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by wdr1 3y ago
Dumb question: Why can't we store the excess capacity midday for consumption during the evening? E.g. using using solar to pump reservoirs to a higher elevation then hydropower during the day? I know they do it with natural lakes[1]
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by wdr1 3y ago
If there is no ecosystem -- if there is no way for creators to make money for the countless hours they put into creating content -- that's a net negative for users. Just look around -- a lot of amazing creators talk about how YouTube i
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by wdr1 3y ago
Sad to see, but not surprising. In 2011, Google found that Microsoft was basically copying Google results. (It's actually an interesting story of how Google proved it. Search for "hiybbprqag")
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by wdr1 3y ago
It's worth noting that Eyeo makes money by being paid to not block ads. This article estimates it at 55M euro in 2020. https://www.startbase.com/news/adblock-plus-mutter-eyeo-waec... I can understand defining a
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by wdr1 3y ago
One of the few movies with a mathematical consultant, Len Adleman. If the name sounds familiar, he's the A in RSA.
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by wdr1 3y ago
> I don't understand why people don't have a fundamental right to refuse ad exposure in their private life This seems a bit of a strawman in this context. You have the right to not visit YouTube. Likewise, you have the choice
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by wdr1 3y ago
> I'm not buying that there's a lot of bad blood there I didn't see anything in the article that there was bad blood, just that Paul fired Sam. Those are not the same thing.
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by wdr1 3y ago
YouTube itself offers a subscription version without ads. https://www.youtube.com/premium
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by wdr1 3y ago
Chris Voss, a former FBI hostage negotiator, discussed this policy on Lex Friedman's podcast. Here's the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm4hb5yNxyE The policy has been widely misreported as "we don&#x
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by wdr1 3y ago
> There are around 2,500 billionaires in the world right now, with a combined wealth of over £10 trillion. Just a fraction of that money is enough to, say, end global poverty, eradicate malaria and re-freeze the Arctic. The US Federal go
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by wdr1 3y ago
Ticketmaster was still seen as a monopoly long before LN bought them. In fact, Pearl Jam sued TM for being a monopoly in 1994, about 15 years before LN bought TM. https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/1994-when-pearl-ja
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by wdr1 3y ago
> Ticketmaster has exclusive deals with artists and venues. While it's true Ticketmaster does have these exclusive deals, it's demonstrably false that this is the reason why TM still hasn't been replaced. If you've be
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by wdr1 3y ago
I worked for Ticketmaster as an Engineering Director for a few years. Reading through the comments, most of them are wrong. Here are the real reasons, imho. (1) The ticketing system you want as a consumer is not the ticketing system that
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by wdr1 3y ago
Or, you know, "Lab Leak of Coronavirus casts chill over virology research". I know it's not definitive it was a lab leak, but many US agencies including, notably, the Department of Energy, say it's likely it was. And whe
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by wdr1 3y ago
It's not impossible. You can sign up for YouTube Premium. https://www.youtube.com/premium
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by wdr1 3y ago
> Amazon attempted to sell phones with their own fork of Android without permission, but didn't have much luck. FYI - Amazon's Fire OS is based on Andriod: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_OS#:~:text=Fire
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by wdr1 3y ago
> If a reseller buys the ticket, and then sells it again to the end user, Ticketmaster gets paid twice. Yeah, but Ticketmaster doesn't own the tickets. Nor do they decide the fees. Or even keep most of the revenue from the fees. A
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by wdr1 3y ago
It's not cyclists. Here in Los Angeles, a friend of mine was crossing a crosswalk last week. The light had turned green. Several other people in the intersection. She makes eye contact with a car turning left. Or so she thought she
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by wdr1 3y ago
> There Melian dialogue is literally them shaking down their neighbors and then brutally murdering them "The strong do as they will. The weak submit."
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by wdr1 3y ago
Additionally, if there was a nationwide push to nuclear power, we'd have cheap, clean energy -- putting a sizable dent in both clean drinking water & climate change at the same time.
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by wdr1 3y ago
The WHO lost credibility to me when they, at the height of the pandemic, asserted as fact that COVID is not airborne. Not "we believe", "we suspect", "data suggests" or anything like that, but asserted it as
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by wdr1 3y ago
FYI, according The Information they're in discussions to be acquired by Snowflake. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/snowflake-in-talks-t...
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by wdr1 3y ago
> It’s going to be funny to see if the rest of the world adapts to the stupid amount of ads beeing shown on american TV, now that youtube seems to embrace that road (.) I'm not sure what you mean by "rest of the world". If
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by wdr1 3y ago
I don't know why, but I'm still surprised the voice was totally fake. Before her downfall I thought it was some type of strange misogyny to accuse her of that. A lot of it was still misogyny, but turns out that part was right.
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by wdr1 3y ago
And yet, this generally doesn't happen. Slack now has the outage listed: https://status.slack.com/calendar The online cynicism is something I've never understood. It assumes the world is filled first first-order
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by wdr1 3y ago
> The CEO and the board must serve prison time for things like this. I'm not sure if it's hyperbole or not. If it's not, what law was broken? (Honest question. I'm not a fan of this, but I was curious if it's a
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by wdr1 3y ago
+1 I very much enjoyed his Game Engine Black Books on Wolfenstein 3D & Doom.
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by wdr1 3y ago
The interesting thing about the English language is that once 50% of the popular starts to use a word or phrase incorrectly, they become correct.
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by wdr1 3y ago
> Why make this so difficult? Just ban personally targeted advertising. That would have a significant impact on the earnings of publishers & creators.
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by wdr1 3y ago
> It's also insane that US doctors and hospitals aren't required to post prices, This doesn't get a lot of attention because, well, what media outlet could write a positive article about Trump & get away with it, but h

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