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by netcan 7y ago
It's possible that there was a temporary bloom in bison and/or a few other species during the formative period of American inland exploration. The populations were hunted out so quick after this that it's hard to know how t
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by netcan 7y ago
I dunno what a version 0.1 might usefully do, but on the more speculative horizon... a lot. biological systems are really good at making things.. they made you.
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by netcan 7y ago
I think you're on point. I'd also add that beyond shared activities or goals, there's mutual need as a basis for relationships. My grandparents were born peasant-farmers (Ireland, the 20s). They had very strong social bonds.
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by netcan 7y ago
First, these laws are generally pretty flexible. They account for cost increased during emergencies. Also, grocery costs vary anyway and so the "base" price can be higher than normal supermarket prices. Second, labour costs are no
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by netcan 7y ago
Since this is going to play out over time, won't we reach a point where people are basically stocked up.. and the more avid shoppers have already filled their pantries? We're going to keep shopping at this rate for months, are we?
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by netcan 7y ago
Sure. I'm not claiming that msft was wrong to make that attempt. It just illustrates what a failure case looks like, even when it's a good risk. Correction taken on Android timing.
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by netcan 7y ago
It's off the ground. Headset sales (mostly gaming) are somewhere in the low millions of units pa.
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by netcan 7y ago
Lets say AR/VR it does become important... It doesn't seem to be exploding, but it is growing... so, lets say. What does buying ML buy you? The goal isn't to own a product. The goal is the product. When Google bought Andr
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by netcan 7y ago
>> They’re worth something relative to the revenues they’ve been able to generate The days of "weird" values aren't over. The new $trillion companies are worth a trillion because they achieved a lock of one sort or anot
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by netcan 7y ago
Would I be able to, say, sit down to do sit-ups and push-ups until I could warm up and resume hobbling. It'd be tough. The muscles in your arms are much smaller than your legs. They produce less heat and induce less cardiovascular acti
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by netcan 7y ago
Do you genuinely think this is best answered with a simple, top-level " regulation does/doesn't work " argument? The question has no answer, and you gain almost no understanding of regulators by pondering it. Anyway, eve
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by netcan 7y ago
Laws are, kinda by definition, highly legible. Reality is fuzzier. Whether or not Uber drivers fall under current legal definitions of "employee," I think they obviously do fall into the common sense definition that should be regu
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by netcan 7y ago
An honest look at criminal justice is actually terrifying, even moreso because we don't even have a lead on alternatives.
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by netcan 7y ago
>> A December 2017 parliamentary report said up to 90 percent of prisoners have mental-health problems, and 12 percent turn to self-harm or attempt suicide multiple times. How could it be otherwise? Even ignoring the likely correlati
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by netcan 7y ago
The difference is the industry, and that counts. Wework was silly because real estate is not software. The profits needed to eventually justify all that "burn-to-grow" money was never possible regardless of scale. It's not a
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by netcan 7y ago
Personally, I haven't had trouble, but I also haven't had problems to fix. But, I know a lot of people that use Revolut. They're big here (ireland), because we often use multiple currencies. Anyway, I've heard several fi
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by netcan 7y ago
You're embodying the equal, opposite and more distasteful flavour of the exact thing you're criticising as you're criticising it. ..why not just comment on posts you want to read, and have thoughts on.
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by netcan 7y ago
>>Like most of the banks, right? Yes and no. "Predatory" can mean different things. Most banks are super-cautious, day-to-day. They can be predatory in certain way, taking advantage of customers with things like outrageous o
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by netcan 7y ago
>>Promoting the app, however, could antagonize the law enforcement community. The margins of law enforcement and intelligence can be blurry, but to the extent that they're antagonistic towards private communication as a whole...
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by netcan 7y ago
Then make them public or submit them to whoever "the government" is, in that context.
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by netcan 7y ago
There is an emotional day one, but at some point dust settles. I think the prevailing incentive for most employees would be to have that information, and break the information asymmetry. That said I don't think clear economic incentive
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by netcan 7y ago
Think of it in a future context. If discussions weren't kept secret, then the German/French Finance minister would not have said that... unless he wanted the world to hear it.
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by netcan 7y ago
It gets tricky. If people always have this right, then closed doors are basically not allowed. That's just not really workable.
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by netcan 7y ago
Moreover, this is hardly an isolated case. Google juggles multiple major anticompetitive & similar cases at all times, in multiple jurisdictions. They've lost several. That's the wider context.
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by netcan 7y ago
I don't think many are worried that Google won't defend itself. Re: the other points... Are you implying that current trust-related investigations and such are mostly bogus? Google defends itself against trustbusting constantly: A
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by netcan 7y ago
I think this is a very modern thing... because internet. "The medium is the message" applies to writing more than anything. The medium has been rapidly evolving. Average people wrote very little pre-PC, and the contexts are totall
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by netcan 7y ago
Possibly, but ... The cool thing in this instance is that the trees are growing, so we may get to observe them first hand.
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by netcan 7y ago
I think a lesson to learn from Google's experience with Android circa 2007 is... If you have the main strategy right, and execute well eventually, you can succeed despites a lot of despites. Those early androids were pretty poor value
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by netcan 7y ago
Who pays? Employer/Government? Can anyone chime in on the basic setup... eligibility, amounts, etc?
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by netcan 7y ago
There's a Bernard Cornwall book where an Arthurian warrior collaborates with the druid Merlin. It takes place in Britain during the Saxon invasion period. At one point Merlin's in a library. We learn that Druid's are not allo

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