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by daedrdev 2y ago
This seems to focus on online advertising. The question is how would you pay for many things on the internet?
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by daedrdev 2y ago
Stalin was able to kill tens of millions if his own people for going against the state. Whatever backtrack you see doesn’t matter
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by daedrdev 2y ago
Yeah nimbyisn isnt just blocking homes. Its rampant for every project. High speed rail in california has spent billions and years fighting nimbys. Every factory, every buisness, every job often faces nimbyism to try and keep out economic gr
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by daedrdev 2y ago
What a stupid argument. They already run dictatorships. They will already be killed or imprisoned if they lose power. Putin for example has invaded Ukraine, and can never lose power or he will be murdered by one of many. Stalin and Mao neve
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by daedrdev 2y ago
Authoritarian countries don't have to care whats best for their country.
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by daedrdev 2y ago
People are clearly willing to write and publish a book even with no payoff. If you had taxes and subsidies, even more authors would write to the point that most authors can't live off of writing, since clearly they are willing to write
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by daedrdev 2y ago
There are just so many books published today that there is no guarantee of any amount of readership by just releasing a book.
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by daedrdev 2y ago
There are more books published today than ever before. 96% sold less than 1000 copies when published by the big publishing houses. I feel like that is the strongest sign the market can give that there are too many authors or many of them ar
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by daedrdev 2y ago
35% of books published are profitable 96% of books sold less than 1,000 copies in 2020 50% sold less than a dozen copies in 2020 This is the state of the industry, publishers publish many books gambling for the hits the make up the vast maj
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by daedrdev 2y ago
Uhh basketball has plenty of issues, like 6 timeouts in the last two minutes, way to many 3s, traveling everywhere that make it hard to watch.
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by daedrdev 2y ago
No, different bats have been around forever, Babe Ruth's bats looks like a log compared to modern bats. However shifting the taper based on where a player gets most of their hits based on advanced tracking of their hit location is new.
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by daedrdev 2y ago
guys already pick bats based on their height, it seems entirely reasonable everyone will do this. There probably is an optimal point to have that sweet spot at though so most hitters will probably try and stick close to it.
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by daedrdev 2y ago
I thought little league and college use metal bats since they are cheaper so there won't be any effect.
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by daedrdev 2y ago
Basically, these guys have such fine tuned biomechanics for hitting a baseball with just a few hundred milliseconds to decide wether to swing and where to swing, that trying to change their approach to hit further down the bat might ruin th
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by daedrdev 2y ago
This seems to most help with guys who were hitting the ball most often not at the sweet spot. By moving the sweet spot to where they are hitting the ball, they might gain some power. A bat needs to be round, a solid piece of wood, less than
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by daedrdev 2y ago
One out of every two X is an extremely common and perfectly reasonable phrase in english, meaning your complaint about finding 2 Danes who haven't watched it is nonsensical as we know they mean on average.
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by daedrdev 2y ago
No, they are product development wins. Discord is far more popular than alternatives because they provide a far superior product that also has many normal features that their competition somehow fails on, like voice chat, video chat, steami
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by daedrdev 2y ago
They will come up with any excuse to support any of trumps policies. People who choose not to vote are ok with either party in power.
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by daedrdev 2y ago
This is because the budget is the only bill of significance that passes in the US in many terms
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by daedrdev 2y ago
I my opinion, a lot of poverty continues because of terrible politics. Many areas could have economic growth, but are restricted by authoritarianism, corruption, and a lack of rule of law that make investments and productivity growth imposs
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by daedrdev 2y ago
IPR is a tool that weakens all patents. Saying it helps trolls at the expense of everyone else (which this article says) is a bad faith argument. Weakening IPR helps all patent holders fight for their rights, including trolls. Considering h
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by daedrdev 2y ago
We literally know how genes change which cause evolution can do it ourselves, can measure how genes have changed between different groups of people and compared to animals and regularly evolve ecoli in real time for medical research
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by daedrdev 2y ago
So I should just look past some people wanting homophobic or sexist or racist in the name of class consciousness? Nah
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by daedrdev 2y ago
If someone produces less effort than they cost, it's reasonable to fire them even if the organization as a whole is profitable. That's probably not what the FAANG companies did, but layoffs are not unjustifiable for profitable com
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by daedrdev 2y ago
I strongly feel that groups within the "classes" often have vast differences that make me question the idea of class consciousness. A well off tech emloyee has interests that align far more with those with wealth than a small busi
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by daedrdev 2y ago
Most businesses are not very profitable at all. Like 5-10% margin. If you took all their profits and made them wages (ignoring the consequences), thats not a crazy amount of pay increase especially compared to what tech workers make.
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by daedrdev 2y ago
Most people actually don't work at immensely profitable FAANG companies.
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by daedrdev 2y ago
Only if they are in your age group though. People older wouldn't know Halo, and Fortnite is far more popular than halo ever was both overall and with the youth.
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by daedrdev 2y ago
It’s often used to call people out. That’s cap = that’s bullshit
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by daedrdev 2y ago
We have yet to find a refrigerant that is not either toxic, explosive, or destructive to the ozone layer / a potent greenhouse gas. My understanding is that new consumer systems use propane because its relatively safe and not toxic or

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