brainwad

17 ms·

361.
by brainwad 2y ago
I don't think that's it, since this project has been in the works for years and has burnt way more resources than just keeping on-server location history in maintenance mode ever would have. It seems to be motivated by actual priv
362.
by brainwad 2y ago
That case would be wild, since you don't even need to be a _British_ citizen to be an MP - Ireland or any Commonwealth nation will also do.
363.
by brainwad 2y ago
This has been a campaign for years and other jurisdictions have already passed similar laws. If anything, Google is reacting to the legislative trend, rather than lobbying for it.
364.
by brainwad 2y ago
A Swiss newspaper interviewed the workers - they said they liked it a lot more because a) they get to work regular hours but in the shade and b) they have more space, since the traffic goes above them. On a normal worksite they have barely
365.
by brainwad 2y ago
For translation, this thing is pretty amazing. "Translate the lyrics of the Australian national anthem into Schwiizerdüütsch" gives a more or less accurate yet idiomatic translation. ChatGPT 3.5 just makes something up and Gemini
366.
by brainwad 2y ago
Drugs cost actual resources to produce. Giving them away for free will distort the market towards more consumption than ideal. And unlike e.g. healthcare or education, it's not like we can morally justify that overconsumption. Taxpayer
367.
by brainwad 3y ago
The actual signs in Sydney look like Danger Don't cross the tracks - use the bridge. Fines up to $5,500 apply. ( https://railgallery.wongm.com/cache/sydney-suburban/F121_540... )
368.
by brainwad 3y ago
The English/British and their media are not as jarringly foreign as Americans, because Australian culture and language diverged from English culture much later than American did. There's also 5x fewer of them, so they are less of
369.
by brainwad 3y ago
Because it's fun to have diminutive version of many words. And because it differentiates us from boorish Americans - or as they are also known in Oz, seppos.
370.
by brainwad 3y ago
Right, that makes a lot of sense because the city absolutely exploded during the preceding decades. But having the population stagnate has certainly made it easier for them to catch up than if the population had kept increasing.
371.
by brainwad 3y ago
Possibly because it presumes Paris is 'mixed', but actually the city of Paris is notably better off than the surrounding suburbs, especially the ones on the north/east. This has some good maps: https://medium.com&#
372.
by brainwad 3y ago
Vienna has had the luxury of having had relatively little demand for housing for over a century. The population peaked in WWI and still hasn't recovered (it was 2.24m in 1916, 2.00m in 2023).
373.
by brainwad 3y ago
> Literally Everybody Not In The Bubble Of Working At Google Trust me, Googlers would like our products to not suck, too.
374.
by brainwad 3y ago
I think you are understimating the problem. I tried your exact prompt, and it said in one of the 3 drafts: I can't generate an image that depicts stereotypes or promotes racial discrimination. The idea of an "all white bu
375.
by brainwad 3y ago
Launching anything as a big tech company in Europe is an absolute nightmare. Between GDPR, DSA, DMA and in Google's case, several EC remedies, it takes months to years to get anything launched.
376.
by brainwad 3y ago
Google does stock buybacks instead. The last yearly buyback authorisation was for $70b, so the "yield" is around 4-5%. It's very much in the blue-chip, return-cash-to-investors phase of its corporate life.
377.
by brainwad 3y ago
The CEO of Meta, who lives in the US? Good luck with that.
378.
by brainwad 3y ago
Engagement metric focus can come from the bottom up, too. If you're an engineer who just build a feature you think is cool, but which nobody is using, it's very tempting to start applying growth hacks to make it more "popular
379.
by brainwad 3y ago
Switzerland is _not_ in the EEA, it has a sui generis bilateral agreement with the EU that implements some but not all of the EU law that applies to the EEA countries automatically. It's very contentious in EU-Swiss diplomacy, because
380.
by brainwad 3y ago
This title is very misleading. Actually Argentina voted in a presidential primary, and one candidate who advocates dollarisation got 31.57% of the vote. But the feasibility of dollarisation is not at all clear: https://www.econom
381.
by brainwad 3y ago
It's presumably the adjective for when something can be impregnated.
382.
by brainwad 3y ago
That limit doesn't exist for phone payments.
383.
by brainwad 4y ago
Perhaps... But Switzerland is one of the most atomised, individualistic societies I've lived in. Swiss social trust mostly comes from an abundance of means, as far as I can tell. When you've got a full belly and a roof over your h
384.
by brainwad 4y ago
Building things above ground is a planning nightmare in Switzerland. Much, much easier just to tunnel.
385.
by brainwad 5y ago
From the article, it sounds like they mostly don't trust the car to not get confused and shut down in the middle of a trip.
386.
by brainwad 5y ago
Express services on shared track isn't common on metro systems. NYC's express subways all use dedicated track, for instance. The tendency to not keep to a strict timetable and the close-running of metro systems makes it hard to sl
387.
by brainwad 5y ago
They haven't ever dropped the limit - a weight limit was introduced in 2000 and hasn't changed since: https://cyclingtips.com/2013/08/the-6-8kg-limit/
388.
by brainwad 5y ago
> lighter frames (within reason) The UCI's 6.8kg weight limit is much higher than what is achievable with modern materials. So much so that there are frame builders who can build you an "illegal" bike made out of _steel_:
389.
by brainwad 5y ago
It can get very demoralising as an interviewer when you interview dozens of candidates, and none meet the bar - and even the ones you rate hire or leaning hire get rejected by the hiring committee. When I first started interviewing (at Goog
390.
by brainwad 5y ago
https://goomics.net/239/ needs a few more darts ;)

More ›