midasuni

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by midasuni 3y ago
Not on my phone, click a link to something somebody shares, no way to get away from logging in.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Deal with ip addresses and numbers, maybe host names, and csvs are perfect to process
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by midasuni 3y ago
$7 sounds great, I’d pay that. They want £16 a month from me, that’s $20 a month.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Which is crazy. Use a car for 500 miles a year you pay the same as someone using it for 50,000 miles a year Just charge on the odometer reading each year. 3p a mile or whatever. Maybe charge more based on weight.
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by midasuni 3y ago
I use a road in my 1100kg car, you use it in your 2200kg car. You cause 8 times the damage. Do you generate 8 times the positive externalities?
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by midasuni 3y ago
Tax the semi trucks and it makes it more economical to use rail freight. Hiding the externalities is somewhat communist.
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by midasuni 3y ago
In the U.K. sky charges its customers a subscription. They have adverts on top of that. Last time I read he financial report adverts accounted for 1/10th of subscription income I.e instead of paying sky £30 a month and having 1/3r
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by midasuni 3y ago
I topped up a multi site system back in 2018 with £3, something like 10p an article. PayPal I think, but fine sat online payment cost 10% fir that or 30p, still worth it for the publisher. Alas not enough readers used the system and it shut
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by midasuni 3y ago
I used agate in the past, but not enough people are willing to pay, and not enough publishers are willing to bother trying something beyond adverts Those that do and are clearly aren’t enough to be sustainable https://web.archive
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by midasuni 3y ago
Legality aside maybe I simply don’t want people using my computer to share images of children
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by midasuni 3y ago
I think you need to reread the post you’re complaining about
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by midasuni 3y ago
I think “most” is pulling a lot of work there. I make and process csvs a lot, and just avoid quotes when generating them. Sure technically you can do things like having new lines on a line which cause all sorts of grief, but if you control
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by midasuni 3y ago
You must be new here
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by midasuni 3y ago
Richer people don’t pay more taxes. If you have $200b by the time you are 50 years old you have somehow acquired $4b a year post tax. To acquire $400,000 a year - one ten thousandth of that - you would have to pay about 300k a year in tax,
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by midasuni 3y ago
911 million people were registered to vote in the last Indian federal election. 67% turned out.
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by midasuni 3y ago
I increase double my productivity and I only have to work 20 hours rather than 40. That’s a good thing, everyone from Marxists to Monopolists agree that it’s good Marxists think the benefits of the increased productivity should go to the l
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by midasuni 3y ago
The elderly will have it worse. And it’s about time. You make things demonstratively worse for your Imagine a high school leaver being able to live in a 4 bed suburbia with a couple of cars, stay at home spouse and 3 kids. That was the norm
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by midasuni 3y ago
Sounds good. What’s the down side?
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by midasuni 3y ago
The first three have issues that they don’t have independent currencies
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by midasuni 3y ago
Inflation is nothing to do with growth, and if gdp per capita is increasing that’s growth even if population is decreasing
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by midasuni 3y ago
Sure. Go live on the moon then. You generate externalities. You rely on society. You are part of society, you thus have obligations to that society.
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by midasuni 3y ago
See the world while it still exists
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by midasuni 3y ago
Commercial airlines need permission from the country they are flying over. That would fit into the “ignore your local jurisdiction” caveat International agreement says that objects at the altitude if the ISS are not counted in the park, tha
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by midasuni 3y ago
Because that’s not how society works
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by midasuni 3y ago
I did indeed! Clearly more tired than I realised!
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by midasuni 3y ago
25krps? As in requests per second? I.e one request every 3 seconds?
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by midasuni 3y ago
Especially the southern hemisphere, as their head is normally above the globe
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by midasuni 3y ago
Well that’s just the colour space, you’ve also got the gamma curve to consider when you look at the perception of how something looks
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by midasuni 3y ago
My understanding if you given money to Mozilla who then give it to mullvad All Mozilla know is the mullvad username. Mullvad don’t know the credit card details of the purchaser. To link a given vpn ip to a specific credit card would require
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by midasuni 3y ago
A 32 bit float and only represent 2^32 numbers (maybe less), same as a 32 bit int. What’s happening here is using a short (16 bit) rather than a byte (8 bit), although not quite to the same extent, for each channel. HDR allows you to repres

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