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by toohotatopic 6y ago
This should come down to profit margins. If TVs are sold for production costs or at a loss, then all profits come from advertising. If buyers go for sticker prices and $10 make or break a deal, then it doesn't matter if the product cos
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Or worse: less active users who edit content. Up until now, an edit was one click away. Now, it's not only one more click away but wikipedia has no way to communicate that editing the result is possible at all.
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Nice story but it feels distracting. She wasn't the pilot, she didn't build the boat. What's the story being told? That women can reach everything if men make it possible? >All told, EYOS Expeditions said that just seven p
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
To put it bluntly: How can research be easy? If it is easy, aim higher. If you want to start a business but you haven't had an idea in 2 years even though you are paid for having ideas, that's a problem. Being a business insider i
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Now do the same with video streaming ...
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
There is another dimension to it besides optimizing existing workflows. These tools are so small that you can not only tweak them but also reassemble the concepts into new tools for new workflows. Tweaking those tools is just the first step
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
In which way is banking behind? Within EU, you can transfer money for free. You can automate your monthly payments or let companies draw the money. What else is there to offer?
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
How do they manage the risk that some other chat system establishes itself? Whatsapp and Wechat had a chance because there was no open standard. I am convinced that history will repeat itself and Apple will become obsolete again because the
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Why would humans become extinct? Somewhere on earth there will be a zone suitable for farming. At worst, only plankton and fish survive so some humans survive like Eskimos.
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
> If I include a 3rd party package in the JVM, I have absolutely no guarantee that it will work well, much like in Node. In the JVM you can use the security Manager [1] and limit file access and access to similarly sensitive areas. If yo
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
What's the worst that can happen if all hydrocarbons are burned? At worst we are back in time where plankton and trees began absorbing the CO2 and turning it into oil and gas. In other words, nature will survive because such a state is
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Fair argument. If you are interested in a moved goalpost: If 9 out of 10 officers are black in a black neighborhood, then the majority of victims is shot by black officers. The question is: How are black people treated when they are in a no
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Is this also true for being killed by a black police officer? If so, please add a reference. Otherwise it's quite expected that in a segregated society, people are killed by in-group members. This would only be different if there is a
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
It's also quite bizarre to see people dying because they are black. Actually it's so bizarre that people can't help but have to break rules to send a message. As far as I can tell, it's not about that one 'incident&
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
To me, this is the best argument against price gauging. That said, I think it still doesn't matter because 1) You can substitute hand sanitizer with soap. In a way, hand sanitizer is a luxury item. 2) There is no monopoly on hand sanit
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
That is not how markets work. As long as there is competition, prices drop to the bottom. It would take concerted effort to rise prices, e.g. by forming a cartel. That's illegal for that reason. You can also calculate the situation for
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
That's my point, I should know better but I don't, even more so now after this thread. I am aware of the counter-arguments but the flaws in reasoning seem to be in the counter-arguments. To me, there is no argument that flat out
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
I still don't understand why price gouging is not accepted. Only high prices are an incentive for new producers to enter a market. Or rather: high prices promise huge return on investments so that investors allocate money for producers
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Why would you want to delete the data? That's when you open the door for an attacker to access it. If the data is encrypted, it can remain on its partition because it is inaccessible. Interestingly, apples have to be compared to orange
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
If you own an e-bike you can reason that you don't need a car. You still need a car once in a while. That's the time to call an Uber. You may even ride an Uber every day, but you don't buy a car because you want to start ridi
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
It should be "Anyone _Could_ Take Your Job" It's the Jevons_paradox [1]. More available workers will lead to more demand for workers. It's a two edged sword. Unlike unskilled labour, remote workers can switch employers,
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
>There are parts of Microsoft that understand open source. Most parts of the Windows team ain’t that The story goes that the new Microsoft understands open source at the top. A windows package manager is such an essential component of t
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Have they been failing by themselves or have they been destroyed by Microsoft, e.g. [1]? [1] http://techrights.org/2009/09/14/ms-admits-draining-to-destr...
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
They tapped into that human behaviour 'as somehow as' hn doesn't have an orangered envelope when somebody replies to your messages. It's by design and not by coincidence. There are plenty of vaccines for this, but not in
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_%28number_format%29
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
It's a market like everything else. If you have the best weapons and it is a sellers market, you can buy everything in 'exchange' with your weapons. However, if others see the 'opportunity' and also participate in t
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
What's your level? Are you a beginner or do you already have some experience? Also: What's your language, your target market? Suggesting a backend project for a frontend language or vice versa doesn't help you much. In genera
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Is this a conscious decision or an evolutionary thing where only those companies survive that happen to treat their employees like this?
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Why would it bind more tightly?
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Will this lead to huge, science-fiction-like conglomerates? Within a company, there are no licensing restrictions. So copying code, or other media like videos or pictures, stops being an issue.

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