freddie_mercury

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by freddie_mercury 8mo ago
Your categorical error is that you think people are watching them to cover details in topics. They are a replacement for TV. You know, the thing that people used to watch for hours upon hours a day?
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by freddie_mercury 9mo ago
The vast majority of Vietnamese I know do not have an email account. So that would be a dumb thing for a Vietnamese bank to use as a recovery method.
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by freddie_mercury 9mo ago
> Elsewhere in the world, doctors can and do spend more than 12 minutes figuring out what's wrong with their patients. Where? According to "International variations in primary care physician consultation time: a systematic revi
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by freddie_mercury 10mo ago
Why would my government care less about me than a multinational corporation with billions of customers that isn't headquartered or listed where I live? My Member of Parliament represents about 130,000 people, does regular door knocking
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by freddie_mercury 11mo ago
The minimum price is enforced by Substack, unfortunately. You can make everything free but you can't charge, say, $1/month. It definitely pushes the platform toward writers who think "I want to make this my full-time job &amp
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by freddie_mercury 11mo ago
I agree. Substack feels more like Op Ed writers realised they could make more money by self publishing than by staying at a dying media company with multiple levels of editorial oversight. To do well on Substack you need to publish pretty r
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by freddie_mercury 11mo ago
How do you know it isn't already at that price? Uber estimated that it costs Waymo $2/mile to operate. Google says they charge $1.60 to $2.60 a mile, depending on location and demand, so Waymo is already almost certainly at the pr
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by freddie_mercury 11mo ago
Nobody claimed there weren't a lot of WhatsApp users.
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by freddie_mercury 11mo ago
The rest of the world isn't on WhatsApp. What a bizarre claim. Vietnam uses Zalo. Japan uses Line. Korea uses Kakaotalk. China uses WeChat. Iran is Telegram. And in the US more people are using iMessage than SMS thanks to iPhone's
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by freddie_mercury 11mo ago
Nobody ever paid $900 for a toilet seat. That was a statistical artifact caused by an accounting method called "equal allocation". "The equal allocation method calculates prices for large numbers of items in a contract by ass
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by freddie_mercury 11mo ago
There's some weird online effect where people assume everyone they talk to on the internet makes essentially the same exact amount of money they do. I've noticed this most in a forum for a country I used to live in where foreigner
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by freddie_mercury 11mo ago
"Analysis by the Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL), which has been tracking the siege using open source images and satellite imagery, found clusters of objects “consistent with the size of human bodies” and “
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by freddie_mercury 11mo ago
Congress are the ones who define what the FDA does. Blame them and the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. Congress could easily tell the FDA to do something different.
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by freddie_mercury 11mo ago
Because manipulating billions of people a year is worse than assassinating 500 a year? Doesn't seem hard to figure out.
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by freddie_mercury 11mo ago
Not really true. See for instance this link "Opponents call the amyloid hypothesis zombie science, propped up only by pharmaceutical companies hoping to sell off a few more anti-amyloid me-too drugs before it collapses. Meanwhile, main
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by freddie_mercury 11mo ago
I always have wondered a bit, do people in other fields have this, too? Like do people expect the CMO at a pharmaceutical company to still be running clinical trials or whatever to, I dunno, maintain their street cred? Or is it just tech co
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
How do you see that changing? Python introduce another breaking change than also randomly affects performance, making it worse for large classes of users? Why would the Python organisers want to do that?
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
Guido stepped down over 7 years ago. How out of touch are you?
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
>> That allows you to concatenate and page multiple files at once like bat does? >cat is literally called “cat” because it’s intended purpose is concatenation. cat's behaviour and bat's behaviour is different, though.
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
I use the syntax highlighting of manpages, fd, ripgrep, and git pretty regularly. I also use the fzf previewer with --range-limited pretty frequently.
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
> And behind the scenes, work on the next catalogue had already begun – a process lasting several months and involving planning, construction of interiors, photography and filming, all led by catalogue manager Mia Olsson Tunér. It is nai
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
That has git integration, like bat does? That shows non-printable characters like bat does? That allows you to concatenate and page multiple files at once like bat does? That supports the --line-range option like bat does? You can pipe the
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
Github deals with a lot of bots/AI that open pointless/spam/bad PRs/issues/etc. https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/158850 https://www.reddit.com/r/deve
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
While I'm deeply sympathetic to the original claim, I agree the evidence is lacking. All I really see is the assertion that AI means onboarding and coming up to speed is faster. Which feels a bit unproven? (Unrelated but the post has a
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
Even for cleaners it might not work. I know several people who tried this and the cleaner said no. I think (not sure) the cleaner signed some kind of contract/agreement with the website not to do that and worries that if they are disco
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
I've used Obsidian for years without a single 3rd party plugin. It is possible to make your same point without histrionic excess.
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
The Ford F-series and Chevy Silverado both outsold the RAV-4 by significant margins. Also the RAV-4 isn't a car, it is an SUV. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/best-selling-cars-us-h1-202...
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
To push back slightly, Discord says they have 19 million weekly active servers, which almost certainly outstrips the number of forums back in the day. It just feels like there's been a shift away from the super public phpbb forum style
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
I'm not sure "we" traded anything. Back in the day an absolutely minuscule portion of humanity read blogs. Technology Connections has 3 million subscribers. That's over 10x the number of people reading the most popular b
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
There was no such explicit statement from the mayor that it was because of real estate. https://www.phila.gov/2024-05-20-statement-from-mayor-cherel...

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