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by calciphus 3y ago
That's a complex question. Often for companies there's a "we are not cash flow positive by design as we are spending investor dollars to grow" vs "we are not profitable because the cost of serving our customers is m
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by calciphus 3y ago
A similar concept - cave paintings were possibly animated by the movement of fire as a light source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ice-age-artist...
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by calciphus 3y ago
Humans are like mammalian cockroaches. Some will make it.
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by calciphus 3y ago
Many artists, venues, and ticketing companies prohibit transferring to resale sites but allow "fan to fan" transfers. You transfer the ticket to Stubhub via a reasonable but generic sounding email, then they transfer it to the fin
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by calciphus 3y ago
> seem to want is being presented in-your-face at all crowded places You have described every modern marketing and sales organization. Why is this industry any different than alcohol, fashion, vehicles, banking...
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by calciphus 3y ago
Pricing in the exploit market is value based, not cost based. You can sell an iOS exploit for more because the people you're targeting with it are generally wealthier.
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by calciphus 3y ago
Check out Whisper, it is surprisingly good and several of the output formats include time codes, works with multiple languages. https://github.com/openai/whisper
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by calciphus 3y ago
More useful == cheaper. Centralize your profits to a major metropolitan area (where your executives and maybe board live) then use global labor markets to suppress the wages of your employees.
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by calciphus 4y ago
Teachers are very good at spotting when a paper was not written by a student. Any student they've worked with and graded works from they can identify. When someone changes tone, pattern, word choice, and grammer all at once? It's
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by calciphus 4y ago
I have a small Bluetooth media control. Volume, play / pause, and track controls work even if I've not got the music app up, or if I need to pause something to hop on a call. Not having to find my music app because my wife calls m
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by calciphus 4y ago
Apple does restrict access to much of their platform for only Apple-based access. There's exactly one company stopping Google or anyone else from building a compatible car system that runs for both Android and ios, and that's Appl
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by calciphus 4y ago
Wait I'm genuinely curious: what's wrong with Calculator?
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by calciphus 4y ago
Only because Mac is the only place in the Apple ecosystem you still own your device. Everywhere else it would be "our loss".
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by calciphus 4y ago
Thank you, I was deeply confused for a moment. I almost had to click through to the article!
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by calciphus 4y ago
Turn signals, windshield wipers, media controls, cruise control, follow distance...all have physical controls. Lots of other weird stuff is touch screen only, like re-aiming the A/C vents or taking the headlights off of auto-mode, but
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by calciphus 4y ago
He joined around a year ago, it is now worth 72% less than when he joined. Possibly part of the reason to depart? A $70M comp cut and little hope of it recovering seems a good reason
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by calciphus 4y ago
I don't know about ios, but on Android there's a program called "Palabre" that lets you log into feedly. I like the interface, precache + readability features much more.
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by calciphus 4y ago
I pay for a lifetime license on adguard, on Android. It is vanishing rare to see ads and the audit logs show how often and which apps are having their telemetry and other trackers blocked. It blocks a lot of Google stuff. That's the re
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by calciphus 4y ago
It is a one-time $2000 upgrade on my car. Dunno about others, but the subscription being a "for the life of the vehicle" purchase seems like the lousy part of this deal.
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by calciphus 4y ago
My experience in getting a Tesla repair vs. getting a Honda recall repair: Tesla: made an appointment on the app at a time that worked for me (about a week out). Drove in, parked the car, walked away in under 5 minutes. App notifies me I&#x
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by calciphus 4y ago
It's why you can't install the same app that worked on your iPhone 8 when you bought it, today. It's the reason you can't install one that worked two years ago unless the developer is constantly keeping up with Apple&#x2
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by calciphus 4y ago
It's not just the pixel 6, it goes clear back to the pixel 4, galaxy s20, and many more. A totally excellent list of supported and tested devices is at the latter part of this article. https://barbeau.medium.com/tl-dr-d
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Bidding tops $13.1M for Warren Buffett charity lunch(reuters.com)
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by calciphus 4y ago
Some really fascinating studies have shown that your perception of time doesn't actually slow down in moments of heightened intensity, however the detail of the memory (when reflected on later) is higher than for a non-traumatic experi
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by calciphus 4y ago
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376 Musk himself claims that the only curtailment is "what is prohibited by law". This isn't some tweet dragged from his history, either. It'
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by calciphus 4y ago
The challenge seems to be that 1-3 in your list are highly subjective. 1. Requires a common definition of spamming. If a bot is posting headlines for the NYT on their official account is that spam? A person really eagerly replying to everyo
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by calciphus 4y ago
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/15/elon-musk-demonstrates-h... Namely I think he vastly underestimates how complex content moderation at scale is.
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by calciphus 5y ago
Shared clipboard in an age of 2FA is amazing. For the windows and Android users (of which I am one), the first party "your phone" app in windows 10/11 gives you this along with a lot of other amazing features (running your ph
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by calciphus 5y ago
This case like many others isn't about private individuals - it's about a business (even a business of one) - whereby someone receives all manner of structure supported by the institutions around them in return for abiding by the
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by calciphus 5y ago
I'm curious about this. What if you could pay for a stack overflow bounty? I'm sure there's folks who would happily earn a side hustle answering questions there at $50-$100/ea

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