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571.
by neolog 6y ago
> whose sole purpose of existence is to create profits for its shareholders How can you tell what its "purpose" is? For example, Nike's marketing suggests its purpose is manufacturing athletic equipment or promoting youth
572.
by neolog 6y ago
> to pay taxes on capital that could be reinvested The taxed money does get invested, doesn't it? Just not by the company.
573.
by neolog 6y ago
Are you saying it's good for companies to behave as badly as they possibly can? Maximizing shareholder money is not the only way of life.
574.
by neolog 6y ago
The article shows that's not it.
575.
by neolog 6y ago
> steal CPU from the GitHub community from Microsoft*
576.
by neolog 6y ago
I don't have any Apple products but I think they have a reputation of valuing quality.
577.
by neolog 6y ago
> Why do people who subscribe to the “avoid shell scripts at all costs” ideology feel so passionately about prescribing to others? Are you asking why people make recommendations in general?
578.
by neolog 6y ago
The graph that's interesting for homes is cost per kWh but the page doesn't show that.
579.
by neolog 6y ago
Cost per what?
580.
by neolog 6y ago
Why are they measuring in kg instead of kWh?
581.
by neolog 6y ago
It's usually done as a joke.
582.
by neolog 6y ago
I dunno exactly how the argument goes. You could probably come up with one or two though.
583.
by neolog 6y ago
> when an entity has an incentive to increase its exposure to risk because it does not bear the full costs of that risk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard
584.
by neolog 6y ago
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/novel-coronavirus-sars... says images from a scanning electron microscope. What is the difference between that and an "actual picture"?
585.
by neolog 6y ago
What do you mean by original inventor?
586.
by neolog 6y ago
Pretty ridiculous to take the same name as another (more famous) product that does the same thing. Have you talked to a lawyer about changing the name?
587.
by neolog 6y ago
it's a link to a book
588.
by neolog 6y ago
Parent is quoting the original post which links to a document with sources.
589.
by neolog 6y ago
That's probably true everywhere. If you build for certain requirements, your building won't meet a different set of requirements.
590.
by neolog 6y ago
There's probably an app for building mesh networks.
591.
by neolog 6y ago
Is that opinion common among experts?
592.
by neolog 6y ago
How does the performance compare to TLA+? Especially curious if you've run it under PyPy.
593.
by neolog 6y ago
> An environment variable can only contain a single null-terminated stream of bytes. This is very limiting. The same is true of command-lines and files. Computers can only use bytes.
594.
by neolog 6y ago
I can build libc all by myself from source
595.
by neolog 6y ago
Out of curiosity, how many downvotes does this comment have?
596.
by neolog 6y ago
"How do I add two integers together with Twisted?" https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7313761/how-do-i-add-two...
597.
by neolog 6y ago
You can get a 'commercial display' but they're pretty expensive.
598.
by neolog 6y ago
"Apache logfile" might be the format, just like "800MiB of json". Just a guess.
599.
by neolog 6y ago
What's weight?
600.
by neolog 6y ago
Apple seems to have done ok

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