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Lexical Elaboration Explorer(charleskemp.com)
1 points by riffraff 1y ago|0 comments
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by riffraff 1y ago
italy has quite an interesting system[0] where multiple identity providers (authorized by the State) can be used to provide identification against the central database. It'll probably be phased out at some point, but it's quite c
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by riffraff 1y ago
Taxi could be more expensive than Uber for the same reason AirBnB is cheaper than hotels: they do not respect the same standards (e.g. insurance, worker rights, etc). Not same this is the case, but there's more than convenience embedde
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Säkkijärven Polkka(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by riffraff 1y ago|0 comments
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by riffraff 1y ago
But that's what venture capital and research should be about, financing ideas to see if they can be realized. I mean, the people who put money into Theranos later should have done better due diligence, but I don't fault the initia
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by riffraff 1y ago
Matt Levine (financial columnist) often makes the point (or joke) that in fund management there a tendency to reward (as in: they get more money to manage) people who lost a lot of money, on the basis that they did manage to have a lot of m
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by riffraff 1y ago
You're gonna be blown away if you read a bit of Apple's history ;)
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by riffraff 1y ago
I even misread it as "sends" and thought this was a stunt of some kind
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by riffraff 1y ago
>> Google Groups > It already has gone away. Also, Usenet is something else older than Google. and google literally acquired and then killed deja news. If anything this is yet another argument for the antitrust.
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Klarna flips from AI to hiring people, survey reveals most AI fail to deliver(fortune.com)
16 points by riffraff 1y ago|2 comments
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by riffraff 1y ago
You're replying to a thread that started with "the defence ministry admitted". So the expectation here is that in the video he admits that, and he does not. Nobody expected that to be true, that was the whole point.
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by riffraff 1y ago
That is the reason. I also believe countries that do allow people to sell their blood have looser regulations on blood donations. E.g. Hungary allows you to give blood every 56 days (and allows selling it), Italy requires you to wait 90 day
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by riffraff 1y ago
Forgive my ignorance as a EU customer, but how would you trust the power/efficiency claims without independent certification? (I suppose that's what the energystar is supposed to provide)
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by riffraff 1y ago
Which media outlet? This is a big claim given even after these attacks the Pakistani government claims it didn't.
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by riffraff 1y ago
The scenario is that the world in which those terms were written changed. E.g. the original GPL or Apache licenses did not consider patents, DRM or Tivoization, but the modern versions do. I think it's legitimate for a project to say &
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by riffraff 1y ago
It seems it should be trivial to solve the differentiation problem too. When I was a kid in Italy in the '90s we paid for lunch in middle school, but this was done through "lunch tickets". You'd get those from the town h
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by riffraff 1y ago
I think CLA signing is fine if the projects is owned by a reputable organization (Apache, FSF, whatever). If the project is controlled by a commercial entity, you just have to understand it will likely change in a way you disagree with.
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by riffraff 1y ago
you're right, very good point.
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by riffraff 1y ago
> but postcards are still available literally anywhere I've been in the world, and are still very easy to send, for those who enjoy that. I mean both that they are used much less and they're much less available. You can find po
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by riffraff 1y ago
From the other side, having good pictures of your parents (ideally with your kids) is a good idea. They also go away faster than you expect.
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by riffraff 1y ago
This is old advice, I remember it being framed as "if I wanted a picture of a monument I'd buy a postcard", and postcards basically no longer exist. It made some sense to take pictures of panoramas or art when you could show
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by riffraff 1y ago
Here's my 20 years report: When I was an exchange student I lived with other people and we went out partying every night, had a ton of fun, and still had a ton of fun rewatching pictures of the night the next day. This was a time where
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by riffraff 1y ago
But when they die the basis for the capital gain is the value at the time of death, not the original value, so you basically sidestep capital gains taxation, your children or spouse pay back the loan and get a ton more money than they would
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by riffraff 2y ago
> the inheritors divest from those investments, then they incur enormous income taxes. But isn't this sidestepped buy the "buy, borrow, die" approach, often criticized? https://www.theatlantic.com/economy&#
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by riffraff 2y ago
Because of the bretton woods accords. And those were not based on free market choices, as the UK would have been just as much free, but it was a devastated economy in a small country.
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by riffraff 2y ago
Yeah I wonder how much of Buffet's decision to quit is just that it's less "fun" to be doing this without Munger.
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by riffraff 2y ago
I'm. It sure of the "recent" definition but Schroeder's tenure brought a lot of changes (which one can argue against, but it was not conservative).
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by riffraff 2y ago
I kinda agree with you but I'd argue the "death" of microformats is unrelated to the death of XHTML (tho schema.org is still around). You could still use e.g. hReview today, but nobody does. In the end the problem of microfor
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by riffraff 2y ago
He's 94 years old, it's honestly impressive he was still there. Still, end of an era.
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by riffraff 2y ago
I also read it like GP and thought this might be a piece about some shady art dealing :) I think a common way to describe such authors is "anonymous" although that has its own shade of confusion (did they intend to be unnamed?)

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