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by throwaway09223 3y ago
"and the $9.99 Netflix plan won't get you 4k." Maybe a bit off topic, but I'm wondering if anyone else actively avoids 4k? I hate watching content in ultra high resolution. It looks strange and unreal to me (Yes: I&#x2
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
Successful companies overpay suppliers all the time - especially if they're growing very fast and are focused on scaling growth over cost efficiencies. Large companies who've already scaled up their products are more incentivized
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
No, America doesn't do this. You have a right to a speedy trial and if you demand a speedy trial you will get one. Mitnick did not request a speedy trial, in fact he moved to delay the trial.
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
"The problem is that every layer in the stack lies. " Not enterprise gear. Reliable storage does exist. I have tested many vendors myself, and gone through spec sheets under NDA (as mentioned above). "They say "yes it is
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
" the question 'are these exact bits irrevocably committed to the media?' is pretty much impossible to answer" Well, kind of. fsync()'s job is only to ensure caches are written to durable storage. Its job is not t
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
Sure, but all of the above regarding making input look human is trivially easy -- because, again, AI. More stringent hardware based input systems are likely non-starters due to ADA requirements. For example, disabled students have their own
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
Maybe, but I doubt it. Spyware-based systems are doomed to failure as other commenters note. There's nothing you can do to prove the text came from a human. Faking inputs is extremely easy. People will sell a $20 USB dongle that does a
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
You didn't fully understand the post you're replying to. Is your position that the institutional investors which comprise >60% of GOOG's common shares (eg Blackrock) have a significantly different motivation? Of course not
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
Why would other shareholders vote out the board? There's no reason to think their interests wouldn't align with Page and Brin. Do you think Blackrock has substantially different motivations? Like, come on.
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
My gas stove has both: Control knobs for burners, and non-tactile buttons on a display. The control knobs are extremely easy to clean: I just pull them off and throw them in the dishwasher. The display is never clean. It has grease on it
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
Approximately 40% of India is vegetarian for religious reasons and have been for an extremely long time - several thousand years. I noticed that while everyone here is discussing vegetarianism, you are discussing veganism -- which is differ
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
Again, you don't have to convince me. I eat meat too. I agree, meat calories are higher quality for a variety of reasons -- you don't need to argue this point to me. My point is that these reasons are not essential reasons. You
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
> "Why is this a problem?" It's a problem because of the aforementioned disproportionate energy consumption. > "Animals also produce higher quality protein with higher bioavailability" Hey look, you don't
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
Yes, but the problem is that meat consumes approximately 25 plant calories to produce 1 meat calorie. It's a reducing function, which means calorie for calorie meat produces 25 times as much greenhouse gas simply from the costs involve
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
That's incorrect. You're confusing totally separate issues by examining specific pieces of software with product specific bugs. This isn't a valid way to examine the issue: by this metric, spaces aren't supported on unix
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
> "germs and other things" This is faulty reasoning. The typical "almost boiling" temperature of 185F for 3 minutes will sterilize the tea just as well as boiling water would. There's absolutely no benefit in ter
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
It actually predates MSDOS, and I believe dates back to PCDOS 2 when support for directories was first added.
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
I've done quite a bit of work with serial ports on Windows, Linux and other unixes. I've also written a serial device driver. Your comment is very confusing to me. The serial ports are abstracted to a file on Windows just like on
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
The bit about allowing / as a path separator is one of my favorite bits of DOS/Windows trivia. As a unix guy it's fun to give a windows person a path with the slashes wrong like "z:/foo/bar", being correct
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by throwaway09223 4y ago
> I‘d be surprised if that’s true for most operators. It's true for the operators I've tested so far > On IPv4 you’ll be behind carrier-grade NAT (so no inbound connections) Sometimes, but often still not the case. > on I
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by throwaway09223 4y ago
> "No it’s not, my home networks " When your phone is on 5g it is not behind a strong firewall, or any firewall at all. It's sitting directly on the internet. I can run a webserver on my phone and you can browse it. > D
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by throwaway09223 4y ago
Again, none of what you're saying makes sense. Spam doesn't prevent you from looking into the details of an offer. Hallucinated results don't stop you from looking up the details of a card offer. It also seems like you'v
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by throwaway09223 4y ago
"and rarely offer up the name of any better card when asked." Huh? This is public and searchable information. Even ChatGPT 3.5 can give you a comprehensive answer to "what are the best cash back credit cards?" It seems l
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by throwaway09223 4y ago
"So all I have to do is find a non-fungible commodity X" No, that's a contradiction in terms. Homes are non-fungible, non-commodities. You'll also need something in broad demand with a fixed supply.
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by throwaway09223 4y ago
'You have not explained how you've connected the 50th percentile wage earner to "50% of homes".' Yes I did. It's the second paragraph of this post. You may want to read it again keeping in mind your question ha
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by throwaway09223 4y ago
It's because the private jets question is stupid. Jets aren't affordable to a median wage earner. "Where did you get the %50 figure from?" It's literally the definition of a median.
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by throwaway09223 4y ago
"You have a weird theory that ignores actual history." Mmm, nope. I've said that 50% of homes would be affordable (or unaffordable) to the median, which was true then and is still true now. You're the one with a not only
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by throwaway09223 4y ago
But what you're saying simply isn't true. The article clearly explained their faulty methodologies and this is precisely what I've pointed out. In fact, you are tilting at a windmill, reading more into my comments than what
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by throwaway09223 4y ago
Because there is a value gradient. Eggs are generally equal, fungible. Real estate is not - there are strong preferences between different units. If there is a value gradient, people will be willing to pay more for the more valuable units,
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by throwaway09223 4y ago
"If a society does a good job of providing housing then 100% of housing should be affordable." This can never be true, it's a mathematical impossibility. Housing is not equal. There are always preferred units. A skyscraper wi

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