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811.
by gbear605 7y ago
The United States has already decided that businesses in general (ie. brick & mortar stores) do not have the prerogative to make their content accessible or inaccessible to whomever they see fit. Including websites makes perfect sense.
812.
by gbear605 7y ago
> Just consume less? I dunno... wild thought. Suppose I need a new shirt, because my old one is ragged (pretend that I only have one shirt). There are two short brands I am deciding between, A and B. A is cheaper and they look like the s
813.
by gbear605 7y ago
Unfortunately, the blue zones diet has also been discredited, since those places where people seemed to live longer turned out to mostly just be where records were inaccurate decades ago.
814.
by gbear605 7y ago
Suppose that there is a helicopter overhead that you (and the five thousand people around you) would pay a dollar to get rid of. If you tax that flight $5000 and distribute it to the 5000 people who could hear that helicopter, then you get
815.
by gbear605 7y ago
It acts as a tech company, so it gets treated as a tech company, but financially it isn't actually a tech company and doesn't deserve the valuation of one.
816.
by gbear605 7y ago
That is how it works legally, yes.
817.
by gbear605 7y ago
Ironically, that could be portrayed as gaslighting on your part - not that I think it is.
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by gbear605 7y ago
It's successful in the sense that it could raise prices to make a profit and there's a possibility that it would still have enough customers left. Unlikely the oft-discussed "selling dollars bills for 90 cents" companies
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The YouTube Revolution in Knowledge Transfer(lesswrong.com)
12 points by gbear605 7y ago|1 comments
820.
by gbear605 7y ago
Some scripting languages having types, like TypeScript for instance.
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Too Much Dark Money in Almonds(slatestarcodex.com)
238 points by gbear605 7y ago|157 comments
822.
by gbear605 7y ago
Another good option is your local library system. They almost certainly have the dvd, and for free too.
823.
by gbear605 7y ago
Suppose the minimum amount to make this make sense is worth 1 cent over 4 seconds of running the proof of work. Then this proof of work would earn 24 hours/day * 60 minutes/hour * 60 seconds/minute / 4 cents/second
824.
by gbear605 7y ago
There unfortunately isn't, at least not at a scale that's feasible right now. [0] [0]: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/03/nonsense-arguments-...
825.
by gbear605 7y ago
Yes, which is the relevant number for this post where the topic of discussion is US anti-trust law.
826.
by gbear605 7y ago
A lot of popular indexes are either total market funds or hold a large fraction of the market
827.
by gbear605 7y ago
But this application loses all those benefits, since it's just a GUI that happens to be displayed in ASCII on a terminal.
828.
by gbear605 7y ago
Apple specifically removed it for child porn, and once Tumblr took care of that (before removing adult content in general), Apple added them back to the store.
829.
by gbear605 7y ago
Yeah, and that’s part of why it was so controversial. On top of that, op seemed to be suggesting making it illegal - as in go to jail - not having a penalty, which is substantially different.
830.
by gbear605 7y ago
There’s an established precedent in (American) law that it’s generally okay to forbid an action but it’s not okay to mandate an action. For example, you can stop people from driving without a license, but you can’t make everyone get a licen
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Young Swedes are burning out: Burnout is rising in the land of work-life balance(bbc.com)
3 points by gbear605 7y ago|0 comments
832.
Against Against Billionaire Philanthropy(slatestarcodex.com)
6 points by gbear605 7y ago|0 comments
833.
by gbear605 7y ago
It’s an energy addiction, not a hydrocarbon addiction. Similarly, people get a nicotine addiction, not a cigarette addiction. They can switch to alternatives, like cigars, patches, and ecigs. Luckily, our alternatives are better - solar, wi
834.
by gbear605 7y ago
Sounds like start up investing to me
835.
by gbear605 7y ago
I do it on my smartphone occasionally.
836.
by gbear605 7y ago
In terms of “what should a robots.txt file look like to be parsed correctly,” yes, because they’re the ones who are going to be doing most of that parsing. Yes, ideally it would be an entirely independent standardization process, but it’s n
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by gbear605 7y ago
It would be rude if they refused to make it if you still insisted. It’s polite of them to tell you before they make it that it’s a bad choice.
838.
by gbear605 7y ago
I preferred Bernie over Hillary too, but an article about France is really not the place to bring up three year old American politics.
839.
by gbear605 7y ago
Does your friend group include both iPhones and Androids? From experience, any group chat that includes both is going to result in splits (like in IRC), messages simply not going through, and messages arriving multiple days late. In additio
840.
by gbear605 7y ago
Sorry to tell you this, but teenagers don’t text anymore. They use apps instead - Instagram, Snapchat, Whatsapp, Telegram - because texting is a broken system that doesn’t work reliably. If you cut your kid off from a smartphone, given toda

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