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by danuker 4y ago
Store brands have very little advertising costs, for one. Coke spent $4B on advertising in 2021 [0], which is about a quarter of their costs. [1] [0] - https://statstic.com/coca-cola-advertising-costs/ [1] - https:&#x
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by danuker 4y ago
You don't need to discourage them. Just ignore them. Perhaaps take a look at the most popular ones every now and then, but a free software project owes the world nothing.
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by danuker 4y ago
I would do it at 256
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by danuker 4y ago
Whether it's through consumer price inflation or bond devaluation, retirees are affected by the economy. There is no instrument or policy isolating them from it. The best you can do is diversify.
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by danuker 4y ago
Finally the mania is slowing down. It seems the rate hikes and layoffs are working.
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by danuker 4y ago
On the contrary, Tether DID take investor money (in the form of USD), provided them with an IOU, and proceeded to buy hopefully-productive "real"-economy bonds with it. Debt only creates value if it can be repaid. If Tether can no
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by danuker 4y ago
> mass scale "creative-accounting" Indeed, and these schemes tend to fall apart when money is no longer free (i.e. there exists a non-zero interest rate). Also, in the process of the interest rate becoming non-zero, existing bo
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by danuker 4y ago
I would guess Tor, I2P, Freenet, GNUNet. But also configuring or avoiding certain other software: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/index.html
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by danuker 4y ago
Also smartphones and smart TVs.
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by danuker 4y ago
Cryptocurrency is being burdened with regulation, same as traditional assets. The way I see it, P2P trade might become illegal, and everyone forced through the same centralized institutions.
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by danuker 4y ago
> which means you need a sufficiently large financial cushion. Absolutely. But this happens wih pay-per-project also, which is why on-demand contract work is much more expensive than salaried. > no real leverage You can always look fo
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by danuker 4y ago
> DOOMy This popped to mind, an unrelated but appropriate song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOJcY3iMZG8
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by danuker 4y ago
To be honest, my experience is limited to double-checking my algebra with the free Wolfram Alpha. I need it maybe a few times a year.
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by danuker 4y ago
I have performed logistic regression in Calc, by using the Solver feature to find coefficients, after multiplying the input with them, passing the output to a sigmoid, and computing the mean squared error. I suspect anything more advanced t
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by danuker 4y ago
In the Land of the Free: - cops, judges, and politicians are above the law - no communication or value transfer goes unsurveilled - getting through security takes longer than many flights - there is no retirement, because financial assets a
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by danuker 4y ago
I suspect the F-Droid version might have delays. There are various issues when avoiding Firebase. There is no way to fulfill all of these: - avoid Google servers - preserve battery - show timely notifications https://github.com&#
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by danuker 4y ago
As if... it's made to be build-able by third parties, eh? I never managed to build Firefox nor Ungoogled-Chromium. I'll give this new browser a try.
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by danuker 4y ago
TSV is my favorite also. Quote all you want, no need to unescape in whatever program you interop with.
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by danuker 4y ago
The only times my experience changes for the better is when I take action. Reddit pushing mobile app? Here I am, commenting on this reliable and ad-free website with an incredible signal to noise ratio.
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by danuker 4y ago
I suspect computers can also help us get deeper. Stuff like computer algebra systems. Maybe some CAS-assisted work gets us into feedback loops allowing us to go indefinitely, as in a technological singularity. But the "shallow" pa
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by danuker 4y ago
To be fair I haven't used Writer much. I've used Calc a lot. LO Writer can export to PDF when you need to preserve formatting. But if it needs to also be editable, I guess ODT is the only way. Maybe in light of the recent events y
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by danuker 4y ago
> Memory leaks I suspect you mean data leaks, in the context of your comment. But memory leaks should be a thing of the past also - they hint at the quality of the underlying code.
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by danuker 4y ago
LibreOffice FTW. https://libreoffice.org/ It may be glitchy in some areas, but I've been using it since graduating high school, and I can do whatever I want with it.
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by danuker 4y ago
As an old joke says, "I work in IT, and that's why I only have mechanical locks."
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by danuker 4y ago
In my experience, from doing some TDD Katas[0] and timing myself, I found coding slower and more difficult when focusing on multiple examples at once. I usually even comment out all the failing tests but the first one, after translating a b
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by danuker 4y ago
> your example stops on the first one that fails, and does not evaluate the others after that. I don't think this is a big problem; trying to focus on multiple examples at once is difficult. It might be a problem if tests are slow a
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by danuker 4y ago
We are using unittest. But thanks for bringing it up, it seems it also has "subtest" support, which might be easier than interpolating the error message in some cases: https://docs.python.org/3/library/un
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by danuker 4y ago
I use the following pattern for testing regexes: expected_positive = [ 'abc', 'def', ...] for text in expected_positive: self.assertTrue(matcher(text), f"Failed: {text}&quo
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by danuker 4y ago
I would perhaps say: if it offers you more value (not necessarily financial) than its cost, then it's worth it. But this is a truism also.
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by danuker 4y ago
When interest rates are high and your company is not making money, if you don't downsize, you go bankrupt.

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