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by indymike 3y ago
The solution to this problem is to simply require a small, say $50-$100 deposit that is paid to the host (e.g. youtube) the site/account/content owner (e.g. youtuber) if they file a counterclaim (covering up to some reasonable num
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> "It’s a V1 Apple product. It’s a new category, for them, and by far the most ambitious headset on the consumer market." And it is priced out of the consumer market by a factor of 10. Also, the developer program is not interes
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> Yet it seems that Nokia phones were loved for their UI. Keypad UIs are hard to create - and competitors certainly had some toxically useless UIs. Yes, for making calls, texting, taking pictures and changing settings, Nokia phones were
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> 50 JOINS And no indexes.
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We need to use simple language that everyone understands. "Rent" is the right word for this transaction. Sellers hate it because no one like rent at buy prices.
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> Fusion power plants are fixed large-scale facilities. Large scale facilities really are not all that interesting. They concentrate cost, danger and impose lots of logistical limitations.
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> But the (essential) behavior of the command remains the same. Of course. A command needs to do it's defined function. You'll find some programs that are quite a bit different when invoked from outside the terminal vs inside t
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Going to jail or being fined over widgets doesn't make a better world.
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> UIs for the general audience? TUIs! TUIs are ideal (sometimes) where a command needs to be interactive. Many commands lend themselves well to batch processing or require no interactivity at all. In many cases, a script piped into a tex
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A good example that all of us have seen is ssh. It does not run if permissions on certs are incorrect.
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> I often pipe output to tee and would be pretty annoyed if that changed the behavior of the original command The output sent to tee is usually not the same as the output from the command to the terminal, so you are getting something dif
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I still haven't seen any ads. Hopefully, by now, my profile indicates that running an ad in my general direction has a negative ROI.
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> There are still basically no workable business models and barely any revenues for AI products. At this point, AIs are being embedded into existing apps as new way to interact with users. Also, you need a decent GPU to run most LLMs, s
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> They definitely won’t start over from scratch. Most companies where I worked held on to reject one or two finalists until the selected one accepted the offer. I've hired so many 2nd or 3rd choices when the first choice overnegotia
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> There should be law to mandate the UI No thank you.
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> It's not scary - it's typical. It's no surprise that people who lack expertise will downvote and actual expert. I see it happen every day when people try to be the smartest person in the meeting or just simply cannot al
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I'm a video ad hater. After a decade and a half of streaming without ads, being forced to watch ads caused me to cancel DirectTV because the mobile app forced you to watch the ads. So far, I've not seen ads on Prime, except on sho
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> The incentives are fundamentally different and, arguable, at odds with entrepreneurial profit-oriented incentives. From personal experience, the differences seem simple on paper, but lead to much different social and political culture:
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> already tiny amount of software capable of leveraging this acceleration. This is why everyone is trying to compete with CUDA. Everyone wants a slice of the pie as we go from tiny amount to everything.
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> it's unlikely many or any of them go bankrupt in the next 5 years, so they at least know they can _eventually_ write it off. I don't think this really matters all that much to small biz. It really has a lot of effect on the m
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The's another factor: you now have to deal with getting 20% of the tax benefit from an engineering salary since R&D expenses are now amortized over five years.
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> rich and powerful people push for them or if millions of little people revolt about it You'd be surprised how easy it is to get time one one-on-one with a congressperson/senator and their entire legislative team. My strategy
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> It's a mistake to trust a cloud service with your data Eventually, this has to change for the better. Right now, users don't understand/don't care...
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Technology moves faster than law, so we’re seeing areas where the existing precedent, such as the “Third Party Doctrine,” just doesn’t work well when I’m renting server space (all SaaS is this way) for much of what would have been personal
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They don’t even have to subpoena they can just ask.
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This is unconstitutional and needs to stop.
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I'm completely ok with the police asking me for video from my doorbell. I'm not ok with the police using the third party doctrine and asking the hosting service for my video without asking me. That video is every bit my property
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The third party doctrine is disgustingly unjust.
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> Perhaps I’m overindexing on the term “sickening,” but it seems unhelpful to bring an emotion like disgust into a technical legal discussion. When true is redefined to false, it tends to raise emotions to a high level. Injustice often r
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> The Third Party Doctrine has muddied the Fourth Amendment’s legal boundaries. No, the third party doctrine was a mistake. > But prioritising retribution isn’t helpful when restitution I'm not sure in this case, that is what is

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