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by beefield 5y ago
You make a relatively bold assumption there that valuation of anything crypto-related would have any connection to reality whatsoever.
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by beefield 5y ago
Makes me wonder why FAANG do not try to pick desperate employees? Or do they?
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by beefield 5y ago
> timeboxed 2FA code Would you mind sharing implementation details?
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by beefield 5y ago
Quoting: "While Google does not use these reports to take direct action against violations" Given e.g. pinterest in the google results, I find it difficult to imagine as sure way to waste your time uselessly than to report SEO spa
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by beefield 5y ago
Center motor, so if anything, the load is higher on the chain than normal bikes. I am not sure how much more than 5k you can realistically expect for a lifetime for an ebike drivetrain regardless how you maintain it. You need to clean the b
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by beefield 5y ago
I know an (e)bike rental operation that uses wd40 almost exclusively as chain "lube". Their current ebikes have something like 4-5k on the odo, powertrains still the original ones. But they clean/apply the wd40 to the chain b
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by beefield 5y ago
I'd be happy to compromise so that Europeans ban decimal comma and Americans start using metric system.
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by beefield 5y ago
I have quit a couple of times without anything to land on. The first lesson of the first time (for me, that is, YMMV) was to have a plan what to do after you quit. Even if you financially can afford the break, having nothing to do is quite
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by beefield 5y ago
Any contract that prohibits price differentiation between sales channels should be flat out illegal. Those kind of contracts are nothing short of evil.
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by beefield 5y ago
Okay, I'll bite. I have known for a long time that eval is evil. Then, last year I actually needed to evaluate a string (from a file). As the case was safe enough (input 100% controlled by me), I did not worry too much and just used ev
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by beefield 5y ago
> The issue that Facebook is trying to solve is that kids already use the platform. I would assume that if Facebook cared the slightest bit, they would be able to identify users that are six years old and simply redirect them to a safe p
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by beefield 5y ago
> That and other elements of rational choice theory are not unfalsifiable Can you give an example what could you do to prove me that you do not maximize your utility? I mean, regardless how stupid thing you come up, I can always say &quo
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by beefield 5y ago
> The other approaches mentioned above tend to make the tradeoff the other way--the consumer pays marginal cost of copying, but less art gets produced than consumers would like. This is what proponents of IP claim. Many even think it is
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by beefield 5y ago
Sorry, I may have missed some math lesson, but what means "exponentially faster"?
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by beefield 5y ago
It's not that new idea. See Intellectual Property in its many forms. For some reason, when we try to figure how to manage abundant resources, only solutions we come up with are to make them artificially scarce. Which makes really lit
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by beefield 5y ago
I wonder what would be closest to a Michelin star guide to bookstores/libraries around the world? Not only top 10/25 or whatever, but a list of exceptionally good bookstores all around.
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by beefield 5y ago
Unfortunately, however, looks like the nice people[1] at Blackbird still keep on working their stuff, so it was not a fight to the death. https://www.blackbird-tech.com/blackbird-technologies-settle... [1]that was sarcasm.
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by beefield 5y ago
I dipped my toes to google ads the first time a few months ago. I am definitely not sure I understood it correctly, but I gave up very quickly as I got following impression[1]: 1. Google seems to define what are "relevant ads" for
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by beefield 5y ago
> I'd rather see Qwant succeed, but their search is having trouble competing with even duckduckgo Weird. I have found Qwant giving better results than ddg. (No affiliation) What is weird is that there is one small change that would
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by beefield 5y ago
> Besides, we're past "transient uptick" here anyhow. That was an argument for three months ago. Why? I am no real economist, but my common sense based armchair economics would think that post-covid-mess inflation peak wou
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by beefield 5y ago
> but I'm really curious about why you think this. I was not discussing whether we as a society are better off now than in the old days. (To me it is obvious that we are better off in most ways) I was discussing why it feels that th
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by beefield 5y ago
> Something definitely went wrong somewhere Yep. Not old enough to actually verify this, but somehow I have feeling that in the old days the smartest kids of the block were lured to figure out how to get to the moon and how to get electr
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by beefield 5y ago
>are incapable of being under-collateralized. Knowing pretty much zero about DAI (and honestly, not too interested to spend any time to learn), this still sounds incredible. Does that incapability hold even if prices of whatever underlyi
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by beefield 5y ago
And the real problem is that it is only a really small set of things one person can have even mediocre competence during one lifetime, whereas the space of things where you can be completely idiot is infinite. So, as a very good approxima
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by beefield 5y ago
It does not stop the pop ups. Safari asks from you permission for location services, you tap ok, and you get an error message that says getting location services failed.
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by beefield 5y ago
I do not have iphone either, but based on my observations many (most?) iphone owners have disabled safari location services from the os side, so you can't just allow them from the permission popup, but you need to go to the os setting
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by beefield 5y ago
> The real question is how did the web remain relevant while being so far behind this tectonic platform shift? Not sure it is relevant anymore for a non-trivial chunk of people - at least in mobile. Lately I have quite often needed to ex
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by beefield 5y ago
Does that also apply to outright lies, threats and defamation in mass social media - assuming I do not want to hear those? And, am I obliged to listen and/or give a thoughtful response to anything I do not want to hear?
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by beefield 5y ago
I have tried a few times to move back to feature phones, but it has gotten exceedingly difficult nowadays. What I currently think is missing is a containerization/virtualization solution where you run something like lineageOS as a host
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by beefield 5y ago
Yep. Also, if I want to get pleasure from a bag of candies using my hard earned money, most people expect me to pay sales tax and candy shop taxes from profits and whatnot. But if I happen to want to get pleasure by giving the money away to

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