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by joosters 5y ago
What I find really disheartening is that these games are attracting such huge valuations simply because of the condition of their boxes! They aren't rare editions, or exclusive, pre-release code. The money has nothing to do with the ga
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by joosters 5y ago
Owning GOOG still gives you a real 'share' in the company, i.e. if the company was wound up and all its assets sold off, you would get paid in proportion to the amount of GOOG you owned. Whereas you would get no such thing with th
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by joosters 5y ago
I'd recommend starting with some of his collections of short stories, like 'The Simple Art of Murder' - https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20140930 or 'Trouble is My Business' - https:&#x2F
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by joosters 5y ago
But so what? The fact that it is (or was) open source means that anyone can still take and re-use the code, regardless of whether it gets re-licensed in the future. The re-licensing prevents nothing.
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by joosters 5y ago
yet we're here to discuss how many gladiator and lions were killed two thousands years ago Actually, it appears that you are here solely to bring the US into the discussion with every one of your comments. Maybe give it a rest?
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by joosters 5y ago
Those are certainly issues, but note that they have nothing to do with the alleged main point of the article, in that they make it unusable for open source projects. Quite the opposite, they are unrelated to the licensing at all. I think it
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by joosters 5y ago
In summary, the documentation tool is no good for open-source projects because it doesn't work with a non open-source website?
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by joosters 5y ago
To the banks, it's a debt and hence a liability. If you put money in your bank account, then the banks owe you money.
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by joosters 5y ago
Maybe it's not as simple as you think? These countries generally chose to use USD, do you really believe that they all just made a stupid decision with no upsides?
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by joosters 5y ago
... any performance measurements from before this transition aren't compatible with those after it, since I'm building different things with a different toolchain. Yes, but this would have been true even if there had been no rust
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by joosters 5y ago
Auto-deleting cookies means that you don’t need a filter list to block bad sites, every site will be wiped. There’s no chance that a missed site will sneak through. The downside is that you will need to whitelist every site that you want
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by joosters 5y ago
'Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.' I see that the Firefox UI designers agree that it's like fashion design...
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by joosters 5y ago
The GDP graphs that are used to show faster growth after WW2 actually contradict their theory. The graphs show the previous big dips for WW1, yet while GDP rapidly shot up after that war ended, it soon reverted to the original trend line. S
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by joosters 5y ago
How accurate is the counting? For examples like the case study, I presume your customers will want very close to 100% accuracy, but many other use cases will only need rough numbers. How do you calibrate / verify your app?
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by joosters 5y ago
There's a 'raw diamonds' counting template listed on https://countthings.com/en/counting-templates The categorization is an interesting question - those templates all seem to be of similar items.
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by joosters 5y ago
You missed an important part of the article: ...this app not only helps Eiko Pearl to cut 80% of the time needed for counting pearls, but it also helps them reduce 3 months of labor cost. 3 months, not 80 hours.
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by joosters 5y ago
Some of those counting templates are very niche, which makes it intriguing to think of who is using them. For instance, there is a 'Movie Tickets' counter, but it's not counting paper tickets. Instead, the example photo looks
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by joosters 5y ago
Don‘t base your opinion on DOGE. There are plenty of cryptocureencies with actual use cases that provide value. It's entertaining to see how crypto pushers all hate dogecoin because it's a 'joke', yet the only real dif
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by joosters 5y ago
Value is created by the company making profits. How it uses those profits, whether by paying out dividends, buying back stock, or investing in the business, is mostly irrelevant to the value creation part.
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by joosters 5y ago
Of course it is, particularly if (as is likely), the unemployment benefits aren't enough to get by on. Having all the free time in the world is no use if you still can't afford to eat or put a roof over your family.
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by joosters 5y ago
All razorblades are unsafe, we still make razorblades. You've seriously never heard of the term 'safety razor'? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_razor Now, they're still not things that you wo
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by joosters 5y ago
gym equipment should not be shared in household rooms with children or pets. That sounds completely impractical - good luck keeping a child out of a room. Perhaps the devices should be safer, rather than passing the buck from the company
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by joosters 5y ago
It's not just a 'wisdom of the crowds' thing where you are using people's betting in aggregate. The odds also reflect private information that other in-the-know people may also have. The problem with pool betting (like i
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by joosters 5y ago
The key insight is the books are trying to balance winners/losers to maximize their profit, that’s why the line moves. In two-way markets (e.g. a tennis match) maybe. With more outcomes, it's a rare market that ends up with the
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by joosters 5y ago
the architect of a flurry of dazzling heists and blockbuster robberies Fuck off with your glamorizing of crime. He took part in armed robberies which lead to someone being killed. Scum.
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by joosters 5y ago
But is that a cause or an effect?
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by joosters 5y ago
"It's harder to find people to do that work every single year" Translation: The wages we pay are crap and we're not going to pay them more.
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by joosters 5y ago
upon request we are also willing to license our intellectual property for COVID-19 vaccines to others How is that different from what they would be doing normally? Companies generally like to license their IP, it brings in lots of cash fo
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by joosters 5y ago
I suppose you could store negative timestamps to represent boolean false values, but that will inevitably lead to bugs where a piece of code mistakenly compares a negative timestamp with zero.
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by joosters 5y ago
Perl got this right decades ago with its 'undefined' status for unset variables, so you can tell the difference between false and undef

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