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by Slartie 7y ago
South Korea however did that one thing that the US is not doing: testing the hell out of people. Oh, and communicating well-measured responsive actions honestly to the public. That one thing, too.
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by Slartie 7y ago
There have already been missed deaths that were later attributed to Covid-19 in the US. Since the fatality profile of Covid-19 closely matches the fatality profile you expect anyway (people are more likely to die when they are old or have p
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by Slartie 7y ago
I'd only call that "fair" if they assume the position of an actual employer at the same time, offering all the usual benefits of an employment to their employee drivers, especially including a minimum income. If they did, the
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by Slartie 7y ago
I think a certain regularity of work is not a necessity for an employer-worker relationship to be exactly that. And at a second thought, AFAIK Uber does even expect drivers to perform "regular" work - not "regular" as in
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by Slartie 7y ago
Something to consider: even if it was "just like a flu" (which it isn't, enough commenters already pointed out the differences, but let's just for the sake of my argument assume that it was), it is a matter of fact that
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by Slartie 7y ago
I would love if some absurdly rich person started an initiative donating life-changing money, like a few hundred millions or so, to any expert who finds himself in a situation being asked questions like this by the president and who then st
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by Slartie 7y ago
That is probably why they capitalized "NOT": To deflect from the fact that they do NOT know anything. And for extra security they added "widely", which makes this statement stretchable after-the-fact to fit any imaginabl
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by Slartie 7y ago
This is laughable. Just renting another box at Hetzner with the specs necessary for their Gitlab would be around $100-$150 per month. That is maybe 1-2k per year. With 10tb/month traffic included already, IIRC, additional at a very rea
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by Slartie 7y ago
And most people would be irritated and ring stuff up into the wrong "tab" multiple times a day, because people are bad at multitasking. There is a reason why most POS software is intentionally restrictive and violating many common
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by Slartie 7y ago
Nobody wants to update a POS system "in realtime" - meaning while someone is actively using it and processing transactions. Just like nobody wants prices of items to change mid-transaction. It is impossible to explain these kinds
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by Slartie 7y ago
Command-line applications for consoles are not exactly comparable to smartphone apps in that regard, because their natural habitat changes only at a glacial pace nowadays, while the habitat of smartphone apps - the smartphone OSes - evolved
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by Slartie 7y ago
This looks like the same pattern observed with the iOS Google Authenticator app. That one was neglected for multiple years as well, up to the point at which it looked ridiculously out of place on newer devices because it was running in some
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by Slartie 7y ago
That's the point. Just cutting down the military when you don't need it and scaling it back up "really quickly" when it's needed obviously does not work, just as it does not work to cut down the CDC and scale it bac
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by Slartie 7y ago
Based on the track record of other Facebook claims of the "we don't do X" type, this is basically proof that they do and/or did do both of these things. Maybe "accidentially" and "unintentionally" ;-)
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by Slartie 7y ago
I also have the theory that they are using WiFi names / AP MAC addresses as well. If you happen to be connected to the same private WiFi network, you probably know each other.
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by Slartie 7y ago
Can't speak about the quality of the "smart" parts in particular, but the Ikea LED bulbs have proven to be of generally high quality for a good price. I have a bunch of them in operation, and had some in permanent use (powere
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by Slartie 7y ago
None. And this is exactly the problem: Tesla might have a nice piece of silicon there, but that doesn't solve the problem of still being far, far away from having a working algorithm for level 5 self driving. They have a supercomputer
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by Slartie 7y ago
I think you got the use case of such edge caches wrong. You don't get one of those for a single app. Most companies who participate in such edge cache programs don't even have apps. These are boxes that internet service providers
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by Slartie 7y ago
Actually nearly every German bank has offered API access to accounts to their customers since forever...20 or 30 years or so. It was called HBCI, then it was renamed to FinTS, and it was the most advanced and well-supported API to bank acco
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by Slartie 7y ago
Has he been paid with...crypto?
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by Slartie 7y ago
This is an interesting development. I didn't know about that Supreme Court decision. So it effectively allows merchants to communicate a credit card surcharge as exactly that to customers, letting them know that it is caused by using a
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by Slartie 7y ago
This is also called the "poor people tax", because the merchants all bake these fees into their prices, which rise accordingly for all customers, including those who pay cash, or use debit cards or credit cards without those kickb
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by Slartie 7y ago
I bought my last two cars via SEPA, the first from an individual, the second from a dealership. Both were used, but still significant sums. In both cases I of course had a signed contract in hand before sending the money, and have done a bi
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by Slartie 7y ago
The first three suggestions I would deem kid-compatible (maybe a bit too complex, but that depends on the particular kid), but...Elder Scrolls and Fallout? That stuff's for grown-ups, maybe older teenagers, but definitely not kids of t
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by Slartie 7y ago
I am pretty sure it is. Stealing something that someone legally bought from you back again because you made a mistake when calculating the sales price is blatantly illegal, regardless of whether the "stealing process" includes bre
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by Slartie 7y ago
They should have rather invested a tiny share of the money spent on that dysfunctional app on one of those gig working websites to rent themselves some personnel for the evening to take calls. Could have even marketed that as "Woah, se
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by Slartie 7y ago
Just call people by phone and read off some numbers from paper. Then confirm them by reading them the other way round. Yes, it is actually that easy!!! People have transmitted vote counts this way forever, long before apps were a thing. You
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by Slartie 7y ago
> I don't understand why so many smart "tech people" fall for the hype. Maybe it's just that some of these "tech people" are not that smart at all? > And that is the problem with self-driving hype. Every
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by Slartie 7y ago
You know that it's not the job of the human driver in experimental self-driving vehicles to just take control every once in a while, when he feels he'd like to drive a little? A human interferes in precisely those situations in wh
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by Slartie 7y ago
What doesn't matter is who wins in average conditions. Because averages are just that: averages. But actual driving is full of non-average situations, whether they are created by weather, other human participants in traffic, animals, w

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