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571.
by sib 5y ago
Ehhh, if a store is the analogy, YouTube is choosing their products here, which is exactly what stores do.
572.
by sib 5y ago
Reminder that Germany doesn't have the same definition of "freedom of speech" that the US does (not making the case that one is better than the other, but simply that they are different.)
573.
by sib 5y ago
"Google is implementing its previously-announced one-hour cap"
574.
by sib 5y ago
Here are the FCC materials (but the data related to capacity is in the confidential sections): https://fccid.io/BCGA2384
575.
by sib 5y ago
They're also creating an implicit discount for longer-term tenants (which is good for landlords). When I rented my place in NYC some years ago, the broker fee was meaningful to me. Once I paid it, I was less likely to want to move sinc
576.
by sib 5y ago
Speaking specifically of the US market (I don't know where you are), the list of available titles for transactional rental at any time is a tiny subset of all movies that exist on digital due to windowing (licensing) restrictions. By f
577.
by sib 5y ago
But you can mail letters without return addresses...
578.
by sib 5y ago
Ehhhh, that may not be the email address that the invited user prefers to use (or may not even know what email it was). For example, in my last (extremely large) company, IT would helpfully create multiple email addresses for us (UUID plus
579.
by sib 5y ago
>> "PaSSWord123" "pAsswORD123" Wow - non-case-sensitive passwords seem like a bad idea...
580.
by sib 5y ago
>> Amazon has 12 million skus walmart 75 million. ?? Sorry but Amazon has far, far more than 12M SKUs.
581.
by sib 5y ago
For more about the egregious ways in which the NCAA treats student-athletes, this is a great book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LFZ8SF8/
582.
by sib 5y ago
Yes - although what would be completely acceptable for a well-off person to live in in 17th-century North America wouldn't come close to meeting building codes today. It wouldn't even have plumbing, electric power, indoor toilet,
583.
by sib 5y ago
Yup. I actually was a research assistant for a university professor who specifically studied economic history, price changes, and the econometric models that could be built from them, etc. The problem is that the basket of goods is so diffe
584.
by sib 5y ago
Hmm. How many computers or iPhones or cars or televisions or bicycles could I have bought in 1635 with one US dollar. Come to think of it, where would I have gotten a US dollar in 1635? (And yes, I've studied lots of economics and unde
585.
by sib 5y ago
Right. (When push comes to shove, the bar raiser could overrule, but everyone would rather it not have to get to that point...)
586.
by sib 5y ago
sib's lemma: Not just as an IC (but as a manager, executive, senior exec, ...).
587.
by sib 5y ago
In my org, we did a lot of hiring (I was in hundreds of interview debriefs) and we saw mostly the same set of ~10 bar raisers for the debriefs, with occasional fill-ins to make scheduling easier.
588.
by sib 5y ago
Well... I'm not sure that it's exactly like that, at least when I was there. The bar raiser can say "no" even if the HM says "yes," but I never heard of it going the other way (where hypothetically the HM would
589.
by sib 5y ago
Yeah... I have a hard time imagining anyone in the US describing today's NPR as "nice polite Republicans"... Perhaps Bernie Sanders would possibly describe them as centrist?
590.
by sib 5y ago
For 20 years (ok, more, really), laptops have not been fast enough to do reasonable professional-grade photo editing using standard Adobe tools. The complexity of the algorithms being applied increases at least as fast as the processor powe
591.
by sib 5y ago
Exclusive content --> more value for distribution channels --> ability to pay producers more money --> better content
592.
by sib 5y ago
And further along this path, if you really want to be saddened / depressed / disgusted, there's King Leopold's Ghost. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004KZOWEG
593.
by sib 5y ago
The sound from these is incredible - I recently had a demo that ranged from single unit, to 2, 3, and even 4 in a room, and it's like nothing I've heard. And the ability to move separate sources or stems around the room virtually
594.
by sib 5y ago
Ah, yes, but I did not have access to Wi-Fi either. My phone could not connect to the internet. The (borrowed) desktop computer was online.
595.
by sib 5y ago
<raises hand> Two EVs, electric oven, refrigerator, air conditioning here... We installed solar when we moved in but would need massive storage to handle peak loads "locally" at our house.
596.
by sib 5y ago
In a particularly ironic situation, I was trying to log in to my bank's website on a computer from a distant international location so I could pay the credit card bill and, since it was a new browser, the bank required 2FA via my pho
597.
by sib 5y ago
>> more and more people are installing their bank's mobile app, which is used as the second factor (you get a push notification, you have to unlock and accept the transaction Great - so much for those times where I've been t
598.
by sib 5y ago
And it's worth every bit of the journey to see the waterfalls. https://fernweh.photo/2016/11/19/supai-arizona/ The helicopter "pad" and the hiking trailhead are themselves many miles from
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by sib 5y ago
Or, as Dan Carlin, the creator of the Hardcore History podcast says, "The Japanese are like everyone else, only more so." https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/
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by sib 6y ago
My last Subaru (traded in for Tesla Model 3) was lucky to get 250 miles.

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