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I don't really think the downvotes are warranted on this one - given that the post title calls out the expense, I think a discussion on what you gain (and/or give up) for an additional $10/mo is well within bounds.
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9y ago
Have you found the "new" Merrill?
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9y ago
I believe GP meant sacked by vandals.
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9y ago
Rich and smooth?
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9y ago
I've never tried/installed Telegram but thought it was just a messaging app - not a social network. Now I'm /almost/ curious enough to try it.... but I can't install it now.
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9y ago
>> There's no free lunch >In the United States of 2018, that's a matter of explicit political choice, rather than harsh base reality. The point of the saying "there's no free lunch" is that even if it'
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9y ago
I hadn't fully realized this, but I think you nailed it. I stopped using Facebook regularly well over 5 years ago, and the only reason I have an account is because many people in my neighborhood are on a Facebook Messenger thread toget
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9y ago
I’m familiar with some of the artifacts of a kanban style system - do you have any documentation of what your particular kanban process looks like (that you can share)?
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9y ago
The article alluded to the point of diminishing IQ return varying depending on the industry - I think it would be interesting to also measure the IQ of the team behind that leader - I wouldn't be surprised to find the tipping point to
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9y ago
Unicode basilisks?
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I was surprised at the goofy map they used here - the bottom third of the country seems vertically compressed (see the angle of Florida's peninsula, or how squashed the bottom of Texas is). Also... Raleigh is south of Nashville (not no
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9y ago
Out of curiosity, where does one find test recordings of things like this? And what happened in 1982?
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9y ago
> time makes actions out of no-ops. Did you just write this extemporaneously? I want to put this where I'll see it at least 3 times a day.
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9y ago
On an iPhone 6 - I actually gained performance from 11.2 to 11.2.2 (I neglected to run Geekbench on 11.2.1). Previously my best single-core score on iPhone 6 was 1536 (and only when battery was above 93% would I get in the 1500s), now today
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9y ago
D'oh. I did not even completely read my own link - extra embarrassing as I sit in the same building as this cluster...
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9y ago
FYI the "Russian/European" hydraulic press guy is Finnish! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcMDMoNu66_1Hwi5-MeiQgw
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9y ago
http://knoxblogs.com/atomiccity/2016/04/28/noaas-supercomput... Looks like they shut it down April 2016.
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9y ago
> You can look at how much tax you've paid on your payslip, but you never feel like that money was yours in the first place since it never hits your bank. It is the same in the US - however, if you get a job offer in the US for a gi
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9y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Or the Cavendish banana clones...
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Fair enough. And full disclosure, I have been a happy 1Password user for years - will be a sad day if/when local storage is no longer an option and I have to find another solution.
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I think it's worth pointing out that he did not live 30 consecutive years alone in Alaska - he did stay the first winter, and maybe a couple other winters here and there, but by and large he returned to the lower 48 each winter and sta
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9y ago
Incompatibility with Safari, Firefox, and Edge?
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9y ago
How did they accomplish this though? Is there a timeout where, after enough FaceID failures cause a fallback to passcode, FaceID is accepted again without entering a passcode in the interim?
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9y ago
So you have to have trust that others will have continued trust in the currencies or values that your example currency is pegged to. Ultimately it seems that any material you treat as a store of value, rather than as a commodity or material
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9y ago
> people will look at an X to unlock it even though it only needs to see you, not the reverse. It explicitly will not unlock by default unless you are looking at the phone (or have disabled the "attention detection" feature), i
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9y ago
For those of us who don't trade, but feel we have something to learn from the type of thinking that leads to these counter-consensus insights - do you have any examples of how this line of thinking has led you wrong, either in trading
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Where have you seen all these butterflies?
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Are there any books or papers you could recommend which explore this view of the dark ages - say that compare/contrast the type of civilized society that emerges in the presence of a state with one that emerges in its absence?
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9y ago
Oh absolutely, it uses an attachment that is kind of like a very tiny 9-volt battery terminal, with a nub on one side and a circular spring clip on the other. The one of the four spring clips on the antenna broke off and remained attached t
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I had a similar experience, with my iPhone 6 wifi/bluetooth/GPS antenna. Started seeing degraded connectivity and Googled around till I had it narrowed down to that antenna. Was nervous about ripping it apart so first took it to t
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