necovek

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by necovek 9mo ago
Or they do, and two sentences from two different experiences don't tell a full story?
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by necovek 9mo ago
I think Nintendo and Sony were almost the pioneers of "corporate shit": yes, Nintendo has a bit different style of gameplay they target, but their business practices have been corporate-protectionism for decades.
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by necovek 9mo ago
Even with sales tax being on consumption, rich people and their accountants always look how to reduce the burden: say, that trip to Hawaii was a business trip, and that expensive suit a business cost, and sometimes you can claim some of tha
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by necovek 9mo ago
In market dynamics, a worker becoming cheaper means that some employers will fight to hire/keep an employee on that surplus, thus driving the employment cost up for everybody else. Yes, it probably would depend on positions and availab
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by necovek 9mo ago
I believe it is a reasonable hypothesis that if payroll taxes were removed, 2nd order effect would be that employers have more money to offer for all positions, and in a market driven job market, prices would increase and thus salaries woul
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by necovek 9mo ago
I believe everybody understands that a percentage means exactly that. But if you account for minimum living expenses M, if you are under M, 30% of M is "more" than if you are at 10x M for the quality of your life. What scheme is &
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by necovek 9mo ago
I am not sure any of it makes real sense, it's just a variation of the "why" I picked up somewhere (that it's both). But yes, that's easily worked around in the manner people brought up already (I did think of duty
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by necovek 9mo ago
It's more expensive and not sufficiently more powerful: I would also have to pay customs duties to import it into Serbia. The above are actual devices I own or have owned, it's natural I did not get all of them (including like Pin
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by necovek 9mo ago
It's not just large amounts of liquids: it was my understanding that this is both a restriction on large amounts of liquid, but particularly on large containers needed for an explosive of sufficient destructive power. You could always
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by necovek 9mo ago
I apply "better practices and tooling", advice you are not looking for ;)
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by necovek 9mo ago
My point was exactly not to do that (which is really an unsuccesfull replication), but instead to find the actual, live correlation between the same input rigourously documented and justified, and new "positive" conclusion. As I s
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by necovek 9mo ago
If I want my kid to have an account, and a service employs (let's imagine without flaws) facial recognition for age verification, how can they use it? Am I misunderstanding what "ban" means here?
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by necovek 9mo ago
That was just an example to communicate my idea: a better way to validate authenticity of the app could and should be used. But to your point specifically, Play store and App Store have APIs to rate from within the app: when the pop up show
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by necovek 9mo ago
Are you sure it is your whole country or it's you? I mostly buy my phones outright too, but I am under no impression that everybody else does it as well.
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by necovek 9mo ago
Being practical, and understanding the gamification of citation counts and research metrics today, instead of going for a replication study and trying to prove a negative, I'd instead go for contrarian research which shows a different
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by necovek 9mo ago
I was expecting Google has stopped doing most of the business in Russia due to sanctions. Do you still see Russian-company ads in Google Search results or Youtube? Similarly, I thought they were not selling apps or ads in Google Play store
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by necovek 9mo ago
There is no doubt that sideloading by uninformed users can be used as a backdoor. It's also not a surprise that banks/industry that's accountable to recover the losses for tricked customers is looking to someone else to solve
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by necovek 9mo ago
Mobile providers usually offer loans ("service contracts") where people get phones outside their financial standing (I regularly see high end iPhones and foldable phones of €1-2k run by people in a country where average monthly sa
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by necovek 9mo ago
I guess you never received a copyright infringement notice from your ISP for seeding a torrent.
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by necovek 9mo ago
My point is not to forbid access, but to educate, train and prepare my kids for what's really there (well, everything). As I said, my kid already has access to the internet through his laptop. I don't particularly micromanage his
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by necovek 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Fardis_massacre
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by necovek 9mo ago
I would like to see a high friction flow for installing all the crap from the Play Store to "protect and educate users". "Are you sure you want to install this app? It's only got a score of 2.8 and only 7 reviews, and wi
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by necovek 9mo ago
Smoking is not a tool that can have multiple uses: social media can. I believe a more apt analogy is with books. There are books we don't want kids to be reading too early, and while there is a higher barrier to entry (enough money to
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by necovek 9mo ago
:O I admit to not yet living through the challenge of having my kids exposed to "social media" (aged 9 and 5, no phones yet, the older one does have a laptop with Linux on it), but I feel like we are trying to punt as much respons
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by necovek 9mo ago
You can actually get a Thinkpad X1 Carbon with Linux on Lenovo US (and many other countries) pages: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/configurator/cto/index.html?bun... I am sure it even applies to laptops li
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by necovek 9mo ago
Crazy stupid ideas like cars with only touchscreens have still taken a decade to come in and then to get considered ill-advised even though anyone driving a car could tell how bad of an interface it is. We are still not fully out through t
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by necovek 9mo ago
In general, there is a difference of ethos and culture between Free Software and Open Source movements. GitHub is the latter: strewn with expectations from low-effort requests. With free software, many projects have their own code hosting w
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by necovek 9mo ago
There were a number of studies already shared reporting on the impression of increased efficiency without the actual increase in efficiency. Which means that it's still not a given, though there are obviously cases where individual cas
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by necovek 9mo ago
As long as AI companies have paid them to train on their data (see a number of licensing deals between OpenAI and news agencies and such).
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by necovek 9mo ago
Like a smartwatch? ;) The point is that you'll have one anyway (your phone), so the other is to make it more powerful. But I can imagine some cases where it is suboptimal (you need a MFA token read off your phone for a web page login?)

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