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by brikym 2y ago
If the US wants to do something about energy they should stop the perverse tax incentives driving the proliferation of oversized vehicles which also happen to be unsafe for pedestrians due to the huge front ends. YouTuber FortNine even man
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by brikym 2y ago
https://www.axios.com/2023/12/08/airline-mergers-us-airline-... It's probably due to the power balance. Corporate consolidation is at an all time high so what choice do you have when they all have the sa
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by brikym 2y ago
> I wish such platforms didn't exist at all, and people just went to small websites We used to have a solution called RSS Feeds. At one point every site had them then Google decided we can't have nice things.
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by brikym 3y ago
The problem with the US is how uniformity the urban planning is. Of the hundreds of cities how many is walking, biking or public transport the primary means, or even a decent alternative, for your commute. We can't try out any new idea
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by brikym 3y ago
Don't let the door fall onto your face on the way out.
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by brikym 3y ago
Don't let the door fall onto your face on the way out.
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by brikym 3y ago
Exactly. By changing the composition all the time of the CPI you're underreporting inflation. We all know about shrinkflation being common as well but shitflation is the worst one of them all because now you can't even spend a few
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by brikym 3y ago
Black mirror is far too accurate and coming true far too soon.
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by brikym 3y ago
YouTube now requires to label their realistic-looking videos made using AI * * Unless you're a powerful state actor then your videos are always 'real'.
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by brikym 3y ago
I need one of those 120kw racks and a 2 L/s pump to heat my jacuzzi and I don't even have a jacuzzi yet.
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by brikym 3y ago
Definitely. Two things come to mind. 1. Weapons of mass destruction. 2. TikTok only becoming a real issue once they were publishing the 'wrong' kind of propaganda re the Israel Palestine conflict.
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by brikym 3y ago
If the health insurance industry is several times larger than car insurance then there must be a very high financial motive for Ancestry/23&me to sell your curious aunt's DNA data which is also linked to relations.
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by brikym 3y ago
The key aspect that allows the businesses to get away with this is the buying frequency. You might buy a couch once every 10 years so it's very difficult to judge quality. Whereas with something like coffee beans I'm buying it eve
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by brikym 3y ago
A few decades ago the Japanese were learning to make cars and there were some quality problems until they figured it out. I think China has gone through a similar thing.
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by brikym 3y ago
A better metaphor would be the shops at an airport. The monopoly airport fleece the shops with high rent and in turn the shops fleece their customers with high prices.
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by brikym 3y ago
Hey NYT I hope you’ll enjoy my game called QWERTL https://qwertl.com Or my other game https://redactle.net which sounds ever so similar to wordle so you had better send your lawyers. Or what about https://
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by brikym 3y ago
I totally agree but I think this is already priced into the stock.
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by brikym 3y ago
There are a bunch of little things that would just work on my Android but do not work on iPhone. I already mentioned the web - every browser is just a safari skin. So I can't use my favourite firefox plugins. The YouTube app is not as
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by brikym 3y ago
It’s all fun and games being that collective until you realise the other side hate you because you’re different from them. You’ve given away everything and they now dominate you. Cute ideas but game theory still holds. Why does every tree i
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by brikym 3y ago
This is why I sold my APPL stock a few weeks back. The experience on iPhone is shit. The web is broken on Safari. They broke PWAs. The vision pro is not a big hit. The notification system on MacOS is a poor experience as it gets in my way a
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by brikym 3y ago
How will people cope without all the humble bragging and corporate bingo?
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by brikym 3y ago
Is there a benchmark which tests lobotomization and political correctness? I don’t care how smart a model is if it lies to me.
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by brikym 3y ago
One of the leaders in dystopian social engineering, the United Kingdom, wants a KYC for watching porn so you're not far off. Oi mate you can't do that without a loicence!
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by brikym 3y ago
It's already been happening. Google has been useless for a few years now due to blog spam. To be fair they shot themselves in the foot by prioritising content length. Measuring search ranking by content length is like measuring aircraf
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by brikym 3y ago
I have some noisy neighbours and I've thought of the same idea for controlling noise in neighbourhoods. You could have a microphone on every lamp post and send people fines for violating the rules.
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by brikym 3y ago
In addition: - Flexbox froggy is the best way to learn flex. - Before you even start writing anything find someone elses css-reset rules as that'll replace years of legacy backwards compatible behaviour with some sane defaults. (e.g.
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by brikym 3y ago
There is also the Kusto Detective Agency site where you learn by pretending to be a detective investigating leads using the the data. You also get a little certificate at the end. https://detective.kusto.io/
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by brikym 3y ago
It looks a lot like Kusto query language. Here is a kusto query: StormEvents | where StartTime between (datetime(2007-01-01) .. datetime(2007-12-31)) and DamageCrops > 0 | summarize EventCount = count() by bin(StartTim
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by brikym 3y ago
It's not just Kale. PFAS is in many other forms of cardboard. Don't believe your friend, deep frying does not remove the bitterness.
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by brikym 3y ago
Who doesn’t like to have sex with their sexy MacBook?

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