saddlerustle

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by saddlerustle 4y ago
No chance, the company providing the software seems firmly at the 'tech demo' stage and mostly looks like a grift for government grants.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Yes, but note usually around 30% of the ticket price of a european short-haul flight is already other taxes. This is compared to train tickets that include a 30%+ subsidy
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Land transport yes, but the operational cost of long distance trains is quite a bit higher per passenger-mile than planes
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Ah I was always curious about this. Thanks for the history!
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
I'm not sure how true that is given how closely the Adreno 2xx ISA matches Xenos
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
The price dropped because load on the grid dropped after ERCOT ordered blackouts. This was the correct thing to do as despite lower load there was still clearly insufficient supply, and as long as there is insufficient supply you don't
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
You can argue the law is just and right till the cows come home but the reality is it has made browsing the web much worse for everyone in the EU for unclear benefit.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
The choice is between multiple regulatory investigations not actioning this specific issue over multiple years of the some of the most intense global scrutiny on a company in recent history verses believing somebody's tangentially rela
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
No, the obvious solution is to allocate slots by auction instead of arbitrary rules set by the government.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Facebook does not maintain "accounts" on non-users in a meaningful way and they have stated this multiple times to multiple regulators [1]. An email campaign being sent to an intersection of a bunch of users's contacts is not
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
CFR != IFR
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
It's really not. WhatsApp has just as big of a misinformation problem without any sort of algorithmic ranking.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Unfortunately Amazon pays little taxes not because of trickery with tax loopholes, but mostly because by design companies only owe taxes on profits and Amazon has made (on net) very little profit to date. Governments tax corporate revenue
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Facebook is the only major platform that studied its impact on mental health, so it's the only one that can be punished for what they found.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Theres nagging to setup Apple Pay (which apple gets a cut of), and now they also push trials of Apple Music and Apple Arcade - https://postimg.cc/YM9xW5B4/
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
https://i.postimg.cc/YM9xW5B4/40qz3647fuq71.webp
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
And yet, they put ads in the iPhone settings app.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
> I should be able to click an app on my computer The majority of internet users don't have a computer
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Facebook's earnings stated they're going to be burning a large fraction of their net income on it going forward, so it seems like it's hardly a hobby.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
My understanding is it's complicated in the US, but between most other western countries there are treaties allowing foreign judgements to be enforced domestically. >If so, does it mean that, as a hypothetical website owner, I need
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
No I got the Netherlands confused with Denmark, which was a comparison from when bitcoin was much smaller.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
A single aluminium smelter consumes more power than the entirety of the Netherlands. It's not a very useful comparison.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Good for you. For me, after the local grocery store went to shit, with Prime Now and Amazon Fresh I've shifted almost all our spending to Amazon.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
> it's pretty easy to detect like 90% of bot users How to tell someone’s never worked on anti-abuse at scale
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Facebook does sometimes ask for a scan of government ID in the account recovery flow. Unfortunately the cost of operating the ~100,000 storefronts required to be nearby a significant fraction of its users would be absurd compared to the ben
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
The last published DPC audit found that it does [1]. There's really no reason to subject themselves to huge fines and lie about it when an insignificant fraction of facebook users delete anything. [1] https://web.archive.org
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
H1B visas aren't "preferred", it's the only visa available for skilled immigration for most people.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Hotels are also real estate that could be used for residences.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Buy to let has no effect on housing prices as long as rental yields are low. If the problem is tourism: ban tourists from the city. It doesn't make sense to ban short-term rentals but continue to build hotels and run advertising campai
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Maybe, just maybe, high prices is instead because Amsterdam is building about half as much housing as it did 40 years ago, and significantly less than population growth.

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