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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
No, it isn't a crime. Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. was a civil case, not a criminal case. And it was in the Michigan Supreme Court so has no standing in the other 49 states. And in practice the "business judgement rule" makes it v
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
I think "what happened" was that Anderson's long tail theory was a) just a theory not a proven thing and b) based on flawed assumptions that were quickly disproven. See the 2008 paper "Should You Invest in the Long Tail?
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
My understanding was that the companies aren't getting rich because competition has saturated the market and revenues from energy arbitrage have plummeted in 2025 because everyone needs to discharge during the same limited window. &quo
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
Uber doesn't have car seats. California requires car seats until age 8. https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DCDIC/SACB/CDPH%20Do... Your friends little kids aren't taking Uber. Your friends
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
Uber was never child friendly.
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
Uber operates in 71 countries. That booster seat is available in 1 country. So it solves 1.4% of the problem. Also that's a booster seat, not a child care seat, so can't be used if your kids are under 4.
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
> But when I was an infant -- which is not that long ago, parents were advised otherwise. So...research was done and people learned they were wrong? I'm not quite following what you think the takeaway was here? The "Back to Sle
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
The temperature thing is one I always wonder about. The WHO claims the ideal overnight temperature for sleeping is 18 degree (C). I lived in Vietnam for a decade and to a rough approximation 0% of the population ever experiences 18 degrees
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
It is a well established clinical term. It's not doing any heavy lifting.
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
The studies don't show they have a more accurate model of the world. The studies overwhelming only test the immediate judgements of their own behaviour and performance. The more limited studies with different methodologies have found t
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
The one where they get to stop working at age 40 and enjoy 31 years of retirement? Not sure why their opinion matters.
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
I use Obsidian and don't have more than one vault. What a weird thing to claim.
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
> Hotels generally seem to care when something goes wrong. Not really. When was the last time you stayed at a non-chain 2-star hotel in Asia? Hotel chains care because they care about their brand. Not that's a result of being a chai
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
> Fossil was the first tool to put bug tracking in the repository I'm pretty sure Aegis did it 15 years before Fossil.
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
I'd be willing to bet that even a brand new iPhone has a surprising number of reasonably old pieces of hardware for Bluetooth, wifi, gyroscope, accelerometer, etc. Not everything in your phone changes as fast as the CPU.
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
Hotels also provide tons of variation in quality. Just look up hotels in, say, Bangkok or Ho Chi Minh City where the options are much more than just the typical Western chains. Or compare the many non-chain "motels" in North Ameri
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
I think the people who say hotels are better than AirBnb aren't traveling with kids. Having an actual kitchen when you travel with kids is great. Having actual separate bedrooms so we don't have to go to sleep at 8pm when the kids
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
The world DOES run on older hardware. How new do you think the CPU in your bank ATM or car's ECU is?
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
> You almost get trained to click ‘Allow’ just to get work done I had an interesting experience of this with a normal/non-technical user when my wife asked for help setting up some money remittance app. Early in the install it poppe
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
To assert that an organisation doesn't "truly" care about open source simply because they've chosen a tool that isn't is ridiculous. Even before this Mozilla almost certainly used hundreds of closed source tools, in
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
Amazon tried to disrupt this with their Kindle Singles program with books in the 75-100 page range. It is still technically around but consumers clearly voted against it. Despite constant complaints about the padding in many non-fiction boo
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
FWIW translating into "major languages" isn't necessarily much help. If I speak one of the supported languages, say, Vietnamese, me being able to look at the German/Chinese/French is useless because 1) I can't
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
You'll probably want to show examples in all the languages you target. I wanted to see how good the Vietnamese is for my kids but signing up (especially on mobile) just to see if the tool is even useful is enough friction that I didn&#
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/lifestyle/homes-and-g... Banning laundry hanging is much less common in the UK so harder to find examples. But POAs are reasonably common and enforce all kinds of things for aesth
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
The UK also has homeowners associations and some of them ban outdoors clothes drying. I'm surprised you didn't know that.
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
How was an FBI and DOJ and investigation by the Obama administration "one side ignoring it"?
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
23 years ago is recent to you?
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
Going the speed limit is an onerous burden?
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by freddie_mercury 1y ago
Weird that you pull the one quote but ignore the rest of that paragraph which is about how being the leading cause of infertility is exactly the kind of thing evolution normally fixes. "It’s odd for there to be such an easily-removable
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
There are a lot of NAS cases you can buy. I have a Jonsbo that I've been pretty happy with for a year or so.

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