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by crote 3mo ago
But do the consumers know that ebooks are durable goods and that the publisher has a monopoly on them? In practice a lot of reader will just be looking for a hit for their dark academia vampire romantasy addiction. The book is essentially
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by crote 3mo ago
Sure, it's possible , but we don't seem to live in a world where that is actually the case in practice . The large AI companies are perfectly happy to draw water to the point that local residents no longer have access to clean t
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by crote 3mo ago
And then there's Project Plowshare, where we are so obsessed with justifying nuclear bombs that bombing yourself starts to sound like a sensible idea...
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by crote 3mo ago
It would be more surprising if Apple wasn't exploring RISC-V - even if only for use in auxiliary chips.
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by crote 3mo ago
> Finally the chips have to deliver in performance, to actually provide good mobile devices. Or the other way around: the low-end market wants to adopt it due to lower licensing fees, so Android is incentivized to support RISC-V or risk
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by crote 3mo ago
The good ARM designs aren't free either. The big difference is that you'll always be stuck paying Arm (either for whole ARM cores, or a licensing fee for your own design), whereas with RISC-V there can be genuine competition bet
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by crote 3mo ago
That all depends on their current licensing terms, doesn't it? Besides, ARM-to-RISC-V doesn't require a full redesign. Plenty of components are going to stay more-or-less the same, the big change is the instruction decoder. Chip
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by crote 3mo ago
> And you cant rewritte 50 years of C in Rust You don't have to. Google already showed that the vast majority of memory safety bugs are in newly-written C code. Stop writing new C code (which the industry already seems to be mov
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by crote 3mo ago
The Intel Management Engine famously runs MINIX. Tanenbaum has called it "the most widely used computer operating system in the world" - but it hasn't exactly led to mainstream MINIX adoption. Smartcards often run Java Card,
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by crote 3mo ago
It is when you do "?after=uuid" or "?after=timestamp".
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by crote 3mo ago
The problem is that those very same private companies are trying really hard to ban the government from providing the same data for free to the general public, because it would be "unfair competition". They get it for free fro
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by crote 3mo ago
Google uses barely any weather data. Perhaps some tornado and wildfire tracking for its datacenters, but that's about it. The vast majority of its potential use comes from Android users , which is... the general public. And it'
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by crote 3mo ago
Why? Plenty of web APIs have been redesigned since then. Nobody is going to stop the browser makers from introducing an alternative and deprecating the old one for removal 25 years from now. If they can remove <blink> and <marque
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by crote 3mo ago
Isn't it obvious? There's way more profit in building a Torment Nexus.
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by crote 3mo ago
What gives them the right to install and operate those cameras? I would have assumed that the license for placing them on public property was inherently linked to the services they provided to the local government. But if it's not tied
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by crote 3mo ago
It isn't meaningless, it gives a (very) rough estimate of how the general population feels about it. Coming in third in a two-person poll is... quite rough. You also have to keep in mind that it isn't about Clacton. It is a city o
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by crote 3mo ago
That would've given Farage the "him vs The Establishment" fight he is looking for, though. Leaving it to the Count robs him of that.
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by crote 3mo ago
His zealots are already seen asking where the Count is "getting his money from", and implying that he is an "establishment deep-state plant". But he's a bin , and it's his seventh election. You can't ex
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by crote 3mo ago
They are playing, though! If Farage wins, things continue exactly as they were: Farage the MP of Clacton, being investigated for undeclared financial gifts. With no serious counter-candidates, even getting 99% of the votes would be comp
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by crote 3mo ago
That's just the thing: Farage tried to create an "underdog vs the establishment" scenario where his corruption charged could be ignored because of "the voice of the people", but right now the absolute best he coul
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by crote 3mo ago
His face isn't covered, his face is a bin. I would've thought the whole "Count Binface" made that pretty clear...
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by crote 3mo ago
He's called Count Bin face for a reason: he isn't wearing a hat, that's just his face!
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by crote 3mo ago
This isn't very surprising. The vast majority of slaves went to the New World, so that's where most of its effects were felt. Of the 12.5M people kidnapped from Africa, only ~9000 went to the Old World. It just wasn't as obvi
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by crote 3mo ago
> They are being punished for crimes they committed The punishment is being locked up in a cell. Being forced to work on top of that is the slavery.
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by crote 3mo ago
Not quite. With a time sync your clock will jump , with a leap second it'll experience a minute with 59 or 61 seconds.
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by crote 3mo ago
Xinjiang is well-known for effectively operating in two timezones at once, with part of the population mostly operating on +6 and part on +8.
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by crote 3mo ago
Every 50 or 100 years is possibly the worst way of dealing with it. You're essentially making it a repeating Y2K / Y2038 problem. Doing it that rarely means most people will never see it happen in their professional life, so mos
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by crote 3mo ago
DST cancels itself out, leap seconds don't. And sure, being off by a few minutes isn't a big deal, but it gets really annoying for day-to-day life when it is off by a few hours. Suddenly your "midnight" is happening at
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by crote 3mo ago
> That’s why Anubis does an up front challenge and then you’re good for a while. It’s a really low cost for the scrapers. Except that doing hundreds of requests from the same IP makes it pretty trivial to detect scraping, opening you up
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by crote 3mo ago
How is that not a massive GDPR violation?

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