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by giantg2 1y ago
"Rewards are taken from merchant fees." That would be true for credit card fees, but not for stuff like loyalty card discounts. "Likewise, coupons are almost always funded by the manufacturer who returns those monies to the s
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by giantg2 1y ago
I don't think we actually can due to the physical constraints. Things like drones require chips. Chip fabs are pretty rare in the US. There is a ceiling to how much we can produce until the production infrastructure can be increased. T
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by giantg2 1y ago
I would bet they have a way to write it off. Edit: why disagree? Can't the write it off as a loss, uncollected account, or promotional? Maybe even goodwill
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by giantg2 1y ago
So how do they account for people who use coupons or rewards cards today? Those create a discount that technically result in charging some customers less than others, including SNAP users. In the case of rounding, you wouldn't be charg
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by giantg2 1y ago
"It almost feels as if the US need(s|ed) to be a bit more involved in the Ukraine war in order to keep their finger on the pulse of how conflicts are evolving" This has nothing to do with keeping up with the intel from the conflic
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by giantg2 1y ago
"What vulnerabilities would you imagine there to be in an unmanaged (aka: dumb) switch?" Probably stuff related to how they handle the MAC table and VLANs.
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by giantg2 1y ago
"There's an article right here showing them turning off the cameras when the line was crossed and now that data can't be used the way they don't want." Not exactly true. This happened after the arrests and won&#x2
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by giantg2 1y ago
"Kind of an unforeseen consequences situation." This type of use and expansion of scope was totally foreseeable by anyone paying attention to history. It always starts as some targeted thing, then it becomes the path of least resi
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by giantg2 1y ago
This. The distribution varies greatly. Just like some patches have more 4 leaf clovers than other patches.
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by giantg2 1y ago
Interesting. Another thing I have that I didn't know about. I've found over 500 four leaf clovers as a kid. I still find them without looking as an adult when looking at something else on the ground or tying my shoe, etc. The move
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by giantg2 1y ago
Seems like a great use case for Pi-hole to add include lists - have files with lists of DNS entries that are delisted in some areas. Of course a VPN is probably more beneficial in general though.
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by giantg2 1y ago
I think we've taken free market to an extreme in a race to the bottom. Tariffs are probably a good thing, but maybe not in the way they have been currently implemented. Almost 15% of the country is on SNAP and we're spending hundr
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by giantg2 1y ago
It's managed. I don't know, but I would bet that unmanaged switches have vulnerabilities too. Maybe they just aren't targeted.
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by giantg2 1y ago
Regardless of what TP-Link says, the damage is done. I was recently looking for a bigger switch. I went with a use switch instead of buying a new TP-Link because I don't trust them. Now I just need more projects to fill my extra ports
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by giantg2 1y ago
The wavelength is suboptimal for that type of tracking/intercept.
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by giantg2 1y ago
Highly directional antennas on a moving platform can perform effectively radio direction finding independently.
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by giantg2 1y ago
It's not that untraceable when you have satellites that could pick it up before the bounce.
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by giantg2 1y ago
Really cool phased array. However, I don't think this will really make EME more accessible when their EME version is $2499+. Maybe the 4 element version would be fun to play around with.
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by giantg2 1y ago
Similar trend at my company - we're looking to hire in India to reduce costs. The rumor is that we could replace 25% of our existing IT workforce without outsourced roles. If anyone is worried about their job, it won't be AI that
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by giantg2 1y ago
"Fastfoward 250 years and ..." ... the 10th amendment is largely ignored.
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by giantg2 1y ago
This is inherently biased against individuals with social-emotional disabilities and will disproportionately impact that group.
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by giantg2 1y ago
Depends on what you consider a normal mechanic. A hydraulic press, drills, and an engine lathe could be in a mechanic shop. At the very least, having those items doesn’t make the mechanic an engineer.
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by giantg2 1y ago
"For example, a mechanical engineer is someone that designs mechanical systems. In order to do that, they will need specialized and very expensive equipment, and the end result will be produced with machines costing hundreds of thousan
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by giantg2 1y ago
Most of software isn't engineering, it's just building. It's like a lot of these custom car/motorcycle builders vs actual engineers designing for a major manufacturer. You are both building a product but one places a lot
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by giantg2 1y ago
"Lack of autonomy is the most draining thing." This. I recently moved from a developer team to a non-dev team. I've written more lines of code in the past month than I had in the last 6 months on the dev team. No vague requir
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by giantg2 1y ago
Last couple days. Moreso Plantir than Nvidia.
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by giantg2 1y ago
They're supposed to be a major source of AI tools for government. That's not all they do, but that's what has been driving the massive stock price increase.
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by giantg2 1y ago
Depends on the ROE I guess
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by giantg2 1y ago
That would only be a scheduled strike. That wouldn't work for ad-hoc strikes.
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by giantg2 1y ago
It seems the AI bubble may be starting to pop for some, like plantir and nvidia.

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