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by rjf72 8y ago
Amazon's one click patent expired a couple of years ago.
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"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." Definitely the greatest line I've ever read. Such extensive imagery and metaphor (well beyond just the sky), tucked into 15 words.
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by rjf72 8y ago
Out of curiosity, why would you consider such a thing a philosophy as opposed to something that can be demonstrated, or challenged, with evidence? For instance the stock market is an example of a complex system that ought be trivial to crea
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One side issue you'll run into when discussing things like this is a major response bias. People who have neutral or good experiences are far less to chime in saying as much. By contrast you'll have a very large percentage of an
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Again I'd emphasize one point you made here: "And in practice most all of the offers are difficult or impossible to really compare to each other in practice, so most consumers have to rely mainly on the marketing materials and su
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by rjf72 8y ago
Might depend on the specifics. I'm using Brave -> Lion Icon -> toggle Scripts Allowed to All Scripts Blocked. As an aside it also saves those settings per site making it quite convenient!
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Without answering that question, just block scripts on the site and everything loads fine.
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The referenced study [1] showed that taking people out of their regular sleeping patterns had detrimental effects, which is a surprise to nobody. It did not test for the effects of different habitual sleep patterns! Participants were requir
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The argument in favor of deregulation of most things has some straight forward logic behind it. Imagine that some major player did begin to act badly. This would enable a competitor to offer a distinct value. Like the GP mentioned some pred
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by rjf72 8y ago
It's not just budget cuts. It's an exploding legal system behind patents. Try to decipher the patent rules [1] sometime. It's filled with incredibly counter-intuitive self referential legalese that, even when one understand t
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This is not how they did their calculations. It's described here [1]. They were not comparing individuals against some set average and making sure each employee was then brought up to that average and then saying e.g. x% of men and y
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You might have missed the part about PRISM. [1] " Internal NSA presentation slides included in the various media disclosures show that the NSA could unilaterally access data and perform "extensive, in-depth surveillance on live co
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'Back in the day' regular formats were a pretty good way of maintaining system performance. They still are really but computers being an order of magnitude overpowered for all the tasks 90% of users do makes it less relevant. You&
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I suspect they were using the data from here [1]. Quite well organized and easy to play with, even has numeric indexing of the various areas so you can mix and match the data easily! [1] - https://www.chicago.gov/city/e
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by rjf72 8y ago
This [1] is a study I read some time back that broke down the numbers. The paper was focused on the chiseling out of the middle class, as is this one. For instance in 1979 the middle class controlled 46% of all income, and the upper/ri
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I'm not sure whether I agree with you or not, but something I'd add to your point is that this is also a proxy for typical political ideologies. 'Small government' is specifically focused on reduction of the size of the
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There is one very key issue here that is often overlooked. Here are two datums. The first [1] is Chicago community areas by per capita income. The second [2] is the same areas by fertility rate. There is an extremely strong correlation be
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by rjf72 8y ago
And when what was posted on 4chan was links to a series of meteorological studies and reports? I'm not being obtuse - I think this is actually a perfect example of one of the many problems here. It's difficult to get (and in turn,
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by rjf72 8y ago
There is something that rather confuses me about this logic. If somebody is not "sophisticated" enough to come to an informed opinion, are they truly in a better place parroting what they read from a newspaper instead of simply be
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by rjf72 8y ago
And when one source says they think it will rain in 20 days, and another says it they think it will not rain in 20 days?
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by rjf72 8y ago
Like many issues there is not going to be a black and white yes or no answer. It's going to depend on the exact locale, the nature/type of terrain in the region, the type/specification/quantity of panels being installed,
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As you are clearly blurring the lines between this specific issues and a more general one, I'm going to reference the latter and exclusively the latter. There's a wide gulf between pedophilia and then jumping into appeals against
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I'd also add here that hindsight is 20/20. You don't really know what you're creating until it's created. Do it again a second time when you know exactly what you're getting at the end, alongside the challeng
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Not sure what "most estimates" means but that'd be $400k a year in passive income assuming the smallest possible number and an extremely conservative 4% return -- index funds have been hitting longterm returns around 10%. Suf
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The reason 'ageism' is a thing is because many tech companies view labor costs > all. Two people are applying for the same job. One is a guy with 2 decades experience in relevant technologies, the other is a fresh graduate who
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by rjf72 8y ago
Brave, as but one example, natively supports Chrome extensions. [1] It also has a slew of really awesome features now including single click TOR windows, native anti-fingerprinting / anti-tracking, native ad-blocking, native anti-scrip
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Skirmish and proxy wars can be carried out without turning to the nuclear option. For instance Vietnam was in part a proxy war between the US and China -- both nuclear powers at the time. Even outright war might not result in the nuclear op
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The reason I think you are not artificial has to do with the fact that you are observing yourself. My actions are undoubtedly being driven primarily by a series of electrical, chemical, and other reactions going off in my mind and throughou
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Another important issue here is that 'evil' and 'good' are very much subjective notions. Most people, including some of the most 'evil' throughout history, were the benevolent heroes of the world from their per
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As you go back in time every generation had some practically insurmountable and very clear enemy and 'evil' to overcome. I think this is fairly self evident if we look back before the 20th century. But going beyond that in the 192

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