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by robocat 6mo ago
They'll use coloured pencils to design a Cortana avatar. Your support will be provided by an AI bot almost as smart as Clippy because it was trained on the marketer's corpus of emails.
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pseudofauxteutönic
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> Those taxes don't actually cover the cost of maintaining the road system Yes they almost did. Only a few years ago the National Land Transport Fund (NLTF) was almost entirely self-sustaining, funded by road users. Recently Crown f
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Maybe blame consumers rather than manufacturers. And if a government sets up incentives incorrectly, blame the government schemes, not those using such badly designed incentives. The buyers wanted a petrol car. And they choose to fill with
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I always wonder where consumer surplus fits into arguments about profit. Although in this particular situation clearly the consumer surplus wasn't enough to keep consumers buying Del Monte products. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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my guess is that the loans are not profitable for the banks - and the banks don't really want to manage these loans - many of which might be just a few thousand dollars. Because it is a government program it is likely the banks don&#x2
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Yes: Page 30 of The Operator's Guide for IBM 3270 Information Display Systems calls it a Tab key. Tab also has typamatic capability that allows you to move the cursor quickly from field to field. The Back Tab key moves the curs
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> why an active mortgage The banks make very low profits on 0% interest (government subsidised green) loans with a max total lending limit of NZD50k and many approvals might be less than $10k. The loan needs to use the home as collateral
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by robocat 6mo ago
Rhymes with reddit.com at IPO: - Sam Altman ~9% - YCombinator had <5% - Steve Huffman ~3% Although he had ~4% voting power via Class B shares. - Alexis Ohanian: Minimal - Advance Publications: ~30% - Tencent: ~11%. The original founders
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How good are LLMs at understanding Haskell errors and then dealing with them? The last time I had a go with Haskell, the errors reminded me so much of hellish terminal compilers from the 80s and 90s that I quickly gave up. Been there, not d
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> There's plenty of freshwater fish that are farmed around the world Farmed fish are often fed on fish meal from the ocean - e.g. fish meal made from species that are not eaten by people. Between 5% and 10% of ocean fishing is used
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Battery dimensions are same as CATL's 587 Ah lithium storage cell: Length 73.5mm Width 286mm Height 216mm Apparently dimensions for the lithium cell were designed based on constraints: maritime transport weight limits (50t), 1500V max
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Perhaps the US can use this as a worldwide strength. Good standards are very powerful. I'm from NZ and because we import everything, we follow frequency/power/encoding regulations from elsewhere. Aside: NZ has different plug
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> notice that all the connection on the USB port are not all the same length, it is a form of protection This was noticeable on USB-A connectors when you look closely where the two outside pins were slightly longer than the two inside pi
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Smart people say and do dumb stuff, just like everyone. It is a logical error to think people are not smart because they do or say things that are not smart. You show your own biases by your opinions on Americans, and by mentioning money at
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by robocat 6mo ago
Everyone is taught that doctors save lives. However many others in society save lives that are not so lavishly praised or financially rewarded. For example in New Zealand median pay for a Road Design Engineer is about $100k NZD compared to
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Also broken mains lead to sinkholes: https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cj9zex1r3kjo
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Apparently not: Westminster City Council has told the BBC it did not grant permission, as it was not given advance warning that Banksy's team was planning this installation. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles
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> He was born to money I'm guessing you wouldn't like to judge someone because they were poor. Letting issues about money overly influence your opinions is a signal that _you_ care too much about money.
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The The M/T EUREKA is designed to carry petroleum products rather than crude oil. Products like Gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, Light Distillates, Fuel Oils. I would guess if it were crude oil, then that would have a limited market of buye
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Sure - that's a bug bounty - which is opt-in. You said "There is actually no way to give them a friendly heads up, and then do your own thing. The only way not to be bound is by not sending them any notification at all..." So
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Great metaphor. I'd hate to be involved in any emergency services. Too many people have opinions on how things should have been done.
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> criminal penalties Mostly cover citizens within a very limited set of jurisdictions. Otherwise there's a chance at extradition.
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> terms of our responsible disclosure policy I couldn't find a public copy of that. The best starting point I found for reporting vulnerabilities was: https://github.com/microsoft/MSRC-Security-Research/sec
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You can't make voters care about budgeting for the future. They have unrealistic expectations and politicians have to pander to voters. The majority of voters can't manage their own finances that well. When the future hits us hard
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To use the strongest plausible interpretation, the writer could be from Belgium, where the meaning of 2.256 depends on whether they wrote the number in French, Dutch or German. The Belgians apparently typically invert the meaning of . and ,
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> These are not topics you will just figure out on your own or "on the job". People would if they have the incentive to. I was always amazed at how many game developers learnt fairly deep mathematics and computer science withou
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Science isn't only frequentist
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Every country tries to claim critical dependency for innovations. I guess you parochially mention that one because you remember that narrative (maybe because it makes you feel better). I maliciously searched for examples of the French think
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Many modern electronics still contain a vacuum because MEMS gyroscopes use a high vacuum. The search response also said MEMS oscillators (modern performance replacements for quartz crystals) use a high vacuum but given the iPhone 8 was famo

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