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by yafbum 3y ago
Japan and South Korea are allies of the US. They are also much too small in population and resources to reach a level of economic power that would allow them to do anything on their own. The Chinese Communist party has the resources, people
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It's dumb to pass this kind of judgement so quickly. Nobody should expect massive habit changes from one day to the next. All that a viral product needs is some foothold to grow from, and by that measure threads still has a fantastic f
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by yafbum 3y ago
Tbh though, going up a mountain is insanely more energy consuming than regular driving, so the range indicator can't possibly take this into consideration ahead of time unless you chart a specific trip. In the other direction, I'v
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> Why not then, dip into your bank account? By this logic, there are trillion of $$ in bank accounts all around the world. That's a lot of money. Because wealth is immensely concentrated. There isn't nearly as much money in eve
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At the end of the day, people always make decisions based on emotion, because every decision involves assessing risk, including the risk of things that were not thought of testing. Data only tells you about the past while decisions only aff
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I think it's absolutely critical that public officials report what they see: a dramatic increase in reported incidents. Maybe - probably imo - this is "just" due to an increase in miles driven, but without access to data to s
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by yafbum 3y ago
How does it have anything to do with AI? Most mocap / 3d capture stuff is just hard number crunching. Games have had automated animation software good enough for background characters for a while...
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I'm just talking about it for screenwriting specifically. It can improve productivity like GitHub copilot can for coders, which is to say, incremental improvement (vs firing the software engineering department and replacing it entirely
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It's not clear that AI will be a productivity boost for writers of any more magnitude than the move from the typewriter to the computer word processor. It can improve productivity, but only marginally so, and without need to replace wr
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> What's to stop the actors or writers from simply making their own content? 1) access to capital to cover the cost of production. $/min of a Mandalorian episode or even a late night comedy show is way above self funding capaci
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It's not. Apple advertised massively the iPhone when it came out, and while they did take share away from other phone manufacturers, they almost certainly made the pie bigger for everyone. People weren't routinely buying phones th
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You might've never worked in retail I guess... Most people, if someone they trust chose for them, sure they wouldn't be able to tell the difference. But also, picking a "reputable brand" is a big criterion. By which most
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"Something went wrong. Try reloading" Man, we do need a public square.
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The rules should let them fine Amazon instead, this way law enforcement resources won't be spent going after every supplement seller that sets up shop somewhere...
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Many established doctors have their habits set after years (or decades) of practice, and aren't particularly interested in new stuff. Many young doctors are unsure of trying something outside of the norm. All are afraid of malpractice.
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There is plenty of Microsoft advertising in any country that they're in. But it may be more subtle. There's search advertising. They also subsidize partner advertising (co-marketing). > The internet business model is an excepti
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...until you have to buy one? Lenovo, HP, Dell are top sellers, and I'm pretty sure it's not because they have the best product.
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Good on you. Most other customers of your computer manufacturer aren't the same.
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Yeah sure wheels are a good idea. Most people aren't in the market for ideas. If you're in the market for some actual wheels to put on your car, it sure might help if the tires someone's trying to sell you are Goodyear, Miche
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The fact that this blog post can coach people about how to get to 200k yearly comp shows that you can multiply your salary by a lot more than 1.5 by moving from almost anywhere in the world to the US.
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> don't need to enter the lottery again Yes > can start working immediately Abso-lutely not. Check out Reddit to look for accounts of how the transfer works and see how easy it really is... When you transfer, you need a lot of co
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Taking flak for ads is part of the service they provide. It'd be pretty stupid of them to throw their content partners under the bus in this way.
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Many videos feature music that is not free-to-use. Music rightsholders demand their pound of flesh on those regardless of what the creator says. "let's play" videos (where people upload and comment themselves playing) is a gr
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Yep, I was thinking of the guilds. There was a pretty strong concentration of wealth and power too, as noted in the quote you have.
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Weren't there trade unions back then, preventing a certain amount of competition? I'm not sure those days were some golden age of healthy market competition.
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Good products hardly ever take out on their own. I'm not sure what computer you're logged on from, but to take that as an example, I'm pretty sure it's made by a company that would likely go under if it chose not to ad
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And yet > It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never t
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> I really think that the needs of server side code are different enough than the needs of client side code that we’re better off drawing from Python and Ruby than from Dojo and jQuery. This sentence sounds ok until Python and Ruby are h
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How can these ransomware actors hide for so long? Is this all dependent on Bitcoin laundering?
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Latency is one of the things my iPhone owning friends complain the most about when they try another phone (usually a Samsung loaded to the brim with bloatware)

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