Maarten88

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by Maarten88 5y ago
The people of Madagascar would probably contend both "when" and "if", but they don't have time to discuss climate change, they are busy trying to find food. Closer home, in California, there are 3000+ families who d
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> What's disastrous is that millions of people can't afford artificially expensive energy to heat their homes and commute to work. Do you think it would be more affordable to relocate some populations and rebuild a few cities a
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> After all, we did. And we destroyed much of the planet doing it. Maybe it was a bad idea when we did it too. When joy becomes an argument for leniency you imply there is really no urgency. That is probably why the environmental movemen
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> In my experience USA lot less corrupt than most other countries. Lobbying overall is a net good thing for a democratic society. You rightly mention lobbying and corruption together. But somehow you miss that they are on the same contin
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by Maarten88 5y ago
> The ideal solution is, drivers being given the choice. Choice is real only when you have options. Here, the option of having a fixed-income, fixed-time taxi driver job will get out-competed in the long term because it is more expensive
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by Maarten88 5y ago
We have those too in the Netherlands. Even small startup companies can apply and receive these tax breaks when they do technical innovation ('WBSO'). There are also tax-discounts for large and profitable companies ('innovatie
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by Maarten88 5y ago
> How much more honest a relationship it might be if Facebook charged for its wares. The author seems to think that Facebook would suddenly stop doing all the other things it does to make money, once a user would pay. Of course they woul
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by Maarten88 5y ago
Yes, it is really maddening: they make you consent to their "legitimate interest" cookies, conflating legal terms to confuse people into accepting everything. Ad-tech companies get more and more emboldened lately. They see that th
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by Maarten88 6y ago
I'm also a big Formula 1 fan, they also sponsor some of the best surfers like Kai Lenny and awesome events like King of the Air. I enjoy Red Bull, the marketing. Not so much the product. The problem I have with them is that they make t
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by Maarten88 6y ago
Yes, at home I have choice of computers and usually I take a desktop. Just add a good webcam and headset (or microphone) and it's the perfect work-from-home system. Much faster than any laptop, better ergonomics and cheaper too. And yo
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The state could nationalize the company, and provide electricity as a govenment-run utility?
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> How does that square with AZ charging SA "nearly 2.5 times higher than most European countries"?[0][1] At least you are getting it. We Europeans seem to have pre-funded production and now it turns out much of it is shipped to
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Asking the question is answering it.
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by Maarten88 6y ago
There was a discussion on the experiments by Stanley Milgram about obedience to authority, and it applies here. When a consultant gets hired for advise or to "get stuff done", and the result of this is massive profits with a secon
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by Maarten88 6y ago
I learned about these experiments at university some 30 years ago, and found this to be a very powerful lesson. Of course these experiments were unethical, but I have seen nothing since that disproves the outcome and I firmly believe that a
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by Maarten88 6y ago
The free tier users? I'm amazed actually at what the free tier offers to small startups. We have hundreds of gigabytes worth of docker images in the gitlab package registry that we can't even delete/cleanup properly (just kee
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On top of that the fraud seems to actually have been committed mostly by the side that is accusing the other side of it. Which makes sense, when you hear from your news sources that the other party is committing massive fraud, that gives so
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by Maarten88 6y ago
> Or is there a better open source program? XFLR 5. A nice graphical UI using XFOIL for 2D section CFD and basic algorithms for 3D flow analysis too. http://www.xflr5.tech/xflr5.htm
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by Maarten88 6y ago
> A lot of the Seattle area only has street parking on residential streets. I'm curious how these folks are ever going to go full EV. It is funny how people in the US expect exactly nothing from their government/city. Does nobo
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by Maarten88 6y ago
No, it's wealth tax. I know what taxes I'm paying. Maybe my wording is not very precise, and I'm not a tax lawyer, but I do know founder shares remain valued nominally and you are not forced to sell anything even when your co
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I'm sure that, given the right incentives, that 'objectively very hard problem' would be 95% solved very quickly. Of course there are corner cases that are really hard, but that is no different than audio/video recogniti
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Yes, also it's incredible how it is possible to fully automatically recognize and block music and video's, and go after and punish the perpetrators, but this seems wholly impossible for blatant disinformation and lies on the same
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> If I start a company and it gets valued at 30 million dollars, why should the government be allowed to force me to sell my company to pay their wealth tax? I don't know the specifics of this proposal. But I live in a country that
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> research ads without risking privacy of people ...so you go along in the doublespeak. Please elaborate, because the article says it's without merit and also rather rich coming from Facebook. > violating terms of service prohibi
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> This may be par for the course with Facebook, but it's not something we as a society can afford to tolerate any longer. Those are strong words, but I'm afraid the "we as a society" are not as much of a power as one
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No, head of CDC fired in 3, 2, 1, ..
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<sarcasm>Yes, read the official docs and move along, nothing to see here. Especially never talk to any ad-tech companies. They are worth billions, but really do not offer anything on top of what Apple and Google have in their docs abo
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Click the IAB Europe tab and try to decline now.
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There are third party Ad-Tech companies that will sell IDFA - cookie combinations they have gathered from their "partners". Think it through: you read this very article, and many cookies on that page you will have consented to wil
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by Maarten88 6y ago
> I don't see any reference here to IDFA being combined with browser cookies? You should read again. Under "Determining Unique Users" you can see they link every "device id" to a unique user ID. A device id can b

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