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by imron 9y ago
I read the whole article waiting for them to define this term - which they never did.
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by imron 9y ago
It doesn't in Australia. You get 4 weeks vacation time + ~10 public holidays a year + sick leave if needed.
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by imron 9y ago
One, there is no practical way to roll this out across an entire society without government involvement. Businesses and wealthy benefactors can make it work for small trials, but large scale society level in a western democracy? It will n
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by imron 9y ago
> The self checkout doesn’t help, it actually takes longer than a good cashier. Yep. Someone who scans and packs thousands of items a day is going to be much better at it than I am, given that I'd only scan a few dozen items a week
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by imron 9y ago
Exactly, just look what happened with dog breeding and how many breeds now suffer from significant genetic defects due to trying to breed desired traits.
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by imron 9y ago
I guess it's not all bad news - a collision with a stationary object at 65mph and the driver was able to walk away > Because of the force of the impact, firefighters advised the Tesla driver that he should be taken for a medical eva
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by imron 9y ago
> In effect, late stage capitalism becomes the anti-thesis of the spirit of capitalism - devoid of competition, free innovation, and upward mobility One of the benefits of an inheritance tax is that it can help prevent this.
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by imron 9y ago
The system knows the weight of the grain container before the customer takes any grain. It also knows the weight of the container after the customer takes some, so it's not too hard to figure out how much was taken. There will be excep
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by imron 9y ago
> 40+ tabs sounds like a workflow issue though It's not a workflow issue , it's a workflow that I prefer to use (and I'm not the only one who prefers it - it's fairly common among people who still use Firefox over Ch
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by imron 9y ago
Correct, it's not a new idea. It is however relatively new that someone is doing it repeatedly, successfully and is now also reusing the rockets that have returned.
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by imron 9y ago
> just for one webpage It's not just one webpage - it's for an increasingly large number of websites. And 'worse' depends a lot on use cases. I typically have many tabs open (maybe 40+) and for my use case Firefox has
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by imron 9y ago
Once they've ironed out the tech, they will certainly roll this out to Wholefoods. Your margin is Amazon's opportunity.
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by imron 9y ago
When eventually launched, both boosters and the first stage are designed to return to earth, landing upright for reuse. That this seems entirely feasible is a testament to how far SpaceX has moved the industry forward (and signifies that
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by imron 9y ago
Solution: Video with sound doesn't autoplay when opening the page in Firefox in macOS.
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by imron 9y ago
Not in C (which does not have exceptions) and not in C++ when doing what the parent suggested (calling malloc, not new).
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by imron 9y ago
> Sorry if my reading is too harsh. Nope, not harsh at all, and that's exactly what happened in China with their one-child policy (now a two child policy). If you were rich, you could just have more kids and pay the requisite fine.
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by imron 9y ago
> Capitalism, as a system, is awful at allocating this work that people love to the people who love it. It's significantly better at it than the alternatives. Even UBI. Sure UBI sounds great in principle, you'll be given enoug
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by imron 9y ago
What do people do if they are not working? You better have something for them to do, because (and I say this in a non-religious way) idle hands are the devil's playthings.
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by imron 9y ago
> There are already a few sad faces around the office. The ones who only bought in to Bitcoin a month ago? Because Bitcoin's still up for anyone who bought in the first 11 months of 2017.
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by imron 9y ago
The Australian government currently classes it as an asset for tax purposes.
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by imron 9y ago
I think that's a fair guess. I'd also guess there are plenty of people who bought in at around 1k and are thinking to lock in at least some of the gains that were made over the last year. Maybe they don't get 1,900% gains, b
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by imron 9y ago
Actually, it kind of does. If people think the price is low, they'll buy more.
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by imron 9y ago
> I wonder how the press is so sure that "fears of regulatory crackdown" are the reason for the drop They don't. I imagine it's mostly 'bitter coiners' who didn't buy in when the price was low and who
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by imron 9y ago
So now it's what, only 10x what it was this time last year? How will Bitcoin ever recover?! I don't own any bitcoin, but I remember when it first hit $1,000 and a few months later it was back down at $200 and I thought, hah, those
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by imron 9y ago
It's partly substantive. The 'too the moon' part was snark, but Bitcoin went from $400 to $1,000 in 2016, then from $1,000 to $14,000 in 2017, and I guess the same people driving the market who enjoyed 1,000% returns 2 years
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by imron 9y ago
Right. Now to drive it from $14,000 to $100,000. To the moon! /s
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by imron 9y ago
Doesn't work so well if the laundry is in the basement and the bedroom closet is on the 2nd floor. A general purpose bipedal that can perform basic human actions is considerably more flexible that telescopic arms fixed in the ceiling.
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by imron 9y ago
> I have no use for drones, or bipedal robots, or some kind of other walking robot at all Bipedal is the hard half of the fold clothes and put them away
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by imron 9y ago
I have no idea what you're talking about your honor. What's a bitcoin? I never saw any bits of any coins and the safe has a combination lock, not a key, how could I take the key? My original post wasn't being serious (hence
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by imron 9y ago
> I keep asking what views people are so intolerant of. Tend not to get real answers. I'll give you some real answers. Note the are plenty of exceptions to what I'm about to say, but the views are very commonly held. Also note

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