alwaysdoit

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by alwaysdoit 6y ago
I'm not making an ideological assumptions there. I'm just referring to the status quo. The proposals I've seen are along the lines of "let's ban or add obstacles to advertising-based models", not "let&#x27
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by alwaysdoit 6y ago
You can have a condescending attitude about it if you want, but the reality is advertising-backed business models make services available to people who would not otherwise be able to afford them. The ramifications of creating barriers to ad
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by alwaysdoit 6y ago
> only give premium services to the most valuable users? Almost certainly. What people often miss in this discussion is that advertising is progressive--it's a transfer of value from richer people who can and will pay for both the s
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by alwaysdoit 7y ago
> Reduced Work Hours > If your employer has reduced your hours or shut down operations due to COVID-19, you can file an Unemployment Insurance (UI) claim. UI provides partial wage replacement benefit payments to workers who lose their
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by alwaysdoit 7y ago
This is a good mathematical analysis. But here's another way of looking at it: the hot hand fallacy is stating that every shot is strictly independent. You don't have good days and bad days, every day is exactly average. Which is
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by alwaysdoit 7y ago
This is like going to Trader Joe's and complaining that you can't get brand name items. There was a time when Netflix had a lot of major films. But the industry has found other ways to capitalize on those since. There's a dif
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by alwaysdoit 7y ago
Because the lyrics are not copyrighted by you, they are copyrighted by the Artist, whom Google and LyricsFind have a contract with to give them permission to use those lyrics?
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by alwaysdoit 7y ago
The problem is that leaves you open to e.g. Car companies putting out ads that promote their gas guzzling cars while banning climate change ads that might warn of the consequences of using such vehicles. If you do what Twitter is now doing[
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by alwaysdoit 7y ago
Sure you could. We have more than 2 dimensions.
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by alwaysdoit 7y ago
It's like a weird Chinese version of the White Man's Burden. They were "uncivilized" once upon a time, so now they deserve occupation.
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by alwaysdoit 7y ago
Maximizers and satisficers use approximately the same approach with a different threshold for the amount of the possibility space they are willing to search through (let's call it p). Let's eliminate the extremes: p = 0 is a blob
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by alwaysdoit 7y ago
Charge an increasing amount for the API and subsidize our taxes with it?
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by alwaysdoit 7y ago
Sounds like they will support other USB controllers on Chrome. > or in the Chrome web browser with the standard HID controller of your choice. https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/6/18654632/google-stadia-p
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by alwaysdoit 7y ago
Destiny 2 is going F2P, so it's $0
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by alwaysdoit 7y ago
For a networked multiplayer game, the total amount of network lag is effectively the same, except that the network lag is moved from between client and server to client and "display". Now that the server and client are now just on
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by alwaysdoit 7y ago
Say what you will about the merits or necessity of all-day in-person interviews, at least the company is investing a roughly symmetric amount of time into the interview process.
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by alwaysdoit 8y ago
> In Paris, as well as Athens, Madrid, Mexico City, Caracas, Santiago, Copenhagen, Budapest, and I imagine other cities for which I can’t find this information, metro stations are built cut-and-cover... There is extensive street disrupt
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by alwaysdoit 8y ago
Between TSLint's no-switch-case-fall-through and an exhaustiveness check[1] I don't think any of these things are really problems with switch statements in TypeScript [1] Putting a function like this in a default case will enforce
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by alwaysdoit 8y ago
I agree that they should be held responsible for negligence or poor faith actions. But I'm not sure they should be responsible if their equipment caused a fire because it was shot full of bullet holes by some idiot with a gun[1]. My
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by alwaysdoit 8y ago
What's the difference between this and say: FROM ubuntu:16.04 Won't that pull the latest official Ubuntu image with that tag?
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by alwaysdoit 8y ago
Not in California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13
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by alwaysdoit 8y ago
A notable difference is that Debug is using the sterile insect technique (SIT)[1], as opposed to gene drives, which are much harder to control once released. With SIT, 1) we have a lot more experience using it for decades, and 2) it's
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by alwaysdoit 8y ago
A. gambiae in particular is so strongly anthropophilic that it would likely become endangered or extinct if cut off from all human hosts, so a widespread bed-netting program would have likely the same effect, just slower and with millions m
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by alwaysdoit 8y ago
If it can be mathematically defined, then they can add that code to make that check in their system.
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by alwaysdoit 8y ago
I'm sure someone here would be happy to explain to me why this won't work, but what if we built a recycling center in the middle of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
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by alwaysdoit 8y ago
Sure, the NYT will explain that very thoroughly to you if you'd like to read the article.
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by alwaysdoit 8y ago
If running your own infrastructure is a strongly desired option, people will do the work to make it easier to host your own k8s cluster. I agree it's not there yet (I'm the primary person for our team running several self-hosted
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by alwaysdoit 8y ago
For skins or other purely cosmetic items with no effect on gameplay, to me it's equivalent to a gumball machine where you might not get your favorite color.
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by alwaysdoit 8y ago
Credit card company is not a government. It's helpful for business purposes to have records, but it's not always a legal requirement. Anyway this stuff is super complicated and there's no rollback for data that was mistakenl
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by alwaysdoit 8y ago
Two days later the customer files a chargeback with their credit card company and the credit card company wants you to provide documentation for the transaction.

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