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by jampekka 2y ago
In loyalty programs the benefit percentage often increases as a function of money spent, disproportionally benefiting the more well off who spend more. I've yet to encounter a loyalty program that would do the inverse (probably there a
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by jampekka 2y ago
Cue HN's anti-PWA brigade.
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> The consumer group is among those to have highlighted Lidl’s loyalty scheme, Lidl Plus, as one that is only accessible via an app, with an email address also required. At least here in Finland Lidl Plus is one of the few which can be u
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English is basically a random mix of half a dozen languages with typos, bad grammar and bad style. All of its dialects have ridiculous spelling.
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Helping destitute people get water and sanitation seems like giving to society. It's very typical and likely very effective foreign aid. Probably it got picked here because of "Gender Aware", as if sanitation having gender-re
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Surely the dean and the provost deserve to be listed then too?
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by jampekka 2y ago
Everybody[1] has a frequency domain transform in their ears. The absolute frequency gets lost at some point at the nervous system, a bit like you can't see absolute luminous intensity. See e.g. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#
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by jampekka 2y ago
We are not. Here's a great essay about the subject: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/174701611100700... The author also has a blog about IRBs: http://www.institutionalreviewblog.co
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“Partnering with them [China] means chaining your nation to an authoritarian master that seeks to infiltrate, dig in and seize your information infrastructure,” Vance said. At least they aren't threatening to invade our countries or ex
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Inclusive here means that the population at large benefits. But I guess that's woke now too.
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In the FAQ: > Is the app free? > Yes. The app is completely free to download and use today. Listening to content on the app will not consume credits from your monthly web plan. We do plan to eventually launch some premium version of t
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Not if you know the latencies.
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> just one that may or may not rely much more heavily on the network at runtime and might work offline (or not). PWAs can run fully offline using service workers. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web&#x2
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I would welcome a new open source DAW. Ardour is the go-to option now, and is very capable, but it's starting to show its age and the UI is quite clunky (or an acquired taste at least). Also the open source audio editor situation is qu
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Minimal latency is only really needed for live performance and monitoring, though these do tend to be crucial demands in most cases. A major problem for browsers is also poor support for multichannel devices. They do plan to have a "na
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The question about reference frames, even relative ones, is really interesting and has quite a long history. The current view of them really started only with Newton, and e.g. Leibniz actually had a different view, and rejected the idea of
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by jampekka 2y ago
> In order for a PWA to be normal and usable, it must be available offline, open in a window without browser chrome, have similar performance to a native application, be launchable via a shortcut on the host OS, and respond to the mouse
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This is a well known phenomenon in traffic engineering and can be modeled with e.g. fluid dynamics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_wave
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> Personally I find it hard to internalise canonical notation. Like f and F in probability theory, which is which again? Probability theory's notation isn't very canonized. The typical usage, f for PDF and F for CDF, is easy to
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I'm partial to believing Musk's control and personal beliefs have been a factor in changes in Xitter discourse. But what would be effective ways for convincing others? Also I like to think I verify my beliefs with systematic analy
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> By now it's pretty clear that the network is actively driving discourse in one specific direction. Research is exactly about not just taking a look and declaring something "pretty clear". Also what "a direction&quot
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Stremio is (mostly) open source and doesn't cost a penny and AFAIK has no malware. It does sometimes have some ads, about which they are very open about. Debrid and torrent indexing services are simple websites/APIs with some most
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In what sense? Leeching?
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How does WASM help with the concepts of compilation and linking c objects?
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Gotta love how streaming torrents through shady debrid and indexing services with Stremio is a smoother experience than what these megacorporations with massive budgets manage to scrape together.
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The "unacceptable risk" category is not about chatbots or LLM capabilities in general. It's not about censorship or banned topics. It's about certain specific applications and systems tailored for them.
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> If Europe wants to stick to the borders a bunch of kings and princes hashed out in blood a hundred+ years ago it can If the EU wants to stick to a technocratic structure pushing unpopular laws over the democratic institutions won in bl
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Yes, a more accurate characterization would be someting like partially elected legislative branch. The parliament is directly elected, but it doesn't have full legislative powers. It can't propose new laws and the Council of the E
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Democratic and EU unfortunately doesn't mesh that well. In the current form federal EU would be someting like having an unelected powerful executive branch, and a semi-elected weak legistlative branch. Furthermore the populace has very
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I'm not so sure there even is so much less risk-taking in Europe than in US. There are many structural reasons why Europe doesn't produce gigagrowth oligopolies like the US. EU has a highly fractured internal market that is more d

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