BRAlNlAC

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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
Using plants as a measurement of quantity of product produced is misleading, full stop. As long as we continue to legislate limits on plant quantity and not bud quantity (not that I think we should, only that it would be superior) we will c
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
You know, the consortium also approved the slightly smiling face,[1] which should show content without being so exaggerated. Also I would never thing that your example in 2 would be expressing exhaustion, the mouth closes in the middle like
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
yeah. this is why i abandonded Google a couple years ago. it became clear to me that they werent trying to provide me with search results that satisfied my curiosity, everything was tailored to draw me in and keep me searching. it wont send
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
>they figured tvey might get a good second place with the "I don't care if it's creepy" crowd. except, usually you get a much better deal on a product when you go the "i dont care if its creepy" route. this
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
No, but those people get to have a say in our government. So in some ways yes, they are equal. If you want that to change, be a missionary and convince them, but to deny them representation is violence upon a class.
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
>YouTube shows their intent to not infringe by the effort they put into removing infringing content. I'd disagree, I think that Youtube shows their intent to allow infringing based on the gross amount of copyrighted content they all
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
First off, I really like your framework of "lizard brain"/"rational brain" >We should continue to push the limits of what we can successfully repress, but we should also be willing to admit when repression has fa
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
>a reasonable alternative to that $10,000 a year luxury that is car ownership This fundamentally isn't true. I've had a used Camry for almost a decade and the annual cost of ownership including purchase price, maintenance, regi
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
>social and general UI use is going to lean on voice as much as possible because it fits into the VR paradigm much better. I don't think so, how would you talk on the phone and input text? I don't think people are going to be c
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
>However, maintaining the air dryers and replacing the filters sounds like it wouldn't be any cheaper than conventional phase-change cooling, and having to build custom vacuum/compressor pumps for the hyperloop project is going
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
and what if the railroads looked at the 99 year lease offer and said, "no thanks fam"? What if is such a pointless game to play.
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
Who doesn't need a car in LA though? LA has terribad public transit, if you are planning on renting a car on the far end you can probably afford to fly too.
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
The difference is that your brother is commuting for the day whereas with HSR half the tickets are for people to arrive in LA without a car.
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
I don't even get who buys these cheaper VR headsets. I'm an early-adopter type and I can't see the purpose of Galaxy VR, Google Daydream or this new Occulus Go. I guess they are just like a $100+ novelty? At least the Vive (a
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
As I understand it, the problem with drugs that aren't patentable is there is no way for those who pay for clinical testing to re-coup their investment. Phase I-IV clinical testing usually goes well over 100 million USD [1] so drug com
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
First they block Flash ads, next a certain class of ad behavior, when are they going to get slapped with an anti-competitive behavior lawsuit? I don't particularly like ads, but Google blocking them in Chrome is a bridge too far.
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
I really don't get why they have allowed this crippled GUI for so long. I understand that they want to make it simple for low level users, but that seems like a bad excuse in this case as low level users aren't even going to use D
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
I know this is semantics, but it's fair. Apple doesn't manufacture anything, they design products and contract out the manufacturing to Foxconn. Basically the same as Google contracting out manufacturing to Huwei, only I think wit
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
>As an advertiser, I understand why these changes are necessary for them to be successful in the existing Google/FB duopoly. Well then maybe you can help me understand. I see this going exactly as you describe, but I don't unde