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781.
by tuatoru 3y ago
If my reading comprehension skills have not utterly failed me, the abstract says "people who buy a service frequently, find ways to cut out the middleman. This happens more if middleman fees are higher". In about 25 times as many
782.
by tuatoru 3y ago
- Amazon (the store): Uber for non-food goods.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Thank you for taking the time to write this very detailed and lucid explanation.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
So we need a new car, then. Ta. Can I download one from the App Store?
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by tuatoru 3y ago
An app on the phone that makes it tap on the windscreen when it's been left in the car. "Hey, don't forget me!" (displays sad_puppy_eyes.jpg) - my wife.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Why do Americans have to rename district heating and pretend it's something new? Yes, I know, UTEN can be cooling as well, but still. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Albedo increase (shooting sulfates or other light-reflecting particles into the stratosphere) is naloxone for fossil addiction. Enhanced weathering, which is what this is, would be intensive care unit support, in this metaphor. Or maybe pal
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by tuatoru 3y ago
If you believe the demand for code is elastic (people want more if it's cheaper), then it looks set to explode as a profession. Won't be doing exactly what you were doing last year, just as last year, you weren't rewiring p
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Bad start if he's dealing with an introvert. Tailor the sequence to the personality.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Welcome to your job in the meatpacking plant, washing and packing cow pancreases.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Yeah, it might be easier to crash the price of Unilever and then buy it. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unilever > It is the largest producer of soap in the world,[3] and its products are available in over 190 cou
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> It's also "way too old and way too energy-hungry housing which cannot be fixed anytime soon". The obvious thing to do with the Ukrainian refugees was to put them to work retrofitting insulation. But it's better to k
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by tuatoru 3y ago
I don't think that sounds like an optimal currency area. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimum_currency_area
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Er, we had the internet during the dot-com crash. And before it, even. As I recall, things were not quite so bad in the 1980s. I vaguely recall seeing the odd newspaper article about the intense interest in a job, because it attracted maybe
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> The compression speed is only 30% slower because that benchmark includes the time to tar the directory, which is likely more expensive than the compression itself. Amdahl's Law in action.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> there are probably interesting enough things to spend a lifetime studying. This is something that drives me nuts about wannabe photographers. They all immediately travel off to "exotic" locations to take pictures of "exo
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Well, in 1970 you could only do about 10 a day, because you needed to type a cover letter with the hiring manager's name in it. Job search (newspaper "help wanted" ads), envelope stuffing, trips to the post office and so on t
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by tuatoru 3y ago
repeat of my comment above: - I sometimes think requiring people to telephone and navigate a voice system to get an application ID before they can apply might help. Tiny barriers can have disproportionate effects.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
... just like in dating!
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by tuatoru 3y ago
I sometimes think requiring people to telephone and navigate a voice system to get an application ID before they can apply might help. Tiny barriers can have disproportionate effects.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
.. and women have totally unrealistic criteria, too, just like employers. The internet has caused mass insanity.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Because it is used by a peripheral.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Thank you for the explanation! TIL.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
1/100 power, 1/10 latency... in a through-hole chip carrier?? How do they get enough of it close enough to the CPU at those low powers and latencies, at DRAM clocks? Electricity travels 10cm in a tenth of a nanosecond, best case.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Yeah, potentially dead in ten milliseconds with a pathological workload.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Woo, low-alkalinity water, AKA aggressive water, is going to cause all kinds of problems. Some plumbing fittings imported in recent years are likely to have lots of lead, because lead improves the workability of brass. If you ever drink tap
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by tuatoru 3y ago
You don't even calculate the hours per year you spent removing padding from text boxes anymore...
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Hopefully they're all older than 9, anyway.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> .. when I realize “Oh, I am being lied to, thanks.” The worst is that years from now I will ... have well-developed critical thinking/reading skill and recognize AI generated pasta more easily thanks to the training.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
It sure isn't going to help with all the other things we are doing in parallel. Soil exhaustion, poisoning, and erosion; groundwater depletion and poisoning; deforestation; wild ecosystem destruction and food web destabilization; coast

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