bagacrap

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by bagacrap 2y ago
This point, that Google is able to pay the most per user because it has the most economically productive search, is why I think their behavior is not anti competitive. Search is not a loss leader by any means.
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by bagacrap 2y ago
You are overselling webkit. It's not at parity, and even if it were, just maintaining parity costs $$$ per year. Anyway, the obviously implied alternative proposal is: disallow search deals with major players like Safari, not minor pl
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by bagacrap 2y ago
Maybe they could offer that amount in some very LCOL area, I guess? But browser and standards development is highly technical, not something you can easily outsource to some offshore sweatshop. So 50k/year is kind of an insult, and eve
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by bagacrap 2y ago
Your friend might be an inefficient driver.
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by bagacrap 2y ago
Gp didn't call it speeding though. Interstates in the US often do have an 80mph limit, which is in turn routinely exceeded. That doesn't change the fact that 80mph is vastly less fuel efficient than 50mph, which is a typical speed
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by bagacrap 2y ago
GitHub cannot be used without pull requests. Git cannot be used without commits. Whether there is a code review process or everyone self approves is another question.
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by bagacrap 2y ago
There is no one I would want in charge of that
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by bagacrap 2y ago
Why do that when they can sell to SoftBank for $300B?
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by bagacrap 2y ago
I don't think we're projected to have positive population growth for much longer. Also what does rent based servitude even mean? I own a house but still have to pay taxes and upkeep. It's really not much different from rent.
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by bagacrap 2y ago
I really doubt Brave will be able to support manifest v2 for long after chromium deletes that part of the codebase. Brave does not have the resources to maintain a fork in perpetuity. They are really just a reskin with a marketing team (pri
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by bagacrap 3y ago
to whom would they pay it?
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by bagacrap 3y ago
Turning in water is a lot harder than turning a wheeled vehicle on land. Cars can turn themselves in a tight radius, container vessels cannot. I also don't think the weight of the guardrail is what matters. Its strength is derived from
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by bagacrap 3y ago
I think that's only true if you pretend the equity grant all vests in year one. In reality it takes some time, so you won't get that amount until after several years at the company.
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by bagacrap 3y ago
Right, so, I suspect this didn't get much traction, despite being posted and re-posted many times, because the cancer risk assessment was total bunk: > For exposure assessment, EPA develops conservative exposure scenarios which are
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by bagacrap 3y ago
I didn't say anything about the wage price spiral. One category that has had above-average inflation is food away from home. That's mostly driven by wages of the workers , not wages of the clientele. The pesky law you mention is
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by bagacrap 3y ago
Restaurant workers are probably the biggest winners over the past three years. Their wages are a large component driving inflation.
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by bagacrap 3y ago
That sounds like a you problem. I spend $400/month and that would be a lot lower without an obsessive cycling habit which necessitates eating about double the calories of a more sedentary individual my size. Like please share a receipt
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by bagacrap 3y ago
You can easily find big tech jobs in Seattle, Austin, NY, Denver, Los Angeles, etc etc. Actions speak louder than words, so no, they are not telling me they want to live elsewhere. They're telling me they like to complain.
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by bagacrap 3y ago
I don't know anything about this Chevron example, but there are two possibilities: A) it's not as clear cut as you say B) it is as clear cut as you say, and I agree with you But if the latter were true, there would probably be a h
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by bagacrap 3y ago
That's a fine anecdote but apparently unrelatable to the vast majority.
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by bagacrap 3y ago
You guys are tilting at windmills here. I didn't advocate for anything except common sense. Unless you value money more than lives, this system is clearly shite, but the author doesn't acknowledge that, probably due to politics. T
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by bagacrap 3y ago
I don't know where that number comes from but I'm assuming it's a contribution to GDP over a lifetime or something. Seems high, but whatever. The people dying of aortic stenosis have already completed a large percent of their
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by bagacrap 3y ago
I don't understand how the author can praise NHS for providing this expensive surgery free of charge, whilst simultaneously noting the hundreds/thousands of patients who die while on the surgery waiting list. Not to be morbid, but
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by bagacrap 3y ago
> Google search has become nearly unusable This is a weird meme given how many billions of searches Google handles daily.
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by bagacrap 3y ago
What is an acceptable rate of causing cancer and how do you determine what rate a new material will have? I hope your answer to the first question is not zero because things like PFAS do have benefits that are directly translatable to healt
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by bagacrap 3y ago
I would agree but we're talking about asbestos here. It was primarily used in building insulation. Are you suggesting we should have opted out of housing altogether as the sane people opt out of driving? Because I would have suggested
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by bagacrap 3y ago
Obviously no one would rather pay 4x as much for the same thing. In that sense no one chooses the price of their house as they'd clearly pay $1 if they could. But yes, you choose to pay a lot to live near work (you value your time), in
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by bagacrap 3y ago
Can't AI fix this problem yet
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by bagacrap 3y ago
How could you even tell if you've personally invented something? You don't know what caused a thought to pop into your head. Heck I often forget things I've said, so I clearly forget things I've heard. I could be fully c
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by bagacrap 3y ago
I would have just called it a regular cult ("give me all your money and you'll receive great riches in return"). It's true that adherents to crypto have a faulty understanding of traditional finance just as the islanders

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