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blackoil
2y ago
An alternate setup is LTE smartwatch, tws and foldable phones. You can do almost all dumbphone tasks and some more from the watch. It can be relatively distraction free, and you can leave phone at home for swimming/jogging/workout
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2y ago
That is like wishing a benevolent dictator, who'll be in most cases more efficient then democracy but is a huge risk to take.
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2y ago
That even if True is irrelevant to discussion. Antitrust isn't mostly against monopoly, but its abuse to gain benefit in another area or uncompetitive practices to stifle potential competition.
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blackoil
2y ago
Fossil fuel plants already exist for the base load. If they run only 5% of time, it will be lot cleaner than what we have right now.
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2y ago
Meh. I have few Mars, Europa rover in case anyone is interested.
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2y ago
And most people like visiting islands. That doesn't change the fact that this was supposed to be 8 days not 8 months.
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2y ago
> my kid’s iPad That is a more fundamental problem.
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blackoil
2y ago
It is known pretty early on Cigarettes are harmful, we just ignored it because.
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blackoil
2y ago
Problem is not children having access to it. It is more parents outsourcing parenting to YouTube/TikTok or Meta. If parents still take responsibility on how much and where the child spends their time, it is no different than any other
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2y ago
Aswath Damodaran did an analysis on Meta valuation. He found out that even if all the 10s of billions being invested give 0 in terms of revenue it doesn't have much impact on its stock value and in turn companies value. So, I think it
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2y ago
> I have a long rant about how open source is wage theft. Good you didn't write, or else I may have read it for free and did a wage theft.
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2y ago
Why open source the software, if you don't want others to use it?
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2y ago
What probability it is complete BS?
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2y ago
Why is pension managed by the company, wouldn't a national pool be better? In India in the latest system, employee pays some, company adds some and from the money collected over lifetime, the pension will be given. The fund is managed
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2y ago
It is pretty honest guide on how to succeed at Mr. Beast productions. They have their own metrics of success which may or may not align with your morals or ideals. It is a collection of all their learnings in making the videos.
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2y ago
"Real democracies" is hypothetical like "Real Communism". In the Real World democracy means voice of the majority. So, if majority believes abortion should be illegal it will be.
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2y ago
Balkanization of the Internet is inevitable. As more and more people join it, there will be conflict between beliefs, values, and politics. Large markets like EU, India can keep companies aligned, but for smaller nations it will be easier t
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2y ago
Can it be disabled?
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2y ago
I think idea boils down to know enough of your companies and subordinates' work and working to smell any bullshit they try to peddle. If founder does that, it trickles down as all under them will have to know enough about things below
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2y ago
IPO is one option. Merger is another. Companies don't need to buy them in cash but in stocks.
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2y ago
You'll get a second system, that searches your code against index of copyrighted code. If found say > 70% matching against some unique code, it will be flagged for rewrite. It can be automated in Copilot to simply regenerate with a
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2y ago
You can always track signup/paying-users ratio. Purpose of landing/pricing page is to get the users to sign-up. Unless some dark pattern or misinformation is used to confuse users into sign-up, more users is a positive thing.
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2y ago
Rejoice in fact, No one will be wasting 0 day on you.
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blackoil
2y ago
Read about Bhopal tragedy, it is pretty much same.
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2y ago
Depends on gap between the interaction and notification. If the person has already moved on from the page, then next to control is not possible. In which case notifications at some standard position makes more sense.
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2y ago
Why would they even try this? The amount of bad publicity they'll get shouldn't cover up for a small chance the court will accept it.
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2y ago
> How does one group doing something bad justify not caring about another group doing it? If you have two choices and both behave same on some principle, trying to have a principled stand is futile. > I'd much rather have a dossi
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You can control that.
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!!! Policy will always be based on per capita and indirectly also on cumulative emissions.
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For net emission, that investment may be better utilized in upgrading transportation and infrastructure and run peaker gas plants.
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