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by logifail 3y ago
> Twitter reported in their financial statements that less than 5% of their monetizable daily active users were spam or fake accounts If a human signs up for an account, and uses it occasionally, but there's ongoing automated scrapi
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> Pre-Elon the bot count was something like 5% of active users Is there a reliable source for that figure? Also, are we talking about 5% of accounts (active accounts/total accounts?) or 5% of pageviews or some other metric? I&#x27
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> if Twitter CTR is low, then you need a _lot_ of unique users to actually generate conversions You don't want to on a platform that has loads of unique "users" and impressions if most of those users are bots, though. Perh
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> Add a supplemental registration tax to EVs and hybrids to make up the cost of consuming less fuel Q: How much fuel duty and tax does the average ICE vehicle (or rather, its driver) contribute? I did some back-of-napkin math and came up
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> Gas taxes make up a relatively small part of the cost of gas Over in the EU it seems that taxes and duties represent at least half of the cost of petrol, more in some member states https://www.statista.com/statistics&#x
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> forever chemicals Sorry, but that phrase really annoys me.[0] What does it actually mean? [0] full disclosure: PhD in organic chemistry
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> without worrying about whether your startup will have to migrate once it scales ... except "once it scales", you realise that you're paying through the nose for cloud services "because growth", so you end up lo
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> There's no reasoning about why you should have all the benefits and none of the liabilities from your parents, other than spurious associations with other things you don't like There are plenty of children who have (great-)(g
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> There are only 2 plants operational right now. Once there are 1000 or something I think we should refresh ourselves on the timeline[0] of Flamanville 3, although this should probably come with a trigger warning. First concrete was
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> "based on particular conditions at the construction site or other local circumstances" [..] happening precisely because the US does not have much expertise in this area that leads to exorbitant costs Umm, the sites are the s
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> If the EU were smart they would fund a nuclear company where all countries can bundle their resources and expertise A bit like the EPR design?[0] Unfortunately it's not really the poster-child for efficiency. [0] https:/&#x
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> the single driving cost issue is the lack of industry of scale Except for the 2020 MIT study[0] which showed that "contrary to expectations, building subsequent plants based on an existing design actually costs more, not less, tha
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> EU countries with like—the horror!—two or three different nationwide VAT rates for different classes of products require receipts to detail the rate and amount used for each line item specifically (Assuming it's a physical store f
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> Do you really need to travel to China to get an appreciation for Chinese food? That’s kinda the point the author makes. "when I was in Abu Dhabi, I went on a guided tour of a falcon hospital. I took a photo with a falcon on my arm
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> in the real world there are always multiple conflicting rules that apply I think it might be worse than that, there are sometimes rules which aren't actually rules which can still (sometimes!) override rules which are.
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> amusement park ride I would wager that safety is better - not least because standards are tougher - on almost every amusement ride around.
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> their usual mandate is "launch yesterday or die". Which is okay for a SaaS platform or grocery delivery app, but not a deep sea vessel Hypothetical users of the SaaS platform or grocery delivery app who find out later that th
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> Roll those out to every light post near apartment buildings and throw in some curb-side stalls if you need more capacity Don't forget your local electrical grid will likely need a significant upgrade too. An LED streetlamp proba
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> Most EVs charge at home most of the time Umm, there's a significant chunk of the world's population who will likely never be able to charge at home, because they live in apartments and park on-street. "EV owners who li
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> this and the USB-C issue strike me as misguided, policies from people who aren't qualified to to make the decisions they are making, and aren't listening to experts Experts? <chuckle> In Brussels - just as in Washi
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> Aggregate death numbers spiked If you're claiming that, for instance, those aged under 40 without any comorbidities were at significantly higher risk of dying due to the impact of Covid-19 I think it would be good to post a refere
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> Covid very rarely results in severe symptoms for middle aged adults Correct, but I don't recall this being the narrative the media were following in 2020, despite stuff like this: "After nearly 45,000 Covid deaths in England
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> So it's a dangerous game Of course the managers/executives making/approving decisions like this know it's a dangerous game, but it's not dangerous for them because they know IBGYBG[0] They have no "skin
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> In general [..] ...but apparently not always. Not something I'd want to bet my business or reputation on. "AUSTRIA’s Federal Administrative Court [..] declared a framework contract from Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) to Sta
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> being resistant to attack by bad actors The recorders already to work really well for the purpose they're designed for. The "bad actor in cockpit" plus "unexplained disappearance" scenario, for which they'
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> we simply shouldn't be losing large aircraft and having no idea what happened Maybe it doesn't nearly happen often enough to make this any kind of a priority?
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> Physical access can generally circumvent any security precautions, but it seems like there are some fairly simple schemes that would work well to prevent a disturbed captain I can't be the only one thinking that in the situation w
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How many hours of English per week do German primary schools actually teach? I know for sure that thanks to federalism it varies hugely across Germany.
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> So you don't like autosuggest either? I could write out the rest of my search, or just type less I'd like to think that we should all want to formulate our questions well. Having someone(something) complete our questions is l
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> Marxists (the KPOe) recently won two major city council elections, first in Graz, then in Salzburg In the regional (state) elections in Salzburg in April 2023 the results look quite different: ÖVP (centre right) 30.4% FPÖ (furt

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