jojobas

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   by jojobas 1y ago

   This always appeared to me to be quite similar to serving UK tourists say in Thailand. Should that make massage parlors subject to UK law?
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   by jojobas 1y ago

   US can only confiscate US domains, right? Claiming jurisdiction is one thing, ensuring cooperation of the host state is another, and requires either kowtowing to the US or similar legislation, even if there is an extradition treaty.
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   by jojobas 1y ago

   A lot of crops actually yield better in partial shade and are grown in open fields as shading is more expensive than the yield penalty.
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   by jojobas 1y ago

   It's to do with complete lack of will to enforce. You can open a dodgy tobacconist shop, get shut down with a ridiculously low non-personal penalty, and open another one two doors down.
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   by jojobas 1y ago

   > Now imagine if you could get rid of all that legacy crap to make it work in the first place. Yeah, and someone will wake from the dead and rewrite all the programs that run the world, written 20-40 years ago, that are to a large degree
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   by jojobas 1y ago

   https://xkcd.com/915/
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   by jojobas 1y ago

   Apparently figuring out if a neuron fires or not involves quantum coin tossing.
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   by jojobas 1y ago

   It's thought that life on Earth started with RNA mayhem, not with vessels to isolate from it.
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   by jojobas 1y ago

   Yeah it's hard to compete with Ublock Origin and youtube-shorts-block.
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    by jojobas 1y ago

    I was wondering why I don't see such a for a second.
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    by jojobas 1y ago

    Eeepc was was a hit. Its successors still make excellent cheap long-life laptops, if not as performant as Apple.
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    by jojobas 1y ago

    The only true solution is to vote with your wallet.
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    by jojobas 1y ago

    If I told you some John Smith had brutally killed a cat I bet you'd be a bit mad, even thought you'd never heard of him before.
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    by jojobas 1y ago

    >false advertising I think you mean "securities fraud", at gargantuan scale at that. Theranos and Nikola were nowhere near that scale.
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    by jojobas 1y ago

    Then there's the whole mindfuck of fractional order Fourier (and other) transforms.
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    by jojobas 1y ago

    1) Nikola didn't kill anyone 2) Tesla's fraud eclipses Nikola's few billion amateur hour.
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    by jojobas 1y ago

    It was also notoriously politics-free, until something happened.
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    by jojobas 1y ago

    Of all things, rejecting cash because it's a social construct is a bit unexpected.
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    by jojobas 1y ago

    Amazon retail runs on ridiculously low margins compared to AWS. Revenue-wise retail dwarfs AWS, profit-wise it's vice-versa.
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    by jojobas 1y ago

    So far Starships can't even go to orbit. It's very likely they'll never see anywhere near the Moon.
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    by jojobas 1y ago

    [flagged]
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    by jojobas 1y ago

    Surely this company was 80%+ software.
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    by jojobas 1y ago

    VCs are happy to send a vast majority of their investments in search for billion-dollar company. There is no chance to get an agricultural startup to billion dollar valuation, agricultural innovations don't scale at a click of a button
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    by jojobas 1y ago

    Antibiotic resistance costs bacteria dearly. The proteins they lose (typically related to cell membrane building) are honed by millions of years of evolution. The resistance mutations end up being inferior, slowing down growth and perhaps o
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    by jojobas 1y ago

    I don't think Google can be blamed for this - their own phones are one of the last which can still be unlocked.
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    by jojobas 1y ago

    There are only so many ways to code quite a few things. My classmate and I once got in trouble in high school for having identical code for one of the tasks at a coding competition, down to variable names and indentation. There is no way he
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    by jojobas 1y ago

    At the very least intermediate points of one's reasoning are grounded in reality.
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    by jojobas 1y ago

    Nearly everyone deals with roads every single day. Very few people disassemble electric devices per day. The risk base is not comparable. Also https://xkcd.com/795/
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    by jojobas 1y ago

    I rather meant statements like "I did X and I didn't die" are open to survivorship bias, than asserting many must have died from this particular cause. I believe bleeder resistors are written in blood though, I vaguely rememb
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    by jojobas 1y ago

    >Fully understandable by one person >Raspberry Pi RP2350 Main SoC Yeah right.