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by em500 3y ago
Serious question: what should they, or some idealized privacy-first messaging service, use for as a account-id + authentication? I will need some reasonably cost-effective defense against mass abuse.
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by em500 3y ago
This goes by many different names in many different countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule
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by em500 3y ago
The mundane answer to the philosophical question is that the frequency domain is not any less or more "real" than the time domain; they're different mathematical abstractions of change. Just like base-10 numbers are not any m
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by em500 3y ago
In apartments/condos, the owner association doesn't own just the common parts but the entire building and sometimes the land underneath (sometimes the land is leased). You buy shares in the association, which comes with exclusive
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by em500 3y ago
Then I wonder why they're setting 49 marketing cookies on that page, from - Meta Platforms, Inc. (3) - Adform (3) - Google (1) - Issuu (1) - Microsoft (16) - Quantcast (1) - Unibuddy (2) - YouTube (22)
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by em500 3y ago
Probably not until speculators find a new bubble to up. My hunch: GenAI will be very useful embedded in many applications, but mostly in the background (like relational databases and unlike "blockchain technology"). It won't
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by em500 3y ago
The last part "Online, the answer tends to be a lot simpler. Most people who publish online write what they write for the simple reason that they want to. You can't see the fingerprints of PR firms all over the articles, as
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by em500 3y ago
In 2023 BYD barely sold 16k cars in Western Europe, that's very very far from "ubiquitous".
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by em500 3y ago
Yes, the US and Europe have their domestic car industries to protect. Most of the other continents/countries don't, so they typically have few qualms substituting their traditional American/European/Japanese/Korean
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by em500 3y ago
The trick to reading the Silmarillion is to not read it from front to back, but first part 3 (Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age), then part 2 (Akallabeth) and only then part 1 (Quenta Silmarillion). Part 3 is a super condensed versio
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by em500 3y ago
Per the article, these anchors appear in Ken Thompson's port of the QED text editor which dates back to 1970, years before even the ADM-1 terminal.
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by em500 3y ago
Per the article, these anchors appear in Ken Thompson's port of the QED text editor, which dates back to 1970.
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by em500 3y ago
> It's why even a mediocre doctor in the United States can make significantly more there than anywhere else in the world despite receiving equivalent training. A mediocre developer or hairdresser in the United States also makes sign
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by em500 3y ago
Many years ago I read Animal Farm (1945) and Wild Swans (1991) almost back to back. It was startling how much of China's post-WW2 history was already written before it happened.
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by em500 3y ago
Here's an older CBO report making the same point (p.15): https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments...
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by em500 3y ago
No, the lunchtime supervision cost €2-€3 a day in schools where school attendance during lunch hour is not compulsory. Parents can make other choices. They can have kids lunch at home or choose a school where attendance during lunch is comp
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by em500 3y ago
I grew up in the Netherlands, where primary schools (age 4-12) do not have any lunch facilities at all, i.e. no kitchens, canteens or lunch areas. School lunch works as follows: - Parents pack lunch in a box for their children, typically 2
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by em500 3y ago
Of course it makes sense. For people already older than the population median lifespan, do you expect their remaining lifespan to become negative? These are conditional probabilities, conditioned on the age already reached.
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by em500 3y ago
> For time, US teachers will only spend 6~7 hours of their day with kiddos. So using up to two hours of that for lunch eats into a huge chunk of the short day (some of which is already more recess!). By what norm is this a short day? He
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by em500 3y ago
This article takes far too long to get to the main objection against using a global time: for a large part of the world population it will break up the local day and spread daily activities across two days. That's a far bigger inconven
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by em500 3y ago
I know of no other fields (correct me if I'm wrong) with multiple employers hiring many people at > $150K/year less than 5 years out of college. That leads to an enormous number of applicants (Google gets > 3 million per yea
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by em500 3y ago
People are generally net tax contributors during working age (25-65) and net recipients at younger and older ages. Expats are typically in the country only during working age years. If they decide to settle longer term, they'll pay the
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by em500 3y ago
Invitation Homes (NYSE: INVH) is part of S&P500, so I'd say very many (owning a tiny share). Ownership of INVH is overwhelmingly institutional (investment/mutual/retirement funds): https://finance.yahoo.com&#x2
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by em500 3y ago
As noted in the article, one of the three is publicly traded (Invitation Homes, NYSE: INVH), so you can invest easily if you think they're raking it in. (Annualized return over past 5 years was around 8.3% capital gains plus about 1.5%
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by em500 3y ago
The main historical reason why some root level directories were moved to /usr (which was originally the user directory like today's /home) is that Thompson and Ritchie's first hard disk for the operating system was full.
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by em500 3y ago
True, the author is teaching at an elite Beijing high school. But elite American high schools are usually disproportionally populated with Asian (an very often Chinese) students.
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by em500 3y ago
Relevant, as this was written during the last global financial crisis, when everybody outside the financial industry was busy agreeing with each other that people in the industry (especially banking) were hugely overpaid.
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by em500 3y ago
> So "Technische Universiteit Delft" is not an advanced institution? It is, and it is also one of the 14 Dutch institutions that are allowed to use the Dutch "universiteit" name. But the English term "university&
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by em500 3y ago
Similar as the Netherlands: there 37 "hogescholen" marketing themselves as "University of Applied Sciences" in English that are not allowed to claim to be "universiteiten" in Dutch (a name is reserved for 14 m
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by em500 3y ago
I would also include the periodic Monty Hall re-post (everything that ever comes up in the discussions can be found in the Monty Hall problem wikipedia page). And also pretty much any article about inflation.

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