Erlich_Bachman

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by Erlich_Bachman 5y ago
Yeah because it worked so well for piracy. /s
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by Erlich_Bachman 5y ago
All phones in most countries, amazon, steam, microsoft acount, spotify etc etc.
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by Erlich_Bachman 5y ago
Look up Lightning Network.
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by Erlich_Bachman 5y ago
To realize that gain you actually need to sell the Apple stock. It would be perfectly possible (as I am proposing) and viable to make that transaction be forced to go through US. You could still sell the "Shell" to someone without
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by Erlich_Bachman 5y ago
The government takes tax from the same amount of money twice. How is that not well described by the term "double taxation"?
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by Erlich_Bachman 5y ago
Why not just tax any sale of a stock or a divident payout in the country of the company, - not the country of owner of said stock? These operations have to go through country of company anyway...
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by Erlich_Bachman 5y ago
That is just a very terrible idea.
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by Erlich_Bachman 5y ago
Well it is tax money that is sent to the government and that is taken from the total amount of money that the company receives for the products it provides. If we are talking about some moral side of the issue (as the articles tries to, if
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by Erlich_Bachman 5y ago
> long time 4 decades is not a long time. It is a minuscule amount of time in the grand scheme of things.
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by Erlich_Bachman 5y ago
Is that calculation really correct? Does it count tax for all the employees? Does it count all specialized tax for things like gas or VAT, for all the things Netflix buys in their operation? What about all the media that Netflix buys and pr
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by Erlich_Bachman 5y ago
> plenty of great niche hardware keyboard phones Plenty? In what way? There seems to be one company that makes a keyboard phone with outdated CPUs and other hardware, to make ends meet and be able to produce such a phone economically.
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by Erlich_Bachman 5y ago
Does it look like they have some good avenues of fixing that?
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by Erlich_Bachman 5y ago
Well look at something that might change your mind: there is this device called Muse headband that actually uses your brain signals to help you meditate. Meditation is a tool of mindfulness, and with some progress it helps exactly that: con
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by Erlich_Bachman 5y ago
Being careful is always good, but the dangers are overestimated and the benefits underestimated, by most people. In terms of security, you could solve 80% of problems you mention by a hardware onoff switch, which would cost next to nothing.
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by Erlich_Bachman 5y ago
"50 years where instead of computers and computing being a tool to be mastered and controlled by humans, we've seen computers switch the power dynamic and render us humans the tools."? What?? Where exactly in the current worl
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by Erlich_Bachman 5y ago
In the sun your skin (even under some clothes) can be much higher temperature than 36C.
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by Erlich_Bachman 5y ago
No, the risk according to this topic is increased compared to standard rate of blood clots. (The parent comment wording was basically "wrong", meaning- giving off a false impression.)
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by Erlich_Bachman 5y ago
What is your alternative approach? To not tell people the truth? Because the truth is that almost any cure or vaccine or medicine in general has side effects. The thing is that the incidence is very low, which gives better overall probabili
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by Erlich_Bachman 5y ago
The argument is that the numbers should be reported properly - with their context and baseline. For COVID cases in general, it can, it should and it is being applied in many statistics. It is an important number for understanding the diseas
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by Erlich_Bachman 5y ago
> born and raised touching the screen What does this have to do with the market? People don't want physical keyboards because they are "used to" them. They want because the experience of typing is different.
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by Erlich_Bachman 5y ago
Surely it's "35C" only when powered on? Which is still a weird figure which is probably wrong because how are those products going to work close to a human body which has a default temperature of 36C (when not excercising, wh
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by Erlich_Bachman 5y ago
> there doesn't seem to be any talk of using "AI" (ie Neural Net stuff) for planning and strategy AlphaStar: excuse me?? People write that these games have predefined rules, as opposed to real-life scenarios. Such people h
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Meditation is a word that is used to describe some very different activities. Thus the lot of confusion that seems to perspire in the comments.
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> A trailer can spends days to weeks and even a month in a yard waiting for a tractor Imagine what a similar investment in a stationary solar panel in that same yard would yield, a panel that will charge 100% of time.
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Yes, this is such a disingenuous argument when people say PoW incentivises to use more electricity. It doesn't care about electricity, at best. Also the specific Bitcoin model even incentivises to use less electricity, because for each
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
I was there, and I am still wondering - who thought iPhone was a gimimck? Certainly not people in tech? The tablet phones and phones with keyboards already exist, the palm, the windows phones. iPhone was just a better more slick implementat
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> you at least have the option to wait a day or two to charge This argument gets thrown around sometimes, but if you really consider it: Who has time to wait a day or two at a random place, with no infrastructure? People who have no valu
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
In a fantasy world unrestricted by physics and market and costs and raw materials, - yes, they could.
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> There's really no reason not to do it Cost is the reason. You have to consider cost.
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Those are all very real and legit advantages, but they are also very tiny, and for a very small subset of usecases of the car - where it is parked for most of a month, and only used for a couple of days here and there, and only for short tr

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