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falkerie71

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  • Reddit says it's made $203M so far licensing its data

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  • Yeah, probably not. When you sign up and agreed to their ToS, they don't "own" your content, but you grant them a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use it without compensation.

    From their ToS:

    Any ideas, suggestions, and feedback about Reddit or our Services that you provide to us are entirely voluntary, and you agree that Reddit may use such ideas, suggestions, and feedback without compensation or obligation to you

    Source: A pretty good post on r/HFY, though it is on Reddit, so don't click it if you don't want to :P

  • Passenger sees Boeing 757-200 “wing coming apart” mid-air — United flight from San Francisco to Boston makes emergency landing in Denver

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  • Where did you get your information that airliners send planes back to Boeing for maintenance? My quick search tells me that they generally don't, and they either do it themselves, or rely on third parties called Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) providers for heavier maintenance. In the case of United airlines, their MRO provider is called United Technical Operations, their own division.

    https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/airplane-maintenance-disturbing-truthhttps://simpleflying.com/aircraft-maintenance-checks/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_maintenance_checks

  • Started looking into ente to replace Google Photos and Gmail marked them as spam

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  • GCam and photospheres! I'm so mad they dropped photospheres on the Pixel 8 line, it's so good for travel landscapes.

  • More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities

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  • Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I remember that SSDs lifespan mainly depends on how much you overwrite the drive. For 128TB, it should take you a very long time to overwrite the entire drive, let alone couple hundred or thousand times to kill the drive. I know that bit rot also happens on SSDs, but that applies to HDDs as well, and good drive maintenance practices should alleviate the issue. Though for archival purposes/cold storage, tape drives are probably better.

  • Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought

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  • There are plenty of things to not like about Apple, but this ain't it, dude.

  • Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought

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  • To be fair to Apple, the AVP is first of it's kind. Literally nothing else functions the same way it does. But based on its naming, you can bet a lower priced version is already on its way. For regular consumers, that's the one you should get, not this, especially when 3rd party apps are still being developed.

  • Why is it legal to buy and sell used books/discs but illegal to buy and sell used digital files?

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  • Physical media doesn't have the luxury of endlessly replicating itself via a simple copy and paste.

  • Is Framework actually "good" for the industry?

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  • I mean, with modularity you can pick your needs and make that choice yourself. Some people are willing to carry an extra dongle, and some prefer having the ports sit flush and nothing extra that they don't need, up to you.

  • Is Framework actually "good" for the industry?

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  • I don't think you need to be that worried about "tightening control to the likes of Apple". Given that they encourage people build their own cases for the motherboards, design and 3d print custom expansion cards, I won't be surprised if some 3rd party designs a whole new motherboard to fit in their chassis since the size is supposed to be standard. Iirc, Louis Rossman did do a video on them in the past that confirmed Framework would be willing to work with repair shops to provide them the schematics that they are able to provide to aid in repairs.

    On the other topic, I agree that most people won't be needing to swap out parts that often. But that's also the beauty of modularity though. You buy the parts that you actually need and nothing else. Framework can sell the exact same chassis that still fills the need for different people who have different needs for ports. And since they're supposed to reuse the same chassis down the line, you are almost guaranteed to have parts still be available multiple generations after, unlike modern laptops where parts would be much harder to find after a couple of hardware refreshes.

    Framework is still a niche product, thus they will definitely still be much more expensive than regular laptops due to scale and whatnot. Most people would be better off buying those tbh. But if you care about upgradability or repairability multiple years after purchase, I think they're still worth considering.

  • Hamas releases video of three Israeli hostages saying they'll learn 'fate' on Monday

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  • I just don't see a way that will end well for both sides when one side is exploiting the hatred towards another, while the other side is not keen on enabling such an extremist group.

  • China launches test runs for world’s largest plant that can convert coal to ethanol

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  • Lol

  • China launches test runs for world’s largest plant that can convert coal to ethanol

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  • Even if it's not done out of malice and it's purely out of ignorance, to the end user/buyer, what difference does it make? Investors and employees alike protested in front of Evergrande office regardless, and owners are still left without a complete home, or without one entirely.

    And are you really trying to give them a pass? A company so large they couldn't afford to make proper financial forecast and decisions? A country so powerful and literally has hands in private businesses, they couldn't see potential problems with it? Really? There were signs of a housing bubble since 2010!

    Surprise surprise, China did end up actually detaining the chairman of Evergrande and some of it's senior employees for misusing funds. Makes so much sense.

    More stuff to read:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-66956769https://web.archive.org/web/20231229093805/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/business/china-evergrande-default-debt.html

  • China launches test runs for world’s largest plant that can convert coal to ethanol

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  • You're the one who made the argument. The responsibility lies on you.

    Edit: and are you, who haven't posted a single link here yet, really telling me, who did provide news articles, to do my own research? How ironic.

  • China launches test runs for world’s largest plant that can convert coal to ethanol

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  • Maybe I am. Like, I won't pretend to be an expert, but the fact that they said "flooding the market with houses is a sound strategy" on one hand, and said it's a problem that requires a resolution on the other, just says to me that they don't know what they're talking about.

  • China launches test runs for world’s largest plant that can convert coal to ethanol

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  • Sure. Please find me articles about places that have incidents happening in a large scale like this right now then. Or do big companies like Evergrande just default occasionally all over the world in your books?

  • China launches test runs for world’s largest plant that can convert coal to ethanol

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  • Flooding the market with unfinished buildings? Are you on crack or something? You have to actually finish it to call it "housing". And again, those property were built to be sold, and they weren't going to undersell them. Leaving both the buyer and the constructor with no money is not called a "sound strategy".

  • China launches test runs for world’s largest plant that can convert coal to ethanol

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  • Imagine being literally scammed into pouring your life savings into a property that is unfinished without electricity nor water, and then thinking "at least I have something so I shouldn't complain"? Those people actually had something before, now they're left with less than nothing.

  • China launches test runs for world’s largest plant that can convert coal to ethanol

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  • Am I talking to a brick wall or what?

  • China launches test runs for world’s largest plant that can convert coal to ethanol

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  • They're not building apartments to give out to homeless people for free here. People actually had to pay for those properties and were scammed.

  • China launches test runs for world’s largest plant that can convert coal to ethanol

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  • There's another side to this. "Pre-planning" without proper forecast led to the housing crisis we are seeing today in China, with one of the largest developers in China Evergrande defaulting and filing for bankruptcy. A lot of people who were promised a good property and sunk their life savings into the project, now have no choice but to live in unfinished buildings in ghost towns without electricity nor water.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/10/31/crumbling-buildings-and-broken-dreams-chinas-unfinished-homeshttps://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/china-home-buyers-occupy-their-rotting-unfinished-properties-2022-09-26/