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871.
by gbear605 7y ago
You can get a decent used iPhone for under $200. I don’t fault Apple for not making an iPhone cheaper than that.
872.
by gbear605 7y ago
The app store already works like this. They clearly mark subscription apps like this, including free trials.
873.
by gbear605 7y ago
Youtube has a monopoly on the online video market. There are other ways to publish but not other ways to get viewers.
874.
by gbear605 7y ago
Yeah, but then another 15-25ms for sat to server while your fiber is another 60ms to server.
875.
by gbear605 7y ago
Nothing, unless your cellphone is part of the infrastructure of a telecom company.
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by gbear605 7y ago
There are essentially no variable costs for the satellites, and since they will be in LEO, a satellite to supply rural US also supplies everywhere in India. So SpaceX can sell their services for $5/month (or less) to people in India an
877.
by gbear605 7y ago
I believe $10 billion is approximately the cost of the whole satellite network, definitely not a single satellite.
878.
by gbear605 7y ago
I don't know about making their own lasers, but they are almost certainly making their own laser interlink system.
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5-HTTLPR: A Pointed Review(slatestarcodex.com)
119 points by gbear605 7y ago|7 comments
880.
by gbear605 8y ago
I don’t want to find out about any of those things. They don’t, as the saying goes, spark joy in my life. Sure, trips might be the exception from your list, but also any trips I go on I can plan for myself in a way that is both cheaper and
881.
by gbear605 8y ago
They’ll build public transit, which is a benefit to the people of LA. Perhaps not worth it, but still a benefit.
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by gbear605 8y ago
I don’t know about in Germany, but the huge malls are going the way of the dodo in the US.
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Improving Binary Search by Guessing(notebook.drmaciver.com)
1 points by gbear605 8y ago|0 comments
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The “shut up and get back to work” coding style guide(drewdevault.com)
18 points by gbear605 8y ago|7 comments
885.
by gbear605 8y ago
People don’t usually see it as “making life easy is immoral” but as “making their life easier than mine is unfair”
886.
by gbear605 8y ago
Of course that study can’t prove causation (not going to do a randomized trial on risk factors that cause schizophrenia), but they only looked at risk factors prior to onset, so that should be a good proxy.
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by gbear605 8y ago
I guess it depends on the definition of progress. I see people able to do things previously impossible, which I say is progress, and you say that is not progress because the new things are not objectively better.
888.
by gbear605 8y ago
Notably, there are some senses in which architecture can improve, with things like insulation, safety, or price.
889.
by gbear605 8y ago
It’s already had 500 million euros dedicated to it, I believe.
890.
by gbear605 8y ago
One running in a country where face recognition is illegal?
891.
by gbear605 8y ago
I think it’s pretty clear that no one other than Trump vets his Twitter account.
892.
by gbear605 8y ago
On my Mac, I can download the Apple speech recognition software and it accurately recognizes all of my speech. I’m not from an urban area and it does a great job recognizing new words. It takes under 10 gigabytes of storage, if I remember c
893.
by gbear605 8y ago
The article starts with a discussion about science graduates, but it’s primarily about the weak job market for college graduates in general. Unfortunately, college degrees are not a sure fire way to get hired in today’s economy, but they ar
894.
by gbear605 8y ago
It’s siloed by technology now when it wasn’t before - you could connect to any irc server with one client but you need a different client for each network now.
895.
by gbear605 8y ago
As a twenty year old, the problem is not that people aren’t chatty; it’s that the people you interact with aren’t chatty. For any niche topic you can find a Discord server or a Telegram channel or a Signal group chat or a Slack server or
896.
by gbear605 8y ago
I haven’t read the source, but some other examples could be clothing and water.
897.
by gbear605 8y ago
Plus a self driving taxi could run 24/7 while a driver likely only works 40-50 hours a week (at least at the $30k/year price point)
898.
by gbear605 8y ago
Because most of the income from the rider goes directly to the driver.
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by gbear605 8y ago
Would it be reasonable to introduce a compiler flag that is enabled by default to mark this category of warnings as errors, or would even that need a major version bump?
900.
by gbear605 8y ago
Single party nature of the state? The governor is Republican

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