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by Sebb767 3y ago
People playing the lottery aren't donating money, they are buying the mental image of winning it - just listen to them daydreaming about what they will buy and how they split the money. They might also, with a minuscule chance, have an
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by Sebb767 3y ago
Turns out that a highly competitive position is mostly staffed by highly competitive people. Not a big surprise there. I'm actually surprised the rate is that low, but it is probably skewed by smaller businesses, where the leadership p
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by Sebb767 3y ago
I'm actually surprised that 18% aren't. I always assumed that all McDonalds are franchises, with a few exceptions for halo stores and the likes.
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If their plan is to get online via the second location, it's likely that said location has a much beefier upstream or built-in filtering, allowing them to absorb these amounts of traffic without being null-routed. More likely, though,
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by Sebb767 3y ago
Because they stopped visiting a mostly useless site.
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It's probably a drop shipping operation, generating mass listings. Or it's from a foreign vendor, asking ChatGPT to provide a title in English. There's a lot of things wrong with this listing, but laziness isn't one of t
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by Sebb767 3y ago
From your link: > The anti-subsidy investigation covers battery-powered cars from China, so also includes non-Chinese brands made there, such as Tesla (TSLA.O), Renault (RENA.PA) and BMW (BMWG.DE). It is also unusual in that it is brough
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by Sebb767 3y ago
> They can't really shut Google Cloud down and still be charging people to exit. I'm not quite sure about this. Obviously they don't do it now, but I wouldn't have put it beyond them.
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by Sebb767 3y ago
I'm somewhat surprised I'm affected, since I bought my laptop about 18 months ago. But at least their detection and notification seems quite fast, so kudos to them.
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Framework Data Breach
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by Sebb767 3y ago
Would the CVR have helped in this specific situation? I'd assume this was a flaw of the plane and the lack of recording is probably not that big of an issue.
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by Sebb767 3y ago
The behavior I know is that (both iOS and Android) will open the map in foreground even when locked (for example by being turned off and on again via the power button), but it will never go to stand by and lock by itself as long as navigati
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by Sebb767 3y ago
To save some time for the rest of us: > If we guess a President will serve on average about 6 years, then [1 in (6 times 4.0 million =) 24 million] babies will someday be President.
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by Sebb767 3y ago
Even assuming that this would increase the price by 5% (which did not happen and would be quite a stretch goal), the sender would have needed to trade in over 20 million USD just to break even. People have bet money on stupider ventures, su
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by Sebb767 3y ago
Now this might be my layman knowledge, but "being a laser" seems to imply "a very small spot", no?
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> I think ease of use matters, in part because trivial (in the sense of "easy" / "taking little time") deceptive acts are easier to justify for otherwise-ethical actors. . On the other hand, the tools to do this
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by Sebb767 3y ago
> I think what he is saying is that there's a dealership service visit immediately before an inspection. Exactly. A car brought to the inspection by the dealership will basically never fail it. And expensive luxury cars are far more
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by Sebb767 3y ago
> Many of these Tesla TÜV inspection faults boil down to surface rust on the braking discs. Unless your inspector has a particularly bad day, you will not fail the inspection for this. They might also simply ask you to do a five minute d
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by Sebb767 3y ago
There are a few important caveats here: TÜV is no longer the sole inspection authority and a lot of people and dealerships switched away from it, especially when they try to save money. This might favor cheaper brands in this statistic. Add
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by Sebb767 3y ago
Imagine how much time we could use if we also skip other wasteful activities like eating and sleeping! :-)
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Which might be true, but even harder to fix than the feature in question.
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by Sebb767 3y ago
All of these statements seem quite similar to me. Especially "we are aiming to restore RSS support" is even less committal. To me, Pauls post reads like a pretty direct promise to restore that functionality and not like business s
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by Sebb767 3y ago
Wouldn't it be more strange to pour time and money into developing a material where you don't have immediate use-cases?
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by Sebb767 3y ago
> Widgets are definitely not as good yet, though That's true. The seem to especially be confused with `,` and `.` in fractional numbers; sometimes it recognizes `,` , sometimes it doesn't, but it does use `,` in the results. Th
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by Sebb767 3y ago
I think you might have responded to the wrong thread :-)
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> The concern about wireless inefficiency is very well-placed, however, in the case of electric cars. I don't think so. For one, with EVs you are paying pretty directly for the charge and nearly 50% extra for the hassle of not plugg
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by Sebb767 3y ago
If the police has that much power, they'd probably just find another pretense to arrest your relatives, if the need to put pressure on you arises.
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I think OP means that you enter your password to unencrypt your keyring once at boot or first use and then keep the keys in RAM. So you could not access the data when you steal the laptop while powered off, making it practically as safe as
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by Sebb767 3y ago
> Is there a scenario where intentionally crashing a vehicle on property that you do not have permission to crash a vehicle on isn't reckless endangerment/reckless driving? Arguably whenever you could expect that not crashing t
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> I'm surprised Spotify wouldn't take this to the next step and, borrowing a page from the old industrialists, try to vertically integrate and start their own music label and talent scouting arm. Probably because music is sprea

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