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by cowl 5y ago
SpaceX is known for using less than ideal products during test phases and working in parallel for the improved/final versions. it depends on what they are trying to test. and in this phase they are trying to test the network and will u
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by cowl 5y ago
And they could have "gotten by" with a diesel engine just like every other car company. that's a useless comment to make. We are tired with getting by. we need companies like Tesla/SpaceX that are willing to push the env
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by cowl 5y ago
a rasberry pi remote door opener does not require excessive documentation. If this smal business has purposely overenginnered to render it non servicable by third parties than it's more than fair that they put at least as much effort o
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by cowl 5y ago
Start with an empty box of instead of x. I have found that an empty box transfers to them the concept of placeholder that needs to be filled. it can transition to a x later
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Right to repair law passes New York Senate(mashable.com)
36 points by cowl 5y ago|3 comments
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by cowl 5y ago
fiat currency does not drop 50% in one month and is not at the mercy of other countries. If US forbids all banks to execute trades in BTC like China did, BTC is dead.
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by cowl 5y ago
But Bitcoin is so volatile. You deposit today let's say 10k of your USD and in one week if the market doesn't like the twits of the day you find yourself with half that.
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by cowl 5y ago
You surely are allowed to break it if you want at the cost of loosing the waranty. If you mean you want to be able to break it and still have the waranty then no.
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by cowl 5y ago
But isn't this self-defeating reasoning? on one side you say things need to be simpler to repair, on the other you say simple technology doesn't cover your needs. A lot of these advanced features are so complex and so intertwined
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by cowl 5y ago
How is VAT the obvious one? The practice is far from theory. VAT is effectively a tax on consumers not on corporations.
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by cowl 5y ago
Yes it matters. those creators are "influential" because of youtube. almost noone will follow N creators on N different platforms. The agregation is the main reason why people keep using Youtube or Netflix or Spotify etc. I don&#x
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by cowl 6y ago
If we only did "the accepted convention" indefinitely there would be no going forward. I see this change(of being explicit) as a win. The situation was already confusing before with different tools using different conventions. Th
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by cowl 7y ago
they Don't actually claim ownership. Audible has another product "Immersion reading" where you can buy both the Audio version and written version of a book and audible will sync between the two highlighting the spoken words o
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by cowl 7y ago
How is having a book feed to you line by line (on a time you don't control) equivalent to "getting the text"? Also this surely can be considered a Usability feature for hearing impaired for example.
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by cowl 7y ago
it is debatable what function means. The Digital Economy created these years principally based on technology created by subsidizing their costs internally by ads is far greater than what is lost. If the market is segmented in thousands of
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by cowl 7y ago
|| In my view forcing a more level playing field for competitors that don't have a strangle hold on the ad business is kind of the whole point of having antitrust legislation. Actually no antitrust legislation isn't supposed to fo
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by cowl 8y ago
||“Every scientist and radiation expert in the world who comes here says the same thing,” he said. “We know we don’t need to reduce radiation levels for public health. We’re doing it because the people want us to.” And that is the biggest p
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Why-nuclear-is-inherently-safe(forbes.com)
2 points by cowl 8y ago|1 comments
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by cowl 8y ago
>>In practice, this still hurts consumers. I Don't agree with this view. It surely has the potential to hurt the consumers in the future but IF and WHEN it does consumer impact at that time can be used to fight it (break up etc).
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by cowl 8y ago
So Democrats are sticking to their guns with their belief that their problem was not going Left enough instead of realising to be more pragmatic and listen to people instead of ideologies.
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by cowl 8y ago
OFC that is the measure. If they have lobbied for things that actually make our life better or make it worse. Lobbing is inevitable and Desirable too.
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by cowl 8y ago
so we are ok with removing the only thing we as people have going for us, consumer welfare consideration and focus only on how to make it easier for businesses to screw us. Should I feel better that the business that is screwing me is a &q
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by cowl 8y ago
> I'm not sure how competition or changing ownership would help Competition always helps. It would be as simple as putting a stamping machine inside the train like they do on the buses. I mean it doesn't cost anything and the
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by cowl 8y ago
Of course it does. it's a monthly ticket valid from first of the month until end of the month. And even for the tickets without a date Why should the passenger be penalised when there are no working stamping machines in the train stati
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by cowl 8y ago
>That's because you're not travelling with a valid ticket. Try driving off from the petrol station without paying, or boarding a plane without showing a boarding pass. that's not even remotely close. I don't know exac
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by cowl 9y ago
exactly. This is something i'll never understand how people fail to consider. It seems they think that the wages can be magically high and the economy can go with it 'if we just were willing to want better things'. The fact i
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by cowl 9y ago
This is not a recent phenomena though so those two factors you mentioned can't be considered as reasons.
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by cowl 9y ago
Your analysis is fine but there are plenty of cases when Pedestrians should not be factored and still the speed limit is too low. We are talking about one way highway traffic where no pedestrian can enter (or at least should not enter), whe
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by cowl 10y ago
But this way of thinking has kept back nuclear Energy for the past 3 decades already. 3 decades have past with no investment in nuclear energy research because 'the next technology is right around the corner'
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by cowl 10y ago
It is irrelevant since they refuse to keep statics based on the Ethnicity. Example (fictitious) if total Crime has decreased by 1% but crime by Swedish citizens has decreased by 5% it would actually show a 4% crime increase in non Swedish

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