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somastoma commented on Satellite Imagery of Every Outdoor Basketball Court in the USA pudding.cool/2024/09/cour... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

Algemarin · 2 years ago

I zoomed into a handful of random spots, and quite a few (maybe 30%) do not appear to show basketball courts at all. Many seem to be just rooftops or construction sites.

somastoma · a year ago

Weird... I zoomed into hundreds, and saw 2 or 3 that weren't accurate. YMMV i guess

somastoma commented on Satellite Imagery of Every Outdoor Basketball Court in the USA pudding.cool/2024/09/cour... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

somastoma · a year ago

What the heck is that in Jackson, TN??

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somastoma commented on How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40 davekiss.com/blog/how-i-w... · Posted by u/davekiss

somastoma · 2 years ago

Wait, wait, wait! He actually BELIEVED that they would judge the entrees as stated? They could EASILY have just used the opinion of the marketing guy responsible for this, and ignored the actual "judging of the entries based on the following.." yeah, right.

somastoma commented on Google is a monopoly – the fix isn't obvious theregister.com/2024/08/1... · Posted by u/rntn

b112 · 2 years ago

No one pays $0. All that slurping of user data is used by other corps to maximize their profits.

They're paying for that data, and then believe they're making more from consumers as a result. But no matter what, the cost of collecting that data, the infra, and then corp x or y buying it, comes out of the bottom line.

It's like points credit cards. Where does that cash back come from, magical fairies? It comes from retailers' bottom lines, eg from you.

somastoma · 2 years ago

well, I know that the free cash I get IS from fairies. Yours doesn't?

somastoma commented on Google is a monopoly – the fix isn't obvious theregister.com/2024/08/1... · Posted by u/rntn

fny · 2 years ago

I'm very curious to see what a breakup looks like. Past breakups involved "uniform" businesses:

- American Tobacco: Commodity

- Standard Oil: Commodity

- AT&T: Utility

- Northern Securities: Railroads

- Swift & Co: Meatpacking

- Kodak: Film

- Paramount: Movie Theaters

Google is more of a synergistic conglomerate. How would spinning off an individual business like Chrome, Android, or AdWords reduce their respective dominance?

I support this ruling and more across all industries, but I'm trying to square how a breakup should work that actually drives competition.

somastoma · 2 years ago

I don't know... Would you call the Kodak "moment" a breakup? Or a failure to move quickly into digital photography...

somastoma commented on Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand torrentfreak.com/kim-dotc... · Posted by u/wut42

preaching5271 · 2 years ago

I appreciate Kim Dotcom for running MegaUpload and later Mega, in a time when the internet was younger and wilder. Also for his pirate spirit and "stick it to the man" attitude. But everything has a limit, specifically his resistance against the law, even if he hid it behind virtues. I think it's clear for everybody that one cannot get away with this kind of stuff, once governments get involved. Isn't it wiser to stop at some point, and find other stuff to do, even if all your nerves say otherwise? But people are superficial and tend to develop an "i'm the main character" personality, pushing them into recklessness, like persisting doing certain things or publicly talking shit. Hope he and his family will be ok.

somastoma · 2 years ago

Elon Musk comes to mind...

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somastoma commented on How to avoid losing items? Holding pens blog.alexwendland.com/202... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

somastoma · 2 years ago

I have had several accounts in the past, just for fun. I'm a complete newbie, but enjoyed many articles and commented on them. I was constantly downvoted (or whatever term is used) and I was many times just innocently asking honest questions. I feel that most of the people here ARE childish and can't relate, and therefore impose their 'powers' of banning and downvoting. After a year of all that childish behavior on here, I just closed my accounts and left. I am just a very curious (and I think I am intelligent) retired senior aerospace engineer. I was just so rudely treated here that I couldn't fathom the reasons for it. I am just too ignorant of this 'new' culture, I guess...

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