Klinky

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by Klinky 8y ago
If it's a hundred pages on laser, how is it going to be any fewer pages on dot matrix? It's not like dot matrix is going to magically improve spatial information density. Also toner is the most efficient use of ink, a ribbon is ce
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by Klinky 8y ago
Sustenance is not the same thing as unrestrained growth.
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by Klinky 8y ago
Who is hiring cavemen living under rocks as AWS developers?
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by Klinky 8y ago
How many watts to launch it into space? This probe needs wayyyyyyyyyy more than 600 watts to complete its mission. Most computers offer idle power savings. My quad core i5 uses like 15 watts while casually browsing the internet.
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by Klinky 8y ago
People are making bad choices. How do you get them to make better choices, or do you just put your hands in your pockets and tell them it's their fault?
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by Klinky 8y ago
> It takes essentially zero time to soak beans overnight, and no time to simmer them in a pot with olive oil or butter or anything else you have (carrot water/cabbage water/stubs of vegetables if-you-have-any water). No it does
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by Klinky 8y ago
Religion is a system of itself, with the same failures, and has caused great mental harm to many people.
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by Klinky 8y ago
There needs to be a large safety net for people to fall back on, and then companies should be free to hire/fire as needed. Right now we have the gig economy trying to extract blood from a stone, and dinosaur unions that are inflexible,
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by Klinky 8y ago
Multiplayer gaming has more issues with latency than a lack of raw bandwidth.
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by Klinky 9y ago
I am not sure what the employment status of the attacker or the victims has to do with your post, other than being a dig at the "obviously stupid people who think they can make money on Youtube". Let's also call out all the o
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by Klinky 9y ago
As we slide more and more towards a "gig economy", not only can we underpay people, but we can also tell them they don't even have a "real job". Someone producing content for YouTube or driving for Lyft is a beggar?
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by Klinky 9y ago
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. If the goal was to imply to the audience listening that the mayor likes to pass people's issues onto the state instead of addressing them, then that goal was accomplished successfully. Not br
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by Klinky 9y ago
Do you really want to use that currency to buy, trust respect, and responsibility for things outside your job description? You have to watch out that a "go getter" attitude doesn't result in you just getting overburdened.
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by Klinky 9y ago
This doesn't work if you need help and resources to find solutions to said problems. You cannot solve everyone else's problems and implement solutions for them. You can suggest solutions, but someone has to give the okay and devot
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by Klinky 9y ago
nVidia GPUs are pretty easy to get your hands on. Plenty of 1080s from $550 - $600 on NewEgg. AMD GPUs are not as easy to find.
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by Klinky 9y ago
Not true, executives pushed their high-pressure upselling scheme downstream without properly following up on if the goals of the program were realistic or viable. They fired or punished employees calling into the ethics line. Their high-pre
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by Klinky 9y ago
..and how is that different than selling people AAA rated investments, knowing the investments were failing, while bundling them further, so they could be fraudulently re-rated as AAA again? They knew these investment vehicles were failing
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by Klinky 9y ago
You're correct, although Stewart actually had to face a jury trial, unlike practically everyone with major involvement in the financial crisis.
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by Klinky 9y ago
Did Madoff blow all the money of his ponzi scheme on cocaine? Is that why he's behind bars? I don't think it's as clear cut to just say that purposefully deceitful fraud that collapsed the world economy is simply a civil matt
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by Klinky 9y ago
Multiple fraud violations[1][2]? It's interesting how Martha Stewart was put in prison for insider trading, but the financial industry's Culture of Fraud lead to practically no one going to prison. There really needs to be a way t
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by Klinky 9y ago
Were those places hit by a hurricane and asked FEMA for assistance? There is definitely something to be said about economic prosperity in a lot of places, but abandoning 3.41 million US citizens after a hurricane hits doesn't seem very
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by Klinky 9y ago
The barrier to entry is low. The barrier to mass adoption is high. Bitcoin is winning that war handily compared to any other cryptocurrency. There are definitely flaws with Bitcoin that will need to be ironed out, but the world's most
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by Klinky 9y ago
There's also something called "first mover advantage", which kind of contradicts your "football effect". There have been a ton of altcoins created, none of which have crushed Bitcoin. Bitcoin is still holding on to
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by Klinky 9y ago
Even if you don't use them as a "web wallet", you can still get bit when you go to exchange and find out the exchange is not trustworthy too late and your coins are gone. Many defunct exchanges continued to allow deposits whi
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by Klinky 9y ago
If you know what you're doing, you should be able to figure out a break even point, but it's probably more than you would want to spend, and getting people to sign up is likely difficult. One of the bigger issues is support. Do yo
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by Klinky 9y ago
Also supposedly Chevy is losing money on the Bolt.
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by Klinky 9y ago
I've yet to see any reliable evidence that SSDs are less reliable than hard drives. Plenty of anecdotes, but those also exist aplenty for hard drives. Personally I've had multiple hard drives fail on me, but no SSDs.
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by Klinky 9y ago
I found this video on hacking old Thinkpad keyboards onto new Thinkpad models interesting. Required a lot of reverse engineering due to how the firmware in the Thinkpad maps keys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzmm87oVQ6c
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by Klinky 9y ago
There has been one Pentium and i3 that are unlocked since the start of the Nehalem era. What's up with the i3-6320 supporting ECC but the i3-7320 no longer supporting it? Intel is at the least, very inconsistent with ECC on the consume
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by Klinky 9y ago
You're also not allowed to tackle a player without the ball in American football. You're allowed to block, but when two players come together, especially at the snap, it can be a violent collision.

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