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by em500 1y ago
> It's mostly run by Chinese. (But they scam Chinese too. It originated as scamming older single Chinese ladies, actually.) This comment suggests that the main target would be non-Chinese, with some incidental Chinese targets/v
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by em500 1y ago
The linked BBC article devotes the last quarter of text to this. Don't assume they're taking all statistics at face value.
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by em500 1y ago
The addictive substance is the network,not the phone. Nobody gets addicted to any phone disconnected from the internet. OTOH, as you experienced it's easy to spend just as much time on the laptop or desktop when that has a persistent i
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by em500 1y ago
> I need Jira, Slack, and GitHub during work hours for example. So do I, but I certainly don't need them on my phone. For the longest time the only work app I had on my phone was some 2FA thing. Then asked them to either buy me a ph
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by em500 1y ago
YYYY-MM-DD is ISO8601 extended format, YYYYMMDD is ISO8601 basic format (section 5.2.1.1 of ISO8601:2000(E)[1]). Both are fully according to spec, and neither format takes precedence over the other. [1] https://www.pvv.org/~
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by em500 1y ago
No, that would be the the maximum cutoff, not the mimumum. That maximum, which is also the minimum cutoff to enter the 99.9 percentile (the 0.1%, or 1 in 1000) is almost 50 million dollars: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series
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by em500 1y ago
Not sure what "a lower median net worth at the 99th percentile" means (median is net worth level at the 50th percentile), but 1 in 100 American households (not individuals) indeed have over $13 million net worth: https:/&#x2
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by em500 1y ago
The “protected area” was probably reserved for DRM keys for video distribution, an envisioned use case that never took off for SD cards, and hasn’t been relevant for at least a decade. https://www.sdcard.org/developers/
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by em500 1y ago
California GPA average is about 3.0 with 1.5 standard deviation. A 6.4% SD improvement would be a 0.1 point improvement in GPA. Certainly not an overwhelming result, compared to the subjective reactions how phones and screen are “obviously”
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by em500 1y ago
Why not set very high minimum wage floors and make 100% of worker rich? /s Turns out economics is actually more difficult than "higher minimum wage is good/bad".
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by em500 1y ago
Paychecks did go up though, +50% nominal[1], +11% real (inflation adjusted)[2], over the past 10 years. [1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881500Q [2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/
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by em500 1y ago
How much detail do you need? High level expenditure breakdowns are here: https://www.government.se/government-of-sweden/ministry-of-f... and https://www.government.se/contentassets/5dc8d78159ee495
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by em500 1y ago
That’s similar to what people on HN said a few decades ago when Google bought Youtube and Facebook bought Instagram and Whatsapp for billions.
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by em500 1y ago
Wouldn't that create a good opportunity for people to start new pet cares, and undercut the presumably overprized PE-consolidated chains? Pet care doesn't seem to be highly regulated or have other high barriers to entry AFAIK.
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by em500 1y ago
Maestro is owned by Mastercard (and are now being phased out for explicitly Mastercard branded cards). So like I said, cross border options are basically cash or Visa/Mastercard.
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by em500 1y ago
The problem is that most European schemes are country specific. As soon as you cross the border even to another European country, your options are pretty much cash or Visa/MasterCard.
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by em500 1y ago
> This is hands down one of the best instant payment platforms at the moment. Only India's UPI can match it in features, and China and Thailand in adoption. I'm not familiar with Pix or UPI, so out of curiosity, how are they be
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by em500 1y ago
Not that I have any direct knowledge, but I think a real king (either medieval or modern day) has a huge number of constraints on life opportunities. They have a lot of nominal wealth, but probably also too many obligations and duties (real
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by em500 1y ago
Amiga 3000 had an official Unix System V R4 port: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Unix It was far too expensive for hobbyists though.
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by em500 1y ago
How is working on AI at Apple more of the dream job than working on AI at Meta? If Meta offers say 10, 20 or 30% more, why wouldn't anyone move?
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by em500 1y ago
Some more: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CGMD25OM
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by em500 1y ago
How could they? People living an average lifestyle need to work full time, transport the kids around, cook, do their household chores, file their taxes, queue everywhere. That's why people who no longer need to work for living mostly s
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by em500 1y ago
> Europe is hesitant in that regard for fear of getting left behind. China shows that this fear is mostly unfounded. It's hard to transplant the Chinese experience elsewhere. Not only due to Europe's current far greater depend
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by em500 1y ago
> The Unix "small programs that do one thing well" philosophy is often ignored, unfortunately. Emacs might be the single biggest offender of it, though I suppose it's to be expected since "GNU's Not Unix"...
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by em500 1y ago
They're not just doing this for money... They're doing it for a shitload of money!
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by em500 1y ago
Firefox (and Chromium according to their own blog) might be objectively faster (and hardware is certainly much faster), but getting anything done on websites doesn't feel any faster than 20 years ago. In the end we keep bumping into so
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by em500 1y ago
Apple Wallet is in the App store, and the F1 ad debacle directly violates App Store guidelines https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ ) > 4.5.4 Push Notifications must not be require
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by em500 1y ago
Git pull a day before, git push a day later? Have we forgotten to do anything without a persistent internet connection 24/7? Or why we'd use a distributed version control system in the first place.
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by em500 1y ago
It's economic jargon for what people are paid per hour for working (which can include non-direct payments such as healthcare and pensions), adjusted for inflation (for economists, "real" just means divided by CPI, as opposed
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by em500 1y ago
Curl is not installed by default on Debian or Ubuntu. And if you need to apt install you might as well just apt telnet.

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