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by nikanj 4y ago
Alas, essentially 100% of accidents happen with a human behind the wheel. Humans vastly overestimate their ability to avoid accidents when in control
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by nikanj 4y ago
And the true ’murican solution is making this car a 8-ton tank, not removing the monster trucks from our roads :(
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by nikanj 4y ago
Basic rules as in ”when the funds move from corporate account to founder account, is it a dividend, a loan, a bonus, or something else”. Basic rules as in ”not printing our own tokens as collateral for our own loans”
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by nikanj 4y ago
$250k for the implementation, $2.25M siphoned off to the founders’ personal accounts. It’s grift all the way down
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by nikanj 4y ago
A physical book goes from pristine to yellowed and loose-leafed. An ebook just completely stops working. The failure modes are completely different
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by nikanj 4y ago
People also routinely call Foxconn ”the iPhone factory”, especially if something bad happens there
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by nikanj 4y ago
Drugs. Other contraband too. Blackmail, ransomware, circumventing anti-money laundering / taxation / capital controls / etc Not many legal use cases,k but there are massive dark industries that would suffer greatly if crypto
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by nikanj 4y ago
The software quality was also absolute dogshit. Your phone would ring, you would click on the button to answer, and the phone app would just crash. It was nice having irc and a good ssh client on my phone, but the phone was simply not stabl
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by nikanj 4y ago
Only if you have a security manager enabled (=are running in an applet/webstart). The entire security manager concept has been deprecated, so things are looking better
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by nikanj 4y ago
I still remember when everyone abandoned Facebook for Ello. And then everyone abandoned Facebook again for Diaspora.
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by nikanj 4y ago
It was Harrison Ford, obviously.
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by nikanj 4y ago
This reminds me of the SCO vs Linux lawsuits.
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by nikanj 4y ago
Where do the human artists get their copyright-free training data? Can a human copy the style of a famous artist and break copyright? Does the legal situation change if instead of a pencil they use photoshop, or if instead of photoshop they
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by nikanj 4y ago
If someone says ”the movie had CGI”, do you really think of Common Gateway Interfaces?
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by nikanj 4y ago
To be fair, in the US people live in a cardboard box on the street
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by nikanj 4y ago
These often use average rents paid today. They tend to be much lower than average rents if you rent a home today. One of the main reasons why older people seem to think millennials are complaining about nothing: they locked in their rental
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by nikanj 4y ago
There is a single window, but it's only open on the third monday of every other month, and the person manning it is illiterate - unless you pay them a small fee to activate their reading skills.
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by nikanj 4y ago
There's an image in Ukraine (and the EU) that Russians are corrupted. Saying no to corruption is a form of saying "I'm different from Russians"
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by nikanj 4y ago
What happens after the arrest? In the current system, the perpetrator get logged into the system and released after they promise to appear in court. In 6-18 months the court will issue some fines. Meanwhile the person is free to continue pe
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by nikanj 4y ago
I think the Founding Fathers pictured the government as being democrats and republicans versus problems, not democrats versus republicans.
951.
by nikanj 4y ago
The same way the c++ compilers, runtimes and standard libraries are implemented in c++.
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by nikanj 4y ago
But at the same time, Stadia was a powerful demonstration that if you start playing Zombie Adventureland 7 on a Google product, one day your savefile will be gone.
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by nikanj 4y ago
Too bad they now have a reputation of killing every new product. Nobody wants to invest time into using their new shiny, because people assume it’ll be gone in a year or two
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by nikanj 4y ago
Or check it beforehand, and remember when you can go pee?
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by nikanj 4y ago
If there’s ample housing, landlords end up in a pricing war. It’s the underlying shortage of homes that drives high rents. Unless you believe the legends of shady foreign investors who buy scores of homes, and then leave them empty
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by nikanj 4y ago
Over 80% of Vancouver is zoned for single-family homes. The few plots of land downtown that can have density have been crammed with towers. If you leave the downtown core the density plummets
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by nikanj 4y ago
Canada is powered by the dual forces of growing population, and extreme nimby. More people, same number of homes -> higher prices
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by nikanj 4y ago
Theoretically: because the office is optimized for productivity, whereas the home is optimized for comfort Alas, most offices are optimized for 1) cost-per-person 2) modern looks and an open concept My home is much better for working than m
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by nikanj 4y ago
What are the odds of a redesign adding color / borders / 3d? The UI fashion is still trending towards a uniform single-colored surface. Hard to imagine them adding borders, let alone color
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by nikanj 4y ago
The roads clogged by cars would be replaced by the roads clogged by self-driving cars. Self-driving cars are not the solution to awful public transport

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