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by mabbo 5y ago
I can tell you a more likely story than "big conspiracy on Amazon's part". Amazon has systems in place to say "We cannot ship from X to Y anymore", but they require manual intervention and maybe those tools don&#x27
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by mabbo 5y ago
I've often wondered if you could build a serious ocean-going autonomous ship around this size, powered by sails. It would be slow, no doubt, but the variable cost to transport containers would be incredibly low. No energy used, no crew
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by mabbo 5y ago
> I pay my money so that I dont have to worry My view on money it that the purpose of money is to solve problems. My goal is not to have more money, it's to have less problems. I live in a country where I do not ever have to think a
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by mabbo 5y ago
I think the difference between the allegoric neighbour/reader and employee/employer is that the employer is paying the employee. As a remote worker, I signed my contract knowing that I would need to have a functioning home office
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by mabbo 5y ago
This is the same in Canada. My wife is due to give birth in 3 months. The biggest bill we're concerned about is the parking lot. I think it's $20/day. And if the parking fee was too much, I've heard that one can go talk
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by mabbo 5y ago
Static typing is like an automatic test for a specific category of errors- type errors. That's why it's useful. Ruby's choice of making it optional means folks like yourself who want to move fast and break things are welcome
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by mabbo 5y ago
Before opening the link, I read the text and thought "This sounds like Feynman!" The man truly had a way of speaking that is instantly recognizable.
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by mabbo 5y ago
Hey, didn't see your reply until now but you're asking a very good question! Throughout my life, I pay a small additional tax called "EI"- employment insurance. Everyone does. There's a yearly maximum of around $900
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by mabbo 5y ago
Because that's a thing it can do. It's properties include self-interference. You are building your expectations of 'what a thing can do' based on the macro world you live in and the things you see and experience 'up
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by mabbo 5y ago
Many years ago, a friend (who is far smarter than I am) said something to me that made wave-particle duality click: "It's not that it's sometimes a particle and sometimes a wave. It's that very small things have a bunch
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by mabbo 5y ago
Any chance of you doing a write up somewhere of how you set this up, how it all works? This sounds fantastic. I'm 3 months out from becoming a parent. This stuff isn't a big deal yet, but in 3 years or so I'm going to need it
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by mabbo 5y ago
Sorry wait- is Edge seriously collecting usage data from it's users for advertising purposes? Shudder good God, we live in a terrible future.
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by mabbo 5y ago
I'm about a month behind you, but the difference is that I'm in Canada. I'll be taking 8 weeks, and most people are asking "is that all?". My wife and I get to split 69 weeks, of which neither of us can take more th
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by mabbo 5y ago
The government is not a company, and does not have an overall goal of maximizing profit. That's what makes it different. If the government is not meeting the demands of the people, we elect a different one (in theory).
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by mabbo 5y ago
Maybe it was never right that those stores were also doing that. There's also a matter of the level of dominance that the platform has. Something like half of e-commerce takes place on Amazon; most online ads are via Google; and Apple
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by mabbo 5y ago
As more data comes out about Google, Apple, Amazon, one simple underlying thing becomes clear: a single company cannot be trusted to operate a marketplace while also being a participant . Apple's App Store insider knowledge lets them
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by mabbo 5y ago
I suspect if you blindfolded him[0], spun him around until he was very dizzy, and then released him somewhere unfamiliar he wouldn't know which way was which. But as long as he had his bearings, he didn't lose them. He couldn&#x27
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by mabbo 5y ago
I had a classmate in University who was strongly visually impaired. That guy did not need help navigating. His sense of location and direction were incredible. Within a few weeks on campus, he could tell you- accurately- which direction any
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by mabbo 5y ago
> you need to wait for every second to digest the information in a voice call. That's highly person-dependent. Some kind of auditory processing disorder runs in my family, and I definitely have it. Under a lot of conditions, I need
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by mabbo 5y ago
Another person replied with the key question: multiple hours of organization and maintaining the system, or multiple hours of getting things done? I'm definitely not following Allen's methodology exactly. I'm doing what works
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by mabbo 5y ago
I don't see the 'no-code' movement as something new, just a new name on the same idea. Developers are expensive, so let's migrate this work to people who cost less, using tools that provide the same or similar value. Do
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by mabbo 5y ago
I recently read "Getting Things Done"[0] and began incorporating what I learned into my simple second brain. And the results are kind of ridiculously good for me. I built my whole system on a Google Sheet, but I'm experimenti
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by mabbo 5y ago
> This is very unlike the contracts that Lockheed Martin and Boeing work under for the Orion capsule and the SLS contract. Just in comparison, those system already at up almost 20 billion each, they have sometimes over 2 billion a year i
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by mabbo 5y ago
Thanks, that was very intersting!
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by mabbo 5y ago
The article mentions the new KAGRA detector in Japan joining the group. Does anyone know: how does the accuracy improve as more detectors come online? Will we see a day where we have 20, 50, 100 detectors around the globe and events are nea
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by mabbo 5y ago
I'm annoyed at the presumption that I, as a customer, was not aware or on-board with what 23andMe is doing. I did. I'm happy to be part of this. I don't care that someone is making money because of it. I'm just glad that
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by mabbo 5y ago
It's almost certainly impossible. With symmetric encryption, both the encryptor and decryptor need a copy of the same key- that's what makes it 'symmetric'. But with asymmetric encryption, the keys do not match. This mea
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by mabbo 5y ago
Huh, that's a neat idea. What if Zuck is this generation's George Lucas? For context, after the success of Star Wars and Indiana Jones, it's said that Lucas surrounded himself with yes-men who agreed with whatever he said. An
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by mabbo 5y ago
I feel like Wikipedia could take some small steps to make amends to Mr White. Now that all of this has happened, it feels like he is now a minor pubic figure worthy of his own wiki page. Something like "Nathaniel White (not serial kill
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by mabbo 5y ago
Then don't tell them the source. Just "Hey, I've got 100,000 full names of living people with valid social security numbers, what will you pay me for them?". I have no idea what the market for those are, but I can imagin

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