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by michaelt 9mo ago
> It ultimately works off the issue that most voters are disengaged, while the most interested parties are very engaged. That, and the fact winning a senate seat costs on average $26.53 million [1] You can't self-fund, that's
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Linux should replicate Microsoft's feature where they back up your "full disk encryption" keys to your cloud account, completely unencrypted, and share them with the cops.
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The thing is, the person will use their AI to respond to your boilerplate. That means you, like John Henry, are competing against a machine at the thing that machine was designed to do.
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Google ‘more fios tv’ As I understand it, the difference is sports channels. Sportsball stars’ high salaries are paid from TV rights, and the subscription cost reflects that.
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> Why would we regulate big tech if we don't bother with anything else? I’m pretty sure we do, in fact, ban under 18s from tobacco, alcohol, and real-money gambling.
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by michaelt 9mo ago
> the Post endured two punishing rounds of voluntary buyouts, in 2023 and 2025, that reduced its newsroom from more than a thousand staffers to under eight hundred, Note a report on another WaPo layoff, from January this year, describe
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Axiom's pitch is "Trade memecoins, perpetuals, and earn yield" [1] so presumably they've hired a load of cryptocurrency-loving developers, and are eager to pay them in cryptocurrency. Of course, given that the grandparen
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by michaelt 9mo ago
Am I right in thinking you're dissipating that 580W using passive cooling only? Impressive if so - every time I've designed something approaching that power level I've ended up needing forced air cooling.
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To me, this seems kinda reasonable. The reality is licenses are all nonsense and none of it makes any sense. There could be secret patents nobody knows about. That precise wording written by American lawyers might not hold up in Chinese cou
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by michaelt 9mo ago
According to [1] the median Bay Area big tech worker earns $272k/year - or $130/hour. According to [2] Uber drivers make $15 to $25 an hour, before expenses like fuel. So while it's not normal it's certainly plausible
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> Isn't this true of any greenfield project? Sometimes the start of a greenfield project has a lot of questions along the lines of "what graph plotting library are we going to use? we don't want two competing libraries i
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A few decades ago: * People needed to be taught digital skills that were in growing demand in the workplace. * The kids researching things online and word-processing their homework were doing well in class (because only upper-middle-class t
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by michaelt 9mo ago
The false claim was added 7 Nov 2022 [1] while chatgpt wasn't released until 30 Nov 2022. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eugen_Rochko&diff...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F > Mobil and other oil companies are also shown to be advertising directly against electric cars in national publications, [...] Chevron bought patents an
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> Hint: think of the widespread expression used in terrorism debates: "Lone wolf" I'm pretty sure the author doesn't think managers should create a culture that attracts and promotes terror attackers.
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Surely that only happens when the phone user dials 911 ?
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Sure, but many products can be sourced from a load of countries. If you can't get natural gas from Russia you can get it shipped from America or Australia or Qatar - it's expensive as hell, and you might need to quickly build new
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> Just as America would like to reduce its dependence on external production, so to do other countries want to reduce their own. If anything, I'd say for other countries it's more urgent. If China embargoes deliveries of ligh
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So they can put it on a page like [1] and [2] Most large companies impose certain costs on society, and have to manage their reputation. Often it's cheaper to improve public opinion in a peripheral area than to address deep-seated prob
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According to Wikipedia's article on The Verge [1] "up to nine of Engadget's writers, editors, and product developers, including editor-in-chief Joshua Topolsky, left AOL, the company behind that website, to start a new gadget
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Cheap land is nice, but it's not the only concern. Data centres make a lot more money per square foot than things like farming, after all. You also want cheap, reliable power. Ideally eco-friendly. And you want backbone connectivity, o
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In March 2015 I could buy a "Corsair Vengeance RED 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit" for £259.99 [1] Today, I can buy a "Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C18 3600MHz Quad Chann
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Most users can't tell, and if you deliver the $18/month service while charging $25/month that's $7/month pure profit - money for nothing.
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> Happy to discuss the technical approach or answer questions. Netflix says "Ultra HD (2160p)" requires Microsoft Edge on Windows [1]. This is a "Netflix 4K Enabler" extension that spoofs being Microsoft Edge on Win
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https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-pwc-ey-big-four-natw... > Labour taking free staff from scandal-hit consulting firms > [...] The party has quietly accepted more than £230,000 worth of free staff from ‘
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In my experience, big corporate employers get extremely nervous when their employees start doing anything high profile (i.e. successful) in the political sphere. After all, if 250 people report to me, probably some of them are going to have
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There are certain enterprise applications that particularly like biometrics. Gym entry system where you can't share your entry fob with a buddy Corporate access control system, no need for a guard to deal with people who've forgot
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by michaelt 9mo ago
"Ubuntu Core" is a similar product [1] As I understand it, the main customers for this sort of thing are companies making Tivo-style products - where they want to use Linux in their product, but they want to lock it down so it can
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Platform allows criticism of a government. That government forces the platform to be sold to a billionaire ally. Platform’s new owner immediately bans criticism of said government. “Not a first amendment issue, it’s a private company”
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Airport prices in the UK for recreational travel work like so: Flight from London to Barcelona: £16 Bottle of water past security: £5 Train to airport: £26 Taxi enters drop-off area for 30 seconds: £7 A person who wants to get the advertise

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