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by logifail 4y ago
> there’s nothing the US wants less than borders starting to be changed by wars I think it's a major mistake to talk about any country as if it's one homogenous, unanimous entity. There are those in the US, and elsewhere, who
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by logifail 4y ago
> A second hand actual bicycle Umm, I don't think the average consumer of bicycle shaped objects agrees. They can pick up a shiny bicycle shaped object in any nearby sports shop or large supermarket. Even assuming they find a se
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by logifail 4y ago
> Bicycle shaped objects should just be banned Given a cheap bicycle [shaped object], or no bicycle at all, which would one want poorer consumers to opt for?
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by logifail 4y ago
> find Fahrzeug and Flugzeug just as intuitive There is a certain logic to German. How about: Wheel -> das Rad Wheels -> die Räder Bicycle -> das Fahrrad Bicycles -> die Fahrräder Cyclist -> der Radfahrer / die Radfa
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by logifail 4y ago
> a used one is cheaper, and factoring in support duration, may be cheaper yet Q: For all those hundreds of millions of people who have paid less than $150 for their phone, how many of them even gave a second thought to the support dura
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by logifail 4y ago
> The positive (and there's plenty of criticism; search and read) point being made about iphone is that it has a longer support duration Yup, and the OTA updates with Tesla are also better than you'd get on a car that's 1&
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by logifail 4y ago
> Do you think productivity would increase? How are we planning on measuring productivity of our hypothetical worker, and what kind of job does she do? If she's stacking supermarket shelves, or picking and packing in a warehouse, or
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by logifail 4y ago
> waking up 3 hours before everybody else is the smartest thing you can do because you get an extra 3 hours on everybody else Perhaps it's not "extra" hours, it's time you can use productively vs time you can't.
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by logifail 4y ago
I'm still not really seeing how the 4-day-week, at 5 days pay, is delivering the (almost magical) 20%+ productivity boost that its proponents seem to claim it does. I'm sure almost all people feel better when given the option
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by logifail 4y ago
> it's more a question of time So, given we're talking about employers offering flexibility, how about allowing people to take a longer lunch break so they can go for lunch with their OH, but either start their day earlier or s
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by logifail 4y ago
> I love that I [..] can (shock!) go out to lunch with my wife during the week while the kids are at school (Genuine question) but why wouldn't someone be able to have lunch with their OH while working a traditional 5-day week? Su
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by logifail 4y ago
> These are all optional - you don't have to pay them if you don't use those services. They wouldn't be affected by this bill I was responding to the comment about what the airlines' base price includes - at least her
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by logifail 4y ago
> this ease of price comparison has resulted in unbundling of services in a number of industries - e.g. airlines where the base price is akin to "we let you hang on to the wing" <cough> I'm literally just booking a t
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by logifail 4y ago
> Companies don't need special tax exemptions to write off losses There are places where selling certain product types below cost isn't OK, Wal-Mart got into trouble for this in Germany: https://www.latimes.com/
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by logifail 4y ago
> I've encountered lots of people who seem to have extra trust for DigitalOcean because of their (admittedly good) content and while they might not have directly "converted" from a specific article, it has hugely helped DO
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by logifail 4y ago
> So they can't [..] Umm, having seen what happened over the last three years, and (looking further back) what happened after 9/11, my working hypothesis is that if our elected representatives are placed under enough pressure,
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by logifail 4y ago
> laws cannot apply retroactively In some jurisdictions they certainly can. Even in places which apparently don't allow this, remember we've all got recent experience of how rapidly existing rules and frameworks can be change
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by logifail 4y ago
> OpenAI has created actual products which have some value Value? One headline from last summer was "OpenAI announces pricing for DALL-E 2: AI images are almost free"[0]. [0] https://the-decoder.com/openai-ann
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by logifail 4y ago
> As an example, Whisper can and should be used in automated phone systems. Understanding what customers are saying will absolutely make the product better Ever since early voice prompt automated phone systems, we've had data that c
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by logifail 4y ago
> Every CEO and CIO worth their salary must be looking at how to incorporate this stuff into their business Those of us old enough to remember recall exactly that phrase said about other stuff, too. > And we can say that with a straig
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by logifail 4y ago
> why is there no meaningful alternative to openai now Alternative to do what, exactly? Were people asking each other "why is there no meaningful alternative to tulip bulbs?" early in the year 1637...?? Can't help thinki
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by logifail 4y ago
> Why would you need extra car insurance? Is your car insurance not valid for all of Europe? Check the wording of your car insurance policy. I doubt regular car insurance covers moving abroad without telling them. Oh, and the vehicl
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by logifail 4y ago
> In practice EU people would be free to lie about when they arrived [..] That's fine, until it isn't. > You don't even need a passport, your ID card is sufficient for travelling inside the EU I've slightly lost tr
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by logifail 4y ago
I think it's more abstract, it's the freedom of movement for work. Despite what some may think, students do work. At least some of the time :) > homeless people Not wishing to sound negative, but when the Treaty of Rome was si
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by logifail 4y ago
> That's academic Are you suggesting that EU citizens are allowed to stay for more than 3 months in Portugal without a residency certificate? > In fact no-one tracks who's in the country and how long they stay This is typica
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by logifail 4y ago
> Portugal is a small country of 10 million with another 450 million people entitled to move there freely without visas For a stay of up to three months[0], yes. Remember that when people talk about freedom of movement within the EU it&#
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by logifail 4y ago
> Generally speaking, you don’t become a tax resident of a country unless you live there for 183 days in a given tax year 183 days may indeed be sufficient to automatically qualify you for tax residency, but there are other tests, if you
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by logifail 4y ago
> This is all fairly normal for large scale manufacturing in my experience Indeed. So why does the original article claim that the "problem" is due to differing attitudes of Indian vs Chinese suppliers? EDIT: Wouldn't the
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by logifail 4y ago
> This 50 per cent “yield” fares badly compared with Apple’s goal for zero defects Q1: Is Apple QCing everything before shipping to assembly? Q2: Surely quality issues should be the supplier's problem, not [just] Apple's, and
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by logifail 4y ago
> If you use absolute rates of growth I'm not sure what an "absolute rate" (of growth) is, can you explain? Aren't growth rates usually (always?) expressed as a percentage change of a variable over time? How could

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