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by maeil 2y ago
This kind of research should be forced to include the cultural background of the suveyed audience, as many conclusions could easily be turned upside down if the same research is conducted in a different part of the world.
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> What modern corporate employee wouldn't (haven't?) sleepwalk into perpetuating horrors on innocent people and then really and truly believe it when they say "I was just doing my job Plenty? All whistleblowers, and the ma
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It's astonishing to see how Toyota completely threw away their big knowledge lead in EVs and now Hyundai has become the global leader in mainstream non-Chinese consumer EVs. Even if their solid-state plans turn out to be true it could
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And if the EV is heavier than their previous car (generally very likely anywhere other than maybe the US), will increase the biggest single source of microplastics (which also is proving to have significant climate effects) in tire dust.
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How is this enforced? Purely IP-based? Sounds like we now need a VPN when buying tickets.
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Just means it's better at one specific task than the others, which has always been the case. For each of Sonnet, GPT and Gemini I can readily name a task they are individually the best at. At the same time the consensus that Sonnet 3.5
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This is very likely done for his own domestic reasons, unrelated to NK.
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Almost everyone in Korea is completely shocked, including most people who voted for him in the presedential elections. This is in a country where no one bats an eye even when sirens go off.
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That's an incredibly low CPM, especially since your visitors will almost solely be from Finland, right? It's not uncommon to earn ~$1k/month purely from ads on blogs with ~100k unique visitors/month. So your CPM seems &g
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From what I've seen your company is an exception. Yes, for 95% of users, browser/Mac Excel is more than enough. But the non-tech companies I've seen still don't want to get Macs because of that 5%, they just don't
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Interesting how GOG is willing to take such a hard stand of this and fight Blizzard on it, when they immediately pulled the Taiwanese horror game Devotion for political reasons [1]. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/games&#x2
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The big problem is Excel. Microsoft will make sure never to give that one up. Browser version isn't enough. I'm sure Apple has their reasons for not financing a full-fledged, compatible version, but if they would it would massivel
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If this is a rhetorical question, just make your point instead. If not, look up e.g. Microsoft 's purchase of Activision, both US companies.
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> IT departments are not going to stop buying x86 processors until they absolutely are forced to. Plenty of them are buying Macbooks. It's definitely a small percentage of the worldwide market, but not entirely insignificant either.
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> I also can’t come up with any satisfying solution. Laws. As someone else suggested here, the EU mandates 5 years of support. Make it 10. Too big of a barrier that cripples new entrants? Apply it only to megacorps, just like the DMA. Ea
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by maeil 2y ago
2M page views and not much revenue does sound like a choice. I have no affiliation to Plausible but 2M pageviews per month has such high revenue potential that if you'd monetize it (which frankly is the logical assumption they'd o
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by maeil 2y ago
Fantastic news, it all needs to collapse before things get better. A crash on the office real estate market would be a huge long-term boon for society.
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Not an expert, but could this have to do with financing? I've read of property owners keeping high rents despite it leading to empty spaces because "lower rents -> lower property assessment value by banks -> worse financing
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Very good to know! May I ask what slant it was? From the article on El Salvador the conclusion felt like overall was that the Bukele's approach has probably been a net positive compared to predecessors, though he did point out plenty o
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by maeil 2y ago
Not going to be mild here, Google Maps is the absolute poster child of enshittification. Sorry if you've worked on it, it's even more enshittified than search, and the best example of the company being run by the Ads division. Thi
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Against all odds, they somehow learned from their dozen failed attempts at the space, and succeeded the 13th time.
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For those who may want to spent an hour or so of their Sunday really learning about what has been happening in El Salvador, I recommend the wonderful Notes on El Salvador by Matt Lakeman [1]. The type of long form content that we all need m
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> Is it actually protectionism that gives most of the benefit here, or just comparatively cheaper labor costs, massive economies of scale (aided by a huge domestic market), disregard for other countries' IP, and a willingness to mak
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by maeil 2y ago
> Ultimately we are all left worse off. This is simply not true. Protectionism can have massive benefits. China making it impossible for foreign companies to gain serious ground there independently has been incredibly beneficial, else th
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by maeil 2y ago
As has been mentioned dozens of times in these comments, do it by car weight. Then poorer constituents do have a choice.
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> This and the Montreal Protocol wasn't achieved with a self-defeating attitude, though. What's clear is that the attitudes of those of us in favour of such measures has only achieved the opposite is the last decade, as the us
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They're not self-crippling, that's the whole point of internalizing negative externalities.
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Not sure if the irony is intended here. The entire point is that the Chinese people aren't a monolith, hence CCP != The Chinese people. This will also hold for whether they believe us - in that too, Chinese people won't be a monol
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In fact, I'm convinced it's significantly shorter than the average article length on HN!
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