ushtaritk421

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by ushtaritk421 4y ago
Google could get me to come back if it: 1. Offered a paid version without sponsored results 2. Let me block sites from my results (bonus points if it penalizes sites with lots of users blocking their results)
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by ushtaritk421 4y ago
If people don't want youtube videos to have advertisements they should buy youtube premium.
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by ushtaritk421 4y ago
Steam deck is an extension of the already existing PC gaming market. I suspect that almost all Steam Deck owners already have a PC they game on. Steam Deck just makes it so those PC gamers will care if a game runs well on Linux. The point i
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by ushtaritk421 4y ago
Bad example. Lots of Christians read e.g. James 2 as indicating both faith and works being necessary.
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by ushtaritk421 4y ago
There are 1.2 billion Hindus for example
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by ushtaritk421 4y ago
If tyrannical localities want to enforce their norms, let them block it themselves.
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by ushtaritk421 4y ago
There are arguably untrue things said about US political leaders all of the time and in general this is allowed and should be allowed.
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by ushtaritk421 4y ago
Investors are banking on not enough new homes being built. We should simply build enough new homes then it won't matter who owns them.
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by ushtaritk421 4y ago
Netflix hasn't had content worth watching in awhile
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by ushtaritk421 4y ago
Humans who are incumbent property owners don't like crowding and want to preserve their privilege. Those who aren't don't mind being crowded in.
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by ushtaritk421 4y ago
This is probably good. The same should be required on dating apps.
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by ushtaritk421 4y ago
Every once in awhile I try to switch out my native apps for web apps where possible, and the problem is that the web apps are always very noticeably worse. Maybe there's a fix for that, but if so it's a different problem than &quo
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by ushtaritk421 4y ago
Crypto can't fail, it can only be failed.
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by ushtaritk421 4y ago
I go to Walmart Vision. They do all the measurements and write down everything without complaining at all for (I think) about $70. Then order a few pair from Zenni and restock every 5-7 years.
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by ushtaritk421 4y ago
I mean, legally they are not in a caste, right? Does the Indian state recognize caste?
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by ushtaritk421 4y ago
OChem is a weeder course for med students. Med schools are controlled by the AMA, which intentionally keeps the number of doctors low for normal cartel reasons. It's not about teaching Organic Chemistry, it's about reducing the nu
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by ushtaritk421 4y ago
Always thought it was suspicious that all documentation, videos, discussion was around mining Helium tokens, not around how to use the network for something real
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by ushtaritk421 4y ago
Housing is not zero sum at current US density levels. You can put one house on a half acre or you can put 3-4 10-story apartment buildings on it with 20 3-bedrooms each. We immorally choose to have a housing shortage to keep the poors out.
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by ushtaritk421 5y ago
Eh. Aren't we the part of the world that supports free speech? Let them say what they want.
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by ushtaritk421 5y ago
So, how should I behave differently knowing that I'm not waiting for DNS to "propagate" but rather I'm waiting for DNS cached records to expire?
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by ushtaritk421 5y ago
I've thought about this. The thing is that the current relevant browser environments (basically Safari, Chrome, and Firefox) require, what, a billion dollars a year to maintain? 2 billion? And this doesn't even count the various J
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by ushtaritk421 5y ago
Phone off and 1mg melatonin every night at 9. If I'm in "work" mode by 10 and I don't want to quit, I set the alarm for 04:30 and lie down with an audiobook (preferably something that's reasonably dense, e.g. the Od
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by ushtaritk421 5y ago
It lowers the "value" as a monopolistic asset class but not the "housing/day units" value. The second value is what society should care about increasing, and it should go out of it's way to destroy the first ki
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by ushtaritk421 5y ago
What you describe in the last paragraph is, I think, the reason so many gay men join/ed the priesthood. Celibacy is less of a sacrifice / it is/was a highly respected thing a man who doesn't want to marry can do.
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by ushtaritk421 5y ago
They should add the part where the drug probably doesn't even work to the headline.
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by ushtaritk421 5y ago
Here's a project that's been in the news recently that relies heavily on scraped data. http://www.thebillionpricesproject.com/
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by ushtaritk421 5y ago
Anything you might look up or keep track of online that helps your business is probably being scraped by someone who is using it themselves or selling access to the curated data set. Prices (are yours high, low compared to competition?), re
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by ushtaritk421 5y ago
Markets are competitive and efficient when all parties have full information. If Amazon doesn't want its prices to be known amd finds ways to successfully prevent them from being scrapes, in some sense the state should force it to disc
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by ushtaritk421 5y ago
> Not to mention, information asymmetry is anathema to a well-functioning market, and yet no. 1 reason for fighting bots given in the whole thread here is a desire to maintain that information asymmetry. This is exactly right.
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by ushtaritk421 5y ago
Understanding your competitor's pricing is not "parasitic", it's research. Every company I've ever worked for that sells something online scrapes their competitors in some way (whether with bots or with interns).

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