KoftaBob

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by KoftaBob 4y ago
Scans of people's home layout definitely wouldn't be worthless , I just don't think that's the main motivator of the acquisition.
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Italy, Intel close to $5B deal for chip factory(reuters.com)
102 points by KoftaBob 4y ago|59 comments
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
The schema of your property is already publicly available in home schematics records, and they already have your address to look up. I think Occam's Razor applies here. iRobot is a profitable smart home product maker, their revenue&#x2
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
Another example of the frequently touted idea that to show conviction in a problem, you must either support the non-compromising right to do it (ex: 2nd amendment absolutists), or the non-compromising banning of it (the guy in this article)
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Russia and China have the highest exodus of high net worth individuals in 2022(henleyglobal.com)
1 points by KoftaBob 4y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
I've never seen a single public library filled with homeless people. What area is this?
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
For a free market to have "perfect competition", one of the requirements is that "Buyers have complete or perfect information (in the past, present, and future) about the product being sold and the prices charged by each firm
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
Whatever the real percentage is, those people deeply lack logic and critical thinking skills if they anticipate a civil war.
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
They can show ads to users in exchange for the users getting a service for free, without being incredibly intrusive in how they target ads.
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
Sidenote, if I understand correctly, the environmental/resource impact of water usage (outside of droughts) is that treating/filtering water uses electricity, not so much that the water itself is being wasted. Am I on the right tr
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
Yeah very very few people are going to follow that, the vast majority will find the idea disgusting and not nearly beneficial enough to justify it.
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
That line indicated to me that this was probably written during the height of the pandemic, not more recently.
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
> the company tends to get constant income via service thanks oil filters, other filters, and a whole bunch of stuff that needs to be replaced (assuming people take it to authorised service centers, which I assume most people do when the
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
Hasn't it been this way in most of the world for most of human history? Has it ever not been this way? Genuinely asking.
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
A common thing many tend to misunderstand, is that there's a difference between a free market, and a competitive market. The most competitive/efficient markets generally need the optimal amount of regulation to keep/get the
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All of the main problems with US healthcare(outofpocket.health)
1 points by KoftaBob 4y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
The term barbaric is used to describe someone's * opinion * of another person/culture/group of people. Anyone is free to describe anyone else's culture as barbaric, that's their opinion.
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One-night stands will be illegal at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar(marca.com)
182 points by KoftaBob 4y ago|390 comments
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New Chinese policy mandates reviewing comments on websites before publishing(neowin.net)
2 points by KoftaBob 4y ago|1 comments
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
> You can sell old high karma accounts for quite a lot of money, because those are best for such things. Why is the accounts karma important for something like that? Does the Reddit algorithm favor high karma accounts when deciding what
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
> almost every observable metric shows living standards have dropped significantly in the US over the past few decades What are some examples of the specific metrics you're referring to?
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Since '67, households making $150K+ (inflation adjusted) grew from 1.8 to 23.8M(twitter.com)
32 points by KoftaBob 4y ago|76 comments
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s First Year on the Job: Undoing Bezos-Led Overexpansion(wsj.com)
3 points by KoftaBob 4y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
If you look at his videos sorted by oldest first, it starts off as a gradually growing page about AI research. As more and more quality interviews are hosted with non-household names, his podcast starts getting viewership, and that allowed
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
The full study that the article links to has a more in-depth look on the processes in several cities: https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Barriers-to-Busine...
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
One of the things I'm starting to notice from cases like this, is that it seems like the current state of things is: - State & local government is a preemptively over-regulated system, putting up tons of obstacles before you can
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
I guess what I meant to say is that the way they’re using that funding is short sighted, ie the over hiring.
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
"I know this news is surprising, especially as you heard last month that the business is on track with record quarters and increasing customer demand. However, capital markets sentiment shifted to a more balanced approach between growt
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NY proposed regulations requiring crypto mining be powered by 100% renewables(cointelegraph.com)
2 points by KoftaBob 4y ago|1 comments
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
> If we go by barbarity the mongol empire, the timurids, and the japanese empire (talking the one from ww2) are all good contenders. It's interesting that 2/3 are central asian steppe empires/civilizations. What is it with

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