so these are almost certainly related. I didn't know about that.
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by Fargren 5y ago
Reminds me of Masa Crítica in Buenos Aires, a monthly event where lots (probably around a hundred, maybe two?) of bikers would pedal from the city center to the outskirts, to show support for the rights of people using bicycles.
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by Fargren 5y ago
> Lack of targeting data makes it financially impossible until a company reaches a certain size. This seems to be a premise you are working with, but as someone with my feet in Europe, it just is not true. Lack of targeting data may mak
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by Fargren 5y ago
> He asked me a data structure question and asked me solve it on the white board, but then he got busy with his laptop. It's bad that he didn't tell you this, but it's expected of an amazon interviewer to write a more or l
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by Fargren 5y ago
Well, and free housing and food. Possibly clothes. And some modicum of entertainment. Then we don't need UBI.
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by Fargren 5y ago
Aren't inspectors more expensive than gates? You don't have to pay a salary to the gates.
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by Fargren 5y ago
I've often wondered, with enough knowledge to actually know, what would happen if renting housing was made illegal. I imagine prices would drop precipitously, maybe to a point where everyone can buy?
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by Fargren 5y ago
Yes, you understand correctly. The minimum amount to withdraw is an amount that would cost 1000 USD to buy. When withdrawing that amount, you would get 350 USD

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