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by ridaj 5y ago
I get that Sonos, Roku, etc are in a tough spot but this business is structurally to be a good, cheap, dumb terminal. It's no use for Roku to try and get in the way at this point, it just reinforces incentives for players to undercut t
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by ridaj 5y ago
The asymmetrical warfare of bullshit "science" is demoralizing. It seems to take so much effort to get the bad stuff taken down, compared with the apparent ease of made-up stuff to be published. This one is pretty crazy: a paper a
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by ridaj 5y ago
If there wasn't a shortage then sure they might lose money by paying drivers more, but the supposed shortage of labor hurts more (it leads to business that they don't do at all)
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by ridaj 5y ago
I guess maybe they don't want to be dragged to a congressional hearing where they'd be shown a bunch of screenshots that'll look extra offensive out of context and have to explain to senators why they're not doing more t
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by ridaj 5y ago
Here's the deal as I picture it... As the platform moderator you can either moderate and have something that's acceptable banter but it'll cost a lot of money to moderate, it'll give players a feeling of being nannied, a
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by ridaj 5y ago
Maybe because a company like Riot can be held accountable for the poor content of its chats? (in the court of law I'm not sure, but in that of public opinion definitely)
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by ridaj 5y ago
In the case of ensembles with a piano, I've heard it's because you can't retune the piano in the minutes before the performance. So it makes no sense for musicians to tune to a fork (or using an electric tuner) and leave the
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by ridaj 5y ago
Based on?
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by ridaj 5y ago
Exactly, that doesn't really hold up...
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by ridaj 5y ago
Ah yes I forgot that part. The dark shadow at the center of it all is my former colleague who thinks he's better than me hence must be a US stooge...
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by ridaj 5y ago
TBF, when I check out the overall blog, it is called "primal survivor", seems to cater primarily to the crowd that gets excited about digging one's own pit toilet with a portable shovel, and does happen to have a list of re
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by ridaj 5y ago
Subtext of the claim: US-funded hackers broke into offshore banking service providers to expose geopolitical enemies while protecting their own Proof: none
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by ridaj 5y ago
Finally! An Amiga without ObjC support was like a fish without a bike
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by ridaj 5y ago
Is Twitch's footprint big enough internationally that they have to worry about it?
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by ridaj 5y ago
Well there are some significantly less hacky / more scalable ways to do this. This looks at the edge of maintainability, but if the lists were 10x as long and people constantly stepped on each other's toes causing outages while ma
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by ridaj 5y ago
This looks like legit, no-nonsense gets-the-job-done code that gets updated every time some jerk find a new way to be a jerk to others. It isn't great, but at least not over-engineered, and I'm not sure if Twitch account sign-up v
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by ridaj 5y ago
If it's the intern, talk about a learning moment
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by ridaj 5y ago
This is not surprising in the historical sense. "The Master Switch" by Tim Wu shows how this repeatedly happened to industry after industry, with every disruptive comms technology bringing about a stage of unfettered, ebullient, a
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by ridaj 5y ago
Sure but then if they can do it a robocaller can do it?
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by ridaj 5y ago
> It will just block foreign phone companies from pretending to have US phone numbers, which seems like it should have been done long ago. That sounds potentially useful for legitimate business process outsourcing.
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by ridaj 5y ago
Here's not vague at all: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm Maybe Sweden was lucky.
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by ridaj 5y ago
> 1. Long covid is not well defined I agree it's fuzzy, just like "vaccine side effects". If you believe one is worth worrying about, the other one probably is as well. But long covid probably a stronger clinical record ev
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by ridaj 5y ago
Why do people fear long-term effects of the vaccine (which seem very unlikely in light of past vaccine history) but dismiss equally unknown long-term effects of covid? It is true that most children are not affected by covid in the short ter
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by ridaj 5y ago
I think people outraged at the content censorship on YouTube can look at the media landscape overall and consider that, compared with Hulu, CBS, MSNBC or Fox News, it's still a extremely permissive environment, an outlier in the world
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by ridaj 5y ago
Tax isn't a remedy to everything I guess
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by ridaj 5y ago
That has to be factored into insurance rates already
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by ridaj 5y ago
Any environment with restricted memory resources compared to needs, and a need for reliable behavior Embedded applications such as automotive, or industrial control come to mind (or even consumer electronics, with less life-or-death consequ
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by ridaj 5y ago
For Mars? What would carbon-based fuel on Mars be burned with? There's not much O2 there!
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by ridaj 5y ago
Erm most people need all kinds of tests, it's not a story of one vs the other... Unit, integration, end to end... The end to end is always slowest and flaky so not everything should go there but with any mature ish product it's al
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by ridaj 5y ago
Like 800 (toll-free) numbers. The business would pay AT&T for the privilege of being accessible everywhere for the price of a local call.

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