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by nostromo 5y ago
Increased competition is a good thing. I’m glad several companies are in this space. It’s only a problem if a single provider is a monopoly and uses that to squeeze out other companies in order to raise prices. We’re very far off from tha
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by nostromo 5y ago
> I disagree with your claim about people are primarily watching old content (source?). I realize this is just one data point, but the most-streamed show in 2020 was The Office, close to a decade after its last episode was released. htt
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by nostromo 5y ago
I don't actually watch those shows - I watched them a long time ago. I've just noticed that for many years, Netflix would show that their most-watched show was The Office. And I'm sitting here thinking -- all of this new con
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by nostromo 5y ago
I believe we’re in a content bubble. All the old television networks, Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Apple, and others are pumping out more mediocre TV than anyone wants or cares to consume. The quality is too low and the quantity is too high. I
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by nostromo 5y ago
@dang, the title should probably be: "Making Open Source software safer and more secure" This isn't just a Google thing, lots of companies were at the summit.
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by nostromo 5y ago
Most comments here are completely missing why this is happening now. Students don’t want to pay tens of thousands of dollars for remote learning. They could watch Khan Academy videos instead for free, and they’d be better quality.
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by nostromo 5y ago
Even better, there's zero accountability for himself or any of the 50 democratic senators who passed on cosigning Hawley's bill when this also goes nowhere. The senate is 50/50, this logic works both ways. Either party could
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by nostromo 5y ago
Hawley's bill is much better though. I'm glad he didn't water it down to make Ossoff happy. > Ossoff's bill would leave oversight to congressional ethics committees Lol, ok buddy. We've all seen that congress
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by nostromo 5y ago
But the question is if you want to work at the 21% of companies that use Microsoft. Based on my own experience, you probably don't. They tend to be legacy companies in low-growth areas and lower pay.
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by nostromo 5y ago
Blaming bullies is the new "get out of jail free" card. Google just deployed the same logic to remove dislike counts on YouTube, despite those being valuable for users.
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by nostromo 5y ago
I agree, Covid has been a catalyst for the change. But 1) the start of the shift pre-dates Covid and 2) suburbs are booming with in-person activity, so it's not just Covid.
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by nostromo 5y ago
People supporting "new urbanism" -- a camp I was in until pretty recently -- should come look around downtown Seattle and see how it's working out. Our downtown is a grim wasteland. Shoppers, workers and residents have voted
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by nostromo 5y ago
I am happy to tip based on social norms, but I despise dark patterns, and that's what's being used here to try and inflate tips. Nobody is rationalizing a larger tip saying, "I will tip more to avoid doing mental math."
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by nostromo 5y ago
This article is beyond absurd. It's bending over backwards to promote how tipping is actually for the tipper's benefit. And that recommending large tips via touch screen menus is so helpful in saving them the time to do mental
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by nostromo 5y ago
It’s funny how even in response to this article, people feel like they need to list their righteous bona fides.
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by nostromo 5y ago
This is technically true, but the donation would be tax advantageous over a loan, so I can't imagine that's the reason.
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by nostromo 5y ago
It gives him more control over the org than a donation would have. For all intents an purposes, he owns Signal. He's the org's benefactor, lender, founder, board member, and now CEO.
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by nostromo 5y ago
I know MS Azure is Aah-zhur, but I hear it called uh-Zhur more often than not. Don’t even get me started on the fourteen incorrect ways to say Omicron…
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by nostromo 5y ago
Clinical trial data is full of personally identifiable information and health records. Redacting that much information takes a bit of work.
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by nostromo 5y ago
To actually answer the question: because immunity from one transfers to the other. Omicron is basically a self-administering vaccine that is preventing Delta from spreading as easily.
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by nostromo 5y ago
The point of adding lanes is to increase throughput.
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by nostromo 5y ago
Yeah, they're shifting the goal posts. Here in city (Seattle) most people drive because transit tends to be spotty and slow for most people. So, what's the solution? Make driving worse of course. Speedbumps everywhere . Change
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by nostromo 5y ago
I live in a deep blue city (Seattle) and have interacted with some local policy makers. In truth, they just aren't very smart. And worse, they are quite confident they are indeed very smart. This isn't some grand conspiracy to in
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by nostromo 5y ago
Apple makes 10+ billion a year from Google by setting It to the default search engine on iPhone. I agree they should make their own search engine. But currently they’re being paid a ton of money not to.
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FAA investigating controversial crash video(avweb.com)
540 points by nostromo 5y ago|414 comments
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by nostromo 5y ago
Should we extend this attitude to everyone else that taxes the healthcare system? If you got HIV from unprotected sex, should we shame you? If you’re fat and get diabetes should we? Etc etc. This is inhumane thinking and shouldn’t be encou
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by nostromo 5y ago
Say I live paycheck to paycheck and I need $500 to fix my car that I use to get to work until I get paid in a few weeks. Borrowing $500 for one month and paying $15 in interest would be completely worth it and beneficial to the borrower. T
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by nostromo 5y ago
I'm glad it's more contagious than Delta, because Delta is much worse than Omicron. Sure, I'd rather we didn't have Covid at all, but that's not been a realistic option for quite some time now.
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by nostromo 5y ago
I added the original source so you can explore in more detail. You can see that in previous spikes there was a short delay, but in general they rose in tandem. All evidence points to Omicron as far less lethal than Delta.
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by nostromo 5y ago
The panic surrounding Omicron is absurd. Take a look at these two charts. Omicron cases spiked in SA. Deaths didn't budge. At all. https://i.imgur.com/TgRmz4F.png [1] Omicron is a good thing, if your baseline is Del

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