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by sowbug 3y ago
None beyond what anyone could already avoid with cash. Like SAR, it's a pretext to criminalize privacy.
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by sowbug 3y ago
You are describing network effects. People use Facebook because people use Facebook, as one example. Network effects are part of the reason why a company like Facebook is valued higher than the net of its assets minus liabilities. In accoun
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Apple reportedly cut a deal to get cleaner Amazon pages(theverge.com)
1 points by sowbug 3y ago|0 comments
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by sowbug 3y ago
Write code that naturally follows from well-structured objects.
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by sowbug 3y ago
Good riddance. Even if we set aside the legal controversy, the app itself is a usability nightmare. The McDonald's corporation must believe that its app users are so hungry and desperate that they're willing to endure a nonstandar
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Spotify to change royalty model, including minimum stream count for payment(djmag.com)
4 points by sowbug 3y ago|0 comments
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by sowbug 3y ago
$6 million x 4% safe withdrawal rate = $240,000 a year. It's enough for comfort, but it's still considered a middle-class income in the more expensive parts of the country. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/takes
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by sowbug 3y ago
It's a paradox. Everyone thinking about buying an EV worries about range, but nobody who has an EV worries about range. You charge your car at night, just like your phone. So it effectively takes zero time to charge, and you always get
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by sowbug 3y ago
I liked having a web frontend to git, which was often much less cumbersome than figuring out the right diff/log/branch incantations. Also, as a cvs refugee, I felt weird committing to just my local repo and not having another plac
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by sowbug 3y ago
Retail stocks are usually held in street name. That system seems to be working.
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by sowbug 3y ago
The prevailing belief is that the coins that Satoshi mined are impossible to transfer because Satoshi either never had the private keys, discarded them, or is dead without disclosing them to anyone. A transfer of any amount would invalidate
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by sowbug 3y ago
They're already cheaper. The base trims of the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y are now less expensive than the average gas car in the US: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/electric-vehicles/tesla... . That's
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by sowbug 3y ago
I have two answers, one snarky. Answer #1: relax, they already know everything about you. With every interaction in society, you leave some combination of name, email, address, purchase history, security-camera footage, license-plate footag
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by sowbug 3y ago
I'm pointing out a longstanding inconsistency on HN. Every think-of-the-children argument against cryptocurrency also applies to many privacy-focused tools. The loudest commenters in the HN community are anti-censorship, but they espou
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by sowbug 3y ago
You can generate this list yourself. Take your favorite payment provider (PayPal, Stripe, whichever bank provides your Visa/MasterCard, etc.), and look at their terms of service. Enumerate all the prohibited usages. From that list, del
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by sowbug 3y ago
It's surprisingly fun to focus on the how, rather than the what, with the safety net of knowing the what will still be something worthwhile.
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by sowbug 3y ago
Agreed -- the summary of this article could be "cables with different specs perform differently."
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by sowbug 3y ago
You might be replying to a different thread. We were discussing an extraordinary circumstance in which the government might "take care of the families of dead Apollo 11 astronauts" to make up for the space-exploration exclusion in
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by sowbug 3y ago
If there had been a catastrophe that called the whole program into question, NASA might have ceased to exist. Those with authority to pay out would have lost their power, and budgeted money would have vanished. These astronauts surely hoped
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by sowbug 3y ago
Big difference between "can do this" and "will do this." More than 99% of people are consumers, not creators. And the field only narrows the farther you go in a specialty. I do agree that the comment you're replying
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by sowbug 3y ago
Yeah, the site operators' perspective is that such an extension is same as an adblocker. But everyone else's perspective is that (a) they're hungry and (b) see (a). Recipe sites aren't exactly high stakes, but they'
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by sowbug 3y ago
The US Copyright Office has repeatedly refused to register copyright for substantially AI-generated works. There is a separate question whether the creation of the model could infringe on rights in the source material, but so far, usage
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by sowbug 3y ago
Please set a reminder to re-read your comment when you're 45 years old.
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by sowbug 3y ago
Someone is sitting on the jumptorecipe.com domain. My fantasy is they're working on a simple website with recipes, and none of the babbling prose or instructive ads. Reality is such a site probably can't make money, and I don&#x27
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by sowbug 3y ago
Anyone know of a Rust crate that encodes MP3? I'm looking for one that isn't a wrapper around LAME, whose licensing is complicated.
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by sowbug 3y ago
This comment is a partial example of the fallacy of relative privation. It's only partial because usually when people make it, they go the extra mile to include the thing that they think is more important. https://www.logica
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by sowbug 3y ago
Sales tax is charged only once for a retail good, not for the sales of wholesale goods that led to the retail sale. Otherwise the store that sold you a thing would itself have also had to pay 10% on that thing, as would the factory that bou
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by sowbug 3y ago
Some, such as Verizon's Telco Recovery Charge, are completely made up by the provider! How that isn't just fraud is beyond me.
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by sowbug 3y ago
The version of BASIC I learned (Applesoft) had little support for functions and no concept of scoping. Every variable was global. GOSUB acted a little like a function, but barely (no function parameters, and without variable scoping a param
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by sowbug 3y ago
The most likely explanation for the original article's false premise is that the author had a sketchy extension installed, similar to the ones that inject an affiliate code into every Amazon link.

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