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by jonas21 4y ago
So it operated for a year and a half, and now it's a $50 piece of space junk?
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by jonas21 4y ago
In addition, while suicide nets might sound silly, they actually do reduce the suicide rate. They're being installed on bridges all over the US for exactly that reason. For example: https://www.goldengate.org/district&#
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by jonas21 4y ago
This isn't going to happen by recruiting people to work for government labs. It'll happen by contracting the work out to companies that are already doing top AI research (many of which also work in adtech) and through grand challe
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by jonas21 4y ago
Perhaps a closer analogy would be that the new boss rolled in and threw away 80% of the fire extinguishers. Whether that will spell disaster when there's a fire depends on whether the building had too many fire extinguishers to begin w
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by jonas21 4y ago
The article seems to be confusing relative share of the physical media market with absolute sales. Its claim that "DVD sales skyrocket in the last year" is simply not true. Both DVD and Blu-ray sales have been declining every year
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by jonas21 4y ago
Some well-known devs like Guido van Rossum and Andrej Karpathy are big fans as well [1]. [1] https://youtu.be/cdiD-9MMpb0?t=8723
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by jonas21 4y ago
It seems like this would produce the same outcome as Ticketmaster's dynamic pricing. According to this article, fans hate it [1]. [1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gx34/blink-182-tickets-are...
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by jonas21 4y ago
In some places (like California), it's illegal to use a calculated average speed to issue tickets, regardless of whether it's done by a person or with cameras. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_di
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by jonas21 4y ago
Despite these issues, and despite and the hack, creditors are still set to make at least a 4x return (in USD) based on appreciation of the bitcoin that wasn't stolen. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles&#x2
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by jonas21 4y ago
High voltage power lines have losses of 0.5% to 1% per 100 miles. Beaming power from space microwaves would have a total loss of 40-60%. And that doesn't include the cost (both money and carbon) of launching all the collection and tran
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by jonas21 4y ago
This isn't anti-user behavior. It's anti-asshole behavior. There are plenty of plans designed for tethering if you care to purchase them. Tethering on a plan that doesn't allow it is like showing up at an all-you-can-eat buff
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by jonas21 4y ago
Also "<b>: The Bring Attention To element" https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/b
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by jonas21 4y ago
> Just walk away, call it a day and enjoy your life. Presumably, they're already doing the thing they enjoy most in life. Cashing out and lying around on a beach or whatever would be extremely disappointing.
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by jonas21 4y ago
It's interesting that you have identified exactly the same shortcomings that mobile had when the first commercial mobile phones came to market in the 80s: - size - weight - battery life - heat - network reliability - cost These were al
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by jonas21 4y ago
For those not up to date on crypto people, SBF is Sam Bankman-Fried [1] and CZ is Changpeng Zhao [2]. I don't know why they insist on being called by their initials like they're some sort of ticker symbol. [1] https://e
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by jonas21 4y ago
Just out of curiosity, how far did you have to walk to fetch water, what was the source, how much did you carry back at a time, and how often did you do this? Sorry for so many questions, but I always think of the U.S. as such a developed c
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by jonas21 4y ago
I don't know what western country you live in, but I'm guessing you have a very different definition of poverty than the article is using. The UN has a list of criteria such as: - Lacking access to electricity - Lacking access to
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by jonas21 4y ago
Joel Splosky wrote a great article on software pricing and price discrimination a while back (gosh, was it really 18 years ago? I feel so old now): https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-.
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by jonas21 4y ago
The last few months are the height of COVID in China.
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by jonas21 4y ago
Uh... so both of you created accounts ending in "1480" just now, just to post these comments? What gives?
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by jonas21 4y ago
I was responding to the parent's statement that " restrictions on confidential information only apply to government classification of information. Private classification isn’t a 'real' thing, it’s just a breach of a priv
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by jonas21 4y ago
I am also not a lawyer, but it seems like there is a large gray area when it comes to theft of trade secrets. For example, Anthony Levandowski was sentenced to 18 months in prison for copying a confidential spreadsheet containing Waymo stat
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by jonas21 4y ago
Gmail's autocomplete already works great for this, and it will only get better over time. The key is to have a human in the loop to decide whether to accept/edit on a phrase by phrase or sentence by sentence basis.
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by jonas21 4y ago
It may be true that only a very small percentage of Twitter users are actually creators and influencers. But a far larger number of people think they are or aspire to be influencers, and they're going to want the badge too.
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by jonas21 4y ago
Google does not allow trademark infringement in ads [1] and provides tools for trademark owners to prevent their trademarks from being used improperly. The issue here seems to be that the Gimp team does not have a registered trademark for &
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by jonas21 4y ago
That's certainly possible. But which of the following would you think is most likely to succeed? (a) a company trying to build electric cars at a time when there was zero consumer demand for them and the battery technology was nowhere
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by jonas21 4y ago
Source: Elon Musk https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586073042534297601
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by jonas21 4y ago
The Facebook (Meta) stock price was on the front page yesterday [1]. But it was probably flagged by users after a while because, well, is it really that interesting of a topic? https://web.archive.org/web/2022102714195
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by jonas21 4y ago
This points to what an anomaly 2021 was. Alphabet was seeing around 15% YoY revenue growth prior to 2021. Then 2021 hit and the growth rate jumped to 41%. Now with the 6% YoY growth this year, it's evening out to ~22% annualized growth
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by jonas21 4y ago
USB-Mini and Micro were both obsolete within 20 years.

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