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by gretch 3y ago
Well it'd still be worth "1 dollar". But that's the problem with talking about the value of a dollar - the typical unit of measurement is the dollar itself. However, in 1900 you used to be able to buy 70 pounds of potato
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by gretch 3y ago
Maybe. I don't know much about Rolexes. To some they are a status symbol. To other groups, they are an anti-status symbol. If you want your business/society to be more like Rolex, then I guess implement this prioritization functio
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by gretch 3y ago
The outcome is a really brutal society where rich people are preferred in literally everything. Waiting in line for a chipotle burrito? Sorry, this guy is gonna put in $5 to cut you in line. Even if it’s right or wrong, at the end of the da
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by gretch 3y ago
Do you have a source on this? I'm genuine looking for one. I work at Google, but more importantly, I'm a citizen living in Santa Clara county and I really really don't support Govt forced evictions (maybe I'm next). I&#x
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by gretch 3y ago
> What this means I suppose is that the streaming service have managed to recreate the cable era, but in some aspects also made things worse than before. I disagree. It’s not as good as the golden era of streaming when everything was on
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by gretch 3y ago
No you didn't have hostility, but you had a boat load of pretentiousness, and unfortunately that's often indistinguishable. > I brought up a definition shared by many people What you did is discount the definition used much mor
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by gretch 3y ago
The definitions you just came up with are completely arbitrary. Worst yet, your definitions aren't even shared. It's hard to pin down exact agreed upon definitions in English, but I searched many popular dictionaries and none of t
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by gretch 3y ago
I completely agree, it's 2 separate mediums with their own optimized process/technique. It's like sculpting Clay vs Marble. If you make a boo-boo in clay, it just takes you a second to readjust. If you are working in Marble,
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by gretch 3y ago
Yeah it makes no sense. Like, you build an airplane and clearly the airplane needs both it's software and it's hardware in order to fly. Somehow the people who made the hardware are engineers, but the people who made the software
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by gretch 3y ago
> Time is the enemy of Time is literally the enemy of everything. The universe will experience heat death. The sun burns out. Nations will fall. You’ll die of old age. The assertion you made is actually the most milquetoast safest predic
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by gretch 3y ago
I'm not the OP you replied to, but there's a scene from the movie the big short that really punched the understanding into my head: Michael Burry: I may have been early but I'm not wrong some exec: It's the same thing! I
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by gretch 3y ago
Okay to all of that - the thing we’re talking about here is them not serving you the video. No one’s forcing you to watch any ads, or videos in the first place. So dramatic with the “I need Television without ads or it’s literally a dystopi
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by gretch 3y ago
> content caching services will strip out the ads, and play with a delay. To achieve this, you’ll need computation, storage, and bandwidth on the scale of YouTube. Do you think whoever offers that service will do so without ads or paymen
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by gretch 3y ago
> I believe that we have been fortunate that Google's ad business was willing to subsidize it for us for so long with so little required in return. Unfortunately it appears that possibly the screws are getting turned, and there is l
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by gretch 3y ago
Sounds like it will be the end of 3P accessibility controllers yes. Xbox has invested extensively in their 1P solution though: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/accessories/controllers/xbox-adap... It's modular
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by gretch 3y ago
Methodology is described in the site - it's based on air composition frozen in antarctica.
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by gretch 3y ago
> Youtube is free to not show anyone anything - once they send me data and it leaves their system, they have no claim to it. Okay well they're about to not show you the videos. You support their latest announcement right? It is comp
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by gretch 3y ago
A lot of traditional engineering (civil, mechanical, etc) are non-competitive endeavors. For example, if you are supposed to make a bridge, you just design what you think a good bridge to be. In the modern consumer application, you have to
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by gretch 3y ago
Yeah but in the course of doing so, you'd also have to a non-Google default search. If the hypothesis that Google is not better or indistinguishable from other search engines is true, then you'll be fine (or perhaps even better).
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by gretch 3y ago
Well another option presented in the video is to use weight offsets - when you drop the cargo off, also pick up something equally heavy. It’s not that hard to imagine that weight being return trip cargo or seawater in worst case.
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by gretch 3y ago
This is the government doing it, which is clearly wrong because they are supposed to be protecting your speech rights. If someone robs a corner gas station, you think “dang that’s a shame”. If the military robs a gas station, you think “umm
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by gretch 3y ago
I think this happens all the time as a form of societal procrastination. Like in a city where homelessness is rampant, and the city government meets up and the first thing they talk about is littering ordinances or if there's enough su
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by gretch 3y ago
> There is a reason spectrum is regulated Yeah because it's scarce and if overuse leads to pollution and interference. It's not because [x] group of people are too dumb and shouldn't have ideas voiced.
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by gretch 3y ago
My own no-basis 30 second gun theory - what if they are all the same way because one guy who was really good at making them passed the knowledge down that way. Then everyone else followed from that one teaching and never bothered flipping i
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by gretch 3y ago
> for them to explain what they're doing and why, in the name of transparency. Google could do that. They won't, but they could. Isn't their entire slide deck doing just that? Explaining what happens and why? Sounds like t
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by gretch 3y ago
Yeah except, how do you manufacture them? And distribute them to where the work needs to be? And what type of fuel do they use - we don’t have infinite free energy for an infinite free workforce.
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by gretch 3y ago
This is a weird example you posed because it's a real thing. It's called a doorman and it's very popular in new york (it's considered a luxury to have one)
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by gretch 3y ago
Maybe that unsubscribe link should be at the top then. Interested readers will move past it quickly. People held hostage or cajoled into enrolling will find it quickly. Are you mad at the right party?
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by gretch 3y ago
Yeah I am being snobby. Look at the root comment we are replying under. Insinuating that they could not say the word “monopoly” could not be said because it was a giant conspiracy to keep it hush. It’s cringe. Same energy as “that’s exactly
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by gretch 3y ago
VPs are not qualified because they climbed a corporate ladder - they are qualified because they are in charge a wider section of the business and are authorized to see data from that wide area. If you're an L4 code, you're not goi

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