ZetaZero

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by ZetaZero 5y ago
same here
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
Exactly. Like Vista was laying the table for 7.
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
That's a silly argument "Our books are banned, so we want to ban your books". Fight to have your books unbanned, don't ban more books. My old HS has Atlas Shrugged. shrug
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
I want more a la carte. Give me one service without bundles where every "channel" has a price. I don't want my provider negotiating a 14-channel package for every viewer (YouTubeTV and NBC Universal). I don't want MTV
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
It's nearly impossible to get your name on a state-wide ballot without taking corporate lobbying.
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
"The Medicare Prescription Drug Act expressly prohibited Medicare from negotiating bulk prescription drug prices." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Prescription_Drug,_Im...
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
I'd be interested in seeing the math. Would multiple hops and satellites be required? What's the power loss for each hop? What's the cost and capacity for each satellite?
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
Thanks! I checked on Charity Nav https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/200049703 It says they spend 9 cents to raise every dollar, almost exactly your numbers. Overall, they are rated superbly.
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
> I like Wikipedia but does it really take that many people and that much money to run it? It takes a lot of people and money to raise $150m/year ;->
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
Sure, but doesn't that lead to XKCD Standards? https://xkcd.com/927/
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
Microsoft's solution would be terrible for 3rd party vendors.
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
Just curious, why not just just start and end your job an hour earlier all year round, 7-4 instead of 8-5? Then you gain an extra hour of evening sun all year, instead of just during DST?
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
Firefox has revenues of over $400M per year. I hear they have only 40 developers working directly on FF. Do the math
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
> hence the engine is usually one single swappable part. So if I need new spark plugs, I just swap out the engine?
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
How do I then watch downloaded videos on my Roku? Am I missing something? EDIT: So there is a companion Jellyfin app for Roku
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
Yes, with the "One-Child" policy in effect for 36 years (1979–2015), an entire generation grew up with no siblings. With this being mandated, families just didn't plan for 2+ children. Maybe they bought a smaller house, or
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
We are never going back to the old system, where we needed to buy each track/album we wanted to listen to.
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
Three years ago, my COO bought a $5,100 MacBook Pro.
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
Cities have been buying out farms for years now. They can buy a single farm with water rights, then drain the aquifer over the next 10-20 years. Every other family that depends on that aquifer gets screwed, with wells that dry up. The wes
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
Yeah, I wasn't trying to say GitHub is different. Instead, this shows a route to profitability for these companies.
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
MongoDB and Elastic are successful because they are locking features behind a paid license. Does that make it a successful open source company?
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
With your restaurant example, you are describing an "exclusive dealing agreement". This usually takes monopolistic conditions to become illegal. Personally I don't like what Amazon is doing. But I don't think it is ill
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
> and if you aren't listed there [on Amazon], you'll lose sales. Those sales were never yours to lose, right?
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
> Let me try: more money in circulation means sales volume goes up, so prices fall (according to actual economic theory). Only true under certain circumstances. In general, when Demand increases, and Supply doesn't increase to matc
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
But how is this different from Amazon?
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
Is it also "rigged" if a 3rd party can buy the top spot? Is the grocery store rigged if they put their house brand on the endcap? Is it different if a 3rd party buys endcap placement? I expect Amazon to order their search results
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
"That’s impossible, an RBMK reactor can’t explode."
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
81 streamers with 1m+ in revenues.
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
It's not a caching server run by the ISP. It's a Netflix server embedded in ISP's datacenter/network. No MITM required https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
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by ZetaZero 5y ago
Poker is a "zero sum game", yet experts routinely win money from the suckers. Unlike Craps, Poker as a huge skill component.

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