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by n8cpdx 5y ago
> If European citizens valued their data enough, preferred hosting their videos on EU servers etc. and were willing to pay extra for this such a service would already exist, but they don’t. The same could be said for anything that doesn’
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Real progressives don’t agree on what progress means. No amount of progress is ever enough. If no amount of progress is enough, no progressive politician is enough. Progressives then don’t show up at the polls for anyone who isn’t a “real p
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Democrats just passed the largest infrastructure spending bill in ages (including a huge push to get everyone broadband, among other great programs), are actively working on a massive boost to social spending, accomplished a trillion dollar
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Probably to avoid the national/continental embarrassment of relying on the Americans for every basic piece of technology European society depends on. The original comment was about how government websites rely on YouTube to host their
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
This is a very European attitude. IDK what it is about Europe, but the pervasive business mindset seems to be to jump to the conclusion that things aren’t possible before even brainstorming the options. Nothing is ever possible in Europe. A
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
What is unfair about the playing field? Why aren’t European innovators creating YouTube alternatives? If they are, what specifically is it about EU law that prevents them from being successful? It seems like there might be a cultural issue
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I was just about to comment that, aside from first-moved advantage, the Impossible strategy of near-perfect imitation seems much more promising than the half-assing that Beyond is doing. I like Beyond just fine (but I prefer Dr. Praegers, s
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I wish I could edit my comment to acknowledge this. TIL. Without that specific knowledge, it sounded like a recipe for disaster - slosh around a bunch of random meat in juices, incubate at moderate heat for hours, stir it up with grubby fin
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Probably produces great meat, but does directly contradict USDA guidelines. https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and... At least in chicken, multi-drug resistant salmonella is still a problem that k
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Qualcomm and AMD could have chosen to be more vigorous in their competition. Android customers would have gotten better phones, Intel wouldn’t have waited until 2021 to start making decent parts again, and everyone would win. Maybe a more f
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Grocery delivery has been a great help, and I think probably makes more sense in general, but definitely so in cities/downtowns. Still, I can get most, if not all, shopping for one done with a backpack and two feet. I don’t think it wo
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Russia is clearly willing to fuck with energy supplies for strategic reasons, like preventing a vigorous response to the invasion of Crimea, or future sanctions against Belarus, or whatever else. Building dependence on Russia is obviously a
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
My sincere hope is that this is what is blocking support for parallels/M1 Mac VMs. Insider builds are already giving excellent performance in VM on last year’s M1. Proper licensing would open up possibilities for businesses and people
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I’m excited about the next 10 years, mostly because of commercial crew and similar programs. SLS is a death trap and an exorbitant expense. If we wanted to roll the dice with American lives, we could play Russian roulette and save $1,000,00
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
The big difference is Amazon consistently focuses on the customer. That is their big thing. Notice that the criticism is never about what Amazon does for/to customers, but about other players: delivery partners, employees, rival seller
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Another way of putting it: On top of all the challenges imposed by government, why should Chinese people get the benefit of best-in-class performance, 5+ years of software updates, and relative security in a high-quality phone? Shouldn’t th
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
There are people who make food. People who drive trucks. People who fly airplanes. People who do customer service. People who fill cavities. People who cure cancer. People who fill potholes. People who clean floors. People who cook meals. P
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Maybe I should clarify that I was referring to the field of software generally, which definitely includes Facebook and the software parts of cars. Some days it feels like the whole field is premised on taking advantage of people, not trying
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
When I see stories like this, I think about what it must be like to be an engineer on the windows team. You get in, make your coffee in a fancy Microsoft-branded cup, and then a PM gives you the “actively shit on our customers” ticket. Pres
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Bing used to have better maps data than Google. Birds Eye was really cool. It was a brief window when it was better. MS Research had a project that was basically streetview before streetview existed. ~2010, there was a whole platform within
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
It’s more efficient but much less reliable. Like if you change from light to dark mode, there’s a 20% chance all UWP apps that are open crash. And as efficient as it is, it still can’t resize windows without flickering. It’s worse than WPF
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
If you read the cited study, light flickering, “a sense of injustice” and noise-induced annoyance are the health effects. So actually not really health effects in the sense a normal person would recognize. I am frustrated by people who are
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Aaron didn’t choose to fight. He chose to kill himself. Which turned him into an unreasonably glorified martyr whose case people still talk about to (and on) this day.
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
No, Aaron never gave the justice system a chance to work. In more serious cases involving crimes against the state, hopeful, merciful outcomes have been found, as in the Chelsea Manning case: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I see these articles all the time and I don’t really get it. Are people walking around just terrified of looking stupid? When did that become a cultural value? Where is that being taught and reinforced? I just don’t get the need for this ar
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
McDonald’s has always had sealed bags when I’ve ordered, with large tamper-evident tape. They’ve also got advanced stay-fresh fry technology to prevent them going soggy, according to a planet money episode I vaguely remember: https:/&
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
> People aren't going to pay 8 dollars for a big mac I think people used to say this about Starbucks, where you might pay close to $8 for just the drink. Fast food can probably save itself by going premium (as Starbucks did, althoug
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Does it matter? Vaccine flows like water these days, and at least in the rich world, nearly everyone who needs this chose to be in that position. Making that choice should be incredibly costly.
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
For the folks reflexively downvoting because they don’t want it to be true… https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-28/facebook-... I guess there is a difference between actively genociding and _just_
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I don’t fully understand, but I have the same issue. I’ll have a full day of coding work and I’ll have the full range of emotions - joy when t worked, fury when the underlying UI framework is lower quality than my expectations for my work o

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