charwalker

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by charwalker 5y ago
The college library in my hometown had public access via a paid card. It was inexpensive and about equal to the cost students paid in fees each year or their access. I know a few local authors that heavily relied on that library for researc
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by charwalker 5y ago
If a company receives federal aid, or their employees receive federal aid due to low pay ex Walmart in the US, they should have to cap payouts. Maybe based on a ratio to the lowest paid employee or federal minimum wage. Make execs lobby to
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by charwalker 5y ago
Could apply to research, application development, web development, credential management...
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by charwalker 5y ago
If it isn't legal, and normal democratic processes won't make it legal in the short term, then it isn't viable competition. DMCA/etc vastly favors content owners who also lobby hard to maintain their ownership by extendi
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by charwalker 5y ago
You should read up on the tolerance paradox. The people behind this FL bill are the type to abuse such tolerance, all while telling bakeries it's chill if they refuse services for gay wedding or similar.
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by charwalker 5y ago
The first amendment also respects the right to freedom of association. This law is akin to the government forcing you to do business with someone you would rather avoid, for example to make a cake for a gay wedding that goes against your pe
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by charwalker 5y ago
So, like, the same type of hate speech Trump spouted all over Twitter before his ban?
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by charwalker 5y ago
Freedom of association is an expensive thing to get sued over. Hopefully the state is ready to blow taxpayer dollars on the inevitable loss trying to defend this.
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by charwalker 5y ago
Yeah, the current model is basically sharecropping with all the possible methods of abusing the farmers leveraged in favor of Apple as if they were Monsanto. I love being able to side load classic Android apps and I've only had one rec
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by charwalker 5y ago
CL here (major coastal city) offers most non apartment complexes symmetric gigabit fiber. They are still running a free install/modem deal too. Pain in the butt to run power for their ONT box but I'm sitting at $65/month flat
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by charwalker 5y ago
> given economies of scale and/or network effects. Other than competition, easily bought out when you're working with a $600 billion valuation of Amazon, or loss of consumer interest, what incentive does a for profit company ha
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by charwalker 5y ago
Some 80 million Americans voted for and many actually think Trump won in 2020, regardless of evidence. Much of them also think the events of 1/6/21 were fake or a non issue. Think of someone you know of average intelligence then r
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by charwalker 5y ago
FYI, from my understanding this is an extremely common behavior for most op-ed boards ex adding a headline when none was sent in, or editing the submission itself for length/formatting/etc. Most groups will require you sign someth
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by charwalker 5y ago
Just onboarding a skilled/experience new team member has been painful all around. There is so much you can get in a traditional in person whiteboarding session, or that one has developed the skills to teach in person. I think much of t
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by charwalker 5y ago
In app purchases from the Apple store are subject to the cut to Apple. Apple pay is separate and though the consumer does not pay the transaction cost (Like VISA/etc), Apple is still taking a cut. > Apple currently takes a 30% commi
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by charwalker 5y ago
My manager has been very active to push sick says when needed, maybe partially as it's hard to gauge how functional someone is when you can't see them at their desk. They've always been awesome but it has shown through this p
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by charwalker 5y ago
How is that functionally different from identifying a product that is selling well, making your own version of it, and selling that at the identified best or lower price from the data generated by the third party? Sure they may still list t
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by charwalker 5y ago
If one is equally likely to miss both good and bad days, but overall the market is up 10%+ in a year (repeated over decades), then money left in the market will double every 7 years or so (Rule of 72 [1]). In that way it is almost always pr
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by charwalker 5y ago
Pat of most modern economic theory around the stock market is slow and steady, sustainable growth. It's a fairly 'liberal' policy choice as you can't, say, tweet something to spike or drop a stock price and benefit (or h
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by charwalker 5y ago
Apple Pay IS Apple. In app purchases are also subject to their % cut.
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by charwalker 5y ago
Does FB have in app purchases on iOS? If so, is 30% going to Apple as the processor?
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by charwalker 5y ago
No. If I'm in YouTube I want Tidal to play music, not their janky YTM setup that can't give me quality audio even if I pick the video myself. At least make it a toggle for users to manage themselves vs hard coding it into the app.
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by charwalker 6y ago
I'm not sure if this is the same as what you mention with 12V vs 5V, but Intel is pushing a 12V standard PSU design that is also used by the new Nvidia Founders Edition GPUs: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/
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by charwalker 6y ago
The internet doesn't forget. Any press is good press but memes are whole new world.
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by charwalker 6y ago
Louisiana has little to offer politically compared to CA or WA/Seattle area, at least to me. I'm so happy I skipped a job in 2019 that would have out me in San Antonio this winter. I'll happily pay higher taxes so my power st
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by charwalker 6y ago
If they operate on a chemical/biological structure that humans have then yes. Just nobody go designing viruses for hypothetical aliens, ok?
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by charwalker 6y ago
Yeah, they tried adding a Ribbon once in 2007 and it blew up so much they left it in but barely changed it since.
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by charwalker 6y ago
I said Facebook and anyone partnered with them could use my data and that does not include Startup1 and their third party tool. OP probably should have investigated the third party tool and entered a contract where their scraping was legit
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by charwalker 6y ago
As late as 2010 one could copy the install folder to any other Windows PC and start a licensed copy, or one that worked the same. That drove maaany people with easy access to a decent (phone) camera to pirate. People my age went hard into t
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by charwalker 6y ago
If it isn't in an offline wallet it's likely with a legal entity registered somewhere or at least doing business in the US giving US courts jurisdiction. Even if not in the US, whatever jurisdiction they are under can enforce US r

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