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by d1zzy 6y ago
What if, instead of trying to bully Twitter to not post fact checking links for Trump's tweet, we instead ask them to do so fairly for both sides of the political spectrum? I'm pretty sure there are lots of factually false left-wi
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by d1zzy 6y ago
I grew up in a society where merit didn't really matter, most of the time. Regardless of you finished just primary school or you went to college, your expected income in the job assigned by the state (that matched your educational stat
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Such a win-win situation for Epic then, they weren't interested in the truth, they were interested in their truth, if that got confirmed by third-party they were right all along and could say so, if not, well, they aren't out of $
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by d1zzy 6y ago
And how much of Amazon's money or scale comes from their existing business/labor practice? Sometimes I feel people want the cake and eat it too... When was the last time a perfectly moral company with extremely friendly labor prac
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Including people on HN. /s
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by d1zzy 6y ago
It's called a value system. Some things are valued more than others in certain cultures.
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by d1zzy 6y ago
> The solution to most monopolies and other over-concentrations of market power isn't small-fry consumers attempting to compete with them directly; that idea doesn't even pass the smell test. The actual solution is some kind of
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Battle.net has been doing that since day 1, so if you played any game on Battle.net you have downloaded server provided code and executed locally with the privileges of the user running the game. (when a client connects to a battle.net serv
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by d1zzy 6y ago
I agree there's going to be less talk about that but that doesn't make it any less irresponsible.
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by d1zzy 6y ago
> As for the resiliency, I can't get help, but to chuckle, in 2008 tons of big businesses were begging for a bailout. This time around BA and few other big players are not above asking for the same. How resilient are they really? So
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by d1zzy 6y ago
This is true for all non-essential stuff right now but it's very likely it will get delivered in half the estimated time. The estimated time is a conservative estimate.
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Do you have an example of paying customer giving Google >=$1m a year and still get steamrolled by AI without being able to get in touch with a human and correct the issue?
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by d1zzy 7y ago
This is what I try to point out every time someone tries to say that ad-based revenue models should be made illegal because of various reasons. It is ignoring how useful and accessible ad-supported web products are to pretty much anyone tha
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by d1zzy 7y ago
> Google has entrenched themselves in a monopoly here. I think antitrust laws should be applied. If it's true that it isn't profitable how would anti-trust laws make it better? If it's truly unprofitable then separating it
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by d1zzy 7y ago
If it was "free" then everyone could do it. The fact that very few people have the capability to provide the connectivity Google provides points to the contrary.
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by d1zzy 7y ago
> They bought an existing service, made very few improvements to it Huh? AFAIK the Youtube Google bought wasn't profitable and it had much fewer viewers and content creators. It even lacked transcode options! Other than the basic fu
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Also, to avoid insider trading issues, companies restrict the times in which shares are allowed to be traded by employees.
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by d1zzy 7y ago
It's one thing to have emotions, it's another to make emotion driven policy decisions. Policy outcomes depend on physics, not on our wishful thinking. If someone has good arguments that ignore emotions it doesn't make their a
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Maybe that should tell you that they may have some valid points that are worth considering.
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Well, the other credit building options are much less accessible: mortgage, car, personal, etc loans. I would say credit card loans are the easiest/most accessible to individuals to start building their credit.
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by d1zzy 7y ago
This was done way before Google existed, way before they offered a GMail server or an SMTP interface to their servers. It is done to combat spam, if I get an email that was relayed through their servers I can see which IP connected to their
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Not more inefficient than everyone driving their single occupancy car to grocery store and buy stuff, as things worked before the pandemic.
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by d1zzy 7y ago
But having it obvious at the call site means I don't even have to do that, dozens of times per day, every day. It's something that's not easy to realize how useful it is until you actually do it. When working in a large codeb
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by d1zzy 7y ago
I'm the opposite, I find Teslas to be (externally) ugly. In general I find any large sedan to be ugly. I don't get the sedan form factor, it seems to waste a lot of space. I've always owned hatchbacks because I like the way t
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by d1zzy 7y ago
AFAIK when I was in Europe I would have loved to be able to buy Japanese cars but they were the top taxed cars, some crazy >20% amount or so. So there was no choice but to buy "local". With Tesla it seems a lot of countries are
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by d1zzy 7y ago
It's important to note that this is true for _hatchbacks_. Sedans are much more limited in cargo carrying capacity compared to hatchbacks.
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by d1zzy 7y ago
That definitely explains why some drivers may feel angry/frustrated but note that it's not an excuse. Legally and morally speaking bikes have equal rights to the roads. If those drivers drive around smaller/slower cars do the
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by d1zzy 7y ago
I've been biking to work >10 miles each way for about 9 years now and I understand where this is coming from: when an inattentive/careless driver cuts us off it feels as a personal attack, because if an accident happens the res
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by d1zzy 7y ago
The average size of a family member has increased?
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by d1zzy 7y ago
You mean you aren't driving your own SUV/truck? Get out of here! /s

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