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by delecti 3y ago
It's possible things have changed, but at least while I still worked there, virtually nobody paid to turn the ads off. It was a vanishingly tiny number. Though fun fact, some execs did the math before making the smart cover, and figure
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by delecti 3y ago
Yeah, the ease of avoiding the ads (not logging in, jailbreaking it, or just getting a cover) were all big parts of why I felt like kindle ads were so much less offensive than most online advertising.
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by delecti 3y ago
It was at Amazon and I don't remember exactly what the service was called, I think it was AdSomething. It was while I worked on the Kindle Special Offers (taking advantage of the "off" screen of an e-ink Kindle to show ads) p
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by delecti 3y ago
I broadly agree that the BBC has a vested interest in demonizing non-capitalist systems, but home ownership rates haven't deviated terribly much for the past half-century.
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by delecti 3y ago
It sounds like you're starting from exactly the same bias that these researchers are attempting to correct. From earlier in that same paragraph: > A shift from the medical to a more social model has also seen advocacy for it to be r
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by delecti 3y ago
Given his presentation style, that isn't a farfetched description.
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by delecti 3y ago
On the other hand, it seems like companies award stock as a form of golden handcuffs (you might be "awarded" that stock, but you don't actually get it for a while). If they just paid us with plain old money, instead of addi
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by delecti 3y ago
This happened to my dad ~20 years ago. His debt was unpaid child support, because he lost his job. In a sense the debt was owed "to me", and that punishment didn't help the situation worth a damn.
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by delecti 3y ago
A lot of commercially available "biodegradable"/"compostable" plastic is already made out of PLA.
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by delecti 3y ago
Wow, a 3d printing novice jumping straight into building a VORON is an ambitious move.
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by delecti 3y ago
I just got a Mercedes EQB and it's great. Depending on trim it's either about the same price or somewhat cheaper than a Model X. There are physical controls for damn near everything too. The voice assistant isn't terrible, bu
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by delecti 3y ago
I hate clicky keyboards, because there's usually a pretty quick on-screen result from hitting the button, and you might press keys tens of thousands of times in a day. Love me some tactile. But in a car when you might interact with con
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by delecti 3y ago
My wife and I bought a house a in the suburbs and both of us badly want to move back. So now know someone who left a dense city and wants to go back. Being able to walk places is a luxury we won't overlook again.
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by delecti 3y ago
Yes, just a bit jargon-y. "Middle East and North Africa" is one region for the purposes of the study, so it's proper that it has an "and" both in the middle and before it. And I haven't seen "underweight&q
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by delecti 3y ago
Not to be glib, but Africa is pretty warm. We lost our hair as we were evolving distance running, but we only needed to worry about clothes as we moved north, which, AIUI is relatively recent in comparison.
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by delecti 3y ago
Agreed. The fact that y2k was even a concern in the first place suggests that vanishingly few systems were made with century-scale foresight.
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by delecti 3y ago
Agreed. This seems like rather shameless advertising at the expense of the labor of the project maintainers.
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by delecti 3y ago
It seems that "tuition fees" might be a commonwealth term. In the US, the name of the fee is simply "tuition".
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by delecti 3y ago
Considering how low their stated expectations were for Ingenuity, I think it was more than durable enough. It's a huge bummer that it's grounded, but it was also a fantastic resounding success. Also, 0. was "get it to fly&quo
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by delecti 3y ago
That headline is a weirdly empowering framing considering the article is closer to "people can't afford the things they bought 4 years ago."
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by delecti 3y ago
That comic really doesn't apply. The "medium" of PFAS (drinking water) is a lot less likely to be bothered by hostile treatment than the "medium" of cancer cells (our bodies). We're mostly not concerned about t
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by delecti 3y ago
If AI were just one thing, maybe not. But right now "AI" is LLMs, ML, the umbrella of "generative" (image, code, voice, video), and probably others I can't think of off the top of my head. I sure wouldn't bet o
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by delecti 3y ago
Well 80:20 and 5:1 are pretty similar ratios. Though really the issue with the comparison is that it implies that 80% (or ~83.3%) of the <something> is correlated to the light matter, and the other 20% (or ~16.7%) of the <something
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by delecti 3y ago
It seems that yes, they're saying that 1 and 5 are roughly the same. Basically, why is the matter in the universe ~20% "non-dark", and not 1%, or .001%?
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by delecti 3y ago
The theory I've heard is it's to limit US tech being used to strike into Russia.
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by delecti 3y ago
It also sucks. I'm typing this on a MS Surface brand laptop and have to fight off the "you can upgrade now" prompts because it changes things I don't find acceptable, even if they're trivial. Sounds like next Octobe
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by delecti 3y ago
Could be a bit of anthropic principle at play. Universes where things don't work out with some stability might not support chemistry, and biology is especially finicky chemistry.
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by delecti 3y ago
Yes, and if you go to a coffee place in the US and ask for a "chai tea", you'll get a drink made with black tea, spices, and steamed milk.
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by delecti 3y ago
In this case, I would argue that it does. "Sahara" means "desert", but "Sahara Desert" is still the proper name for that place. "Naan" means "bread", but it's also the name we use for t
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by delecti 3y ago
I dunno, why not ask most of Europe. Those are not radical policy suggestions.

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