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by Dalewyn 2y ago
It's actually Pretty Bloody Hard(tm) to store or move money/wealth safely and properly, not the least because most of us are all highwaymen when given the opportunity. Banks exist to try and bring some civility to that madness, wi
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He was acquitted on both counts, so no he wasn't impeached. In fact, there has never[1] been an impeached President in American history. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_impeachment_trial_in_t...
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I agree, the realistic chance of TikTok providing evidence of an active and ongoing sale process when they hadn't entertained even the mere thought of a sale is astronomically low. Then again, reality can be weird sometimes. Never say
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Yes, the legal question was decided last year by the Supreme Court (and it will work in all Presidents' favors going forward, Trump included). The question of duty however lies with Congress. The Executive Branch is tasked with executi
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Let me put it this way then: You're mixing the professional with the personal. Administering and moderating Hacker News is your job, that is correct. You also admitted that the rebuttal and moderation action this all stems from was dri
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The problem here is the mixing of administrative powers (collapsing of subthread) and expression of private opinions. One is ideally an unbiased, mechanical action subject to a rigid set of publicized conditions to which the comment(s) co
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My $dayjob involves lots of officework as in paperwork. You bet your fucking ass I'm using Microsoft Office and reliant on it to a bloody fault. I literally and sincerely can't rely on LibreOffice to open and save documents in w
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Disclaimer: IANAL. The Executive Branch (President, White House) has a responsibility to execute the law as legislated by the Legislative Branch (Congress) and judged by the Judicial Branch (Supreme Court) if applicable. Trump is citing Ho
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China is going for a Culture Victory after watching America land Culture Victory after Victory for the past better part of a century. America does not appreciate the challenge, not the least because it can't compete anymore. Also, seei
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>Let's start with "no one has heard of mastodon" because no one is spending money marketing it to joe public. Sure it'll spread by word of mouth, but honestly that's not terribly compelling While I think Mastodon
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However many layers of abstractions deep you are, please try and get yourself out of there. The air down there ain't good for ya.
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The goal is to make everyone wear American blue jeans and listen to American pop music, the details are irrelevant. TikTok serves to make everyone wear Chinese blue jeans and listen to Chinese pop music, and America does not like that. Putt
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I'm not a "China supporter" so much as I am simply stating reality for what it is. America banned TikTok because it's not something America can control, that really is all there is to it. It's even stated right ther
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>The issue is that TikTok is somewhat unique in being aggressively weaponized in currently very active “grey zone” conflicts. That has been happening since time immemorial. What is actually the issue is that for the first time ever i
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>But I suspect just as with the web, the problem is consistency. That is indeed the "problem" at its core. People are lazy, operating systems aren't consistent enough. Operating systems came about to abstract all the diffe
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>If China is so developed, why does it fight for developing nation status? Because "developing nation" status confers certain exemptions and benefits. China is ruthless about (ab)using every possible trick in the rulebook to ta
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The poorly written article actually doesn't say anything tangible. I'm flagging this as clickbait of the worst order.
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>I am not sure what you are saying. Japanese companies spent time and money investing in new technologies and then proceeded to waste them because they were far more interested in keeping trade secrets to themselves and dragging each oth
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>Remember how modern OLEDs were made feasible basically by LG and Samsung? That was Japan's game to lose and their loss was absolutely deserved. Japanese companies are more interested in bickering with each other, while Korean and C
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Screens are smooth and decidedly fragile compared to the rest of the chassis. You especially don't want to put much if any pressure on it, which you might need to do for a firm grip. You also probably don't want to put too much ha
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The audience was hobbyist game developers and people generally interested in computers, so if they didn't use RSS then frankly I don't know who will (and clearly, speaking now in the future, noone has).
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Some cameras do overheat from extended recording sessions, so depending on the model it's not entirely a joke.
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Back like 15 to 20 years ago when I ran or helped manage some hobbyist websites, I added RSS functionality if only because it was "popular" back then. I can confidently tell you not a single bloody soul used it, at the height of a
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Where you touch it when not in use doesn't matter. Being able to easily grab something is always important, especially anything portable. I'm going to pull it out of a bag, move it across a table, etc. and having microbezels
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It's a portable device, at some point or another I'm going to handle it without the side controllers. Having some place to grab the thing is basic ergonomics, much less something designed with kids in mind.
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Microbezels are aesthetically great but practically horrible. Having some practical space to grab onto wins at the end of the day, we presumably use these things instead of having one sit looking happy on a bookshelf.
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If you're an amputee I truly am sorry for you and hope the handicap hasn't disrupted your life too much. Jokes(...?) aside though, your absolute deference to precision is an example of why metric flies over people's heads. Fe
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This sums it up. Metric is nice and clean tenths, but the real world is seldomly easily expressed in clean tenths. Another example: The feet is cleanly divisible in thirds, quarters, and twelfths, which is greatly appreciated in industry an
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You're trying to break free of Earth's gravity well, so you might as well use Freedom Units.
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And in case someone wants to hear a linguistic opinion outside of English and Chinese: As a Japanese, I can confirm that those two words indeed have about as much to do with each other as constipation and constitution.

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