rswail

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901.
by rswail 5y ago
Because the taxi business is a commodity. The returns are ~2%. Uber doesn't have any geographic or other advantages. "Self driving" is a nonsense claim that doesn't stack up because it's not going to be available fo
902.
by rswail 5y ago
Yes, find the entities/resources in the domain, model them, model their state and what makes them change state. Give names to those states and what makes them change. Applied this to a public transport ticketing system, it has entities
903.
by rswail 5y ago
You've stated an axiom.
904.
by rswail 5y ago
Cash is not a store of value, it's a mechanism of exchange. It never has been a store of value. It's supposed to be safe but if it has zero risk, then it has zero return. Inflation is a bit like maintaining the pressure in the p
905.
by rswail 5y ago
Homebrew's mecahnisms are inherently "fail-unsafe". It really has no excuse.
906.
by rswail 5y ago
> I’d much rather use tools that use huge convoluted script languages or good plug-in apis than tools that duct tape together with exit codes. The Unix "plug-in API" is pipes and exec and "everything is a file (descriptor)
907.
by rswail 5y ago
I use the macports version. As far as I am aware, there are no advantages to using the Apple version.
908.
by rswail 5y ago
> Print-on-demand sellers are selling pure intellectual property. Well they're selling properly licensed products that use their images that are protected by copyright (and potentially trademark). The supposedly appropriate response
909.
by rswail 5y ago
> Publicly traded companies have a fiduciary duty to their share holders to make as much money as possible. That is not accurate . They are required to operate in a manner that is satisfactory to their owners, who delegate that responsi
910.
by rswail 5y ago
I wouldn't call 9/11 "limited". Nor is Yemen, or, earlier, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Iran etc. The fundamental of all of these is oil and now, gas. Removing the demand for these will remove the necessity of engaging with the
911.
by rswail 5y ago
I have a 2007 Alfa Spider (Brera without a solid roof) and the pattern is the same with a 6th gear below 5. To get into reverse there's a gear stick collar to pull up.
912.
by rswail 5y ago
For those in the US worried about cash "disappearing", see this legislation recently introduced in the House [1]. It specifically counters the problems of crypto-currencies (the excess energy requirements, the transaction processi
913.
by rswail 5y ago
ISO is essentially a collection of national standards bodies that are often under government or semi-government authority.
914.
by rswail 5y ago
Google "contributes" whatever they are paying to Mozilla every year. The reason Mozilla exists is to maintain "plausible deniability" in terms of anti-trust for the other browser "vendors", which used to be IE,
915.
by rswail 5y ago
It exists, I can "pay with apple pay" that then lets me choose one of the cards in my apple pay wallet. The issue is access of payment providers to the wallet. There's no real reason why there couldn't be a "MyTelco
916.
by rswail 5y ago
> If I subscribe to Stadia via Verizon, it means Verizon can pump that money into mmWave 5G to lower the latency on that cloud gaming experience. More like "If I subscribe to Stadia via Verizon, they can charge me more for the Gamer
917.
by rswail 5y ago
If they are a monopoly (or roughly equivalent) then they can be regulated.
918.
by rswail 5y ago
Or regulation. In Australia, the Reserve Bank regulates interchange fees and requires the end user to be made aware of card processing fees which can't exceed a percentage/value of the transaction. Similar regulation applies in th
919.
by rswail 5y ago
The entire US "college sports" nonsense is completely separable and unnecessary to tertiary education. As is the "4 year college experience" nonsense that has students travelling "away from home for the first time&q
920.
by rswail 5y ago
Bangpath email addresses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Bang_path Munnari being the UUCP connection between Australia and the rest of the world, run by Robert Elz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
921.
by rswail 5y ago
because toy apps that use dropdowns like the OP mentioned will do a "SELECT * FROM security_groups" at the backend (requiring RAM for the whole thing to format the response) and then send it down to the frontend which will then sp
922.
by rswail 5y ago
So if I (in Australia) have a meeting with people in Thailand and Slovakia over Google meet, which is absolutely an "event we want to know when they happened but don't care about where in anyway", the local time(s) are all im
923.
by rswail 5y ago
I've said for ages that programmers only need two subjects to learn. Date and time programming and debugging. The first one leads naturally to the second one. The rules I follow: 1. If you're recording an event in the past, store
924.
by rswail 5y ago
If everyone gets a CB bank account then they will have a bank account. For example, Australia has a banked population of 100%, as in, everyone needing one has a bank account. It's required for receiving government benefits.
925.
by rswail 5y ago
All of which were actually expressed in legislation already or passed by elected government and accepted by courts as valid consitutionally. All of which have been used in the past, and, just like in the past, are being relaxed after they a
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by rswail 5y ago
"The luxury space communism idea" usually has an expressed or implied removal of scarcity as an issue. If there's unlimited supply of goods and services, then there is no need for money. On the other hand, most sci-fi of this
927.
by rswail 5y ago
What do you think the Federal Reserve Bank does? Every bank in the US has an account with the Federal Reserve. The Fed maintains a central database of the transactions between those accounts. The only difference between a blockchain and a t
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by rswail 5y ago
EVs don't have "manual" transmissions and shouldn't/won't. I love driving my manual ICE, but I know that my next car, which will be EV, won't have a gearbox. It'll have "forward" and "r
929.
by rswail 5y ago
> As an R. Kelly fan... You mean Robert Sylvester Kelly, who was found guilty of one count of racketeering and 7 counts of violation of the Mann Act after a jury trial? The same R Kelly that illegally married 15 year old Aaliyah in 1994?
930.
by rswail 5y ago
Barter isn't going to pay the wages of the staff that you need to run a $100m property. You don't think Abramovich runs a vacuum over the rug once a week at home do you?

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