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by jp57 3y ago
It was only when it decided to become a media giant early/mid 2010s (and ironically people started to like it less and less) that it started hoovering up cheap investor money. Yes. This is the LIRP part.
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by jp57 3y ago
People still don't realize how many things from the last fifteen years were LIRPs. Low interest rate phenomena doomed the moment investors can get a halfway-decent yield from fixed-income investments.
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by jp57 3y ago
I think this is a good context to remind people that there isn't One True Way™ when it comes to our bodies, metabolisms, brains, etc. I quite believe that for many people using a lot of caffeine increases their anxiety and reduces thei
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by jp57 3y ago
The whole article reads like sponsored content. Full of unsupported assertions, from the assertion that everyone thinks McD’s coke tastes better to the assertion that stainless tanks make a difference, to the assertion that their water fil
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by jp57 3y ago
This is like saying that the continued existence of Burmese pythons in the Everglades implies that the small mammals (and other python prey) are definitely doing fine and their numbers are just as high as always, of course, because otherwis
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by jp57 3y ago
The obvious answer is centipedes. If you are going to have to tolerate any kind of bug in your house, Scutigera Coleoptrata, the common house centipede, is the one to have. These creepy, long-legged brown centipedes were familiar to everyo
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by jp57 3y ago
When people say “the probability doubles” they really mean that the odds double, right? If my probability of dying is .6, it can’t double to 1.2. However if my odds of dying are 3:2, they can double to 6:2 or 3:1 or P=0.75. The odds can
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by jp57 3y ago
I like the idea of a hybrid of client-side software that optionally uses third-party cloud storage for cross-device sync. NetNewsWire, ByWord (markdown editor), and Scrivener are some examples. Older versions of 1Password also had this,
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by jp57 3y ago
I'm not sure that all the examples in the article really demonstrate the same thing. Debugging is not the same thing as knowing the rules for how to use commas. Students who are behind on basic punctuation and grammar can be put in r
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by jp57 3y ago
The plastic waste is heated in a boiler to about 700 degrees Celsius, after which it evaporates. The gas is then cooled down and turns into a diesel-like liquid one hour later. A kind of pyrolysis, I assume, and very energy intensive. Doe
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by jp57 3y ago
For containers headed to the US east coast from the Pacific, is there any advantage of using this route and incurring two extra mode switches (sea->rail->sea), over going to a US west coast port and just incurring one (and possibly ze
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by jp57 3y ago
If the probability of the camera being damaged, destroyed, vandalized, or stolen in any given day is one in a million, then this thing only has a 70% chance of surviving a thousand years. (And I think that's high...)
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by jp57 3y ago
The estrangement he observes aren't that surprising, in either direction. Many universities have both Math and Applied Math departments. Why have both unless the mathematicians in the Math department don't want to work on applic
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by jp57 3y ago
There are plenty of flat-rate customer billing models that would support paying artists a fixed price per stream. If the argument is that it would be "too expensive" -- i.e. it would end up paying the artists "too much"
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by jp57 3y ago
Thoughts on pros and cons vs NetNewsWire?
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by jp57 3y ago
Yeah. I said “a constant amount to the artist for every stream.” So yes. Per stream.
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by jp57 3y ago
Why assume that you have to charge every user the same amount and then divide up the income fractionally based on usage? An (arguably simpler) alternative is you begin by paying a fixed constant amount to the artist for every stream, then
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by jp57 3y ago
Browser fingerprinting and/or bot detection (ie. unreasonably small windows.)
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by jp57 3y ago
I'd like to see a client with a set of features to enable manual feed curation. I think it's possible with maybe just two missing features: 1. Mark as read: the ability to mark posts, threads, or followed users as read. Your fe
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by jp57 3y ago
I assume that limit accounts for the time dilation, too. At the speed the particle was traveling it wouldn't have had much time in its reference frame to interact with the background radiation, even blue-shifted as it would be, right?
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by jp57 3y ago
Did anyone even look at the graph at the beginning of the article? Quits today are at the same level as just before covid and higher than at any point between 2001 and 2018? WTF are they even talking about?
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by jp57 3y ago
> if my card was already accepted once and I successfully approved the payment via 3D secure with my bank, who are you (as a random online service) to assume you can act as my big brother? Even more, if I'm using a balance paid by g
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by jp57 3y ago
What about SAG-AFTRA and WGA? These seem like sectoral unions. Actors and writers move between projects owned by different companies but continue to be protected by the same union.
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by jp57 3y ago
This article could just as easily be "why you should not try to be a rock star", or "why you should not try to be a college professor". Both are non-ergodic pursuits where the chance of success is low and the expected f
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by jp57 3y ago
If you're only interested in having users who are attracted to the gardening metaphor, it seems like a neat concept, I guess. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that's not a big group of people and it will be hard to build the netw
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by jp57 3y ago
I think it's cute that he thinks someone could build and maintain well all the things he wants for less than 5% in commission and also not pass along processing fees, on what he admits is a micropayment processor. That said, I don&#x27
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by jp57 3y ago
That guy seems lonely out there past Neptune. Where is everyone?
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by jp57 3y ago
Leaving aside whether this problem is a good application of this compression trick, I want to say that everyone experimenting with this should stop using `gzip` and start using `zlib`. If you change the first line from `gzip.compress` to `z
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by jp57 3y ago
Why not both?
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by jp57 3y ago
The "Sign-up with Google" button at the end is the punch line.

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