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by KoftaBob 4y ago
https://alternativeto.net/software/spark-e-mail/?license=ope...
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
A very interesting concept tangential to this question is the idea of "The Great Divergence". "The Great Divergence or European miracle is the socioeconomic shift in which the Western world (i.e. Western Europe and the parts
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
As somewhat of an aside from the debate on giving back artifacts, I have a fun fact: The Coptic Christians of Egypt and the Muslims of Egypt are largely the same ethnic/genetic group. Modern day Muslim Egyptians are descendants of Copt
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
Think about how complex it is to develop AI that can understand and participate in a human conversation at only a basic level. Now increase that complexity by orders of magnitude, since we're talking about the conversational skillset t
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
I was under the impression that “firebombing” exclusively referred to aerial firebombing during war, so it sounded super strange. Now that i looked up the term, i see that it can mean “any act in which an incendiary device is used to initia
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
> Several cities in the US were firebombed nightly for months in 2020. What? What is this referring to?
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The Untold Story of 'The Mysterious', the Egyptian Man Who Survived the Titanic(vice.com)
2 points by KoftaBob 4y ago|0 comments
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Distributed Wikipedia Mirror Project: Putting Wikipedia Snapshots on IPFS(github.com)
2 points by KoftaBob 4y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Why doesn’t Apple allow torrent clients on the app store?
21 points by KoftaBob 4y ago|53 comments
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
When you say everyday non-emergency purposes, do you mean phone calls and full internet access?
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
That's essentially how www.hey.com works! I thought it would be tedious at first, but I don't mind it, and it's done a great job of making it so I only see what I want to see in my inbox.
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
A single company dominating an industry is the definition of horizontal integration. You seem to be confusing what the two terms mean.
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
Here's your counter argument: Semiconductors involve the most advanced manufacturing in human history, and even with blueprints of chips, China is decades behind other countries/companies who have fabs and would have no way to man
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
Also (just for context), the employee in question is also Jewish.
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
Your comment history was very predictable given this comment.
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Cleopatra’s Needle: a 3500 year old Ancient Egyptian obelisk gifted to the US(en.wikipedia.org)
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Former Google Employee: “Google’s Complicity in Israeli Apartheid”(medium.com)
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
They were technically horizontally integrated too, since the entire reason they were able to exist is situations where jobs like mining were created in isolated areas with no other places to live. Workers had no other options but to live in
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
"Standard Oil dominated the oil products market initially through horizontal integration in the refining sector, then, in later years vertical integration"
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
While on this subject, does anyone know where to find archives of ancient manuscripts to download? Manuscript collections are scattered across different museums/libraries, and it's been difficult to find any digital collections th
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60% of those with student loans owe less than $40k, while 7% percent owe $100k+(ichef.bbci.co.uk)
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
Awesome work! What are your thoughts on the feasibility/benefits of using a p2p system like IPFS to share OSM map/tile data between users, rather than serving from one centralized server?
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Mozilla Translations (Web Version)(mozilla.github.io)
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
Nice to see more options for polished and user friendly Linux distros! Another one that has those qualities, and which I use often: https://zorin.com/ Edit: my mistake, RavynOS isn't a Linux distro!
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
While companies are required to report certain financial numbers, they don't necessarily need to break down sales of specific products within subdivisions. In other words, Microsoft may be required to report revenue from their gaming d
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“FBI Bank Robbers” – Official FBI app for citizens to help identify bank robbers(apps.apple.com)
1 points by KoftaBob 4y ago|0 comments
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Corruption is sending shock waves through China’s chipmaking industry(technologyreview.com)
8 points by KoftaBob 4y ago|1 comments
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Lancet’s Covid Chair: US Gov Is Preventing Investigation into Pandemic's Origin(currentaffairs.org)
38 points by KoftaBob 4y ago|5 comments
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Netflix still has a 480p plan, and it's $9/month(help.netflix.com)
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
Israel has an Intel fab already

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