burningmatches

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[–] burningmatches 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Your data isn’t just being sold to advertisers. There are all kinds of companies that are willing to pay big bucks to get near real-time insights into consumer behaviour, prices, manufacturing and anything else that can be tracked somehow.

Edit: And there’s a near 0% chance that you’re not part of a dataset that’s being sold to someone, somewhere…

[–] burningmatches 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shittest high ever. Only people already hooked would be interested and they could buy it legally anyway.

[–] burningmatches -3 points 1 year ago

And the building is now a museum to Belgian beer, so…

[–] burningmatches 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tech just isn’t his expertise.

Mehta has been described as an avid fan of hip hop music. In a 2015 copyright case regarding the similarity of two songs, Mehta noted in a footnote that he was "not a ‘lay person’ when it comes to hip-hop music and lyrics,” and noted he has "listened to hip hop for decades". American rappers Jay-Z, Eminem, Kanye West and Canadian rapper Drake are among his favorite artists.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amit_Mehta

[–] burningmatches 19 points 1 year ago

Dubai is less conservative than other places in the region, but it’s still fairly strict by international standards. It was illegal to live with an unmarried partner in the UAE until 2020 and extra-marital sex is still an offence.

[–] burningmatches 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In some ways they’re arguing that austerity wasn’t aggressive enough to get the job done properly.

[–] burningmatches 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They also just had a typhoon, which means there was probably a lot of debris making things worse.

[–] burningmatches 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It wasn’t just Fukushima. There was a massive flood in Thailand at the same time that shut down a load of suppliers. It was a really bad bit of luck but they did learn from that.

[–] burningmatches 3 points 1 year ago

Narwhal still works for those on iOS.

[–] burningmatches 2 points 1 year ago

Shortcut to prison

[–] burningmatches 32 points 1 year ago

This famously isn’t true for nuclear power. It just keeps getting more expensive.

The French nuclear case illustrates the perils of the assumption of robust learning effects resulting in lowered costs over time in the scale-up of large-scale, complex new energy supply technologies. The uncertainties in anticipated learning effects of new technologies might be much larger that often assumed, including also cases of “negative learning” in which specific costs increase rather than decrease with accumulated experience.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301421510003526

And this research was done before Fukushima, which increased costs even further.

[–] burningmatches 2 points 1 year ago

Placating the populace (ie, averting a revolution) is the CCP’s main objective. Civil unrest is the number one thing that keeps Chinese officials up at night.

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