ethbr1

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by ethbr1 1mo ago
Apparently first mover advantage (with about a decade head start?) still counts for a lot. https://www.chargeflow.io/blog/paypal-statistics-facts#paypa... That estimates PayPal still has 40%+ online payment market shar
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
Read more solarpunk then?
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
Loss prevention in retail is absolutely tailored to the store, in the US. Essentially, the corporate dept has a bucket of funding and chooses where / how to deploy it. So when you see {insert LP device}, there's metrics to back it
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
> And I'm not talking about the difficulty of replacing a glued-in battery, but rather the cost and expertise required for component-level repairs on the motherboard, something no regulation is going to magically make disappear Fa
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
> This issue extends beyond electronics as well. People often throw away clothes once they "go out of fashion," which these days happens exceptionally quickly. The same applies to furniture, appliances, and other consumer good
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
That makes me want to read it. I can't imagine a better ending to the story than the SCP version: hard to beat.
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
You have the wisdom and lack of ego to know when something should not be done. :) (High praise)
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
I can't see much of their agenda that made it through into radical policy. Are there specific examples I'm missing?
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
And if the goal is non-interactive solution finding. I used to do business automation work in day job, and there are surprising utility-to-humans differences between "manual" -> "helps interactively" -> "99%
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
Imho, the problem the EU is trying to solve isn't necessarily utility to the original buyer. It's the large stream of perfectly usable e-waste modern practices emit. Anything that makes a significant portion of that stream reusabl
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
And with the memory crunch, it's likely that we passed peak memory in consumer devices, at least for a bit. So for next decade, older devices might often have more memory!
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
> an unlockable bootloader once the regular support period is over If we're talking about a 15-year old device, it definitely feels like requiring (1) a boot loader unlock method & (2) all technical specs required for basic
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
> Stupid shit like 0.3€ soldering buttons to 200€ motherboards so the repair is expensive has got to go Hopefully data collection that supports device-specific repair cost breakdowns and tracking is part of this legislation. Currently,
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
As someone quipped to me, there's a reason the environmental movement used an priority ordered list. reduce, reuse, recycle
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
The greatest strength of democracy is an ironclad guarantee that even people holding ideas opposed to current leaders', if there are enough likeminded people, can win power. That's what lets democracies change, even radically, thr
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
That's the prime example of why casting Obama as a radical is ridiculous. Having the power to ram something more partisan-palatable through and choosing to negotiate with the opposition to find a more mutually-tolerable consensus is th
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
It would describe the observed behavior. Especially if there were an internal quant/efficiency team that wasn't as diligent about regressions as the primary model team.
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
> I think we just need to decouple "doing better on benchmarks" and "actually more useful to me", since they've clearly diverged There's a third perspective here: models are getting less useful, but overfi
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
> Did you notice that companies can’t vote in elections They absolutely can by proxy, post-Citizens United. Corporation -> unlimited money -> influence -> votes The only brake is whether a given corporation cares enough about
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
The tyranny of democracy is that you only need to influence the most susceptible 50%+1.
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by ethbr1 1mo ago
I think it's fair to say there's a lot of internal Meta comms that are undiscoverable because they intentionally no longer exist. See Google's infamous 'Do we have deletion turned on for this chat?' executive record
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by ethbr1 2mo ago
Anyone who says Obama, of all people, was radical clearly listens to too much Fox News and conservative talk radio (which is an entirely different problem). The only way Obama was objectively radical as a politician and president was the co
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by ethbr1 2mo ago
I think parent's broader message was the Democratic party leadership being out of touch with potential Democratic voters. Support for Israel's current government (elections in October 2026) being but one example.
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by ethbr1 2mo ago
The current US right is a hodgepodge in terms of what they love, but for Trump's victories was unified by who they hate.
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by ethbr1 2mo ago
What people who care about security want -- finely grained permissions that guarantee security boundaries, at the expense of bad UX What most end users want -- for the machine to do what they want, as often as possible, while bothering them
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by ethbr1 2mo ago
Granted! I have my preferences, but I recognize that both Halo and Gears were amazingly designed and executed games. Personally, I'd just rather have a tragically-flawed but also creatively-great Populus, Lemmings, Myst, or Worms. >
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by ethbr1 2mo ago
Imagine how much more infuriated people would have been if Clippy wasn't a cartoonish-looking paperclip, but a human facsimile. Sometimes absurdity or comedy is the point when you're developing a known-partial solution.
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by ethbr1 2mo ago
Organization, in that hypothetical, the individual also retains substantial power. Enough so that they should sit their boss down and say 'I have capacity for N of these projects, let's rank them in terms of priority.'
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by ethbr1 2mo ago
The author's "There is no Antimemetics Division" series (set in the SCP world) is stellar too. Nav up a few levels on their site.
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by ethbr1 2mo ago
100% agree there's been a tendency to increasingly standardize mechanics. Likely driven by increasing AAA-class game development budgets + the consolidation of publisher-developer first party studios. Both of which create organizationa

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