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by bhelkey 10mo ago
>> We are offering shareholders $17.6 billion more cash than the deal they currently have signed up with Netflix > It seems the main thrust of the pitch is "we're friends with Trump therefore more likely to win approval&q
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by bhelkey 10mo ago
> 15-20% of the world is estimated to have a disability. So Stanford population is high, but approximately double the average of a random global population sample. Stanford is not a random sample of the global population. Most notably, S
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by bhelkey 11mo ago
A couple of things: First, the site generator is MIT licensed but I don't see a link to the license. If someone forks this generator, would they be in compliance with MIT license requirements? Second, the images linked in this site are
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by bhelkey 11mo ago
Smart watches with long battery life exist. Garmin watches generally have ~2 week battery life: * Venu 3 for $350 has 2 week battery life [1] * Forerunner 55 for $150 has 2 week battery life [2] I don't see why you are defining succes
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by bhelkey 11mo ago
> I think it's intended as a comparison of cost when building a gaming-capable computer vs. a console of somewhat equivalent power. The PS5 has 16GB of RAM. One can buy 16GB of RAM for ~$100 [1]. [1] https://pcpartpicker.
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by bhelkey 11mo ago
Lets just zoom into a single use case. The ability of the user to buy a 3rd Party watch that integrates with their phone: * Apple doesn't allow 3rd Party watches to send text messages. The Apple Watch is allowed to do so. * Apple doesn
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by bhelkey 11mo ago
> in the worst case you're buying bogus keys or stolen accounts Maybe this is just a hole in my knowledge but I don't see how this could be the case. Regarding stolen accounts: Once I activate a Steam key, I can't deactiva
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by bhelkey 1y ago
Another simple permission is network access. Why can't I restrict, say, a calculator app from accessing the internet on either iOS or Android?
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by bhelkey 1y ago
> companies will brag about limited roll-outs of niche cases in dry, flat, places that are easy to navigate According to their website, Waymo offers autonomous rides to the general public in Austin, Atlanta, Phoenix, the San Francisco Ba
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by bhelkey 1y ago
>> people like those in-laws probably aren’t buying EVs. > A used 2 year old Ioniq 5 is selling for about $15-20K less than MSRP...It's not a "few thousand dollars". The Ioniq 5 is an electric vehicle. The whole poin
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by bhelkey 1y ago
> There's a saying that a new car loses 50% when you leave the lot. New cars in no way lose half of their value when you drive them off the lot. The saying is that a new car loses ~10% of it's value when you drive it off the lo
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by bhelkey 1y ago
> Nuclear has no relevance in Germany, never really had. In 2011 ~25% of Germany's electricity came from their nuclear reactors [1]. Germany closed their last nuclear reactor in 2023. [1] http://large.stanford.edu/co
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by bhelkey 1y ago
> I just shared my location with home depot a few days ago so it could locate which store I am in. There is a huge difference between giving Home Depot permissions to know your location while you are in a Home Depot vs giving Home Depot
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by bhelkey 1y ago
Physicians in the US are paid, on average, more than 2x what Physicians in Germany make and more than 3.5x what Physicians in France are paid [1]. [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1094939/physician-earnin...
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by bhelkey 1y ago
> it be un-foldable compromises the battery life, overall thickness (when folded) and weight to at least some extent Not as much as you would think. The Galaxy Fold 7 has a 6.5" outer screen (as compared to 6.3" screen in the i
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by bhelkey 1y ago
> i dont believe that nobody would want to build much of the things we have now, if there wasnt IP around them. Making and inventing things is fun People write fanfiction without being paid, however, Avatar 2 cost hundreds of millions to
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by bhelkey 1y ago
From the article: > Alsup gave the parties a Sept. 15 deadline to submit a final list of works, which currently stands around 465,000.
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by bhelkey 1y ago
In the UK, ~55% of traffic comes from mobile [1]. The UK could approach Apple and Google and ask them to remove VPNs from their respective app stores when opened in the UK. I imagine this would curtail a large proportion of mobile VPN usage
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by bhelkey 1y ago
I think what they were referring to Germany phasing out nuclear power. In 2011 Germany had 17 active nuclear power plants. They closed their last one in 2023.
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by bhelkey 1y ago
Apple stores Chinese users' iCloud data and encryption keys to that data in China in a datacenter run by a state owned firm [1]. [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/apple-moves-to-st...
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by bhelkey 1y ago
What country is this?
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by bhelkey 1y ago
How dangerous is this? If I buy/print one of these arms, how cautious would I need to be to prevent the arm from hurting me or other adults?
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by bhelkey 1y ago
The linked graph includes inflation.
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by bhelkey 1y ago
Do you have a source for this? CNN reports that he was on vacation to Florida and was arrested in the airport awaiting a flight home to Germany [1]. [1] https://money.cnn.com/2017/03/17/news/companies&#x2
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by bhelkey 1y ago
The VX emission cheating scandal came to light a decade ago in 2015. If a 78 year old is too old to prosecute, Germany should have prosecuted him a decade ago when he was 68. Instead, Germany refused to extradite him to the US to stand tria
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by bhelkey 1y ago
The US indicted seven senior executives including Martin Winterkorn in 2017 [1]. None of these seven were extradited from Germany to the US to face trial. [1] https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/former-ceo
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by bhelkey 1y ago
> It's good that Germany is going after the people who decided that fraud When the VW scandal broke, the US indicted seven senior executives. None of these seven were extradited to the US to stand trial [1]. The VW scandal was made
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by bhelkey 1y ago
When the VW scandal broke, the US indicted seven senior executives [1]. Germany did not cooperate. None of these seven were extradited to the US to stand trial. One more mid level engineer involved in the scandal made the mistake of taking
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by bhelkey 1y ago
> Cats cause ~1000x more bird deaths than collisions with wind turbines. Edit: this should be Cats cause ~10,000x more bird deaths than collisions with wind turbines.
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by bhelkey 1y ago
Cats are one of five categories with >100x the rate of wind turbine bird deaths [1]. If your position is that all five of these factors don't impact larger birds, the onus is on you to back that claim up. [1] https://www.

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