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manquer
3y ago
> The FDA doesn't have jurisdiction over "many things". The FDA has jurisdiction over tobacco[2] and various food products contributing to obesity and those are the only two examples highlighted by OP or me in the thread.
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manquer
3y ago
That is exactly why legal sources which are prescription exists, because it is easy to kill oneself by taking a illegal pill of unknown quality, such risks are not common with tobacco. The regulation is a function of that, not how many peop
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manquer
3y ago
This is not really a good argument, there are many things that kill a lot of people , The manner and type of lives lost is important also the nature of impact. People aren’t dying very young with tobacco addiction for the most part. There i
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manquer
3y ago
Not everyone who has money wants to build one . It is just a shiny new toy, they may deem there are better uses for their money
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manquer
3y ago
It doesn’t matter how many different accounts are used, google is known to ban related accounts as they see fit . How they classify accounts being related is anyone’s guess .
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manquer
3y ago
Photos would be a one evening worth trivial task to back up to another system . Switching your phone from android or changing an email address with hundreds of contacts over many years is far more difficult and expensive. Google or Apple fo
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manquer
3y ago
In aviation, ICAO the governing body splits the globe into Flight Information Regions ( sub classified into ACCs) and delegates the management will have national member be responsible over international waters here is a list https:/&#
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manquer
3y ago
The other tool is simply not allowing receivers to sold or used to decode/decrypt forbidden sources in a country enforced with import ban like with satellite phones etc.
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manquer
3y ago
Military doesn't need same quality to monitor, Starlink needs to also transmit and receive data(albeit slow speed), a military sat would just need to listen for a signal and know active and possibly identify some characteristics which
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manquer
3y ago
If commercial satellites can pick up individual cellphone signals and receive them with no modifications, the military would have this tech for years? Just listening on where devices are currently and the signal power strength (must be high
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manquer
3y ago
Not all but a lot. It is a mixed bag though, Iridium and Thuraya are illegal in India but Inmarsat has a license, so it kind of depends really. You need a local license because radio frequency is considered a national resource, so each coun
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manquer
3y ago
There is no global spectrum ownership, most countries regard radio waves as a national resource. ITU and related bodies only manage the standards not the allocation or ownership to operators. What Globalstar, Iridium et al have agreements a
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manquer
3y ago
Hardly , users are not the customers we are not paying for search , they only have to maintain the image so we don’t sour on the brand , they don’t have to care about our actual experience there are no competitors The customers are ad buyer
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manquer
3y ago
Jira will not die , even if every last developer on the planet hate it , they are not the buyers . I have never seen a manager express negative feedback let alone hate it . As long as managers keep liking it over anything else , nothing wil
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manquer
3y ago
There are two components here, the video streaming/ content database has no equivalent peer for sure, however the general app UX has plenty of alternatives and is pretty fungible. One can consume Youtube, without shoddy recommendations
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manquer
3y ago
Yes words have meaning. You should read original comment again . The OP said closed source,he didn’t say not open source or FOSS or source available . Of all the three, redis is only one with closed source components classifying redis as o
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manquer
3y ago
What are you on about ? https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch https://github.com/mongodb/mongo How are ES and mongoDB not open source ? Mongo switched from GPL v3 to SSPL in 2018 the only diffe
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manquer
3y ago
> MongoDB, Elasticsearch > Redis You suggest that mongo and elastic search are not open source and redis is ? While all three have a company backing them and sell or have some restrictions (usually targeted towards cloud providers not
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manquer
3y ago
They mean it is their flagship product , performance is not the only innovation companies do , it could be cost or something else. Apple wouldn’t say the same at a SE release event
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manquer
3y ago
This is true, even somewhat well run management will share the projected plan with the board and get their buy in. The board resolution approving it formally is typically on first board meeting after the employee joins. It is possible for m
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manquer
3y ago
Giving management equity was done to mitigate the Principal-Agent problem[2], lesser management(agent) is aligned to shareholders(principal), less likely they will take action on their behalf effectively. However this puts management inter
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3y ago
How does that matter ? Compensation is compensation. It is still money she gets to spend, don’t you think the board and she calculated the potential increases and bargained accordingly? Does it not cost the company and shareholders the same
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manquer
3y ago
Yet you see many of these companies make huge profits each year , you see CEO getting paid obscene salaries and those is being increased at much % than workers. GM CEO salary went up from 23M to 29M between 2021 and 2022. Signals matter , i
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manquer
3y ago
> VC funded startups are not the only way to break free from the dreadful corporate games. Do people really think this ? VC funded startups are as corporate as it gets, probably worse, just a different kind of corporate. The second you t
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manquer
3y ago
$1 per page is hardly to cover the costs ,this single case to access just so far would come to $3000! Alameda Superior court also charges for every query!. SF court just a county over is able to this for free. I am not saying there are no c
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manquer
3y ago
Not in-house, but local shop which can do the same kind of work much cheaper than Taylor doing it with their staff. Large Franchise groups (10+ locations?) could afford to do it perhaps in-house. Point is there are many levels in between th
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manquer
3y ago
As always hanlon’s razor applies: far more likely incompetence than malice. They don’t care to fix the software product or service here because they don’t have to , it is a captive market , you can buy realistically machines [1] from one c
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manquer
3y ago
By your logic we shouldn’t allow kids at all near food preparation and treat it like medical devices and require years of training to operate let alone fix them ? There is a middle ground between let 15 year old kids fix it and only allow c
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3y ago
I don’t understand how is in well functioning democracy we can have secret courts and paywall for court documents They should be free and readily accessible even if they cost a lot to produce and host (which they don’t) - for civil litigat
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3y ago
Given what CRISPR can already do today, it is not inconceivable that DNA editing and obfuscation becomes a thing 200 years from now , modifying the genetics and DNA of the zygote and sperm aka designer babies already is a serious non sci-fi
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