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rhplus
·3 ore fa·discuss
Disappointed that xn--sei.com or <insert fleuron here>.com is apparently registered but not redirecting to ornately decorated texts.
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·21 giorni fa·discuss
Images, music, video, and text would all be under copyright, while characters and logos may be registered trademarks.
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·22 giorni fa·discuss
XKCD: 10,000 people learn something “everyone knows” every day:

https://xkcd.com/1053/
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·24 giorni fa·discuss
Someone has an ambiguous bet predicting when RFC 10000 will be published, but the numbers went straight from 9998 to 10008. No-one wins!

https://manifold.markets/CollectedOverSpread/when-will-rfc-1...
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·mese scorso·discuss
BS check: $8T is $1000 per person on this planet. A healthy P/E ratio of 25 would translate to earning $40/year in profit from every person on the planet. SpaceX/Starlink obviously doesn’t just walk in and get everyone as a customer though. They have roughly 10 million customers right now. Let’s be generous and say they have 20 million. That $8T works out at $400K per customer valuation which at a 50 P/E would mean $8K/year/customer profit per customer or $666/month/customer profit. Those are generous numbers. Scaling back to 10 million customers and 25 P/E would require $2666/month/customer in profit to get to $8T valuation. For Internet service?
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·2 mesi fa·discuss
7/11 Japan really benefits from urban density, which in turn makes the distribution of fresher food and smaller footprint stores much more of a factor.

The distribution network even shows up in maps. There will be clusters of 7/11 in Japanese cities which is more efficient than spreading them equally.

https://conbini.kikkia.dev/
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·2 mesi fa·discuss
Billable hour rates would need to increase by 25%.
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·2 mesi fa·discuss
Most businesses don’t grow just by churning out more units of software. At some point, it doesn’t matter how quickly you can churn out features if you’re not solving customer problems and convincing customers that they should pay for those solutions.

Once software becomes cheap, the bottleneck to growth shift to product design, infrastructure/manufacturing, sales and support.
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·2 mesi fa·discuss
Our local toy store is a member of marketing cooperative and yours might be too.

They are wonderful and a perfect example of a local toy store - a wide variety, personal service and free gift wrapping on all purchases (a life saver for anyone with kids and a birthday party to go to seemingly every other weekend).

A map of the network is here.

https://stoysnetpartner.com/our-retail-clients/
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·2 mesi fa·discuss
> So why not license the shape then?

Because - until it makes its way through the courts - it’s not established that Fender has the rights to claim ownership of on the shape in the first place.

In the US, there’s three routes for that - design patent, trade dress and artistic copyright. AFAIK they don’t have a design patent. Trade dress is hard to prove association - would most people on the street say “yep, that’s 100% a Stratocaster” if they say the outline? Probably not. The shape isn’t separate from the functionality so artistic copyright hasn’t upheld either. The fact that Fender has not successfully enforced copyright concerns for over 70 years is also a sign that they never had IP protection on the shape.
rhplus
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Interesting yes.

Money wouldn’t just be diverted from other US stocks though.

Foreign money has increasing buying power as USD weakens against certain currencies and the upside of these IPOs is certainly more attractive to global investors than parking money is lack luster real-estate or bond or cash alternatives.

TINA (to US stock market) and all that.
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·2 mesi fa·discuss
The competitors to Photoshop right now are promoted image manipulation tools, not another menus-and-layers based Photoshop clone.
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·2 mesi fa·discuss
Wow… at 1.5% annual return wouldn’t they be better off just renting those assets (aircraft) to other airlines?!
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·2 mesi fa·discuss
Ryanair is 3rd by passengers and 7th by passenger miles, according to this wiki page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_airlines_in_the_world

Obviously their model is different to the big American carriers. Perhaps there’s something about the homogeneity of the US domestic market compared to the EU market that favors loyalty based airlines versus budget airlines.
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·2 mesi fa·discuss
Even more interesting is when words are borrowed back!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reborrowing

For example, katsu from cutlet, is borrowed back into English to mean… cutlet.

And when combined with “curry” as in “katsu curry” the journey meanders all the way through Tamil, Portuguese, Japanese and English, following sailors where they went.
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·2 mesi fa·discuss
I should have said most home users. My point is that more bandwidth at this point probably won’t affect 99.999% of home users.

What’s described in the post is the tech equivalent of supe-ing up a sports car and then driving it in rush hour traffic. It’s fun to geek out doing it, but practically in everyday use the difference will be negligible. Even with large file uploads and downloads, there’s a good chance that services won’t reach those throughputs end to end.

What’s telling is that the post shows screenshots and charts from artificial speed tests. No videos of the Dropbox client chugging away with throttled uploads.
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·2 mesi fa·discuss
10Gbps is enough bandwidth for 500 concurrent Netflix streams in 4K/UHD (15Mbps) AND 500 concurrent video calls (4Mbps).

Home users don’t need more bandwidth to improve their internet experiences, they need lower latency, less congestion and less loss.

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/prepare-net...
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·3 mesi fa·discuss
Is there also something beneficial about the shirt he wore? It has a unique embossed pattern on the chest. Is it just a nice design or does it also provide aerodynamic or heat wicking advantage?

https://news.adidas.com/sabastian-sawe---london-marathon/a/0...
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·3 mesi fa·discuss
Yeah, exactly. The NFL is a closed system franchise. The same 32 teams play every season whether they win or lose. No team risks relegation to a lower revenue league. Every team gets a roughly equal share of the franchise revenue regardless of performance.
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·3 mesi fa·discuss
It’s the classic asymmetric warfare problem:

Defenders have to find all the holes in all their systems, while attackers just need to find one hole in one system.