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by readams 5y ago
I actually stopped reading the Verge because of how relentlessly negative they were about everything related to tech. Which for a tech blog is sort of weird. So not sure what you mean about favorable coverage there.
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by readams 6y ago
iOS ads use a system very similar for FLoC though. It's unlikely they'll implement it, but not because of privacy reasons.
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by readams 6y ago
It is not true that every aspect of your life needs to be in service of political activism. It doesn't mean you're supporting the status quo because you don't spend 100% of your time doing politics.
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by readams 6y ago
This is a bit much. It's a novelty product. A toy. I don't think we're at a stage where we can no longer make toys.
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by readams 6y ago
They should also announce a switch to the more fantastical nm sizes as well in their next node.
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by readams 6y ago
It's interesting to note that if the union drive had been successful it would have likely meant the death of the company since they'd be unable to pivot.
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by readams 6y ago
Gmail won't load remote images when you open the mail. It will load images from Google servers that have been cached.
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by readams 6y ago
I would say any process with differential replication and descent with modification is life. That is, any process that exhibits evolution through natural selection.
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by readams 6y ago
Immigrants also grow the economy and so create jobs. They participate in the economy as consumers and as entrepreneurs. Maybe a way to think about it that might help is to imagine a country containing only you. Would your job be safe?
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by readams 6y ago
But AdWords isn't a race to the bottom; it's the opposite. Google's ad business is so big because Google drives so much more value than other ad targeters.
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by readams 6y ago
I mostly use address sanitizer these days rather than valgrind. It's fast enough that you can just put it in your default compile flags for debugging.
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by readams 6y ago
Market rate is the price where supply and demand are equal. If you set price below market rate, the demand will be higher than the supply. So if you create enough below market rate housing that there is no longer a shortage, then it must me
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by readams 6y ago
Also, nobody should have children.
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by readams 6y ago
Below market rate housing is, by definition, always in short supply.
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by readams 6y ago
It's OK to do it for a paycheck, but to become really good at something you need to be passionate about it.
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by readams 6y ago
Sounds like a nuisance lawsuit over a minor technical issue involving filling a report. No wrongdoing seems to be even alleged, other than Palantir being a tech firm and therefore evil.
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by readams 6y ago
This is a great example of how our biases can lead us to make mistakes like this. If they had looked at this and the numbers pointed the other way, they would certainly have looked at the denominator in hopes that the number of people ident
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by readams 6y ago
You'd need a configuration system that is so general it would become a programming language. And then nobody could configure it except the original programmers because now your rules are written in the weird badly-designed programming
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by readams 6y ago
The secret is to design terrifying, narrow roads with poor visibility! What an idea.
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by readams 6y ago
Apple could allow you to add additional sources inside the existing store interface. We can already do this with apt and yum on Linux for example. They won't do it though because they want to increase friction to maximize their money.
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by readams 6y ago
In 1980 the top quintile earned 44% of the income and in 2013 51%. So the tax structure became much more progressive over that time. In 2019 it was 52% of the income.
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by readams 6y ago
The question is, based on standard of living, would you rather be poor now or some time in the past? I don't think there's anyone who would choose the past.
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by readams 6y ago
It's mostly a myth that there was a 90% marginal tax rate. It's technically true, but when the top tax rate was removed they also removed all the loopholes and deductions that were being used to reduce the effect tax rate on top e
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by readams 6y ago
It's unlikely there's a gene that codes for being gay. Homosexuality instead is better thought of as more like why men have nipples. Obviously the nipples are not useful to the reproductive success of men, but genetics and natural
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by readams 6y ago
Food supply is not the problem with world hunger. There's more than enough food to go around, and if there weren't that's actually a problem that money would solve very well. The problem is getting the food to the people rega
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by readams 6y ago
If the provider of the app has no footprint in the oppressive country, and Apple and Google have control because they have open platforms, then the apps will continue to be available.
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Democrats take first stab at reforming Section 230 after Capitol riots(theverge.com)
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by readams 6y ago
Some people talked about it, but IT DID NOT HAPPEN.
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by readams 6y ago
By now the scale could be far larger than it is currently. Moving up vaccine timetables by just a few months would be enormously valuable. I never said it was easy, but the answer was not "let's do nothing because it's hard.&
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by readams 6y ago
Obviously this would not happen with purely private investment.

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