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by asoneth 3y ago
My guess is that monetizing a video conferencing service simply isn't a viable long-term strategy so the company knows that they'll eventually need to develop new revenue sources. I'm skeptical Zoom will be able to parlay the
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Sprawling industrial-scale agricultural areas seems to be mostly a product of motor vehicles. Before that, most farms were run by a family group and the farmhouses were typically within a couple miles of a community center which provided ac
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by asoneth 3y ago
According to Wikipedia the oldest known steel artifacts are from Asia Minor (the Kaman-Kalehöyük site in modern-day Turkey) which predates European steal by about a millenium which seems to support part of their claim. For the claim about A
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by asoneth 3y ago
I'm not sure they will lower prices. For selective colleges I think the impact will be negligible. They already reject a sizeable fraction of applicants so it would be less painful for them to respond to a shrinking applicant pool by r
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> But they don't even seem to be on premium Windows laptops. Yeah, from that my conclusion is that the market for Windows laptops with really excellent touchpads is simply not large enough to be worth pursuing. My guess is that the
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> Why does this seem like such a hard problem to solve for everyone that isn’t Apple One factor is that many customers don't demand this kind of refinement, and of those who do many of them already use Macs. Another is that it'
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by asoneth 3y ago
I've read PC reviews that do point out when a touchpad is abysmal or excellent, or list models with good touchpads ( https://www.windowscentral.com/best-laptop-touchpad ) but near as I can tell most customers aren't
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> Spanish it's almost dumb simple Sure, the FSI ranks Spanish as a category 1 language along with other Romance languages, Norwegian, Swedish, etc which means it's simpl er for English-speakers to learn than most languages, bu
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Sort of. It was part of GNU, now it's sponsored by the GNOME Foundation, but I don't think it is considered a "GNOME App". As per https://discourse.gnome.org/t/relation-between-gimp-and-gnom... : &qu
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by asoneth 3y ago
I borked an installation because it had two desktop environments, and even when it works there always seem to be more odd issues than with a clean install. If you have the time to debug these and straighten them out, it's fine, but giv
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by asoneth 3y ago
I have the weather on my watch face as well, though I do have to drill into the weather widget/glance to see the air quality index and UV index. Skimming the Garmin Connect IQ Store it looks like I could add those metrics to my watch f
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by asoneth 3y ago
Yeah, my Garmin (an Instinct 2 Solar) has ruined me for other smartwatches. I appreciate not having to think about charging it in the summer and only monthly in the winter. I appreciate the reliability of an always-on screen rather than one
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> the bill should be doled out according to income First, income and electricity usage are already correlated for most residential customers -- in general wealthier individuals use more electricity and therefore pay more under either app
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Out of curiosity, what do you see as the practical differences between taxpayers footing the bill compared to ratepayers given that most people pay both? (In other words, is paying for this with higher taxes substantially better compared to
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by asoneth 3y ago
Agreed that an across-the-board change to admissions policies like this is an opportunity to test the thesis, although the pandemic had many other confounding impacts that may be hard to isolate. Still, I don't know anyone who works in
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I thought the popular narrative was that this was primarily driven by the pandemic? The debate about the value of standardized test scores has been raging for decades and up until the pandemic most elite colleges and universities still requ
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> throwing it out in search of restorative justice is extremely unwise. I see this claim a lot, but it seems partially true at best. As per the article and conversations with friends in admissions departments, the testing requirement at
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by asoneth 3y ago
There is some evidence to that effect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35237006 (Note that I'm not necessarily endorsing any specific views about this, just linking to a past discussion.)
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by asoneth 3y ago
I agree that we need to push back, but that can also be done politically. Antagonizing a local police officer is a terrible idea unless you are wealthy and/or well-connected. Most are kind, but not all are, and antagonizing the wrong o
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That's an interesting point I need to think about. I do wonder how the deaths would compare to the number of trips taken, because children in the US take significantly fewer trips by bike than children in the Netherlands. Given that pe
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> in my area none of this is actually true That's wonderful you live in place where children are can roam freely without being injured or killed by drivers. But this is a real threat in most of the US. Being killed in a motor vehicl
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by asoneth 3y ago
I agree that most regions have underinvested in mass transit, but even if the Federal Government does not step in to fund transit I think it still makes sense for them to stop subsidizing large highway projects. Rather than citizens sending
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> But they can also mess up a project with giving power to non-developers who focus on changes like redoing the UX every release Have you found that a new developer is meaningfully less likely to recommend redoing the UX compared to a ne
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I agree that patents serve a purpose, but taxing intellectual property similarly to other property doesn't seem like it would end patents. A slightly different approach would be for patent owners to declare an estimated value and pay p
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> don't make up excuses why you should break the laws just because they are inconvenient to you I tend to agree, and obey the speed limit and come to a stop at stop signs when driving. I get passed by other drivers, sometimes danger
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A combination of stronger storms, more frequent coastal flooding, larger wildfires, and more severe heat waves. Of course these sorts of things have always killed people and right now the statistical increases are small enough that it'
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Agreed that it is a smaller risk. That's why I do not oppose geoengineering despite being reasonably confident that once we start that path we will be wholly incapable of quitting it.
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I suspect we will end up resorting to large-scale geoengineering, certainly once people in wealthy countries start dying in high enough numbers, and I don't oppose it. But once we go down that road I am highly skeptical that humanity w
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I agree it's disappointing to think I've found a native app only to realize it's just an Electron app. But I don't need the idea to die, I just want better transparency in app stores so I can know ahead of time whether a
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by asoneth 3y ago
They weren't admitted, but how do you know they were not even considered? More generally, a 1600 is not some kind of "get into college free" card. I did admissions for a very competitive university program many years ago and

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