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Apple wins: Louis Rossmann on the state of right to repair(youtube.com)
4 points by brownbat 6y ago|1 comments
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by brownbat 6y ago
The roi was also high during that period. The price of services relative to goods has also trended strongly upwards during that period due to increased trade. Urbanization and increased cost of living in some areas could be pushing up avera
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by brownbat 6y ago
We rebooked relatives during the pandemic and was surprised our credit didn't apply to the same class of service. If you bought a package with extra legroom and a checked bag, you end up being able to use the credit on basic economy, a
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by brownbat 6y ago
I've wondered about this for years, crossing off theories like you just did with powerful counterexamples. All I see left is technophobia. There's a deep human bias. Things we don't understand seem scarier than things we do.
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by brownbat 6y ago
I feel like there's a whole series of articles that could be filed under "Tech industry decides aol really had the right model after all."
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by brownbat 6y ago
People have been doing this since the cannonballs photo in the Crimean War. If you think a fully fabricated video is the key to lying to people I have a poker game you can join. Here's a discussion of how far you can distort video toda
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by brownbat 6y ago
I thought they were saying the defense was like defenses of gpt-3, that it will be good someday, or it's good if you are very selective about the output, not that your comment was poorly written. One of those readings is just musing ab
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by brownbat 6y ago
I wonder how much of that was by design, if any. An old friend used to work in a chemical factory in, must have been Minnesota in the 60s or 70s. She would talk about how they had a row of sheds with three walls for mixing certain dangerous
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by brownbat 6y ago
The libre/gratis distinction is important, sure. But when rms argued against "programs as property" here, there were certain implications about pricing models that came along for the ride, whether that was his primary intenti
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by brownbat 6y ago
Well... (1) If you believe prices trend towards marginal cost, and, (2) the cost of acquiring a new user trends lower for more useful products, then it follows that... (3) capping the price of software would generally improve its overall qu
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by brownbat 6y ago
Reminded me of Hal Varian talking about Google's dominance and (dismissing any role of) network effects back in 2008: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/our-secret-sauce.htm... They were pretty on messag
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by brownbat 6y ago
Futurism from forty years ago on the unbeatable triumph of malls: https://youtu.be/2RkxhXQnVSw "This is how we live now."
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by brownbat 6y ago
> Edit: Yea, reading the study, I don't see anything about controlling for fitness level. They specifically control for the following lifestyle factors: "smoking status, alcohol consumption, physical activity, body mass index (
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by brownbat 6y ago
> this article says that a second grade reader can learn a new word after being exposed to it just a couple of times, but I'm not having that level of success to new characters I read in my passages. This tracks with some self repor
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by brownbat 6y ago
Arguably PageRank cannibalized itself, it created incentives to make the web itself worse.
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by brownbat 6y ago
You can't really improve this until the lead author doesn't have a final say on how to treat outliers. In any given study, there are going to be hundreds of special cases in the data that you didn't anticipate, and you have t
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by brownbat 6y ago
Reminds me of this Outside/In episode about (possibly) the earliest adopters of solar in the US: http://outsideinradio.org/shows/2018/1/4/stoner-panels
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by brownbat 6y ago
> * (many others that escape me at this moment...) * Threat hunting / attribution Familiarity with clustering incidents and pivoting between actors by attack signatures. Or before that, do you even know what an APT is? (Probably onl
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by brownbat 6y ago
I'm with you insofar as I'd prefer slightly fewer, but I have seen some important topics with unique discussions here. I think that's why the guidelines say "probably" instead of making it a bright line. Even if it&
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Elo sucks – better multiplayer rating systems for smaller games (2019)(medium.com)
161 points by brownbat 6y ago|155 comments
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by brownbat 6y ago
That's what I thought of. Some chat snippets here: https://www.businessinsider.com/read-the-bloomberg-chats-tha...
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by brownbat 6y ago
How long until we can get some kind of open AI project to take in incoming bad quality voice and output clear noiseless human speech (in our, or whoever's voice we want), so podcasters don't have to buy expensive microphones and t
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by brownbat 6y ago
Great point. I've been wondering -- if commute times suddenly become close to irrelevant, because most hours worked are remote, that changes a ton of housing calculations, right? Remote work is over-represented in tech though, so I don
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by brownbat 6y ago
Oh interesting: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/inte... So Russia/China are already in the "further safeguards needed" camp, along with... almost all of the world?
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by brownbat 6y ago
Will this have implications for Chinese and Russian services as well? Will the EU go fully local?
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by brownbat 6y ago
They even admit in the article it's less efficient than desalinization, which is itself hard to make efficient.
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by brownbat 6y ago
I'm all for transition assistance and a safety net to mitigate the harms, but halting human ingenuity seems like it would put far greater numbers of people at risk of misery and untimely deaths. Lamplighters are especially useful to co
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by brownbat 6y ago
It may be harder to monetize short video content than short text or longer videos (maybe that drives YouTube revenue nudges for longer content?). But people like short videos, so there's a tension there. If you're in ads, maybe ju
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by brownbat 6y ago
That list has some big names on it. > Troia said the people responsible for compromising his site are the same people who hacked the databases they are now selling on the dark web and claiming to have obtained exclusively from his servic
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by brownbat 6y ago
Tim Harford has an episode about why bricks have been so great for humanity for so long, and a bit on why they are so hard to improve on: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz2w8

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