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by ahtihn 1y ago
It's pretty easy to outcompete public transit on specific profitable lines. The problem is that public transit has to serve a lot of unprofitable lines and by having a private competitor putting pressure on the only parts that actually
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by ahtihn 1y ago
Price only varies for the breakfast-included option in my experience.
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by ahtihn 1y ago
Why should ticket sales be regulated? Why should the government care about what price event tickets sell for? Concerts are pure luxury. I like going to concerts, but I don't see a reason why the government should intervene? Scalpers ex
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by ahtihn 1y ago
Kill the human? If you don't want to go there, it doesn't really matter how much energy the human uses because the human will just use the same energy to do something else.
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by ahtihn 1y ago
> The gates are wide open for those that want to put in effort to learn. Why is effort a requirement? Why should being an artist be a viable job? Would you be against technology that makes medical doctors obsolete?
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by ahtihn 1y ago
It's impossible actually. Company names aren't unique. There is no global registry of company names. Even trademarks aren't globally unique.
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by ahtihn 1y ago
> If they stopped spending money on R&D, they would already be profitable. The news that they did that would make them lose most of their revenue pretty fast.
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by ahtihn 1y ago
It wouldn't if you're not tracking user identity. Websites get this data pretty much by default and they don't need consent for it.
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by ahtihn 1y ago
> court won't force releasing our code when a "rouge employee" manages to violate the license. Is this an actual, real risk? Has a court ever forced anyone to release their code because they were violating the GPL? My unde
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by ahtihn 2y ago
Where are you getting this from? The value you provide sets a kind of ceiling on what you can be paid. But you are paid based on how easy it is to replace you.
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by ahtihn 2y ago
> they have the option of putting them on 'gardening leave' during the notice period. This is extremely rare That must depend on the country. In Switzerland it's standard that employees don't work during the notice pe
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by ahtihn 2y ago
Notice doesn't mean they must be allowed to keep working. It just means they need to be paid.
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by ahtihn 2y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but you're saying you formatted XML by hand? Someone likely loaded that into some tool, made changes and saved and likely never even looked at the XML. Why would anyone care what the XML looks like?
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by ahtihn 2y ago
The planet is absolutely not over populated. Overcrowded cities and housing costs aren't an overpopulation problem but a problem of concentrating economic activity in certain places.
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by ahtihn 2y ago
I mean you could easily argue that any election rules are undemocratic. The rules for the US presidential election are quite flawed for example. The rules can be changed but again there are rules for how to do that! It's rules all the
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by ahtihn 2y ago
There are all kinds of eligibility rules, you think they shouldn't exist? By your logic, Trump should be allowed to run for a 3rd term right?
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by ahtihn 2y ago
> Why should people be prevented from voting now for someone because of previous rules made by a previous electorate? Why should someone from the past be allowed to nullify my preferred vote in the present? All elections follow rules set
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by ahtihn 2y ago
WhatsApp was the first messaging app I remember that didn't require a user account. People already had the phone numbers of people they knew so they just had to install the app and could immediately chat with any of their contacts. Com
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by ahtihn 2y ago
> We could have had a steam engine during the Roman Empire and thus an Industrial Revolution thousands of years earlier My understanding is that no, it couldn't have happened at that time because metallurgy wasn't good enough a
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by ahtihn 2y ago
Code is purely functional and is copyrightable so why would a prompt not be? A prompt has essentially the same purpose as code, especially when it's long and precise.
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by ahtihn 2y ago
> Writing SQL against systems much larger than that used to be the norm. Doing things the hard way was the norm until a better way was found. Saying something was the norm in the past doesn't imply it was good
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by ahtihn 2y ago
It only matters if the restricted money covers more than what it's intended for. If you have 500M allowed to cover education and require 700M total for it, then the restriction doesn't matter at all.
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by ahtihn 2y ago
Why do you want the government to regulate what people are allowed to call themselves when there's no public benefit? What harm is being caused by software developers calling themselves software engineers? It's seems like authorit
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by ahtihn 2y ago
The point is people don't want to get into crypto, they want to get into USD. But capital controls make it difficult, so USD stable coins are a good enough alternative. Bitcoin is extremely volatile.
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by ahtihn 2y ago
If you count the loan as an asset, surely you have to count it as a liability for the borrower. And the bank has to actually give the money, so they're down that money. In the end both are net zero.
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by ahtihn 2y ago
> In fact, I never consented for anyone to access my server. Just because it has an IP address, does not make it a public service. If you don't take any steps to make it clear that it's not public, like an auth wall or putting
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by ahtihn 2y ago
> It sounds like a disaster. Why do you think so? It shouldn't be used for something like a library or an external API that other people rely on where communicating about breaking changes is actually important. For something like a
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by ahtihn 2y ago
School isn't optional in a lot of European countries. Parents don't get to decide that their kids don't need to attend.
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by ahtihn 2y ago
Lombok is a compile-time dependency. Consumers of a library using lombok don't need to depend on lombok, so I don't see why it would matter?
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by ahtihn 2y ago
> Same thing with banks, we can't have dozens of transactions per day for stuff like a hamburger and a coffee We can't? I guess this is US specific, because I've been able to use my bank card for all transactions since I h

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