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by kmlx 3y ago
a consequence of having the first subway in the world i think.
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by kmlx 3y ago
> UK's economic and political disaster. i really don’t understand where this myth is coming from. do people seriously think the UK is an “economic disaster”? https://data.worldbank.org/?locations=DE-GB-FR and here a
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by kmlx 3y ago
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/look-out-on-the-central... coming soon
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by kmlx 3y ago
“many” hours? here’s an example of a simple job in London: tile removal, replace a small pipe, put the tile back in. 2 people, 2 hours, ~£250
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by kmlx 3y ago
> Apple only has dominant marketshare in the US. Japan: 65.88% Denmark: 64.04% Norway: 61.94% Canada: 57.84% Australia: 57.47% United States: 56.74% Switzerland: 55.92% Sweden: 55.33% United Kingdom: 51.63% Taiwan: 51.32% from: https:&#
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by kmlx 3y ago
> How would a program running on Node 18 now not run in 10 years given the same lockfile on Node 18? funny enough i have a simple but old app created with “create react app” that doesn’t run on anything other than node 16 and below.
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by kmlx 3y ago
> Google is paying 21B because they expect to lose more than that if they stop. google is paying that much because otherwise microsoft would be paying close to that. there is no innovation in the search space, there is only a battle of c
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by kmlx 3y ago
> the traffic light says red, pedestrian light says green, and car is allowed to turn turn right, yes. > If so, this is an obvious recipe for disaster. i've driven quite a bit in the US (not from around there), but from what i&#x
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by kmlx 3y ago
they reported strong earnings yesterday: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cloudflare-inc-nyse-net-q3-14...
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by kmlx 3y ago
here’s the PR video on how they made that happen: https://youtu.be/V3dbG9pAi8I?si=XqzYSZVpegOFMDTN
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by kmlx 3y ago
i’ve had the 16gb ram macbook air for 3 years now and it’s still an incredible machine considering lightness, battery, and passive cooling.
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by kmlx 3y ago
the big gain is for long running queries. i had to refactor a big codebase and i went back to the same conversation numerous times over the course of a month. of course it would sometimes lose context, but having it all in the same place ma
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by kmlx 3y ago
because the differences between competitors are minute. as such the only real differentiator is how much they can afford to pay for being the default. if there was a huge breakthrough product it wouldn’t need to pay anything, people would j
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by kmlx 3y ago
> The only way they can significantly decrease "their" carbon emissions is by selling less of their product you don’t “sell less” unless there is less buying going on. https://www.statista.com/statistics/27
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by kmlx 3y ago
> That smaller but better product will have a much harder time growing if by default it is never exposed to the user. my opinion is that if the product is vastly superior it would gain market share no matter what (we have countless examp
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by kmlx 3y ago
oh, i understand what you mean. i never install anything other than original parts in my cars, and those have huge markups. i guess what the people in this thread are looking for are “OE” parts for smartphones?
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by kmlx 3y ago
i guess Apple? it's their device, and their parts. but anyway, re. price, it's the same issue for car parts, dishwasher parts etc etc
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by kmlx 3y ago
true, but japanese society values stability more than anything. as such, the value of increasing salary by job-hopping is dwarfed by the unpredictability it generates. but there are a lot of other negative effects. being stuck in a dead-end
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by kmlx 3y ago
> Add that to the Japanese working culture where tenure is merit, and staying in the same company is valued by employers in general. imo this is by far the biggest driver of “keeping talent”. japanese society and businesses don’t reward
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by kmlx 3y ago
which parts aren’t at a reasonable cost?
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by kmlx 3y ago
> It would also make its parts, tools, and repair documentation available to both non-affiliated repair shops and individual customers, "at fair and reasonable prices“. not sure if this is related, but it looks like a step in the ri
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by kmlx 3y ago
> But what do you know, I looked under the robe and wig of the law, and would you believe it was just a person! An ugly, naked, shameless person at that. you did what now?
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by kmlx 3y ago
i don't think they need to win that. they're focusing on tech, exporting that tech across the world, and it makes sense imo.
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by kmlx 3y ago
ah, it makes sense now. thank you!
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by kmlx 3y ago
you wrote: > This is not support of Hamas though, it is an acknowledgement that there will understandable reactions that guy wrote: > But in the coming Gaza genocide, every act of armed resistance by Hamas and Hezbollah will have my s
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by kmlx 3y ago
> He didn't say that anyone else should support a proscribed organisation; he didn't even invite support for their actions. He just said that he intended to support them. i think the problem here is the medium. he didn't s
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by kmlx 3y ago
when i was there guns were everywhere. guards at fancy houses with big guns, checkpoints near my hotel, police with guns on the street, etc coming from the UK where even the police doesn't have guns, it was weird, but expected. regardi
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by kmlx 3y ago
> That you want to swiftly send him to jail tells me totalitarianism is becoming fashionable again. where did i write that? he'll have a fair trial according to the law. he can then convince the judge he doesn't actually suppor
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by kmlx 3y ago
why do these sites all look like reddit?
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by kmlx 3y ago
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... > PROSCRIBED TERRORIST ORGANISATIONS > Proscription makes it a criminal offence to: > belong to or invite support for a proscribed organisat

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