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by gruez 3mo ago
I don't get it, whats up with all the scare quotes when what you're describing is basically what a think tank or advocacy group does?
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by gruez 3mo ago
>Contributors >... >claude You don't need to presume. If someone is so lazy that they tell claude to commit their code (ie. they're too lazy to run git commit themselves), the chances they reviewed the code is slim.
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by gruez 3mo ago
> if not cleaned off regularly. Just rinse it off with water?
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by gruez 3mo ago
Anti-fingerprinting measures with configurable knobs is always going to be a risky proposition because those options themselves end up being a fingerprinting surface. It's better to take firefox/tor browser's approach and hav
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by gruez 3mo ago
>The best case is it does no harm. Isn't it pretty obvious that people drink them for... energy?
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by gruez 3mo ago
Source?
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by gruez 3mo ago
>which is expensive The rumored Motorola devices are even more expensive. It's the signature and some foldables, all in the 1000+ MSRP range. At least with pixels you can get the a series for as little as 400 on sale.
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by gruez 3mo ago
>Comp goes up for showing off AI, not hiring people. That's funny because a few years ago it was the reverse. people were saying how big tech was bloated, caused by managers that felt their clout was proportional to how many people
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by gruez 3mo ago
>The ECB could have brought government bond yields down from the beginning and most of the problems could have been avoided. Is that sustainable? Argentina's predicament is basically caused by a variant of this. The Peronists gave h
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by gruez 3mo ago
Thanks for the correction.
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by gruez 3mo ago
>A society that permits surveillance pricing will inevitably become more impoverished because the few players doing surveillance pricing will extract more money from the society WITHOUT creating any more value. This impairs everyone else
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by gruez 3mo ago
>The very definition of "price discrimination" is the convincing argument. >... Your inflammatory wording is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here. Remove that and it seems far more acceptable "How much does this
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by gruez 3mo ago
>Amazon will tell you the price 7 days before it auto-renews and then jack the price up 100x three days before it renews? Yeah probably? [edit: no, see below] You go on amazon 7 days before renewal, check your subscriptions, see it'
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by gruez 3mo ago
>That's called "the consumer price surplus". It's one of the major reasons that market economies are better for everyone than command economies. And it's the antithesis of price discrimination. I'm not denyi
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by gruez 3mo ago
Have you used amazon subscribe and save? What you described is basically how it works. You're agreeing to auto-buy at whatever price amazon sets on that day. The only exception when you first set up a subscription, in which case the fi
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by gruez 3mo ago
>There are many other registrars out there if you are willing to transfer and for $3K I'd be transfering my domains and then filing a chargeback. If what hover said is true (ie. "the .sexy registry (Uniregistry) sets prices as
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by gruez 3mo ago
>How do I negotiate with a minimum wage cashier, self-checkout, or a checkout page? You "negotiate" by switching to a competitor, or in some circumstances refusing to purchase at all. It's a "negotiation" in the
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by gruez 3mo ago
>Your local water monopoly has perfected price discrimination. Since water is a necessity, the water monopoly sets the price of water to "everything you own". This says more about monopoly power abuse than problems with "p
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by gruez 3mo ago
>This assumes that the business would raise prices to make more money from people who they think can pay it and give that back to others as a discount. >Do you have evidence this would be the case? This is pretty standard economics:
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by gruez 3mo ago
>In surveillance pricing, I wouldn't get that choice, I'd just get a custom-to-me price. I'd have no idea how the company decided to charge me more or less than they charged my friend. And no idea how to change the price I
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by gruez 3mo ago
>or if you just misunderstood the original comment? Did you? If you keep on reading, the parent comment further implies that both AI companies and uber are "vibes based". But that's hard to square with the fact that 7 year
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by gruez 3mo ago
>Uber et al raised like a J round. None of the rules around markets or investments are real Uber's a poor example because it did IPO in 2019 and its stocks are up around 75% since then.
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by gruez 3mo ago
>Not sure what you are trying to argue. I'm saying the specific claim of "most people live on credit cards as bridge finance between paychecks. when I mean most people - I mean 50% of the population" is false.
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by gruez 3mo ago
>Paying a $400 payment on a 2 year iPhone will look insane as that’s the depreciated value of a 2 year old phone. Check ebay. That's around the price of a pro series iPhone 2 years old.
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by gruez 3mo ago
I checked the price for a used iPhone 15 pro (ie. 2 year old iPhone) on ebay and it's around $400-$500. Therefore the implied depreciation of the lease is pretty fair, unlike the lowball offers you typically get for trading in a phone.
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by gruez 3mo ago
>when I mean most people - I mean 50% of the population. That's not really applicable because: 1. the study is for an "unexpected" expense. This you can see from 2 years away 2. The wording in the study was something along
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by gruez 3mo ago
its interest free
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by gruez 3mo ago
> If someone complied with what was asked, they would not be guilty of lying, even if a reasonable person would judge that the action did not meet the intent of the ask. This doesn't pass the sniff test. Consider the following: Cops
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by gruez 3mo ago
>Nah son, the government can conduct their petty investigations with a warrant Your original post: >Maybe digital forensics shouldn't be handled by barely highschool graduates at a busy border crossing Sounds like you're mov
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by gruez 3mo ago
>"write the pin on a piece of paper" >"ok are you sure that's your pin?" >they exit the room and come back 5 min later >"that pin didn't work, can you write it again?" You're going to

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