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by sfifs 3y ago
No telhey can distribute in Walmart Home Depot or Lowe's or equivalent. Amazon is just a more convenient way to distribute and will probably charge you less than the others :-)
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by sfifs 3y ago
There are about 70 cities in the world with a larger population than the whole of country of Finland - so maybe there is a representativeness challenge in this comparison.
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by sfifs 3y ago
Much of that growth comes from the West exporting manufacturing to low cost countries to reduce costs. This of course enriches the rich and the powerful in the west by the 100%+ margins they are able to command by the above while also reduc
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by sfifs 3y ago
> I don't see this as being wrong - it's in fact a feature of freedom and a high-rights country. That's precisely the point I'm making. The US in particular values this over common social good, so public services don&
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by sfifs 3y ago
> removing the ability for the app to continue to play the clip in the background when switching to another app or locking the phone. Do you know that the paid version has this exact feature? This is a limitation of the ad-supported vers
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by sfifs 3y ago
> Isn't this an unavoidable curse of all maturing democratic/capitalistic countries and economies? As the society matures, and people's incomes and standard of living rises, and the apparatus for doing such projects grows,
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by sfifs 3y ago
The US enjoys a massively strong dollar as the world's reserve currency and all the economic discounts that entails primarily because governments around the world believe they will deal with trade disruptions through their unrivaled mo
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by sfifs 3y ago
Government organizations, due to the immense power that owning the monopoly on violence gives them (in FTCs case, the ability to be prosecutor, judge & enforcer), are better served takng balanced views and focusing on eggregarious bad b
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by sfifs 3y ago
The same kind of people who don't hold the steering wheel with their hands or pay attention to the road when driving on "autopilot". Turns out there are a large number of them. There's a reason Google went straight for f
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by sfifs 3y ago
One reading of the latest US Supreme Court ruling on the Andy Warhol estate's case is that the current legal frameworks already prevent this. The ruling focused on what was the commercial use case, not on what was the degree of transfo
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by sfifs 3y ago
Libre is very good but I unfortunately developmed an allergy to the glue they use. So you have to test and see. Also these devices have a bias and a drift and are useful for trending, not for exact results all the time. However to monitor h
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by sfifs 3y ago
That's analogy is not really correct. Nor is the one in the video. With electrons, or light for that matter you're dealing with wave particle duality and the appearance of "shortest path" is a result of the particle&#x27
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by sfifs 4y ago
What is actually the obvious reason to ban nuclear detonation in space (Not planetside) other than proliferation & security concerns?
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by sfifs 4y ago
Part of the problem is that there is a natural tendency for people taking extreme positions to begin dominating non-profit, academic etc types of organizations. This results in unnecessary risk taking or alienating different groups in the s
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by sfifs 4y ago
Not clear from the article or the comments here whether the proposed ban is on the magnets themselves or the technology to manufacture the magnets. The words read both ways. Anyone has seen/has insight into the original proposal in Ch
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by sfifs 4y ago
I visited India a few times in the last 9 months after digital payments had taken off due to COVID and can attest that these have been game changers that have led shopkeeps to accept e-payments. More than anything to do with literacy, this
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by sfifs 4y ago
I actually have tried and unfortunately nothing beats Excel - PowerPoint. OneDrive added a killer feature a few years ago in auto Documents and Desktop backup which makes transitioning computers or using temp laptops painless - no more &quo
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by sfifs 4y ago
Almost the entire Fortune 500 uses Microsoft. These companies there have tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of employees (I work in one of the medium ones with 100k) I would bet the largest org on Google Apps is Google itself
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by sfifs 4y ago
I wonder if the bank run on SVB wasn't planned or coordinated in some way by VCs & private to create a scare in the financial system to force rate hikes to stop or slow down as VCs and Private Equity did very well in the era of fre
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by sfifs 4y ago
Exactly this. In a significant chunk of the cases, debt is just left pocket/right pocket accounting within the local economy when aggregating across government sector, private sector and individuals. If these deficits creates positive
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by sfifs 4y ago
A major part of the value of any fiat currency comes from the fact that the institution with a monopoly on violence collects its dues in that currency. If you don't pay your taxes and fines in your nations currency, you go to jail or w
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by sfifs 4y ago
Not OP but Many many instances of corrupt leaders or leaders with unpopular policies/poor governance being thrown out of power in elections peacefully. If anything, the fatalism & inability of Americans to change their political es
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by sfifs 4y ago
i meant doing it as a theoritical planning exercise. you can throw in any number of weird distributions you might guess and you'll be surprised at how quickly sampling will fairly reliably pick up patterns and this helps you plan your
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by sfifs 4y ago
For people who can write code, the simplest exercise to convince yourself of foundational statistics is simulations. Create a simulated population with some distribution of a metric & run multiple sampling simulations. You'll be su
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by sfifs 4y ago
nope. why give away capability? if there was any risk, it would be shot down. it it wasn't, it was probably observing wilderness/pastures
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by sfifs 4y ago
Or working on Fusion :-) You know without any energy generation limitations, I once calculated that we could grow enough food to feed the world in less than 10000 skyscraper farms and return all those millions of hectares of cropland, pastu
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by sfifs 4y ago
> Just break app store and other important functionality, rendering the devices borderline useless. If Apple breaks laws isn't that what Governments should do? For instance in Europe (was it Netherlands ?).Apple has blatantly ignore
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by sfifs 4y ago
It's always easy to criticize something as silly if one is not dependent on it for one's livelihood. As the concept of patronage by royalty has gone away, our societies have decided to reward creative arts with copyright instead.
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Yes and when the derived things are very similar to the original and people feel wronged, they sue and judgements come from the court. Now if you are the company selling this product, how many people are feeling wronged and will sue - that&
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by sfifs 4y ago
I believed in stuff built on top of browser platform too and had written something useful for me and it turns out a few dozen more people through the Chrome store. Then Google for some ideological reason related to PWAs killed the Chrome Ap

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