SifJar

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by SifJar 7y ago
I think you may misunderstand the concept of "Payment for Order Flow"
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by SifJar 7y ago
If you're buying stocks (outside of an IPO), you're not actually providing capital to a company though? You're just buying the shares from someone else & somewhere back in the chain of ownership, someone provided capita
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by SifJar 7y ago
> nobody care > _I_ only use (emphasis added) Just because you don't use those features, doesn't mean nobody cares about them
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by SifJar 7y ago
And those things that float in the bath!
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by SifJar 7y ago
> Desktop support is also extremely spotty. Arguably it's less important there if one of the main motivations is that on mobile browsers will display a numeric keypad instead of full keyboard (which is my impression from skimming th
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by SifJar 7y ago
Ah, well of course they do. Doesn't mean they should be allowed to :)
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by SifJar 7y ago
explicit consent... like what is obtained by browser before allowing notifications or camera access etc.? I don't see how it's different?
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by SifJar 7y ago
> lack of elegant ways to present this compliance Seems like moving it into the browser permissions model could be a good way - in a similar way to websites can ask for permission to show notifications or use your camera, and the browser
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by SifJar 7y ago
As I understand it, this is effectively what CFDs (Contracts For Difference) are, which seem to be offered by a lot of discount brokerages etc. (at least here in UK, not sure if CFDs exist in US) A bet between trader & brokerage that th
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by SifJar 7y ago
It's worth noting that it is possible to edit other people's answers. So it is possible to correct answers with incorrect or dangerous information. With sufficient "rep" (2000, where an upvote on one of your questions or
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by SifJar 7y ago
No pedestrian makes the decision to get hit by a drunk driver, which is the more relevant situation in the context of this post I think
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by SifJar 7y ago
I think Google Pay does this too. Last time my debit card expired & a new one got issued, I went to replace the one stored in Google Pay; it was only in the fraction of a second between hitting the delete button & the card being rem
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by SifJar 7y ago
If you make clear boundaries, there are clear boundaries. If you ignore all work emails outside of your working hours, the problem is "solved" (ideally don't have work emails etc. on any device you use outside of "work h
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by SifJar 7y ago
What happens if you go back to photos via the task switcher instead of home screen icon? (I don't use iOS so I can't check) Personally, I'd prefer that going back via the task switcher maintains state but going back via home
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by SifJar 7y ago
I also don't work in Internet ads, but my assumption would be that advertisers are unwilling to pay for a static ad to be displayed to e.g. 100k users when they could instead pay for ad that uses tracking to display only to the 500 use
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by SifJar 7y ago
lightweight/less bloat, lower resource requirements, generally reasonably cheap hardware
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by SifJar 7y ago
The buybacks themselves would also presumably result in capital gains for the sell side (ideally) & thus taxation?
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by SifJar 7y ago
I don't think this answers the question?
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by SifJar 7y ago
The number is the "section" of the manual: https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ My guess is make(1) is to distinguish from make(1p) - http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/
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by SifJar 7y ago
One killer feature you get with asciinema & not with an MP4 is that people watching it can copy & paste from your recording. So they don't have to type out the same command you typed, they can just copy it into their terminal d
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by SifJar 7y ago
> Speaking of cultural, the jargon of the language is didactic and annoying. All over the documentation references to monadic or niladic or diadic functions. Also calling things verbs or adverbs or nouns is annoying and unhelpful. For wh
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by SifJar 7y ago
highly unlikely it'll go that route IMO, the messages in google group are just wishful thinking
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by SifJar 7y ago
At present, there is a hard requirement, but from what I've heard, it is to be lifted in future
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by SifJar 7y ago
I might be misinterpreting your message, but if not - Shakti is not made by Kx, which AW has been bought out of. Shakti is a new company (although AFAIK everyone there is ex-Kx)
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by SifJar 7y ago
adding git tooling for a specific file type seems like a slippery slope, no? (assuming you are saying that git itself should have this tooling built in - if you mean some sort of addon, fair enough but then everyone who uses jupyter & g
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by SifJar 7y ago
> Just use a cookie or something. Someone downloads their input, clears their cookies before submitting solution & then their solution is "wrong" because they're using an outdated input. Seems like tying you to somethi
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by SifJar 7y ago
https://sourcehut.org/blog/2019-10-23-srht-puts-users-first/
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by SifJar 7y ago
Related: Chrome extension specifically for this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/no-stress-booking/...
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by SifJar 7y ago
> That's why DRM-free distribution is a non-starter for virtually every media company, because it saves them money. Why is it saving them money a bad thing?
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by SifJar 7y ago
"if we can't profit from you, you can't use our services" seems like a fairly reasonable justification from a business' perspective

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