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by pwg 8mo ago
> to the lucky ones able to afford living close to the city center. Which is also, to some extent, the reality in the US as well. Some number of the "city centers" have better public transport and/or walk-ability [1] avai
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by pwg 8mo ago
> What's your take - are living in this world from now on, or will it revert, and why? I expect it will revert, but what I cannot predict is when the reversion will occur. Why: 1) Eventually another "AI Winter" [1] is go
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by pwg 8mo ago
Archive links work for some percentage of WSJ, FT and Bloomberg. And for the ones that don't work, if you wait a while (few hours to a day or two) and try again, many of the ones that did not work begin to work after the delay. Wheth
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by pwg 8mo ago
Good
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by pwg 9mo ago
Concrete is more expensive to build with than wood, and many "apartment buildings" are built with a target towards "minimum possible build cost".
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by pwg 9mo ago
The landlord is often not the same as the developer or construction company, and sound isolation works best when built in while the building is being constructed. Attempting to retrofit later is often less than satisfactory. So it is ofte
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by pwg 9mo ago
Blank page with javascript disabled: so no good.
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by pwg 9mo ago
Flagged stories get that way because some number of readers "flagged" them, presumably because they felt the story did not meet the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html . The ability to f
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by pwg 9mo ago
This is an interesting goal, but we know the outcome. The local politicians, already drunk beyond belief on the property tax revenue stream, will simply find another way to satiate their thirst and simply tax out the same revenue stream fr
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by pwg 9mo ago
> Something went really wrong What went wrong was Google (the old 'do no evil' Google) bought the ad network DoubleClick. The acquired DoubleClick side then took over old Google from the inside out such that what we have today
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by pwg 9mo ago
WSJ 'gift links' often do not actually work. I don't know whether they have a "usage count" or a 'good for x time' expiration, but more often than not they don't work (beyond "gifting" a pa
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by pwg 9mo ago
> ZIP retains timestamps. It does, but unless the 'zip' archive creator being used makes use of the extensions for high resolution timestamps, the basic ZIP format retains only old MSDOS style timestamps (rounded to the closed
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by pwg 9mo ago
But, ads directly correspond to revenue stream, and a loss of ad "impressions" would result in a reduced revenue stream, so a "protect the advertising" response is not at all unusual to consider as a portion of their (eB
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by pwg 9mo ago
An AI-Agent browsing eBay for a "widget" for a given individual will also likely not be browsing eBay's advertising listings (sponsored and promoted listings [1]) which would potentially equate to a loss in ad revenue for eBa
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by pwg 9mo ago
And, at least in the US, eBay charges their "final value fee" percentage on the order total (the sale price plus the shipping price paid by the buyer). So if the item has a 3% final value fee (the percentages differ across differ
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by pwg 9mo ago
From what I've seen discussed, it seems some percentage of "sniping" is to attempt to obtain both "winning bid" and "lowest possible price" (note, not the same as "max willing to pay for the same item
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by pwg 9mo ago
This is most likely the reason. I could see a lot of "buy for me bot" users deciding that they really did not mean that color shirt (or some other reason) when they asked it to buy a "brand X shirt in size Y" and forg
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by pwg 9mo ago
Auto bid does not hide any information even with one bidder, as ebay indicates that "1 bid" has occurred. The only way auto-bid could hide information is if eBay treated auto bid as "silent auction" style. Show "ze
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by pwg 9mo ago
From what I understand, the reasoning behind the snipe method of bidding is to avoid showing to other bidders that there is interest, leading to the, supposed, outcome of more likely being the only bidder and thereby receiving the item at t
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by pwg 9mo ago
> it's now 100% free to sell Nice: > You won't pay final value fees or regulatory operating fees Of course, they will likely find some other way to extract their fees. It would be nice, however, if the final value fee went a
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by pwg 9mo ago
Another eBay precursor auction side, onsale.com, had the same setup. The auction ended at X date/time or five or ten minutes (I forget which) after the last bid was made.
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by pwg 9mo ago
> Tariffs/subsidies should be weaned off over time. The economic problem is that so long as the production cost imbalance exists, weaning off the tariffs just creates the same market forces that created the trade imbalance (and expo
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by pwg 9mo ago
My take: google marketing found a ploy to make "google" look like a better nettizen than the AI companies that hammer away on sites to the level of a DDOS attack.
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by pwg 9mo ago
Or intimidate a member of the press that isn't "bending the knee" to them.
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by pwg 9mo ago
> new (weird, not sure why) latency in tuning in a channel after the DTV transition, Because with analog signals the tuner just had to tune to the correct frequency and at the next vertical blank sync pulse on the video signal the displa
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by pwg 9mo ago
> you need their box. This is because every channel on the cable is encrypted now, lest someone try to pirate service, and given that the cable companies all but killed "CableCard" that box is required because it is the "d
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by pwg 9mo ago
Indeed, no such "invisible drag areas" here either using just FVWM2.
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by pwg 9mo ago
> Why does the UI have to change all the time? Can't they just keep it the same? Because if they kept it the same, then there would be no need to continue to employ all those UI designers. Therefore, to be assured of their continue
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by pwg 9mo ago
Cory Doctorow predicted this outcome back in 2011: The Coming War on General Purpose Computation https://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-...
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by pwg 9mo ago
Read up on the Intel Management Engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine It began life as an "out of band" way to administer servers so that an ops. team could do everything (other than a

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