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Canada Competition Bureau sues Google for anti-competitive conduct in online ads(canada.ca)
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Title reordered slightly to fit
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NYT source at the time: https://archive.is/PnrT4 > In Congressional testimony before the Joint Economic Committee, Mr. Volcker maintained that, because of the drain of American wealth to the oil‐producing countries, Amer
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Ah yes, my favourite parenting life hack: rerere
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Kodak might say otherwise
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Maybe, maybe no. But it’d put wasting money on Bitcoin very low on that list. My person idea would be a 1,000ft tesla coil to have it look cool.
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Or we could use it for an actually useful purpose, like charging batteries to handle peaks later in the day.
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My comment wasn't so much about being pedantic, though insurance would cover the hail and you're paying for that regardless of output amount. I was more taking umbrage with referring to curtailed solar and wind as "waste&quot
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Reminds me of quote Sussman gave when asked about MIT switching away from Scheme: "Nowadays you muck around with incomprehensible or nonexistent man pages for software you don’t know who wrote. You have to do basic science on your libr
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The only downside with drawing these kinds of analogies is that you're still paying an operating cost for the unused portion of your production server. The light falling on a solar panel is free. Yeah there's theoretical lost reve
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But it's active in standardization in a way that helps Google's business specifically, not the market as a whole.
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> E.g. I want to learn the idioms of the time and place, not have them changed by the whim of the translator to something similar but perhaps changing the intent But how can you learn the meaning of an idiom if it's translated liter
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From the actual paper [0]: "Our long-term genotypic analysis builds on previous work [6, 7] and, through extensive genotyping of thousands of individuals over more than two decades, confirms that white morphs are almost always heterozy
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There are 2 sets of male-female pairs of the species which have different chromosomes. I am not sure what about her characterization is complete nonsense. https://www.audubon.org/news/the-fascinating-and-complicated...
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In 2016, I doubt it. If we are not convinced of AI's ability and intelligence, than it has certainly convinced us of ours.
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The average solar install only costs 30k in large part to tens of thousands of people pay that cost to bring it out. That being said, the costs panels themselves make up ~12% of that cost: https://www.nrel.gov/solar/m
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This description leaves out the why . Why did the tribes start adopting these ways of life? The wiki link itself talks about how they continuously had their land stolen, the deer population they hunted for food was almost made extinct by t
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I’m not disagreeing with you about the issues of centralization. I too walked away from Reddit and paid that cost. My point is that (a) many people have not despite the cess pit Reddit and other sites have become, and (b) RSS is inherently
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I wasn’t trying to emphasize the written aspect, I was trying to emphasize that we interact with the chatbots in a way that’s natural to us. And yes we do. It’s very easy to do that because we don’t talk with them. We don’t have to see what
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It’s interesting that they say “free to own” given the background discussion and law changes related to wording around digital “purchases”.
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> Did Reddit/HN or any other link aggregator take away news sites? That's all RSS is. Both of those have thriving comment sections and would be completely irreverent without them. Further, it's a known problem for both of
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Those situations are not really comparable. Nobody has conversations with dolphins or whales in human languages, whereas "talking" with a chatbot is fairly trivial to do and becoming a fair universal experience, at least in the gl
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> Rss doesn't take interactivity away from you. It delegates it to Wherre ever you choose to visit. It does take it away. The current status quo has (1) a feed of content and (2) two-way interaction between poster and commenter in t
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I'm not misunderstanding anything. The original discussion was about why wouldn't RSS itself be a good backbone for replacing current types of social media. And my answer is because it's not interactive. Regular users don&#x2
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"a gentleman's agreement" is a really nice way of saying market allocation , blatantly anti-competitive behaviour.
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Interactivity from the part of the reader
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I didn't mean that workers form a union specifically just for this. But rather than they form a union for their own protection in general, and then stand in solidarity with others. This would be far from the first time it happened. Som
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Because the net effect is that of a backdoor layoff. If the, historically benevolent and employee-friendly, management at Amazon says they believe it will be better for productivity, or whatever other excuse they have, then they should be a
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Or, obvious #4: form a union and stand in solidarity.
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> Note that I was answering to a list of measurements software developers could make. You seem to argue on the topic of reliability. Those are not distinct categories. I was making the point that many of the things you mentioned referred

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