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by IMTDb 3y ago
You are free to choose an android phone or an Apple one; that part of the market is absolutely free. Apple is the top seller of smartphones, I believe this qualifies as "competing successfully".
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by IMTDb 3y ago
> Enough sunlight lands on the Earth every 2 minutes to power humanity for a year [1]. ~500-600GW of solar will be deployed in 2024 globally, and we are accelerating to 1TW deployed annually [2]. Enough sunlights lands on earth every two
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by IMTDb 3y ago
All data are local; this allows you to use sql.js in the browser with persistence. Unless the developer adds synchronisation primitive to sync data between multiple clients all data are local.
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by IMTDb 3y ago
> It may seem odd to double account, but the goal of carbon accounting is not to ascribe blame to an emission It's definitely how it is used by activists / NGO etc tho [1]. Another strange practice is to scale the CO2 productio
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by IMTDb 3y ago
That’s not event close to ramen profitable unless you live in a very very low COL country.
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by IMTDb 3y ago
If it's because of their achievements ? Misplaced jealousy !
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by IMTDb 3y ago
Depression is a complex disease that can be caused my many factors. It's actually more a whole class of illnesses. As a consequence, there is no such thing as "the best antidepressant"; some antidepressant work on some of t
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by IMTDb 3y ago
> but the main goal is to free the people from the oppressive occupation! The Hamas charter that was used during the last elections in Palestine explicitly calls for the total destruction of Israel. To reach that goal, unrestricted jihad
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by IMTDb 3y ago
> made life worse for many people, until a revolt/change came about to prevent exploitation/share the newfound efficiency gains etc. The question is thus: how do we ensure that the new gains are shared from the start; not &quot
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by IMTDb 3y ago
Usually the correct course of action is to just... say nothing then ? Or at least take some caution. But hey, it makes for a less sensationalist headline. The thing is that trustworthiness is typically something you look for in a reviewer,
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by IMTDb 3y ago
I mean, Luddites had the exact same kind of fear about the steam machines, yet the conditions of the workers have significantly improved with the industrial revolution. It took some time, but virtually all measurable metrics have improved:
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by IMTDb 3y ago
This is comparable to Apple timeline. The iPhone 6, released sept 2014 got a security update earlier this year.
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by IMTDb 3y ago
We also use to say that compression is the science of prediction. Scientific models are also tools used to predict the results of experiments. So if AI is able - through « compression » - to build models that help us predict experiments and
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by IMTDb 3y ago
And there are people who don't like to have all their meeting through zoom when the amenities provided by the company allow for much more comfortable and productive options. Choice is indeed key.
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by IMTDb 3y ago
Aka: extortion
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by IMTDb 3y ago
Then English has a vocabulary of 27 words: A -> Z + space
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by IMTDb 3y ago
> so there's no incentive to make your life easier as a candidate Especially because lowering the barrier usually means getting more low effort application. People either put a lot of effort on few applications and invest significan
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by IMTDb 3y ago
> I think this is a poor analogy. The better comparison would be if people were buying my apples and extracting the seeds to plant their own trees, then selling their own apples at a lower price than me and putting me out of business The
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by IMTDb 3y ago
During the pandemic a ton of people saw an opportunity to move in a low COL area and get a remote dev job. The market is flooded with people with no degrees / bootcamp willing to work remotely. This was kinda working while companies
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by IMTDb 3y ago
Only if the lights are stopping the car but not the cyclist. If you apply regulations that are designed to favour one contestant, it's not longer a fair comparison.
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by IMTDb 3y ago
Most payments are done using SEPA mandates. The money automatically leaves your account, but you still get a piece of paper with the details. I don’t remember paying a single bill manually for the past 3 years at least. Credit card is paid
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by IMTDb 3y ago
> You may be extremely happy you block 10000 bot requests for every false positive that’s a real human. But let’s say that false positive was a potential customer that would only have paid if they weren’t blocked, and now you just saved
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by IMTDb 3y ago
> Child abuse has been accelerated greatly by technology Any source for that statement ? My understanding is that child abuse - while still existing - is at an all time low in modern western societies. Children working in brothel used to
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by IMTDb 3y ago
> there should be a multiplier on that fee for any company which lays off US citizens with that skill in the past N years Under that proposal I would probably not hire a US citizen at all if a foreigner is available. Sure the foreigner
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by IMTDb 3y ago
Any. Eg of what's happening next to me: a tunnel has to be closed for repairs, so it's becoming way harder for customers to access your location. As a consequence you are loosing a lot of customer for whom it's really inconve
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by IMTDb 3y ago
Any charity/program designed to slow down population growth.
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by IMTDb 3y ago
Funding is the easiest part. Workers agree to bootstrap the business themselves by loaning their own money to the coop at a pre-agreed rate. Salaries are reduced until that loan is paid back. Increase the loan rate if not enough people are
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by IMTDb 3y ago
You are talking about a 5% reduction. No one even talks about a "round of layoff for hard time" when the number is that low. What would it look like if the company had to downsize by ~30% ? Would people still be able to pay rent ?
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by IMTDb 3y ago
When talking about the model itself, success could be defined as the proportion of business operating under that model. If the model is successful for all parties involved, it would be logical that more and more restaurant move to a co-op s
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by IMTDb 3y ago
Yeah, the dude checks all the red flags. He needs an enabler/management position with "senior" in the title (at 34), and of course we have the combo of remote + baby at home mixed in. When asked to actually sell software hims

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