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by lbwtaylor 4y ago
Even after everything I've seen before I still find Musk's casual cruelty shocking. Halli didn't say he was a good employee deserving of staying, he just asked if he was fired and politely answered Musk's questions. For
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>A huge portion of the Canadian population is concentrated in a few small areas. Retail does not need to be evenly distributed over square area. Those clusters also happen to be very far apart, and compared to the US, not actually large
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I don't think it's regulation, I think it's just a very hard market. Canadians have something like 20% less purchasing power than Americans, and I think a lot of entrants don't really appreciate that. Plus the country i
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by lbwtaylor 4y ago
Why would I want google controlling how I interact with my software? Maybe it doesn't seem like it, but it's an honest question. I don't find the browser first approach attractive at all.
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by lbwtaylor 4y ago
After my old color laser became unrepairable, I bought an Epson 5150 - the ink tank models that are cheaper to operate than laser. I'm very very happy with it. As of now, a few months in, I would never go back to color laser. Simpler m
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by lbwtaylor 4y ago
When there is a lot of money moving around, it seems inevitable that power structures will form around it.
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>> There are a lot of hard lessons behind requiring mandatory investigation of credible claims. >Worth keeping in mind that companies are always primarily trying to cover their backs and these policies often reflect that. Your comm
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by lbwtaylor 4y ago
The article links to this EA community post on 'interpersonal harm' in the community, which I found interesting. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/NbkxLDECvdGuB95gW/... One item caught my eye:
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by lbwtaylor 4y ago
So if I leave my front door unlocked, I should go to jail when someone steals from me? What nonsense.
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This being the top comment is the most hacker news thing ever. Yes, the solution is people, presumably men, telling women to have children, because they just don't know better! And downvotes for anyobe questioning that this is feminism
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by lbwtaylor 4y ago
Where is the forbearance in an execution?
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>> In reality if it wasn't a Tesla it would have been an ICE car in a similar market segment such as a BMW 3 Series. I see this comparison proposed very often. But I don't think it's fair -- a model 3 is expensive but i
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by lbwtaylor 4y ago
> but in my experience, getting a negative review removed from a completed Airbnb transaction requires both parties to consent. This is not accurate. AirBnB has a requirement that reviews be relevant, and they liberally apply this to rem
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by lbwtaylor 4y ago
>law firm named Gibson Dunn (who have been at the center of many controversies) Gibson is one of the most respect law firms in the United States. It is certainly possible that they took some sort of nefarious action, but I find that unli
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by lbwtaylor 4y ago
Until 'they' got pulled into duty, English didn't have a non gendered pronoun, so if you were referring to someone where you didn't know the gender, you had a choice of defaulting to "he", randomly choosing &qu
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by lbwtaylor 4y ago
20 years ago, using they in this way would have really tweaked my ears, but I find myself using it in this way and hearing it in this way more and more, and I think it won't be long before we've forgotten how odd it used to feel.
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by lbwtaylor 4y ago
Hard agree on that. It's interesting, the journalist terms those who purchased eggs as "investors" and that may be fair, but it seems what they did was buy "eggs" to be used as part of a play to earn game that was u
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by lbwtaylor 4y ago
Steam Deck is a premium handheld - with Sony no longer in that market there was actually almost no competition as the Switch doesn't really serve it. Steam failed to get any traction with SteamOS as a desktop systems before Steam Deck,
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by lbwtaylor 4y ago
>>Would there even be any apps, developers, or users on iOS if they didn’t make this investment? Pricing power comes from market power. Apple has market power because they were first in the new generation of touchscreen phones. Some a
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by lbwtaylor 4y ago
> Nobody has to hawk their goods on iOS But this ignores their market position on mobile phones and the barriers to creating an open competing mobile phone. It's like if there were two car companies and you could buy tires from them
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With the Apple and Android market power, this is not really realistic. Ubisoft could just create an app to avoid Steam. It's not possible to do that in the mobile space.
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by lbwtaylor 4y ago
> If the current percentage isn’t fair, what is? Whatever Apple can negotiate with Epic after Apple is forced to allow Fortnite to bypass the app store and the 30% cut. I don't know what number that is, but it's not 30% for Epi
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by lbwtaylor 4y ago
> infrastructure that helped make him a billionaire This is simply not true. First because Fortnite was a desktop first game. But philosophically, I really struggle with the idea that just because something sits on the app store then App
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by lbwtaylor 4y ago
Sleep exists because people want it, it's convenient -- they just expect it to work correctly.
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by lbwtaylor 4y ago
Seems like recent history disagrees with that sentiment - it seems the last months have shown that a lot of crypto has been in fact scams and grifters, and those warning of that were not out of touch.
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It just works. It blocks almost all ads. It has a simple button to turn ad blocking off when I need to use websites that don't work with ad blockers. I don't need to fiddle with an extension. I can use it on android without effort
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by lbwtaylor 4y ago
> I think that they’ll dominate as commuter cars in large cities where driving is infrequent. And this is turn will lead to expanding their charging network, and then Tesla is in real trouble. It seems inevitable at this point, but we&#x
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by lbwtaylor 4y ago
In addition to graphics libraries, a lot of anti-cheat is still windows only. Many gamers hate anti-cheat, but by popularity many top games require it.
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I think the large majority of gamers are GPU bound these days, and I'm suspicious that there's much you can tweak in the OS that improves GPU performance. Maybe I'm wrong and improving system latency helps. I feel like GPU fr
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by lbwtaylor 4y ago
> $5 wrench attack, here's my real password: take the 50 millions. Oops. Decoy. I don't understand how this defeats the wrench attack. Presumably you aren't released until the actual tokens are in hand, so decoys just make

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