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by virgilp 6y ago
> So if you're talking about electric vehicles, our battery could run for around 90 years without the requirement of recharging. > Take the battery for a Tesla car, it costs somewhere in the region of US$9-10K. Our battery will c
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by virgilp 6y ago
> Or what exactly is a legal issue? A bugfix to Fortnite.
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by virgilp 6y ago
Seeing this from the inside - I believe that large/reputable advertisers have no problem[1] with e.g. GDPR being opt-in, because it's a law that levels the playing field. With DNT, the question was "who blinks first" - i
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by virgilp 6y ago
> It failed because it was going to see adoption. Absolutely, but "browser defaults" were an easy excuse. I was not really defending advertisers here; though I do believe they'd have had a harder time finding justification
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by virgilp 6y ago
I worked for an advertiser a while ago - they were totally respecting DNT header, _except_ on the browsers that had it on by default. The business argument was that "it's bogus/meaningless if the user didn't set it expli
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by virgilp 6y ago
Actually, maybe it'll provide data that personalized adds aren't that much more effective.
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by virgilp 6y ago
> Jobs originally said that the aim of the 30% was to cover costs of running the store. It is evident from the MASSIVE profits that this is no longer the case. I think this is key; I would argue that Jobs has a point on curation being im
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by virgilp 6y ago
... at the risk of the store. The card holder just goes to the bank, says "I didn't do those transactions!" and gets all money back.
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by virgilp 6y ago
Initially? Size, cost of the hardware, cost of the service, coverage. Size became a non-issue relatively quickly, but it took quite a while for the service to be affordable & have good coverage.
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by virgilp 6y ago
Does anybody know a good photo management software that's not Lightroom? I don't actually need to do edits to my photos - I need to manage my photo library. Lightroom is not great at it but is passable - is there anything else? Wh
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by virgilp 6y ago
Right to be forgotten does not apply in cases where you're legally required to keep the data, or have other legitimate reasons to require said data, or there's significant public interest. But for _my_ photos, on a hosting servic
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by virgilp 6y ago
Alternatively: https://typicalprogrammer.com/why-dont-software-development-... and the referenced article, https://archive.is/Rjqh0 TLDR: methodology won't fix your project.
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by virgilp 6y ago
Why did you stop quoting after " immediately overwritten" ? > ie that the backup is simply held on your systems until it is replaced in line with an established schedule Again, you can't keep backups forever, you ar
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by virgilp 6y ago
Under GDPR "right to be forgotten", you have to delete backups, can't keep them forever - see https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio... There are alternatives (one of which is to en
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by virgilp 6y ago
Another thing that may be hard to understand for non-US citizens. For me, exercising options costs me just that, the option price + bank fees; I owe no tax. I have to pay full tax when & if I sell the shares. This seems like a much fai
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by virgilp 6y ago
But they did backup the original data - the article states that the problem was with deploying wrong cleanup code on the long-term storage (that was supposed to be only deployed for the short-term storage). How do you guard against that? Yo
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by virgilp 6y ago
Ah I somehow misread that, thought they can restore videos but for photos they don't have the original resolution.
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by virgilp 6y ago
It's only now that we fully realize how bad the depicted policing was in all those TV shows where they zoomed & "enhanced" the photo evidence.
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by virgilp 6y ago
They obviously do have _some_ backups (since were able to restore all videos and all photos - but not all photos at the original resolution). In the end it's all a tradeoff... ignoring cost, we all know what to do to get pretty safe st
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by virgilp 6y ago
But what if you distribute "Fortnite"? Free to play, no premium functionality, free "upgrade" - except that the upgrade is from outside the app store. And once you get it, you can start paying for stuff. I don't thi
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by virgilp 6y ago
That's an interesting question. Couldn't they distribute a "Fortnite loader" through Play store? Since Fortnite is free-to-play, the loader wouldn't charge anything, so it wouldn't technically violate any poli
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by virgilp 6y ago
> a well made containerized system is far superior an experience Like everything, it depends on context. Is it good to have separate dev, staging, and production environments? For many companies, the answer is "D'oh!". But
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by virgilp 6y ago
But why would an investor agree to that? It's more risk with less upside: - if the company does well enough that its share price rises, it's only normal to buy back your share (why wouldn't it? they just raised better-valued
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by virgilp 6y ago
At that point you no longer provide a new language, but a new SQL query engine.
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by virgilp 6y ago
You know that chart is wrong the second you notice a single color for US
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by virgilp 6y ago
I have another argument that might be more convincing for you: automation makes things cheaper, so by definition it creates wealth for society. Now, you can argue that said wealth is unfairly distributed - and indeed wealth distribution its
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by virgilp 6y ago
There's a difference between being needlessly cruel and believing something is necessary and good, despite it creating some problems for some people for a while.
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by virgilp 6y ago
Restaurants cheap in America? Surely you're kidding, unless you include McDonald's as "restaurant". In my experience, the restaurants in California are twice or more more expensive than France or Italy (especially if you
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by virgilp 6y ago
But UBI won't just happen by itself. It needs a few things: - Work actually getting done (through automation) - i.e. the "supply side" needs to be there - People that demand it/ see it as necessary solution to _some_ pro
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by virgilp 6y ago
I don't have a moral dilemma about my work cutting those kinds of jobs; it's busywork, their existence doesn't improve humanity. We're better off with something like UBI than paying people to do boring stuff that they do

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