culturestate

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by culturestate 3mo ago
One key difference is that submariners are rigorously trained to operate effectively in less-than-ideal environmental conditions, whereas Bob from accounting probably is not.
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by culturestate 3mo ago
To be fair, in the summer you need to make sure the wasps don’t slip themselves into your drink.
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by culturestate 3mo ago
> Deaf people have a lifetime of training (hopefully) and experience Not every deaf person is born that way, mate.
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by culturestate 9mo ago
> That is not sane, it is dumb. I understand where you’re coming from, but it’s perfectly sane if your legal system recognizes and accepts that speed detection methodologies have a defined margin of error; every ticket issued for spe
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by culturestate 9mo ago
> It literally is shipping AI generated content in the product. When someone goes three miles per hour over the speed limit they are literally breaking the law, but that doesn’t mean they should get a serious fine for it. Sometimes shi
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by culturestate 1y ago
I understand what you mean; what I’m saying is that they can still disable CarPlay and upcharge buyers for navigation and harvest the data to resell without bringing subscriptions into the picture. It’s the foundational decision to make t
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by culturestate 1y ago
> the amount you're paying for the subscription is only a fraction of what they can get for your data. This doesn’t clarify it at all for me because this model already works without the bother of subscriptions. They’re generatin
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by culturestate 1y ago
> Probably because the LTV is at least an order of magnitude more than you are estimating. This subscription costs $140 per year; even accounting for price increases over time, if someone has calculated that its 10-year LTV exceeds $14
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by culturestate 1y ago
I haven’t bought a car in a hot minute but those options usually also included different in-dash displays, etc. If Ford standardized the hardware, eliminated the option, and bumped the sticker, nobody would bat an eye and they would captu
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by culturestate 1y ago
I’ve always wondered why manufacturers don’t just bump the sticker up by whatever the estimated LTV of these subscriptions would be. If you want to buy a new F-150, there’s functionally no difference between paying e.g. $52,500 instead of $
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by culturestate 1y ago
In a perfectly efficient market, yes, but the market is notably not perfectly efficient. People make decisions about which career(s) to pursue or not pursue based on a huge variety of factors that stretch far beyond money. There is absolu
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by culturestate 1y ago
I don’t think you can really bake that in because the traffic rules can change day-to-day. For example, there’s a street in my neighborhood that’s normally open for two-way traffic, but one of the buildings that fronts it is being renovated
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SF police stumped after trying to ticket driverless car for illegal U-turn(theguardian.com)
26 points by culturestate 1y ago|16 comments
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by culturestate 1y ago
I’m no lawyer but I feel like clause seven leaves a clear opening to undermine the spirit of this license: > “The User may not sell this Work directly, unless they/she/he/it/ey/fae/ze/bun/puppy&#x
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by culturestate 1y ago
I‘m fairly sure that generation of MBP is USB-C only. If a UK plug prong is smashing its way in there, you‘ve got much bigger problems than a shorted port.
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by culturestate 1y ago
That’s a great read, thanks for pointing it out.
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by culturestate 1y ago
This story is incredible, I’m fascinated by every aspect of it: - What decision-making process led to the idea of injecting human urine into a frog in the first place? - How did the frogs escape? What kind of living and handling conditions
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by culturestate 1y ago
I don’t mean to suggest that governments shouldn’t do things like this, I’m just abnormally delighted when I find them. A multinational framework explicitly for the protection and restoration of eels would never have occurred to me (or most
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by culturestate 1y ago
Incredibly, I actually did learn this today because it was in the NYT crossword and I went down a very similar rabbit hole. I never made it to Freud, though, after I discovered and got sucked into the European Union Eel Regulation Framewo
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by culturestate 1y ago
> Do not go to college if you have to spend any money on it. “If your family isn’t well-off or you didn’t work hard enough in high school to get any scholarships, college isn’t for you” is certainly an interesting take, and it seems li
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by culturestate 1y ago
All of the places around here that had first-gen units with a scale on the packing side (to make sure you actually scanned eg a banana and not a two pound block of cheese, yet were constantly wrong) have replaced them with newer versions th
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by culturestate 1y ago
It seems like they only make the localhost requests on your first visit. If you open devtools in incognito mode (or just clear the cookies) before accessing https://ceac.state.gov/genniv/ you should see those 127.0.0.1
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by culturestate 1y ago
For anyone else googling this like I just did, Carter Clarke Jr. is the Gemesis founder. Took me longer than I care to admit reading the Wikipedia page for Carter Clarke Sr. (also a brigadier general) who led a pretty interesting life of
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by culturestate 1y ago
> After 25 you can’t really learn new languages without considerable investment and effort. It takes considerable investment and effort before you’re 25, too, you just don’t notice it because it happens slowly over a long period in s
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by culturestate 1y ago
> The number of hoops you have to jump through to get results from the actual Google page when you are outside of the US is mind boggling. Do you mean results in English, or results that are specifically US-centric?
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by culturestate 1y ago
> You cannot buy a device with entirely Google-designed hardware and software - Pixels with Android come close I don’t really understand this distinction. How is eg a Pixel 9 Pro running Android with GMS on a Tensor any less entirely
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by culturestate 1y ago
The ugly-but-functional digital parking timer market is alive and well[1] in Germany; maybe you can import one, if local law allows? 1. e.g. https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Park-Micro-Digital-Parking-Approv...
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by culturestate 1y ago
Confusingly, there are two different MPEGs in this context. MPEG the standards group is organized by ISO and IEC, along with JPEG. The one you’re thinking of - MPEG LA, the licensing company - is a patent pool (which has since been subs
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by culturestate 1y ago
No, they’re in a patent pool. There’s what looks like a relatively up-to-date list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via-LA#H.265/HEVC_licensors
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by culturestate 1y ago
It’s not a project per se , but one that I support and don’t see here yet is Public Knowledge[1]. They have a similar mission to EFF, but they do more hands-on lobbying in DC. 1. https://publicknowledge.org/about-us/

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