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by guntars 4y ago
The logic is that removing buttons would make the cars cheaper as they have historically had buttons up until very recently. I imagine it did, by several dollars, but it was overwhelmed by the increase in other features. Now with touch scre
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by guntars 4y ago
Yet the cars are more expensive than ever. Nah, it’s a bet by the management that people don’t actually choose a car based on the polish of the infotainment system.
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by guntars 4y ago
Yeah, I don't see why we need to play games - just say no. It's a normal human instinct to want to please others and say yes, but it can be short sighted as you will need to tell them that, no, you didn't finish that strategi
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by guntars 4y ago
If buying a lottery ticket is a good idea, isn’t buying two better? How about spending everything you have on lottery tickets? Odds are the upside for you is still much larger than the downside. Maybe you’re saying that buying a single lott
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by guntars 4y ago
> Not as shady as the fact that Chrome by default sends your entire browsing history to Google for analysis. Citation needed. Are you saying that, as I click around the site here, Google knows what comments threads I'm interested in
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by guntars 4y ago
Exactly, there should be a multi-year lockout period where the CEOs cannot sell their stock. If the potential hires don't like it, well, cry me a river. Plenty of people would still take the job, especially if they are interested in bu
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by guntars 4y ago
That's fair, I can see how any kind of more advanced filtering than "just block incoming SYN packets" would require state, but at least it's optional.
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by guntars 4y ago
Something else that isn't often mentioned is that NAT requires keeping track of connection state on the router and anyone that writes code knows that state is the devil. That's state for every connection and for every device on th
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by guntars 4y ago
> Some parts of the U.S. have more homes for middle-income buyers than the national average, according to the National Association of Realtors’ recent analysis. Color me surprised!
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by guntars 5y ago
Turning off Javascript on the Economist website also shows the full article. I'm using uBlock for this. Besides the paywalls, I find that turning off JS improves the user experience on the vast majority of news sites.
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by guntars 5y ago
Interesting, I actually think that the indexing and the infrastructure part of building a search engine is much easier now than it was in the early 2000s. It's the ranking that's the hard part. PageRank helped put Google on the ma
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by guntars 5y ago
The fact that not being able to unsubscribe from marketing emails counts as gangster capitalism for you.. well.. that must mean things are pretty good.
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by guntars 5y ago
Reading these comments, if the world ended and the people here were left with a cow, half would starve to death and the other half would get sick. It’s just crazy to me that what was common knowledge a few generations ago is just gone. Yes,
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by guntars 5y ago
Ah, great to know that the merchants have another tool to take whatever money they feel entitled to from my account based on nothing more than "but we really really want to!" My first introduction to credit cards, when I was a kid
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by guntars 5y ago
Everyone's pretty skeptical here, but I think something like this is the way forward. Not based on Reddit or HN, of course, but based on the same principle, namely, user curation. It's argued that Google was so successful at first
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by guntars 5y ago
What Google needs is to do is start taking explicit user feedback. If I click on something and it's a major waste of time, I want to be able to tell Google to never show me this result or the whole domain. Why can't I do this? The
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by guntars 5y ago
That's exactly it, except the email is just "Thank you for buying something for some price" and, no, you can't unsubscribe.
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by guntars 5y ago
It's not wrong, but it's not the whole story. Why would these typically small countries bordering Russia want to join a military alliance in the first place? It's because of the experience with their large autocratic and unst
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by guntars 5y ago
Looks like a lot of people here agree with this and have similar frustrations which makes me wonder - surely some of the developers working on these apps dogfood their own work, if not for any other reason than it's just very popular.
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by guntars 5y ago
There’s research into self-replicating micro machines that could create useful compounds from atmospheric CO2 cheaply and efficiently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_plants
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by guntars 5y ago
I like this take. There's a book called "Games people play" by E. Berne that changed how I think about things like this. It talks about how people on a biological level need to interact with others and how they'll uncons
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by guntars 5y ago
I'm a on Mac, but it's interesting that you have the same issue on an entirely different system. Clearly we haven't figured out how to reliably have audio devices popping in and out of existence, all while playing music.
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by guntars 5y ago
If you know any bluetooth headsets that don't have similar quirks to what the post talks about, let me know, because otherwise I'm thinking this is Bluetooth and it wont get better until we ditch it. Quirks of Bose AE2 that I&#x27
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by guntars 5y ago
And then carry those old computers around in your pocket?
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by guntars 5y ago
There's something to be said about the benefits of having a serialization boundary between parts of the code that's a natural consequence of microservices, but it's something that could be employed in a monolith just as well.
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by guntars 5y ago
Link for people that DO want megabytes of tracking Javascript and, you know, media: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/04/weather/winter-weather-tuesda...
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by guntars 5y ago
They stimulate activity in a precisely chosen part of the brain. There is no inverse. They could stimulate a different part. In fact, they use the motor cortex to calibrate the stimulation level to be the lowest that produces any involuntar
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by guntars 5y ago
Quite a bit higher than wood, comparable to diesel (in some cases). Whichever bacteria figures this out is going to be king. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#In_chemical_rea...
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by guntars 5y ago
Oh, I'm ashamed to admit that I don't really know what NFTs are, but I was thinking of something along the lines of Patreon. I use it and like it, but it's still a third party that both sides need to sign up with so not every
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by guntars 5y ago
Why pays the advertiser? More often than not it's me and you when we buy something online, even if we never click on ads. Advertisement is just another cost of doing business and it's built into the price. I can't imagine pay

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