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by allana 7y ago
Money doesn't have high velocity in the upper echelons of society compared to in the bottom half. One dollar will pass through many hands if paid to a person in the lower half of our economy, while in the top 10% this same dollar barel
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by allana 7y ago
Many schools think $30k a year is a reasonable wage, which is part of why half of all schools in Montana employ uncertified "teachers": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcI2qyP_uj4&t Offering terrible wages res
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by allana 7y ago
The breakeven for electric vehicles has already come, but not in the form of a multi-ton car. When I bike around Seattle, there are a plethora of Radpower eBikes with various modifications, either for towing, or hauling kids. Cost, traffic
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by allana 7y ago
I'd say the breakeven point for electric vehicles has already come. Electric cars have yet to hit this breakeven point, but waves of people have modeswitched to eBikes and electric scooters to get out of snarled traffic, shorten their
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by allana 7y ago
Pedal power ftw! If you enjoy your current bike, don't switch. A good light bike can be quite a bit more enjoyable to ride than an eBike, I think eBikes really just enable super-commuting by bike for those of us with weak calves.
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by allana 7y ago
eBikes open up that 10+km space, making my 12km commute each way take only 25 minutes (versus 19 to 45 minutes driving depending on time of day). I also get to bike alongside the canal as part of my commute, whereas before it was a mere gli
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by allana 7y ago
OP is likely referring to Google Maps Transit, One Bus Away and similar bus/train tracking apps making public transit predictable and usable for their lifestyle, not the piecework economy of private taxis like Uber & Lyft.
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by allana 7y ago
Cisco smells money, they see their network as a service sub-brand Meraki pulling in tons of money from clients that don't want their network to brick. I wish this would trigger a migration to other vendors that don't brick your ha
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by allana 7y ago
Is what it is, I kinda expected that when going against the HN groupthink...
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by allana 7y ago
I've repeately seen links in subreddits that send me to an article, where if I viww the subreddit in the new UI, I see the post actually links me to a post in a different subreddit that eventually links to said article. I reported a po
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by allana 7y ago
It is really sad to see Reddit stagnate on spam handling, but the dev resources at Reddit seem to be laser focused on making the new UI & features that ease the transition from Facebook to Reddit. Most of the subreddits with active mods
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by allana 7y ago
>Only administrators or automatic spam detection tools can shadowban. Regular moderators cannot. Regular mods see shadowbanned posts in the modqueue. In my case, the admins confirmed the automated spam detection snowbanned my account sho
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by allana 7y ago
ACH is slow and inaccessible to most consumers for P2P payments, debit networks cost real money to use in the USA, and alternatives like Zelle are patchy in support among banks and have low sending limits. The USA has tons of banks and cred
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by allana 7y ago
Hasn't Reddit been issuing shadow bans for the last decade? I think shadow banning people is really shitty. In Reddit's case, they shadowbanned me immediately after I bought Reddit gold, and an unpaid, unaffiliated subreddit moder
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by allana 7y ago
Sounds like a great reason to block ads, if not all 3rd party scripts.
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by allana 7y ago
Many companies treat the cleaning crew like trash. Unpredictable scheduling, no benefits, minimum wage pay combine to make it so a very small bribe would get an attacker into a building, where they could plant gear in the drop ceiling and m
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by allana 7y ago
I think there are a few companies running Mozilla DeepSpeech in production: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech IIRC its mostly TensorFlow & Python though.
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by allana 7y ago
8chan and similar make no money. The reason they are able to survive is the cost to run a site is so low (with DDoS protection being critical to lowering resource usage). Additionally, being on the clearnet is much more accessible to people
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by allana 7y ago
Considering the lunacy Alex Jones is pushing, he'd be hard pressed to make a viable paid distribution model. His current model of selling useless/dangerous crap is having trouble since Alex has consistently violated the morals cla
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by allana 7y ago
Seattle, Hood River County and many other places have had public dispach and incident trackers available for at least a decade. You can listen to radio traffic with an SDR or XTS5000 and shortly thereafter a pin will appear on a map marking
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by allana 7y ago
Ooof, I'd hope they would have improved CPU use when handling lots of GIFs. Tusky and Mastodon's web frontend handle pausing offscreen GIFs pretty well, my fan doesn't spin up at all (unlike Slack's desktop client last I
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by allana 7y ago
The Allwinner A64 platform has numerous developers working on it compared to the iMX8, which has really fleshed out fully featured hardware support over the last few years. Running most Linux distros should be a breeze on the Pinephone!
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by allana 7y ago
CPU nomming is a worse problem IMO, as your fans spin up and battery life shrinks. Other chat clients don't use notable resources, its suprising that Slack hasn't had much pushback over its heavy resource usage thus far.
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by allana 7y ago
Yea, I use Matrix integration when I deal with Slack, that way I have my choice of client and there isn't any code of Slack's running on my machine.
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by allana 7y ago
Sendgrid is pretty spendy, going by their public pricing and assuming the aveage usage is half the peak usage, the Sendgrid bill could be around ~$2500 usage.
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by allana 7y ago
Such is the nature of slightly optimized Electron apps, T-Mobile Digits Desktop app is a similar resource hog. Using the browser based version often is less resource intensive.
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by allana 7y ago
How is CPU and I/O use on the newest version?
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by allana 7y ago
I've been fairly content with Matrix, the ecosystem has improved massively in the last couple months, reducing resource usage on the server I use and adding additional e2e encrypted clients besides Riot. Bridges are also super handy fo
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by allana 7y ago
2GB of RAM use for 6 open tabs in Slack is pretty awful, their desktop client has set the bar to compete with Slack on performance very low. This abusive resource usage has created a dislike of Slack among a subset of its users.
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by allana 7y ago
Right to Read is a good piece on this topic: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

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