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by rodgerd 3y ago
Isn't TVA? Or that federal? Or just a generator?
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by rodgerd 3y ago
If food production operated as, say co-operatives between farmers and customers, what do you think would be worse or better than the current model. (Note: I get my insurance through a co-op, and the difference between my experience and peop
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Let's say you own a car yard. You have a chunk of land, a building, and some stock. Those might go on the books as simple assets of ten million bucks. You decide to sell the business. You want to retire, you entertain offers. The winni
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by rodgerd 3y ago
At heart it's simple enough, as I learned in sixth form accounting: you need something in your ledger to account for the difference between the asset value of your business and the price someone will pay to buy it from you. Obviously t
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by rodgerd 3y ago
I would rather die in an implosion that running out of air at 3,000 metres over the course of several days.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
I let the Ember Media Manager work out the hard stuff around this for me. It is (generally) extremely good about parsing things, scraping the right details, and producing INFO/NFO files that Kodi, Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, etc will recogni
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Indeed. I have a Nokia 950 and in many ways WinPho was a really nice phone OS; Microsoft's endless jerking about of developers as it went 6.5 -> 7.x -> 8 -> 10 did it no favours.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> It's a false dichotomy You keep saying this. Do you have any actual evidence?
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Apple enforces the rules that applications must only harvest data in the ways that they describe. That's behind Facebook's tantrum about the App Store. Google said it would introduce an equivalent policy, but then backed off, and
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Why are you so desperate to break the iPhone experience? Because you can have that. You can have a Pine phone, you can have an Android device, you can have Sailfin. Why are you unhappy with all the choices for phones that provide everything
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> It seems like a massive regulatory failure to let Coinbase IPO if there are the sort of glaring issues they claim Did you read the article? Specifically the part where it explains why the SEC does not evaluate the business models of co
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Restore serfdom.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
He was also part of the team that gave the owner of the sub awards. It's not really credible to claim that spez wasn't somehow very enthusiastic about it.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
It's for people who see all the problems caused by formal structures, think "wait, if we got rid of those structures, we would have a better time of it", and don't want to learn the hard way. Also for those people who ar
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by rodgerd 3y ago
It's great for people who want to do crime, and for people who want to bully their colleagues into doing crime or help cover it up: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/eufm.12426
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Ah yes, the web which is dominated by checks notes not-Chrome.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
AppleTV shows have started displaying ads for other shows before you can watch an episode. It is extremely irritating, considering that it's a paid service.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Sure: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/leak-... The gaggle of moving parts that are involved in the PC world make security and privacy substantially more challenging because of nonsense
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> How do you suppose it should be paid for? As I get older and crankier, this is pretty much becoming my response more and more often, and not just to issues of who pays. More often than not the response is handwaving.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
You seem unfamiliar with the Alder Lake compromise.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> People keep repeating this but how does higher bandwidth (probably not 8x higher though) compensate for a lower amount of RAM? I guess it depends on your use case, but back when part of my day job was debugging performance problems wit
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by rodgerd 3y ago
I do wonder in these conversations how many people are actual users of these things - I'm not, I got a Studio last year to manage my photography addition better, and the Pro is pointless for that - but you'd assume that Apple have
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by rodgerd 3y ago
The only people who care about that are a handful of nerds who are deluded enough to believe that people want to sysadmin their phones, and surveillance capitalism and gambling companies such as Facebook and Riot who are desperate to bypass
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Credential sharing is a huge QoL improvement in an ordinary-folks kind of way, and very pleasing. Now if only the Contacts team would do the same.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> Banks suck. Banks in Singapore provide 5 minute inter-bank settlement. Banks in NZ provide multiple intra-day settlements seven days a week. Australia's NPP settles within one minute as a typical target. Banks are perfectly capabl
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Work from home is great for preventing financial crimes because the criminals know not to write things down; the people who want you back in the office are the crooks: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> I scratch my head and wonder, if India is so good WTF are they still doing here Some of Erdoğan's most reliable voters live in Germany. It's not uncommon.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
No, no, no, that's not how it works. Globalisation is for throwing you in the street if you won't work for Vietnamese wages, not for letting you buy goods at Vietnamese prices.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
There was a period where a Brit could very reliably pay for an extremely nice holiday in Istanbul by making sure they returned with a suitcase or two full of 100% genuine Levis jeans. The only difference was the price discrimination model.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> i don’t think the parent comment deserved to be flagged, so I vouched for it. Since archive.org have now updated that the problem scraper is now evading countermeasures and bringing them down repeatedly, and has been identified as an &

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