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by em500 2y ago
Sounds like simple economy of scale? Same reason why for many things buying brand new can be cheaper than trying to get defects repaired. (I'd assume coloc is more labor intensive for the host.)
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by em500 2y ago
Well I still remember people lining up outside of computer stores to buy Windows 95. Some people line up about pretty random things.
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by em500 2y ago
It differs a lot per country/region and supplier. In the Netherlands, public charge points range between €0.30 en €0.80 per kWh depending on the supplier, while gas at the pump is around €2.10/L (=8.81 USD/gal). Electricity p
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by em500 2y ago
> Companies never have a negative price. Also, just look at stock graphs. Companies are not priced by geometric browning methods. Geometric Brownian motion can't take negative values either, so I don't know what you think this
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by em500 2y ago
Fama's actual position was of course more nuanced than simply declaring that "markets are efficient". His key EMH paper [1] notes that a generic formulation of the EMH, that security prices at any time "fully reflect&quo
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by em500 2y ago
People at Microsoft would probably agree. In 1996 they hired Borland's chief engineer Anders Hejlsberg, who designed Turbo Pascal and Delphi at Borland, and C# and Typescript at Microsoft.
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by em500 2y ago
https://xkcd.com/882
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by em500 2y ago
That's like saying that NIMBYism is odd in the US because there's tons of empty land in Wyoming. People want to live in or near Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or Perth, not in the Outback.
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by em500 2y ago
I won't comment on the tomatoes, but as far as eggs are concerned, I'm skeptical that any claims about people being able to taste any diffence would hold up in a proper blind taste test. Conclusion from Serious Eats when they atte
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by em500 2y ago
A policy declaring some abstract right going to do very little. Most people can agree that more housing development is necessarily and desirable, in an abstract sense, or even on a national level. But when it comes to any specific location
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by em500 2y ago
You can read the history section of MasterCard and Visa on Wikipedia. MasterCard started as an aliance of several American banks, Visa as a Bank of America product licenced to other banks. Both solve the problem of merchants having to only
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by em500 2y ago
> So you get the first order effect you wanted "rent stays low in the area" It's not even clear that you get that. The conclusion only states that rent stays low for the dwellings subject to rent control, not for the ar
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by em500 2y ago
So if they work less hours than others it's because they prioritize happiness (grandparent's post), and if they work more hours than others it's alsmo because they prioritize happiness (your post)?
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by em500 2y ago
According to OECD data Greece workers work the most hours in the EU, and in most years also more than American workers[1]. So by that metric they prioritize happiness less than most others? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by em500 2y ago
Google intends to do the same by end of this year: https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/5/24172204/google-maps-delet...
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by em500 2y ago
1. People who never collaborate globally/cross TZ vastly outnumber those who do. And the people who do can already use UTC right now. 2. Making everyone in the world to use UTC is going to make everything less convenient for everyone w
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by em500 2y ago
The short of it is that using UTC for events in the past is usually OK (you can at any moment recalculate the wall clock time in the past with UTC plus location data), but not for future events (e.g. scheduling, opening hours). Because the
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by em500 2y ago
Company nationality is a somewhat diffuse concept. IKEA, Chrysler, Fiat and Citroen have holding companies in the Netherlands. Should they be considered Dutch companies? Share owners (also of American listed and incorporated companies) are
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by em500 2y ago
Part of Windows' bad reputation (for instability and poor performance) is likely due to Windows being the standard on corporate computers (outside of tech companies) where admins/management insist on installing tons of "enter
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by em500 2y ago
Time to update his old xkcd https://xkcd.com/1299/ s/I/My children s/TV/phone s/1950/2010 s/2000/2020
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by em500 2y ago
Does Amazon have a de facto monopoly on book publishing in the US? (Not a rethorical question, I have almost zero knowledge about the business of book publishing.)
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by em500 2y ago
Markus Persson, after selling Minecraft for 2.5bln: "Hanging out in ibiza with a bunch of friends and partying with famous people, able to do whatever I want, and I've never felt more isolated." "In sweden, I will sit
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by em500 2y ago
Studies thad do address relative status: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/21f7/1b1ce15b2541bb74fef385... https://personal.eur.nl/veenhoven/Pub1980s/89f-full.pdf
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by em500 2y ago
You don't, a $150 refurbished iPhone SE is fine for this, so you're saving both time and money :)
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by em500 2y ago
You don't need Assistive Access Mode, even without parental control or another iCloud account you can disable pretty much any app (including Safari and App Store) via Screen Time -> Content & Privacy Restrictions. You do indeed
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by em500 2y ago
It can be done in iOS: in Settings -> Screen Time -> Content & Privacy Restrictions you can disable almost any app, including Safari and App Store. Ask a trusted person to set a Screen Time Passcode (and keep safe backups) and you
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by em500 2y ago
There is no science behind this, and the article spends far too many words for something that's very simple to accomplish: 1. Hard reset your iPhone 2. Remove Safari and AppStore (via Settings -> Screentime restrictions -> Conten
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by em500 2y ago
> Investors would make slightly less money in the short term Why do you assume that the tax incidence falls on investors, rather than on customers and/or employees? With sales tax or VAT people tend to automatically assume 100% pass
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by em500 2y ago
It's kind of addressed in section 5: "We cannot be certain that the correlations shown in the data are evidence of causality, but we think it is appropriate for those who care for children to act on the preponderance of the evide
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by em500 2y ago
I was quite pleased with myself when I finally learned to solve the standard cube a few years ago. But there are kids out there who can solve 3 of them simulteneously while juggling them in the air. Someone can even do that while riding a u

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