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901.
by rurp 3y ago
Putting solar panels on existing structures, as is the case in this article, is much better than on undisturbed land. The upper crust in a lot of southwest desert stores a significant amount of carbon which gets released when you tear it up
902.
by rurp 3y ago
Same for me. I had plenty of interests as a kid but none that readily mapped onto a good job. I definitely felt some jealousy towards kids who always knew what they wanted to do.
903.
by rurp 3y ago
It can be a great way to build a niche brand, but makes it hard to be an industry leading one. Alienating so many customers right off the bat puts a ceiling on growth. Practically every major company bends over backwards to avoid pissing of
904.
by rurp 3y ago
I really liked the book and then watched the show years later. The first season of the show covers the book. Overall I liked the show, though not as much as the book. It followed my memory of the book fairly well aside from a few significan
905.
by rurp 3y ago
It's a matter of degrees. A car losing 25% of its value is much better than losing 75% over the same time period. How well a vehicle will hold its value is a factor that many people factor into their purchasing decisions.
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by rurp 3y ago
I'm not sure why you think charging anxiety couldn't have been one of the factors. TFA calls it out as one. Charging is one of the main concerns with ownership and that would be even more of a challenge with a rental car in an unf
907.
by rurp 3y ago
The would expect developers to be driven mainly by the fact that constructing buildings for businesses and residences is much more profitable than building adequate parking. I'm not saying the current system is ideal, but leaving it up
908.
by rurp 3y ago
I wouldn't agree with that, there are plenty of levers available to limit tech, especially for anything resource intensive like AI. Electric cars could have been mainstream 100 years ago without a concerted effort to stop them. Plus Na
909.
by rurp 3y ago
> To be fair, this is no different than what's done by a human artist. Scale matters. It's like the difference between a cop sitting on the side of a road writing down the cars he sees on a pad of paper versus cameras plastered
910.
by rurp 3y ago
Pull up a chart of what the federal defecit has been under each party control over the past half century and it's pretty clear that one major party is a lot more culpable than the other. Spoiler alert, it's not the party that spen
911.
by rurp 3y ago
Fortunately a superpower country is quite different from a random household in a number of ways. Being able to borrow trillions at the rate the treasury pays, having a massive military, controlling the money supply, and being the world rese
912.
by rurp 3y ago
How? There is nothing in current federal law that would allow anything close to that level of reduction. When SBF was first indicted there are a lot of unrealistic comments about how he won't do any time because he donated to politicia
913.
by rurp 3y ago
I think you're right to be sad about it, and I would add "deeply concerned" as well. Our society is at a point where the most dangerous risks are ones that the human mind is pretty bad at reasoning about. That's a big pr
914.
by rurp 3y ago
> Can you imagine other great authors doing the same — even with a form letter? This isn't so hard to believe. I have emailed and gotten a response from several people who are fairly famous within a niche that I'm interested in
915.
by rurp 3y ago
VR is the most extreme case of a product that a subset of technophiles absolutely love and that the rest of the population is decidedly meh on. I think that you are vastly overestimating the amount of people who want to spend a large portio
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by rurp 3y ago
I know for sure that Glassdoor has no problem with companies flooding their page with fake positive reviews. I worked for a shady company that did exactly that in the most blatant way possible. They consistenly posted short vapid 5 star rev
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by rurp 3y ago
Yep, it's so disappointing how many web projects provide solid value for many people, have a reasonable business model, but go to absolute shit and eventually fade to nothing chasing unsustainable returns. It's staggering how much
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by rurp 3y ago
My God what a sleazy company this is. I just logged in for the first time in ages to delete my account and it immediately gave me an inescapable modal requiring personal information, including my name! I stopped using the site years ago onc
919.
by rurp 3y ago
I drove a newer Subaru for a couple days and it had a "feature" like this with a camera pointed at the driver that would beep if it thought you weren't paying enough attention. Just like the pest control truck it was innacura
920.
by rurp 3y ago
Like it or not most of the US is oriented around driving and it's basically unavoidable for most adults. Using that as justification to erode everyone's rights feels deeply wrong to me.
921.
by rurp 3y ago
Airlines are typically repeat buyers of airplanes. If customers avoid Boeing planes enough to hurt business that will affect future purchasing decisions.
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by rurp 3y ago
I for one am shocked, shocked , to see Google fail at basic product and messaging strategy.
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"Disgraceful": Messy ToS update allegedly locks Roku devices until users give in(arstechnica.com)
105 points by rurp 3y ago|20 comments
924.
by rurp 3y ago
Well for one thing a database of biometric records gives you an immutable way to impersonate those people on any other platform that relies on the same biometrics. But that's kind of beside the point. I wouldn't be at all confiden
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Google's AI chatbot refuses to say if Hitler or Musk is worse(nypost.com)
2 points by rurp 3y ago|0 comments
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by rurp 3y ago
> When they took strong political stances for and against different groups, a bunch of mentors drifted away. Out of curiousity, could you could elaborate on this a bit? I'm not that familiar with Techstars aside from being generally
927.
by rurp 3y ago
This seems pretty spot on. I would bet that the median Japanese citizen cares infinitely more about local food prices than the cost of a chanel bag.
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by rurp 3y ago
Nextdoor is such a disappointment for me. I've never been that invested in the giant social networks but Nextdoor often has legitimately useful posts from people in my area. But my God, the company behind it is so toxic they ruined wha
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by rurp 3y ago
I mean, yes? There are many techniques for blocking or throttling high volume scraping. You don't even need to understand the techniques, plenty of companies sell this as a service. That's beside the point though. There's no
930.
by rurp 3y ago
Did you miss that the LLM correctly interpreted the question to be about computer processes? The stated reason it refused to answer had nothing to do with killing humans.

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