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by stubish 3mo ago
My parents spend a huge chunk of their day doing their laundry and soon won't even be able to handle that. Age sucks. Being disabled sucks too. Lots of tasks people think are trivial are mountains to climb.
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by stubish 3mo ago
Yes, like most things you can certainly get a cheaper service that provides less. As you say, the price is merely competitive if you only make use of the service twice a week. But for anyone who needs daily service, such as in-home aged car
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by stubish 3mo ago
$450 USD / month to have a human turn up every day? $15 USD per day, including weekends? Around here you might just about get the minimum of 1 hour/day for 10 times that. This will be life changing for the elderly and disabled if
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by stubish 3mo ago
I think that is backwards. If you are replacing full time staff you need a system that works just as fast for the same or less money. For home use, you don't care if it takes 3 hours to make your bed or just stops for a while when wait
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by stubish 3mo ago
There is likely no benefit over 2 legs if you need to step over things. And if you don't, wheels are just fine. Maybe stairs changes this.
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by stubish 3mo ago
I doubt it will ever be cheaper than doing it yourself, like most things in life. The market is for people unable or unwilling to do it themselves. Outsourcing can be difficult and expensive in many regions. The lack of an actual human migh
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by stubish 3mo ago
> Suspiciously absent: a rough idea of what percentage of tasks need the assistance. This will almost certainly depend on the customer and residence. I don't think subscription pricing will be fair, but it can at least be budgeted f
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by stubish 3mo ago
Hopefully they can pull this off. Aged care is already a problem in many countries, and getting worse with an aging population and lack of workers such as cleaners. Even just laundry could keep people living in their own homes for a few ext
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by stubish 3mo ago
Absolutely nothing will prevent this. The situation is the same, and the same policing and laws about fraud and impersonation and 'enabling an underage person to...' will apply. What is interesting is that checking physical ID pla
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by stubish 3mo ago
This is why age verification cannot be implemented by the vested interests. Rollout in Australia involved making the laws, but leaving the implementation up to the vested interests, and is a mess because of it. A privacy nightmare uploading
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by stubish 3mo ago
This already happens with the existing system. Even before the internet, drivers licenses would get shared so under aged people could buy beer. The same laws, punishments and policing apply and really the best we can do unless you want to s
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by stubish 3mo ago
The attestation should be at least the same level of security as access to your government services. ie. you trust it as least as much as you trust a scan of a passport. The trick is that you don't need to prove anything. The governmen
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by stubish 3mo ago
Sure. At the heart of it, the system just attests that a document is true. That document might say 'the holder of this token is over 18' or 'the holder of this token is a meat popsicle' or 'the holder of this token
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by stubish 3mo ago
But it is being implemented that way, and will hopefully remain that way if people who care keep paying attention. The article is pointing to the EU system currently being put together by a number of European countries. The 'it can&#
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by stubish 3mo ago
These absolutist arguments will never be taken seriously. Almost everyone can find some form of information they want held back, criminalized and punished for enabling. 'Information wants to be free' died in the 90s when people re
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by stubish 3mo ago
Yes, of course. All credentials implicitly disclose the issuer by nature. A credential is by definition an attestation by an authoritative source, and meaningless without specifying that source. Yes, any age verification or identity verific
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by stubish 4mo ago
If the outdoor temperature is cool enough (maybe 30C?), you just pipe the liquid outside through a large enough loop or heat exchanger to get it back down to under 45C. Even better if you can put the loop in a lake and dump the heat there (
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by stubish 4mo ago
Household batteries work wonders for residential consumption. It is interesting what happened once subsidies for batteries was introduced in Australia. The uptake was huge (because free or cheap electricity in off peak periods). Average ins
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by stubish 4mo ago
It is a political choice. Pro-nuclear propaganda in Australia is all about the long time frames, and the fossil fuels needed until they start coming online. Climate targets get to be pushed back, scrapping 2030 targets in favor of 2050 targ
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by stubish 4mo ago
On paper. The actual number is how much cash banks will lend him using his SpaceX holdings as collateral. Maybe that is a trillion dollars. Smarter money though? They know that if things go south and they need to collect that collateral, in
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by stubish 4mo ago
It is very interesting the different reactions between your experience (and many whistleblowers), and how people react to software doing the same thing. Although in this case, maybe it isn't so different? They did essentially have the
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by stubish 4mo ago
The US could also get into this racket then by offering US ship registrations at a very reasonable price...
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by stubish 4mo ago
It is too intimidating to change for one. Most users I deal with are terrified and bewildered by settings and can't even take the few steps to install an adblocker (and they want the adblocker!) And from the article: "Technician&#
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by stubish 4mo ago
The isolation level that the DB engine defaults to doesn't matter. That is for backwards compatibility with the 90s. What matters is what isolation level the connection library you are using defaults to. Unfortunately, that too is ofte
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by stubish 4mo ago
I'd say I had worse problems than many due to mixing long and short transactions on the same db. Which is something you need to avoid anyway if possible. The main webapp I dealt with also handled retries automatically, so we could do s
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by stubish 4mo ago
And this is why most of the popular database libraries default to 'read committed'. Any higher and your library and scripts became DB specific rather than working with most of the engines supporting ODBC (although even that was tr
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by stubish 4mo ago
Too many people discovered databases with MySQL back in the day and didn't even know transactions were possible. And now 25 years later one of those people is likely a senior dev and 'the db guy' on a team of people who learn
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by stubish 4mo ago
The article doesn't mention the biggest problem with serializable isolation. At every commit, you need handle the possibility of a serialization exception and retry the transaction. Traditionally devs and frameworks don't, so your
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by stubish 4mo ago
This seems a sensible thing to do. If you change the rules on how things end up on your index, you force everyone using that index to reevaluate it. Your index is now perceived as more volatile (and probably is), and all the finance people
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by stubish 4mo ago
What was the common misconception?

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