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by icedchocolate 3y ago
My biggest fear around this is that these solutions incentivise the biggest pharma companies to stop researching actual cures. I don’t want to have to deal with these devices, I just want it dealt with.
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by icedchocolate 4y ago
I couldn’t agree more, well said
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by icedchocolate 4y ago
1000%, recommendation algorithms inevitably maximise for emotional reactions, promoting polarisation and negativity.
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by icedchocolate 4y ago
I am literally never able to install my household name desktop apps that I use daily on Mac, when I try Ubuntu, without the thing crashing my whole computer. It’s insane.
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by icedchocolate 4y ago
This opinion is terrifying to me. Why has our culture become so authoritarian?
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by icedchocolate 6y ago
They are (almost?) all configurable using QMK, custom firmware or even Via :)
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by icedchocolate 6y ago
Speaking from Australia, we have outstanding customer protection and rights, and no massive hoops or hurdles to go to get it that would be more significant than anything in the US. It’s really much more just. Fraud or improper charges are a
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by icedchocolate 6y ago
The commenter wasn’t talking about all people having to work at the office all of the time, merely that fully remote was not good and not favoured by young engineers. And he was spot on. I’m a young engineer in my 20s and if I don’t get in-
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by icedchocolate 6y ago
I’m shocked that people are surprised that censorship escalates. This is the natural consequence. Censorship should be restricted to calls for, threats of or plans of violence, that’s it. And maybe denial of well-documented genocides. Does
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by icedchocolate 6y ago
Greed. Pure, unadulterated, unjustified greed. Why should Apple get 15%? It’s just disgusting.
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by icedchocolate 6y ago
“ Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without having to be forced to. “ Lol you lost me immediately. This is essentially pretending anti-vaccers and other groups of people ju
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by icedchocolate 6y ago
If you get your news from Facebook, you’re doing it wrong.
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by icedchocolate 6y ago
No they don’t, they only have to provide details of why they downranked the website if they do so. This is to avoid them intentionally downranking the papers to hurt them. Stop spreading lies.
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by icedchocolate 6y ago
Lol this is just not true. Fairfax, for example, will be completely fine. You’re honestly pushing a lobbyist’s narrative. Small papers don’t rely on Facebook click throughs.
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by icedchocolate 6y ago
Exactly, “on a part of the digital platform service that is set up and able to be edited by the registered news business“, i.e. on the news site’s own personal page, which is already possible.
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by icedchocolate 6y ago
As an Australian, this is fantastic. Why should Facebook and Google get to show news content for free? The only people unhappy about this, from what I have seen, are Facebook and Google. Big tech bullies, having a sook with their lobbyists
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by icedchocolate 6y ago
Feels like the author is catching on to the realisations outlined here: https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/09/why-generation-y-yuppies-are-...
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by icedchocolate 6y ago
The fees some of these apps charge is criminal. You’re an advertising and coordination company, do you really deserve a huge percentage per order? Gross.
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by icedchocolate 6y ago
“Declare New Variables... I see two possible reasons why one would want to do it the "wrong" way: efficiency, and conciseness.” Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this plain wrong? You are increasing the memory required for your p
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by icedchocolate 7y ago
Why do people program new projects in Erlang as opposed to Elixir? Especially when it’s a web project and Elixir has Phoenix?
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by icedchocolate 7y ago
This headline is misleading. Avast did the work. The police just gave the necessary legal approval.
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by icedchocolate 7y ago
The consequences of installing spyware on your devices and trying to spy on the US.
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by icedchocolate 7y ago
Not sure I agree. AirPods really have almost no distinguishing features from other earphones. They’re generally worse. The only “feature” is seeing their charge on your phone, which is a pretty lousy differentiator.
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by icedchocolate 7y ago
Honestly, I wouldn’t make it available in China. I want to give them a reason to take that firewall down. I don’t want to make the prison that their government has turned their country into, a sustainable one.
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by icedchocolate 7y ago
Re: Healthcare, that’s not true. The US spends more on health care per capita than many systems with free healthcare (Australia, UK, Canada). You pay the most and receive the least. Like the previous commenter, I am increasingly surprised t
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by icedchocolate 8y ago
To add to the resources in this thread, the book sitting on my bookshelf that I used for Derivatives at uni (options & futures, hedging, swaps, etc.) is Fundamentals of Futures and Options Markets, but John C. Hull
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by icedchocolate 8y ago
Most important thing to know about economics, from Mankiw & studying economics both at school and uni: (1) Resources are limited, but our desire is unlimited. The function of the market is to find the equilibrium amount of each thing to
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by icedchocolate 10y ago
Sales & Marketing expense was $124M, they spent ~$9M on advertising, so ~$115M on sales and marketing, and $183M on R&D (engineering). So about 61:39, eng:sales, if you were to assume wages were equal, on average.
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by icedchocolate 10y ago
Honestly Brexit and Trump both tell me that democracy doesn't work, because the majority of the population is undereducated, bigoted, and has absolutely no idea about how to run an economy - it makes no sense for the working class who