spiralpolitik

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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
Kaiser does give a more integrated European style experience, however the experience largely depends on the quality of service you get from your local Kaiser doctors and hospitals. Some are significantly better than others.
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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
To get anywhere beyond senior engineer you'll need to be able to explain and convince people that your idea is solid. The best way to learn these skills is to mentor and interact with junior engineers. The further you go beyond senior
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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
Not quite. Copyright doesn't protect general concepts, methods, or common knowledge. So you could write a program that is remarkably similar to another one and not infringe copyright. Just like you can write a book with the same plot a
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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
Exactly. Dokku looks great but what is the value of using it over "run your container" platforms like Google Cloud Run, Digital Ocean App Platform, or Fargate.
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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
Olivetti (an Italian company) took over Acorn in 1985. This was around the time the ARM processor was being developed. Acorn was in danger of going under at this time when one of their creditors bounced. Apple didn't come along until m
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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
If you look at the last 25 years Microsoft has ended up with more misses than hits. Azure and xBox are the big hits (both from the Balmer era), but they missed in so many other places (mobile notably). They spent most of the Balmer era look
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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
Some counter points: ARM originated at a European company (Acorn/Olivetti). Bluetooth originated at a European Company (Ericsson) Psion, Nokia, and Ericsson invented what would be considered the basics of the Smartphone (via Symbian, S
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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
To be honest I think this would have been a better outcome for Microsoft in the long run.
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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
The dot com bust wiped out their hardware sales as you could pick up almost new top of the range Sun hardware at auction. They never really recovered from that, despite a couple of good quarters in the mid 00s. I think Sun tried to pivot bu
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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
The struggle with the iPad is Apple doesn't want to cannibalize its laptop sales. There is simply no reason that the iPad couldn't switch to the MacOS UI when plugged into a hardware keyboard and mouse. So it will remain in this h
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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
Bette Midler won a similar case where Ford licensed a Midler track and got a sound-a-like to perform it for a commercial. If OpenAI's lawyers thought they were going to get away with it then OpenAI needs to get better lawyers.
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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
A better one is Bette Middler vs Ford: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co . (TLDR; Ford licenses a Bette Midler track and gets a sound-a-like to perform it for a commercial after Bette Midler refuses
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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
There is no absolute right to anonymity in the US constitution. (The courts have "recognized relatively strong First Amendment presumptions on behalf of purveyors of anonymous speech, especially for those that are statements of opinion
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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
I would argue that for most use cases Internet Services are already collecting sufficient KYC data that it won't make a difference. Try signing up for anything infrastructure related without providing a credit card and/or billing
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
In many ways the analysis by Elop was right, Nokia was in trouble. However his solution wasn't the right one, and Nokia paid for it.
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
That's the trap door in this. Apple is going to implement RCS exactly as the specification says it should be implemented, no more or no less. Any incompatibilities with Android will be laid at Google's door to resolve. Having beat
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
The lede is quite cleverly buried here. Key sentence is "We will be adding support for RCS Universal Profile, the standard as currently published by the GSM Association" So no end to end encryption and the bubbles will most still
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
Right now Intel is hamstrung because there is no separation between the fab and design sides. Nobody is going to trust Intel to fab their latest and greatest while the two sides are joined at the hip. The sooner Intel spins out the fab side
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
The technical explanation is that on the base M1/M2 SoC there is one Thunderbolt bus that supports 2 display outputs. On the MacBook Air one output is connected to the internal display leaving one output for an external display. (The M
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
If you start at a company today the default setting would be for the 401k money to be invested in something like LifePath N or similar ETFs that are designed for retirement funds. Most people, lacking the knowledge to do otherwise will stic
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
Two market crashes and badly managed 401k accounts won’t help. Most trust that their 401k is correctly managed. This is often not the case. The merry-go-round of debt ceiling and budget confrontations in congress doesn’t help. Any gains fro
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
It's worse than that. The 401k generation will begin think about retiring in the next few years. Most will discover that their 401K, despite maximum contributions, will be insufficient to retire on. This will either keep older workers
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
No congressperson ever got rich from the government doing things in-house. Fix that aspect and the situation will improve significantly.
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
The problem MS might run into is that cash might not be in the US so they would need to repatriate the money into the US potentially triggering more taxes. (They could also get around this by taking a loan out and using the cash held outsid
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
The card fees are on the merchant side and are priced into the overall price in the same way that VAT (usually) is. The customer never sees them. The fees exist in the UK but the UK never had the cash culture that the US does so very few co
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
Cattle are the No. 1 agricultural source of greenhouse gases worldwide. It's also causing water issues in regards to the Colorado River as the majority of the water is used for cattle feed. If you look at it from that perspective then
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
There is a rubicon coming up for Intel. At some point the fab side will be separated out into a separate company. Intel is currently leaving money on the table on the fab side under its current structure as nobody is going to trust Intel to
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
Look into the fabs that make RISC-V processors. At some point Intel Foundry Service will be spun off as a separate company, so invest in that when it happens. Disclaimer: Not investment advice.
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
The big part is royalty-free open-source licenses. If you don't want to pay ARM for an ISA and RISC-V is good enough for your needs then RISC-V might be for you. Plus there are limitations on which countries the latest ARM designs can
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
I've been using Wayland on Manjaro/Sway for the last 6 months. Zero issues beyond figuring out the new way of doing things. As a former X11 application developer I will say that X11 should have been put out to pasture a long time

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