KoftaBob

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by KoftaBob 3y ago
> Move the manufacturing to a near-shore and friendly country (ie: Mexico or Puerto Rico) Puerto Rico isn't a foreign country, it's a territory of the United States. Regardless of that, semiconductor fabrication is one of, if n
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by KoftaBob 3y ago
Why do you doubt they'll accomplish their goal of removing dependency on foreign chip makers?
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by KoftaBob 3y ago
Well for your use case of distributing your own music, Bitmagnet wouldn't be necessary. What a DHT crawler like Bitmagnet does is the following: 1. Take a few initial "bootstrap" torrents and ping them to see which IP address
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Updates on the Xbox Business [video](youtube.com)
1 points by KoftaBob 3y ago|1 comments
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Walmart in talks to buy TV maker Vizio for more than $2B(theverge.com)
37 points by KoftaBob 3y ago|67 comments
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WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work with Other Encrypted Messaging Apps(wired.com)
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by KoftaBob 3y ago
I get the feeling these anecdotes are (unsurprisingly) biased towards young SF tech crowds. My own experiences of being in my early 30s, born and raised on Long Island and now living in Boston, my circle of friends, relatives, and coworkers
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by KoftaBob 3y ago
"Rent-seeking is distinguished in theory from profit-seeking, in which entities seek to extract value by engaging in mutually beneficial transactions.[8] Profit-seeking in this sense is the creation of wealth, while rent-seeking is &qu
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by KoftaBob 3y ago
Twine is my new favorite RSS Feed app, only thing missing is feed folders!
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by KoftaBob 3y ago
I think the commenter was implying that rather than putting it on the roof of people's homes, the focus should be on utility-scale solar power stations.
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The 3-2-1 Backup Strategy(backblaze.com)
1 points by KoftaBob 3y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 3y ago
FYI the person you're replying to is the author of the post and a Bluesky dev
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by KoftaBob 3y ago
and it's your job to figure out how to entertain yourself, you're not entitled to get that entertainment from music for free.
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by KoftaBob 3y ago
> ponying up €10.99 is a huge ask. I guess that would depend on how much music you listen to. If you listen very occasionally, then yeah €10.99 for unlimited streaming isn't worth it. In that case, you can just buy songs individuall
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by KoftaBob 3y ago
> pay off the VCs then don't go public? The massive return on investment that VCs aim for comes from the public market valuing the VCs shares of the company much higher than what the VCs paid for it when they invested. How do you re
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" We are worried," says European rocket chief at prospect of launch competition(ft.com)
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by KoftaBob 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Advertising
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by KoftaBob 3y ago
Their revenue sources are more diverse than you think. Products that are either directlyfrom their portfolio, or from a company they have a large stake in - Windows - Office 365, which includes Teams, a product that has boomed in usage sinc
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by KoftaBob 3y ago
> the fuselage of this plane isn't even made by Boeing, it's made by Spirit AeroSystems which also makes components for Airbus. Why would a company with the resources of Boeing choose to contract out such an important part of t
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Impulse Induction Stove: boils water in 40s and has backup battery for outages(impulselabs.com)
52 points by KoftaBob 3y ago|92 comments
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by KoftaBob 3y ago
Primary source of the announcement: https://news.alaskaair.com/alaska-airlines/operations/as-128...
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by KoftaBob 3y ago
> I don't get this mentality of "I like X, but I don't want to use X, so imma go turn Y into X" You really don't understand why someone would prefer Mastodon because of its decentralized and open source nature, b
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by KoftaBob 3y ago
> Jews have an ancient and vicious hatred of Europeans. I'm not going to bother with the antisemitic conspiracy theory nonsense, but this part I couldn't resist replying to. It's very ironic for you to say this considering
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by KoftaBob 3y ago
I'm seeing moderate housing price increases at best in Germany and Italy, and that's generally going to happen because of inflation in general. I don't see the evidence that declining demographics are directly causing housi
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by KoftaBob 3y ago
Wouldn't it do the opposite? You end up with fewer people competing for housing over time.
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by KoftaBob 3y ago
For example, if we compare the average homes in the US vs Germany, which it would be reasonable to assume is occupied by those in the average income bracket of those countries: - The square footage in the American homes is almost double tha
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List of Shoe-Throwing Incidents(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by KoftaBob 3y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 3y ago
But if the lifestyle involves a certain size home, certain cars, vacations, etc then it's much harder to attain with Germany's average income vs the US.
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Flightsrights.gov(transportation.gov)
1 points by KoftaBob 3y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 3y ago
- When viewing a post by a user on a different instance than yours, Agora automatically loads your instance's version of the post so that you can like/boost/comment on it without having to manually switch it over to that vers

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