criddell

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811.
by criddell 1y ago
> this will just create a black market in resold tickets It doesn't have to though, does it? For example there's no black market for airline tickets.
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by criddell 1y ago
Are you assuming the goal is to find the optimal price?
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by criddell 1y ago
> dense towns/cities will always be more affordable In my experience, that isn't true. At the very least, it depends on what your preferences are. If I moved my home from outside Austin to inside the city, I couldn't affor
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by criddell 1y ago
Were you harmed? I've never looked at the Coinbase agreement that's presented when you open an account, but chances are you would have to go through arbitration first. That's not necessarily a bad thing.
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The Six Rules That Changed My Life [video](youtube.com)
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by criddell 1y ago
James Pumphrey talks about system-based habits, focusing on sustainable eating and daily movement for significant health improvements.
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by criddell 1y ago
> adding another nail to its coffin They've been adding nails to the coffin for 25+ years now. How many more do you think it's going to take?
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by criddell 1y ago
I'm referring to states that don't allow rounding. > in some states, merchants could face legal trouble for rounding up or down It seems obvious to me they are already rounding to the $1/100. Why is rounding to $1/20
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by criddell 1y ago
How do they deal with sales tax? Connecticut has a 6.35% sales tax so if I buy something for $1, the total will be $1.0635.
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by criddell 1y ago
Ryanair has a history of banning people who dispute charges.
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by criddell 1y ago
Apple selling this validates the idea. Those traditional crafts people now have a bigger market to sell their unique variations into.
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by criddell 1y ago
> small phones don't sell It's all relative. If Google sold five million iPhones Mini it would be considered a smash hit. But because it's Apple it's considered a flop because of the ridiculous sales numbers of their
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by criddell 1y ago
You would win but then Ryanair would ban you from flying with them in the future.
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by criddell 1y ago
I wonder if any of the agents hit the audio button and listened to the instructions? In my experience, that can be pretty helpful.
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by criddell 1y ago
Why include DRM in your Amazon ebook? I know Tor's books are DRM-free on Amazon and it would be nice to see more publishers do the same.
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by criddell 1y ago
The writer isn't blaming Apple.
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by criddell 1y ago
I've always struggled to get my classical CDs tagged in a way that makes sense to me. Apple has figured it out in their classical music app and I should probably see if I can copy what they did in my personal library.
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by criddell 1y ago
> Personally I’d absolutely buy an LLM in a box In a box? I want one in a unit with arms and legs and cameras and microphones so I can have it do useful things for me around my home.
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by criddell 1y ago
The first comments here are people reading this as if the authors are saying only OCaml can do this. They aren't.
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by criddell 1y ago
I looked up the price of the Mac Studio: $9500. That's actually a lot less than I was expecting... I'm guessing an Epyc machine is even less.
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by criddell 1y ago
Are Cory Doctorow's newest books permissively licensed? I thought he stopped doing that.
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by criddell 1y ago
> makes supporting client side applications so much easier I was thinking that supporting a Smalltalk application must be a nightmare because it is so malleable. Users can inspect and modify the entire system, no?
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by criddell 1y ago
Of course that's what I meant. It wouldn't make any sense otherwise.
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by criddell 1y ago
> when 1920x1080 is perfectly fine for 99.999% of use cases A lot of people here work with text all day every day and we would rather work with text that looks like it came out of a laser printer than out of a fax machine.
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by criddell 1y ago
If the developer checked the enable the Mac Catalyst destination in the Xcode project, you should be able to run it on your Mac.
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by criddell 1y ago
Have you played Atari today? 11 year old me was able to always answer that question yes. So many times the box art would totally capture my imagination. I'd ask for some cartridge for Christmas or my birthday and it was always a bit of
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by criddell 1y ago
In my experience, it isn't necessarily classist horseshit that divides office and shop (or field) workers. > They’d followed my oily bootprints down the hallway and begun to leer. Who is this diesel-stinking contractor? That's
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by criddell 1y ago
Back in 2006 at the White House Correspondent's Dinner, Stephen Colbert said "reality has a well known liberal bias" which I thought was a pretty funny line. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert_
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by criddell 1y ago
> Most hobbies are a lot cheaper. Sure, but I did specify expensive hobbies.
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by criddell 1y ago
If you are going to start making a list of expensive hobbies, $3K for a computer isn't going to be anywhere near the top of the list.

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