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by adrr 3y ago
Microsoft required the OEMs to pay for windows license on every computer they sold whether it had Windows installed on it or another OS. It put a huge tax on consumers who didn't want to use windows since they were paying for a licens
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by adrr 3y ago
I have never used Airplane but have done projects in Retool which is really nice but little on the pricey side since they charge on a per user basis not on a per app basis. Wish they charged on a usage or app model since it makes it really
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by adrr 3y ago
Have you been to neighborhoods that don't have parking mandated parking spots? Anything built in the 60s to 80s. Drive around for 1/2 hour trying to find a parking spot every day, pay hundreds/thousands of dollars a year in
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by adrr 3y ago
EU is law is so bad that Wikipedia has a cookie banner. It literally bans all non functional cookies unless the users consents like preference cookies, performance monitoring cookies etc. I am sure all their government sites violate thei
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by adrr 3y ago
https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crim... Cities are safer. Violent crime is down and property crime continues to drop.
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by adrr 3y ago
The point is that homicides are declining in the US. Pointing to hot spots and saying otherwise is like saying climate change doesn't exist because some city set a record low temperature.
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by adrr 3y ago
At minimum Amazon should be banned from co-mingling. Its blatant false advertisement for consumers. If you buy from a trust source like Amazon, your product should come from them. They can't be both a marketplace and retailer with
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by adrr 3y ago
Robot.txt isn't about copyrights, its about preventing bots. Its effectively a EULA. Copyright law only goes into effect when you distribute the content you scrape. If you scraped New York times for your own LLM that you used intern
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by adrr 3y ago
You won't notice that it is door dash. You still order through the pizza place but the delivery is done by a door dash driver not their own driver.
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by adrr 3y ago
Did it prevent meth usage? Meth production just moved to Mexico and became more potent as the production was industrialized. Overdoses increased, addiction rates increased. Poor law with no thought process behind it. I think there is s
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by adrr 3y ago
Because intel messes up everything with their bureaucracy. Look at the NUC, they made it extremely hard to get because of their convoluted distribution strategy. They could have easily done direct to consumer and made it easy to get. T
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by adrr 3y ago
Even when they do admit a manufacturer defect. It takes over a year for them to address the issue. I had no backup cam for a year even though there was recall on the car.
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by adrr 3y ago
Its more evidence than what the OP is providing with their argument that patents hold back innovation. I get downvoted for providing evidence and they got upvoted by for making some populist statement with no evidence.
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by adrr 3y ago
Insulin isn't covered by patent laws. You're free to take your capital and go start an insulin company and sell it at low prices.
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by adrr 3y ago
Countries with very lenient enforcement of IP laws have very minimal innovation. Brazil, Argentina, India. Countries who haven't signed TRIPS almost no innovation, North Korea, Somalia. Countries with the strictest patent laws an
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by adrr 3y ago
When I picked out my slab, went to the place where they locally manufactured the countertop to the specs of the kitchen. No one was wearing PPE. Installers just dropped it in and didnt need to do anything.
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by adrr 3y ago
Japan,Taiwan and south Korea as more examples. Japan has life sentences for opioid distribution/sale. Taiwan has mandatory 3 year sentencing simple possession of class 1 drugs (Opioids). South Korea also has very strict sentencing l
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by adrr 3y ago
How do they know what to charge you? There is some billing system that has all the taxes and fees in it to apply to your bill and there are 3rd parties SaaS companies that solve taxes for business like Avalara that will give a break down
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by adrr 3y ago
Solving the drug problem in US through decriminalization and harm reduction programs is an effective as solving gun violence through the same means.
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by adrr 3y ago
Can always look at places that don't have drug problems like Singapore, Qatar or UAE. decriminalization. look at china who also had a crippling opiate problem with opium and it wasn't solve with decriminalization. Opoids have no
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by adrr 3y ago
I worked with a woman that didn't have fingerprints. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adermatoglyphia
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by adrr 3y ago
Article is talking about a fungicide. Not an insecticide. > The new study exposed honeybees to two treatments: the isolated active ingredients in the fungicide Pristine, which is used to control fungal diseases in almonds and other crop
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by adrr 3y ago
Revenue per employee is $1.6M before the cuts. Thats efficient. https://markets.ft.com/data/equities/tearsheet/profile?s=SPO...
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by adrr 3y ago
I doubt anyone does any jail time for stealing bread unless they are habitual offender(multiple felony convictions) or its aggravated theft(eg: by force/violence). Court cases are public so feel free to prove me wrong.
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by adrr 3y ago
They don't regularly commit crimes though. They commit regulatory violations. There's a big difference. Like getting a parking ticket versus being convicted for a felony. Ones that get convicted like Purdue Pharma are fined
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by adrr 3y ago
How are they shipping to the US so cheaply? I can buy a product for $2 and its ships for free. They must be paying next to nothing for shipping. When i worked for an e-commerce company it was $8 to $10 per order incurred in shipping co
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by adrr 3y ago
They cancelled "All-American Muslim" because they couldn't get advertisers even though it was averaging 1 million viewers per show which would made it one of the most popular show on TLC. https://ustvdb.com/ne
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by adrr 3y ago
Terrible article. JWTs can be stored in cookies giving you httponly and samesite. If you have XSS vulnerability, what you store your JWTs or if you use JWT do sessions is the least of your concern. Every request to the domain still has
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by adrr 3y ago
You’re also stealing from the content creators who rev share with Google. No one seems to mention that a majority of the ad revenue Google gives to content creators. If you makes you feel better, you can keep thinking it’s Google.
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by adrr 3y ago
Everyone buys stuff from phones to food.

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