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by sib 4y ago
The iOS reminders app already has a concept of "remind user <x> at <y> time" so Siri is just creating one of those. The bedroom light may not have such a structured concept already existing (or may not expose the full-
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by sib 4y ago
1950's America also benefited from having created the biggest wartime production economy the world had ever seen, combined with most other "advanced" economies having been turned to rubble. At the end of WWII, the US's G
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New Google Workspace features for Android on larger screens(blog.google)
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The Russian Economy Is Imploding(foreignpolicy.com)
12 points by sib 4y ago|2 comments
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by sib 4y ago
And Amazon shows the distribution from 1..5 stars, rather than just an average (I know, plenty of noise/garbage in there still...)
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by sib 4y ago
My wife is 4'10" and often has trouble finding cars in which the driver's seat can be adjusted to fit her... I'm guessing she's well below the 5th percentile (at least in the US).
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by sib 4y ago
As one of my advisors in college (very senior, tenured macroeconomic professor, who had been on a US President's board of economic advisors) said to me, "If you lined all the economists in the world up end-to-end, they still would
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by sib 4y ago
I've most commonly heard it said, "bass-ackward," in order to remove the "ass" as a standalone syllable...
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by sib 4y ago
Any tips for how to stay "outside the vision cartel"? (In the US, if that is relevant...)
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by sib 4y ago
Thanks for this explanation - makes complete sense but never thought about it!
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by sib 4y ago
Gross profit is not profit. And the comment said "profit" not gross profit.
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by sib 4y ago
No idea where you are getting your numbers, but Amazon did not post $200B in profit in 2021. The list of top five annual profit (adjusted to current USD) by any company ever is: 1. Saudi Aramco (2018) - $120B 2. Saudi Aramco (2021) - $115
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by sib 4y ago
Tesla cars are not garbage, speaking as an owner - we currently have both our 2nd [2018 Model 3] and 3rd [2022 Model Y] acquired-new Tesla vehicles. Other than tire rotation, cabin air filter change, and wiper fluid refill, our cars have
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by sib 4y ago
And a single full-size Amazon fulfillment center plus its associated truck yards and employee parking lots can easily take up 0.5 - 1.0 square miles (320 - 640 acres / 130 - 260 hectares), so this doesn't seem like a lot of land,
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by sib 4y ago
It's not that they make more on selling ads than the end user pays for the TV. It's that the manufacturer makes more on the ads than their tiny share of the price that the user pays. A mfr might only make single digit $$ of margin
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by sib 4y ago
No. That doesn't follow from my comment. What I am saying is that a government's making laws against distribution of software is not censorship.
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by sib 4y ago
>> "cloud providers" should be treated like something that can fail. We already don't trust hard drives, that's why we have RAID "Can fail" is certainly true, just like a hard drive can fail. But we'
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by sib 4y ago
"you must have permission from the rightsholder to distribute any copyrighted material and if you don't we'll block your site"? Blocking under that law, whether you agree with it or not, isn't censorship. But that i
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by sib 4y ago
I spend a lot of my (non-work) time doing photo editing using Adobe products while traveling. I'll happily take a laptop that is 10x as fast as my current one...
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by sib 4y ago
>> For instance, if you search for “buy ps5” they don’t need a secret profile to show you ads for a PS5. >Sorta. The real money is from competitors. How much would Microsoft spend to convince someone interested in a ps5 to to spend
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by sib 4y ago
Is it? Or is taking a penny allowed, but not taking all the pennies (which feels more code-is-lawish...)
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by sib 4y ago
Literally 164% more energy - not exponentially.
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by sib 5y ago
Yeah, so far, with the rooftop system we put in about 1.5 years ago (Los Angeles), we are tracking to ~5.5 year payback period, so this feels right.
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by sib 5y ago
Not that many years ago (post-2000) they still ran tourist trains up that line, starting in Renton and going to Kirkland...
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by sib 5y ago
Also, that's a very slow commercial airplane. (Unless talking about an old turboprop?)
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by sib 5y ago
My dad, who worked on jet engine production many decades ago, would refer to MIL SPEC EYEBALL Mk I. (I think he was kidding...)
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by sib 5y ago
>> why does the landlord need to know when I go/come to the house Exactly for that reason I did not want this in my last (and hopefully final) rented home.
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by sib 5y ago
No, there's still a distinction. Secured financing can still fall through.
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by sib 5y ago
But also avoiding a very real possibility of significant costs (property destruction, litigation to remove bad tenants, etc.)
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by sib 5y ago
And what about when "Mom is in the backseat having a heart attack and we need to try to get to the hospital" is added to the equation?

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