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by jddj 7y ago
I think the difference here is that I don't see education and internalising costs as protecting us from ourselves in the sense given by the OP (that even knowing perfectly the costs, we humans will still make the wrong decision and so
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by jddj 7y ago
According to the issues trackers, various forms of "self-hosting would be more work for a lesser product". I'm not sure that would still be the case if the decision were being made today, and would quietly hope not , but I g
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by jddj 7y ago
There is in fact a third option, which happens to be their stated position. Part of their (written) agreement with Google is that none of the analytics data generated from Mozilla properties will contribute towards Google's tracking da
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by jddj 7y ago
I can easily imagine some bored teenagers (can even imagine a certain version of younger me doing it) blocking an empty autonomous vehicle from leaving a parking space just for kicks. I suppose coaxing other empty ones into a ditch or water
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For me too. Starbucks is train station or airport "ehh, what did I expect?" coffee.
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If true, what a nasty position to be in. Unwanted and unhappy, but can't leave. I wonder if this might make some otherwise "approved candidates" think twice.
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The conspiracy about how much infrastructure has been going down this summer, and how it's probably interns / a state actor / people pushing to get things in production before performance reviews / people being on holida
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by jddj 7y ago
The reach for hyperbole isn't really warranted. At the moment the IRS brings in $5.2 for every $1 spent, that's $3.2 of extra revenue per $1. But their budget is being cut. We don't need to reach to see that wherever the line
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by jddj 7y ago
Sorry, I'm not quite sure if you're in agreement or not. The claim was that humans need to be protected from themselves (in the context of the GP comment, this would mean a ban). I meant to imply that since smoking rates declined
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by jddj 7y ago
If this is true (and from his resignation, it would seem that way), this is very refreshing news. There are horrible examples throughout history (Argentina in the '70s, where German automakers volunteered their left-leaning employees)
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I'm not sure how you explain the fall in cigarette smoking rates from the 80s until the present day, despite a lack of prohibition. I'm not a smoker, but man did this comment send a chill down my spine.
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by jddj 7y ago
While not a ban, alco-pop taxes are indeed a thing. They apply to flavoured alcoholic beverages which usually appeal more to young people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcopop
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Eight new repeating fast radio bursts discovered(m.phys.org)
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I absolutely hate that I'm giving this advice, but in a state of desperation you should be able to overcome the recapture exile by making a Google account, logging into gmail, using Chrome (logged in) and not using Tor or a VPN. It&#
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by jddj 7y ago
I was surprised to see that this was the only comment specifically calling out loneliness (and although you didn't call it out by name, depression). Maintaining a social life takes work, maintaining one into your 70s even moreso; parti
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by jddj 7y ago
You're right, the mistake I was making was not realising that the calculation was for leased office space as an entire industry, rather than as their plausible potential customer base. Since their actual market is more niche (in practi
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by jddj 7y ago
Thanks. But isn't making a claim that it's plausible that every square inch of office space in every modern city will be managed by WeWork actually doing the opposite of identifying some of the obvious limits to scaling? I suppose
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by jddj 7y ago
Is this how these things are usually calculated? Does a watch manufacturer say that there are approximately 255 million left arms which we can reach by post, and since our watches sell for $1000 that's a $255B opportunity?
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by jddj 7y ago
I used Google Translate yesterday to translate a french phrase to english and got something like: "It's better to be alone than to be in bad comapny ". I looked around for a Duolingo-style "report bad translation",
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by jddj 7y ago
Nah, no comments. You get the title which is a link to the submission, a picture and a link to the comments. I'm on Android so hitting either opens a webview (powered by Firefox) with an X in the top left which leads back to feedly. I
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by jddj 7y ago
I have to agree. Nice work, and looks pretty, but Feedly scratches this itch for me almost perfectly. And it expands well beyond Reddit and HN. The only better solution would be if I hosted my own and used an open source app. I'll get
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It may have been gaining far more comments than upvotes for a time? This is seen as a red flag by the algorithm, as it suggests that the thread is overly controversial.
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This got me thinking about my own situation. I've been living abroad in various places for a few years now, and I feel like if someone were to vandalise the flag of my home country in an act of protest I don't think it would trigg
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by jddj 7y ago
It's made more difficult (partly due to the lessons learned from the umbrella movement) because this has been a leaderless movement, which while making it difficult to disappear the people managing it, also must make it more difficult
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by jddj 7y ago
Thanks for this. On your second point, from my personal experience (we investigated the scam when it was offered to us before avoiding it based on the bad smell it gave off), my instinct would be to disagree. When we did the calculations, w
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by jddj 7y ago
I'd also be very interested to know whether this is also the case in the other western countries, as this is how several sketchy umbrella companies work in the UK. For those unaware, an umbrella company acts as the "employer"
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They're up against a wall. They rapidly went from being on the cusp of a nuclear deal and relief of sanctions to being economically more or less broken and with the US using whatever means they can to build them up as an enemy, and it
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Tardigrades may have survived spacecraft crashing on moon(theguardian.com)
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Human Milk as “Chrononutrition”(nature.com)
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It might be worth spending some time reflecting on why you hold that position. Do you have any evidence for it? Perhaps more importantly, would you personally be generally more at-ease if this were more true than the alternative? I ask beca

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