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Android industry standard is TikTok, and yes, it runs that.
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It was a side point, because it's always very rich people with iPhone 13 Max which are like "poor people should use 10 year old phones, but not me, I can't be seen on gram with that, I need credibility so I can speak out abou
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Not talking about you since I don't know, but a funny thing I noticed, is that people who are very loud about saving the environment are always the ones with the latest iPhone 13 Max/Macbook Pro M1 in their hands one week after it
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LTE/5G is a hardware thing, you can't add it with a software update. Yet another point that it's not the sealed battery which is the problem.
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For the last 6 years, the average number of new smartphones sold per year was 1.5 billion. There are 6.5 billion people with smartphones in the world. So that's at most a 4 year churn rate. https://www.statista.com/stat
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How many people do you see using 2010 smartphones with replaceable batteries? Or put another way: people throw away phones after 3-4 years regardless of if you can replace the battery or not. You can pretty cheaply replace the battery in an
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It was too soon and done in a stupid way. They will try again later. As another example: just because Google Glasses flopped because of privacy issues it doesn't mean that future Apple/... Glasses which will have exactly the same
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Parent was saying that if you saw this guy on the street, you wouldn't think he's a deca-millionaire just by the looks, which is what you implied. In most pictures he projects a middle manager look.
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Not all of them are free, some of them are kidnapped by traffickers from the country side. https://www.economist.com/baobab/2012/04/24/maid-in-ethiopia
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Taiwan lab fined for biosafety lapses after lab worker contracts Covid-19
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The bitterent used is so powerful, the concentration is like 0.01 ppm. So unless you are in a clean room, there will be more dust from air which deposits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatonium
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Drinking this medical disinfectant denaturated alcohol has become a meme in Romania, where very poor people drink it because it's so cheap - $1.5 for 1L of 70% ABV (almost twice Vodka strength which is about 40% ABV). https:/
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When price goes up, the conspiracy theory is that it's all fake, because it's just Tether printing. So where is the Tether printing now? Since everybody agrees that Tether is unbacked and their printer can go brrr at will, why don
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1000 stars on GitHub are about as powerful as 1 million followers on Instagram. If you don't understand why 1 million followers on Instagram are life changing, well... Being a gitfluencer is extremely valuable.
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Ivermectin is not a protease inhibitor. From wikipedia: > Ivermectin and its related drugs act by interfering with the nerve and muscle functions of helminths and insects. The drug binds to glutamate-gated chloride channels common to inv
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Merck is not some random PHd with no power that you can steal from. If there is some merit to this claim, surely it will be tested in court.
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Not an expert, but this 1996 paper talks about a highly effective HIV protease inhibitor: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11363781/
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> Dynamo = a forceful energetic individual Dynamo = dynamic individual
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The same reason people use Photoshop instead of command line ImageMagick.
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I meant the other party that you are talking too. For example I initiate a conversation with you and now I know your IP address. This was a problem with Yahoo! Messenger which was P2P.
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One big problem with P2P is that it reveals the IP address of the other party.
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A more effective approach would be to highlight how the far-right uses encrypted chat apps. That would get the majority of the media and blue-checks supporting you. > Why right-wing extremists’ favorite new platform is so dangerous. Tele
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Not real communism (GitHub issue) https://github.com/jokteur/python_communism/issues/4
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I have a 2017 LG 43" TV and I'm a bit disappointed. Last year I think the back-light started breaking down - I see big square sections where the colors are less bright and purplish. The display seems to have a grid of 4x2 of these
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I've seen it used quite often by journalists. That would imply that it's relatively well known, since journalists are discouraged from using obscure words/phrases in titles. > Brianna Keilar Hits Pearl-Clutching Republica
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Some non-English languages are importing English words/phrases when the English one represents an idea that it's a bit more complicated to express in the non-English language. I'm not talking about technical terms. Random exa
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So then you admit that your argument about Mediterranean access is irrelevant.
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What sort of argument is this? Should Denmark also invade Crimea so that it has access to the Mediterranean?
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> The FSB, which serves as Russia’s internal intelligence agency, said it conducted its operation at the request of US authorities This needs to be understood through the Ukraine/NATO crisis lens. Carrot and stick. Show that you c
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They use "effective pixels", just like CSS pixels are not actual pixels: > Because of how the scaling system works, when you design your UWP app, you're designing in effective pixels, not actual physical pixels. Effective
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