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by ballenf 3y ago
Most EU countries have very strict emissions testing. Why can't that be expanded to limit engine noise?
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by ballenf 3y ago
The question that should be asked by the experts are "which of our economic indicators is wrong?" Instead of "why are millions of people acting irrationally"? The behavior we're witnessing is perfectly predicted by
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by ballenf 3y ago
In earlier times, they'd just fire you without any kind of PIP process. Are you saying that PIP vs. immediate firing is worse?
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by ballenf 3y ago
But it sounds like he won? He got his $200k and found a new job before any PIP was implemented? Why would his manager have been upset if they were actually trying to force him out? Surely HR knows how long it takes to exit someone and if th
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by ballenf 3y ago
> although we were better off than my parents because my wife was working I found that line interesting as he was making the point that they paid 3.5 times their salaries for their house in 1980 just like his parents in 1951 on one sala
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by ballenf 3y ago
CREE and Philips bulbs are 3-5x the price of Home Depot's cheapest LEDs but for me pay for themselves in their longevity and quality.
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by ballenf 3y ago
People's eyes and brains vary widely. Maybe it's reasonable to accept that people see light differently and maybe some people are much more sensitive to spectrum differences. That's certainly true for flicker tolerance -- I p
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by ballenf 3y ago
I'm not sure that they would like their pay being docked when the profit is negative. Or having to help repay creditors in a bankruptcy.
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by ballenf 3y ago
Did someone invent 1+1=2?
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by ballenf 3y ago
The first chip they give it to design should be an ML chip that is optimized for ML chip design.
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by ballenf 3y ago
Can someone explain again how an ML system scanning and training on a copyrighted work is different from a highly skilled artist doing the same? There are artists that can study a painting for a few minutes and then recreate it from memory.
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by ballenf 3y ago
I don't know about "throwing people in jail", but putting criminals in jail certainly reduces crime rates. As opposed to not putting convicted criminals in jail. But we hardly need advanced DNA profiling to catch 99.9% of cri
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by ballenf 3y ago
On a phone there is no box at all. It's two options to select. The opt-in is highlighted, but there is no "next" button -- you have to select an option.
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by ballenf 3y ago
That's not how it works. You get asked the question again on every update, regardless of what you chose the last time. So there are people who were opted-in that change their minds. My friends and family opt-in rate is <50%. And mos
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by ballenf 3y ago
Just after they open to public inspection all the deliberation, discussion and industry lobbying behind weakening encryption on the basis that people who have nothing to hide shouldn't care.
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by ballenf 3y ago
Not sure why you're lumping Tesla in with Cruise. I'm all for investigating Tesla for advertising something as FSD that isn't FSD. Tesla basically has advanced driver assist functionality that is a few steps ahead of what m
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by ballenf 3y ago
They stopped in Mexico after threats from regulators there. I think it's safe to assume they'll keep doing it (or start doing again) in other countries where they can get away with it. But at the very least, the article doesn&#x27
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by ballenf 3y ago
Probably the same reason we buy modern cars.
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by ballenf 3y ago
I get the desire to be compensated for the work that went into reproducing the Guided Access escape, but I have to agree that this is not a security issue. Guided Access controls are in the Accessibility settings. Apple has marketed the fea
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by ballenf 3y ago
What's really surprising is that there are no humans at Walgreens who can call out obviously bullshit customer surveys knowing that they're wrong. The company behaves like a zombie with no one really in control. The emperor really
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by ballenf 3y ago
It's totally valid to push devs to get a ticket done faster when there's real pressure. It's much better to finish a ticket under estimate than turn estimates into aspirations. The best case is to: - line up the work in order
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by ballenf 3y ago
Another factor that would be interesting to control for is 2-parent households. I don't know how you provide adequate support for single parents while also encouraging 2-parent households, but it doesn't seem like we're tryin
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by ballenf 3y ago
So strange that to maintain the public's rights, they have to organize and petition every three years to individually keep each one. Seems like that once granted, the default should be against revoking exemptions.
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by ballenf 3y ago
People just don't realize that giving someone free reign to their phone is the same as giving someone remote access, basically, to your brain. It's just hard for the mind to grasp how such a physically small device can grant acces
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by ballenf 3y ago
It's the same issue from last generation's photo developing services. It was common knowledge that photo techs printed an extra copy of anything "interesting" for their own collections.
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by ballenf 3y ago
Could be, but if the marketing department can push spec change past tested conditions on critical safety components without retesting then there's an organizational/cultural lapse running very deep. We're talking about the re
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by ballenf 3y ago
Wow. 35,000 recalls. Each recall is estimated to take ~25 hours -- requires dropping battery and accessing the relay inside. Even if a service department can streamline this, this could be a very, very costly issue. I wonder if the "fi
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by ballenf 3y ago
Not per account. Also the point is you then need 5000 methods of payment, making correlation between accounts trivial.
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by ballenf 3y ago
I also wonder how much cheaper Premium would be without music. I guess it's kind of hard to separate, since popular songs are on both and Premium allows background watching. The YT music app feels like a poorly reskinned YT app. Imposs
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by ballenf 3y ago
> These off-platform rentals pose risks to both guests and hosts, who could get scammed without the protections of bigger companies like Airbnb. It feels strange that we're blaming the rise of Airbnb for property shortages while at

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