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by flerchin 2y ago
A naked human can survive the ocean for 3 orders of magnitude longer than they can survive space.
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by flerchin 2y ago
Did you buy your kids a big dumb phone?
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by flerchin 2y ago
Public data sharing is allowed.
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by flerchin 2y ago
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. It's an exceedingly common sentiment among parents.
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by flerchin 2y ago
It's definitely worth a discussion. Owning a smartphone is practically mandatory in modern society, and kids are more online than anyone. I've held the line at 14 before first smartphone, and it's been challenging. I just pic
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by flerchin 2y ago
Most of my holdings are VTI, so I surely own some of RealPage and any other publicly traded firm like this. I don't care. Burn that entire part of the market. I cannot stomach that my investment returns are on the backs of the homeless
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by flerchin 2y ago
Over the past 10 years I've recycled all of my large appliances. My (texas) city comes and picks them up at no charge, and I don't feel that's an unusual situation.
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by flerchin 2y ago
Most online accounts are tied to my email as an id. Suddenly losing my gmail would mean losing those accounts too. I'm fairly certain I could recover eventually, but it would be a disaster. The message archive is not a consideration. S
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by flerchin 2y ago
Losing my gmail would be crippling. I feel existential dread even considering it.
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by flerchin 2y ago
Seems like a big deal, but pretty much the only data ticketmaster would have is a stored credit card, address, name, and purchase history. Right? Perhaps passwords are valuable because many folks reuse them across sites. I don't see ap
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by flerchin 2y ago
That's certainly a theory. In general, publicly traded companies are not held to account like this. Many examples to choose from, but listing any of them would derail the argument to the exact specifics. Also, if the stock does not tak
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by flerchin 2y ago
George Carlin said it was because of the idiots in front of you and the maniacs trying to pass you.
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by flerchin 2y ago
Sometime in 1997 ICQ banned underage users due to some legal issue they perceived. I changed my age on my account to see what would happen, and got banned, no way to recover. I miss the little sounds it made, "hoot Hoot"
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by flerchin 2y ago
The engineering challenges are just that. They'll either solve them or change the plan, and there's little reason to think they can't solve them. No one thought reusing boosters was possible either.
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by flerchin 2y ago
IMO the only "lunacy" with the current plan is regarding schedule and budget slip.
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by flerchin 2y ago
In what way would it even be actionable? This is ridiculous. People bought microphones and put them in their homes. The microphones recorded audio. This is known.
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by flerchin 2y ago
What is it that you think that link is saying? I see no financial incentive for Amazon to not listen to their microphones for marketing purposes. From a certain point of view, they could even honor their word and not activate Alexa, but som
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by flerchin 2y ago
You know how Alexa listens for a keyword to activate? There's no reason to think that the number of keywords would be limited to exactly one. Alexa can listen for "tennis bracelet" and flag a profile completely transparently
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by flerchin 2y ago
When an ad is purchased, the buyer doesn't know how it's targeted, they only know if it was effective. The ad seller would necessarily keep the "proprietary details" of how the ad was targeted from the buyer.
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by flerchin 2y ago
Storage, laundry facilities, gyms, office-spaces (gasp!). Less-than-optimally used is still better that completely unused.
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by flerchin 2y ago
Proportional to market share? Probably will.
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by flerchin 2y ago
The desire to have a car that drives itself is so high that it overrides folks' self preservation. They'll pay kilodollars for unsafe systems. Regulation is the only solution I can see to prevent buggy beta software unleashing may
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by flerchin 2y ago
Without data, this reads like self justification for poor behavior.
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by flerchin 2y ago
No it's not. Not as described in the article.
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by flerchin 2y ago
Like when
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by flerchin 2y ago
The article lays the blame at battery production, and servicing rollout. Both of which seem solveable. Sure would be nice to have a datapoint around how many batteries they need vs how many they are producing.
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by flerchin 2y ago
This rhymes with the obsession of programmers and bespoke mechanical keyboards.
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by flerchin 2y ago
Whatever happened with the "false or perjurious" testimony at the beginning of the article? Nothing?
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by flerchin 2y ago
Teraform and serverless doing the exact same thing at the exact same time really indicates that the market conditions that allowed for software like this was not long term sustainable. As a builder that leverages them both, I'm saddene
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by flerchin 2y ago
1.6% is pretty niche. Metcalfe's law absolutely applies. I don't have data to compare between the many countries, but anecdotally, Canadians suffer robocalls at a similar rate to US-ians.

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