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by gbear605 7y ago
It’s certainly better to use it than to just let it sit around, since then you're Just giving the money to Amazon.
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by gbear605 7y ago
The whole point of the article is that a number of sites (Google, Facebook, Netflix) are returning invalid sites because the browser is Vivaldi, not to make the site work with Vivaldi, but to make Vivaldi not work. It’s entirely the develop
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by gbear605 7y ago
Person years is a bad metric to compare to time years. You should compare the 18B person years to the about 5 trillion[1] person years that have existed since these cave paintings. Now that’s truly a long time, and shows how slowly these ch
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by gbear605 7y ago
I suppose the converse is that any profitable company’s share price will go up continually, as long as they don’t give dividends.
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by gbear605 7y ago
Alternatively also translated as “Who watches the watchmen?”
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by gbear605 7y ago
That’s only true as long as the buybacks are done using a cash pile. There are a lot of companies that, instead of trying to grow, give dividends to their investors (think utility companies). Their stock prices tend to be pretty stable, sin
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by gbear605 7y ago
The problem is not a monopoly, but abuse of a monopoly in a way that stops competition. If the bar owner started charging $100/beer and then forcefully stopped anyone else from opening a bar, that’d need to be broken up for a fair mark
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by gbear605 7y ago
You certainly can, but even Amazon had much higher revenue/funding ratio than Magic Leap.
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by gbear605 7y ago
Yeah, Duolingo is definitely enough of a tool if you want to start to use the language in the foreign country, but it’ll be very obvious that you’re a beginner. I’d say that’s probably the best way to learn, but you have to be prepared to b
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by gbear605 7y ago
Duolingo tries to do some spaced repetition, but it’s not very effective. Spaced repetition should be at least explicitly memorizing the definition of vocabulary (and related uses) with a smart algorithm while Duolingo only exposes you to w
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by gbear605 7y ago
There are lots of other general language learning apps, but they’re all about the same as Duolingo. However, more specific apps can be a very useful tool. Specifically, using a spaced repetition software is the best way to memorize vocabula
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by gbear605 7y ago
10 words is an understatement, but the more reasonable estimate of probably around 1000 isn’t fluency either
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by gbear605 7y ago
The problem is that many people see Duolingo (and Duolingo partially advertises itself this way) as the first and last step needed for learning a language. On the contrary, Duolingo is a good first step, but it's only a first step. Ins
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by gbear605 7y ago
Other reviews in this post say that it’s not even as good as the original Hololens
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by gbear605 7y ago
A large point of video games is escape. AR takes that away. Plus, most people’s spaces aren’t set up for a game. For example, I couldn’t play Minecraft: Earth in my apartment since there isn’t a good flat space.
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by gbear605 7y ago
That’s not how funding works, but it is how profit works.
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by gbear605 7y ago
It doesn’t need recursion, you can do a while(round(x/3)-2 > 0) type thing, but recursion is simpler.
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by gbear605 7y ago
> I think they would be fine for someone starting out at coding. The earlier ones, perhaps, but professional programmers struggle with the later ones. I’d never suggest that some one new to programming tries to do all of AoC.
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by gbear605 7y ago
I can’t speak for OP, but most fasts of this kinds allow drinking water at the very least, and sometimes even light broths like chicken broth. Religious fasts, on the other hand, often don’t even allow drinking water.
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by gbear605 7y ago
I trust them to keep their products relatively secure from hackers, not to not use my data.
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by gbear605 7y ago
I’d expect that you would make the getting two credits cost the same as the current subscription, so the total income is the same, it just lets users feel freer to not have to come up with new projects each month.
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by gbear605 7y ago
There are two types of bus factors though. It’s true that at a small company, you can’t share all your responsibilities with someone else, but you can make sure that if they need to you can be replaced by someone else (ie. if you get hit by
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by gbear605 7y ago
Theoretically, if it were egregious enough, the EU could say to the owners or management of the company that if they went to the EU they would be arrested. That’s enough of a threat that it might convince them.
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by gbear605 7y ago
I’m also not an expert, but my understanding is that it applies but would be hard for the EU to take action against them
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by gbear605 7y ago
The example of typename shows that it’s a problem that can’t be overcome by the compiler, so it’s trading off one bad syntax for another, not trading off bad syntax for difficulty to implement.
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by gbear605 7y ago
If you wanted to model after Berkshire Hathaway, you could just buy shares in them.
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by gbear605 7y ago
> Not to say that China isn’t violating human rights. They are. But we, the Americans, are the ones who started this fight by goading them on. Americans goaded them on to human rights abuses? I strongly suspect that many Uighurs would be
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by gbear605 7y ago
It’s one of the only issues I agree on with the current president. Unfortunately he doesn’t seem willing to actually be effective, and he doesn’t seem to care about the actual human rights issues. I’m hopeful that he might be willing to get
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by gbear605 7y ago
If your time frame is longer than seven years, then it just about always makes sense to leave your money in the market. Even if the market drops 20% in a crash, the market is up more than 20% now since people started majorly talking about f
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by gbear605 7y ago
The thing about loans is that they should also be cheaper if you pay them off sooner. I could believe that they should be simple interest instead of compound, but that’ll get to 200% in only a bit longer (50 periods of 2% interest instead o

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