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by avidiax 3y ago
People wrote great works before copywrite. People write for reasons other than money from the sales of the book. This accounts for most authors, who aren't famous enough to negotiate a great deal with a publisher. And we don't nee
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by avidiax 3y ago
What is the gestalt of middle management that makes things worse? It seems like there's a negative synergy that develops whenever a company grows large enough to need 2-3 layers of middle management. I expect that it has multiple cause
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by avidiax 3y ago
It's good to point out this possibility, but outside of an institutional purchaser, people don't buy 2 mattresses with the purchases separated by a week. Knowing that you bought a mattress is useful for the ML to find the mattress
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by avidiax 3y ago
I think the airlines and various other industries prefer the current trial by ordeal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_by_ordeal
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by avidiax 3y ago
WOA - Windows on ARM Lumia - a series of smartphones from Microsoft/Nokia
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by avidiax 3y ago
> Our source said the only solution he could think of would be to require US companies to hire a majority of American workers – which would prevent consultancies that consist mainly of a pool of H-1B employees. Or just throw out all the
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by avidiax 3y ago
> How can they make it work offline while protecting the money from being duplicated? It's not actually possible to prevent this entirely. It's not even possible with physical currency. You can always look at a bank note and ma
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by avidiax 3y ago
> freezing the accounts of thousands of people attending a protest with today's system would be a monumental task We already have that system. They put your name on a list, and everyone with that name or similar has lots of paperwor
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by avidiax 3y ago
> Having this will be an awesome replacement to the limitations of the visa/mastercard monopoly Yes, they are a 2-3% leech on the economy in the US. In Europe, the regulators there have kept it a bit lower, which is reflected in EU
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by avidiax 3y ago
Here's my attempt at 10W, unlimited supply, minimum displacement: https://imgur.com/q3ZqgT2 (17.43cc)
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by avidiax 3y ago
It's not enough to make such warrants illegal. It must also be illegal for companies to sell this information to the government, or ideally to even store this data outside of devices controlled by the end user.
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by avidiax 3y ago
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/price-is-right-_swiss-... Coop and Migros have the biggest margins in Europe. Hardly the picture of competition. Seems more like tacit collusion.
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by avidiax 3y ago
The genius is coming up with the skimmer kits and selling them for $1k-$5k. Or you discount the hardware but encrypt the data and charge a fee per card to decrypt.
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by avidiax 3y ago
There is going to be an AI/AR/VR existential crisis in some people. The status quo is that we interact in 2 distinct ways. First, with a simulacra of a real object or people, but at a distance. That's video conferencing, text
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by avidiax 3y ago
I spent 10 minutes to set this up. I was shocked to see that I got my first taker less than a second after I opened port 22 on my firewall. https://www.abuseipdb.com/check/178.62.237.183 Unfortunately, it only wasted 3
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by avidiax 3y ago
We have a disease called racism and bias and as a society we are applying various treatments. Those treatments have side-effects of course, but the author is listing a variety of ills and "hand-waving" a supposed causation, and wo
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by avidiax 3y ago
Do we know if some drivers become dependent or reliant on AEB systems? Seems like a technology that creates moral hazard or risk compensation. Maybe a certain number of AEB events should put the car in limp mode until a dealer can review an
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by avidiax 3y ago
What interest would a criminal organization have in a high cash revenue business? Could it be a way to launder money? Jimmy "No Nose" comes in with $40k cash every weekend and loses it gambling, and "nobody knows" where
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by avidiax 3y ago
Isn't this basically what the defence production act was made for? Unfortunately, it would take a president that doesn't care about their opponents getting a huge campaign finance windfall to use that capability to restore competi
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by avidiax 3y ago
No one makes it but I would love a dual screen phone with e-ink on one screen. The aspect ratio might allow for always on playback controls and a dedicated area for subtitles which could be nice.
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by avidiax 3y ago
You can scan your index fingerprint right?
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by avidiax 3y ago
I'm not saying that you can't have unbundled pricing, or go with an ultra-economy carrier if that product suits you best. I'm saying that listing ultra-economy in the same search results as (now so-called) "premium"
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by avidiax 3y ago
This practice is more generally known as "drip pricing"[1], and it is definitely a dark pattern. My feeling is that the travel search engines should define a standard for a certain category of travel, and then show the price that
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by avidiax 4y ago
Precisely this. What happens when Google decides that your account is banned, and no, we don't have to tell you why, and we regret to inform you we have automatically reviewed this decision and it is final?
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by avidiax 4y ago
I was surprised that the efficiency is 70-80%.[1] I'm also a bit surprised that it's not somehow preferable to have some kind of idle industrial capacity like aluminum smelting or electroplating that simply operates when the price
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by avidiax 4y ago
So every adult site has 65% globalized porn, 35% Canadian cat videos. The Canadian legislators can try to tighten up their language, but it would be difficult to legislate "for every 65 things like X, there must be 35 equivalent things
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by avidiax 4y ago
What I've done is take a Kinesis Advantage2 and add an Apple Magic Trackpad, like this: [1] I use museum wax as the mounting method, which allows slight adjustments but is otherwise a firm hold. [1] https://www.reddit.com&#x
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by avidiax 4y ago
Bluetooth LE is developing a broadcast solution like this. Eventually, commodity headphones will be able to subscribe to such broadcasts. Time to short the companies that make lecture hall assisted audio devices and museum audio guides.
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by avidiax 4y ago
I've heard of other schemes, like a forced 10,000:1 reverse-split, with shareholders having fewer shares being paid out in cash. Then the company IPOs with a much higher value, but only the shareholders with 10,000+ shares get a piece.
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by avidiax 4y ago
This article reminds me of the "Prayer of a Selfish Child"[1] The attitude of homeowners is somehow slightly worse than "fuck you, I've got mine". It's more like "no matter what, I must stay ahead of thos

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