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by swores 2y ago
What they're taking into account is their mandatory retirement age (56), which is indeed related to things like reaction times for people as they get older; and then they work back from that to say you need to be young enough to have e
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by swores 2y ago
Paying more money can make a huge difference to stress. Obviously it can't make an hour of doing the work less stressful in itself, but more money could do one or more of the following: - Allow people to retire after a decade rather th
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by swores 2y ago
They brought up bankers and lawyers in response to someone asking "Which very highly paid job does not command respect in society? I can’t think of any" So yes it is irrelevant in the specific context of that sub-conversation. W
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by swores 2y ago
I think most people underestimate the amount of "innate qualities" from patience to creativity etc. that actually are influenced by education, parenting, etc. rather than being defined at birth by genetics. Education isn't ju
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by swores 2y ago
Are you complaining that I failed to "avoid general tangents" or something? Because I don't believe swearing is against the guidelines... (and I agreed with your criticism of the swearing used by the person you initially re
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by swores 2y ago
I agree that their aggression wasn't needed, but while this isn't a concert it is a grown up discussion space where we can see the word "fuck", spelled more than the first letter, without fainting!
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by swores 2y ago
You're not legally forfeiting rights as in the laws saying "you lose these rights", but in common parlance of course you are as you explain in your second paragraph. If the default situation is that when you buy faulty goods
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by swores 2y ago
Currently, it's based on live vs. on demand, rather than dependant on company: > "You don’t need a TV Licence to watch videos or clips on demand on YouTube. > But you do need a TV Licence if you watch live TV on YouTu
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by swores 2y ago
100% agree. I still can't believe it didn't become a long running product that everyone uses. I've never been a console/controller gamer, but I remember the first time I saw it - it was an early fake, that looked and fel
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by swores 2y ago
> " which were just those companies’s normal hardware design " For Alienware (not sure about the others, but AW was Valve's lead partner on it anyway) you're right in that it was a computer designed by Alienware not V
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by swores 2y ago
> "Does it leave money on the table? Genuine question..." Yes it does, 100%. Once you've got content that people in multiple countries want to watch, you've broadly got two options: let everyone watch on the same te
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by swores 2y ago
The person you replied to was themselves replying to someone talking about a theoretical future ban, not the past ban, and since that first person was talking about a positive of no longer hearing from unspecified famous people they clearly
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by swores 2y ago
Neither of you are wrong. As your link says, they have one of the lowest rates of homelessness in the world, but it also says that their low rate is roughly 1 in 34,000 people. There are 14 million people in Tokyo (city, or 41M in Tokyo gre
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by swores 2y ago
Can anyone recommend an open source option that would allow training on a custom voice (my own, so I'd be able to record as many snippets as it needed to train on) to allow me to use it for TTS generation without sharing it off my mach
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by swores 2y ago
He died. So pedantically you can say he doesn't have any wishes any more, but it's clear they meant that it's against what he wanted when alive.
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by swores 2y ago
Going slightly off topic, I was interested to learn from this blog about Tiny Tapeout, the service they've used to order their custom chip design. The concept for anyone as unfamiliar with it as me is that lots of people pay a few hund
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by swores 2y ago
Same for me
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by swores 2y ago
It's also about throttling - Net Neutrality doesn't mean ISPs can't ever throttle users, it means they can't do it differently depending what the users are accessing, either everything is throttled or nothing is.
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by swores 2y ago
A huge number of people. In 2023 they made around $80 billion of profit on $300 billion of revenue. Their ad network, search engine (Google), web browser (Chrome), mobile OS (Android), videos website (YouTube) and email service (Gmail) are
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by swores 2y ago
Google can choose to only have it against the rules for adverts served to UK (or UK and EU and any other country with strong privacy laws), and still have better ability to target the bad actors (as they can choose to either fully ban, or j
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by swores 2y ago
They (ICO) are saying two things, they're saying that regardless of Google's policy they will go after companies they find to be using fingerprinting to bypass a user's right to privacy (this is the part you've focussed
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by swores 2y ago
I completely disagree, and I'm someone whose interests would be best served by agreeing with you (my marketing agency spends a lot on advertising, and if the ad platforms don't have to enforce this sort of bad behaviour from other
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by swores 2y ago
The NHS does have serious problems, but it's a LOT worse now than it was a few decades ago, and the two significant things that have changed are a) funding (per capita and accounting for inflation) is far lower and b) a lot of privatis
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by swores 2y ago
I was commenting on how acquisitions happen, not asking to be spammed by an accounting company masquerading as a relevant comment. I'd suggest deleting it and not continuing this strategy, as I suspect I'm not the only HN reader w
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by swores 2y ago
As a Brit, that sounds like a positive not a negative, though I appreciate that in the US it might be a political negative.
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by swores 2y ago
It's possible that they explored all acquisition possibilities they could find without the world knowing about their situation, and that the only company or companies who could reach acceptable terms to acquire them didn't have th
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by swores 2y ago
The search feature is useful at times, and while local processing is good enough to find (some of the) photos I've taken that match a search term like "table", it can't currently find a photo from a search term of "
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by swores 2y ago
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with hedonistic activities, so long as they don't harm other people and so long as you avoid things like addiction. Even something like using heroin isn't immoral in and of itself (except a
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by swores 2y ago
They very obviously weren't claiming that, they were responding to a specific comment about there being nothing interesting on smartphones. Try to interpret what people say with good faith.
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by swores 2y ago
Their title is specific in saying "internet cables ", not the internet. It seems fair to me that this is one step on the journey, that figuring out going through cables comes before figuring out routing between cables. It's

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