Polylactic_acid

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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Probably because some kids will grab the most complex book they can find and read it without being able to understand anything.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
People don't pay for little utility apps anymore since Apple/someone else will always end up providing a better version for free. There is still plenty of money to be made in more powerful apps though. I recently spent $15 on Proc
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
We are about 10000 steps away before worrying the power usage of websites. Transport and energy generation changes are many many order of magnitudes more important
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
God that would be useful. The least enjoyable part about using an iphone is all the media elements that show up blank because it uses vorbis/vp9
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
The problem is how do you prove you didn't base your ideas on what you saw? If you never saw it then its easy to say you can't have copied it.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
A real improvement would be to reduce the amount of grain we need to produce. Cutting down on beef consumption would have a huge impact.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
One of the things I love about my city is it was designed with a ring of parklands around it so even people living in the city without a car can access fairly undisturbed nature. Visible on google maps here https://www.google.co
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Didn't hangouts have a business version as well?
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
I'm not exactly deep in the fountain pen community but it looks like to me that fountain pens are the pen version of mechanical keyboards or mechanical watches. The ordinary person doesn't own one and would likely see no benefit f
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
I think I witnessed the exact moment cursive officially died in my area. I was born in 1998 and some time in primary school (Don't remember when) the school was teaching non cursive to the lower years and cursive at about year 5 (I thi
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Yes but there is a version without the talking
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
IMO discoverability is an anti feature. Having random people drop in constantly means you can never have a real community or users that are even familiar with the rules. I love things like IM groups/discord servers because they are som
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
How many last straws is reddit up to now?
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
I only know her from the song.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Is it pathetic that we find 100+ year old buildings and designs beautiful? Aesthetics are reasonably consistent outside of design trends and hype. The old macbook was and always will be very nice.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Imo the core mistake is that it replaced the top row of buttons. Those media keys are super useful very frequently. Having to tap the expand button and wait for an animation makes them much less useful. They had plenty of space to leave the
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Music streaming doesn't have many real players. Spotify got in first, apple and google use their huge userbases to push their product and everyone else is irrelevant. If you wanted to make a new music streaming service you could never
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Yes there probably is some blame on the hospitals for not securing things well, but there is a huge difference between preventing something from failing, and preventing something from being actively sabotaged. If a hospital had random power
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Terrorism is a buzzword that means "Person I don't like" now.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
I think phones have largely become good enough for a while now. Apple is selling less phones every year because people are holding on to them for longer. The strategy now seems to be getting users to get all the accessories / ipad as w
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
If tech was actually paying enough to raise the cost of living significantly over the entire country than people would flood to it lowering the pay enough that this was not an issue.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
The end result will be a huge equalization in pay. People in low cost of living areas will become a lot richer and those in high cost of living places will become a lot poorer. Likely those high cost of living places will quickly drop in co
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Reddit is now bigger than twitter and is still growing. Their new platform is constantly pushing advertisements / forcing the app/signups which likely drives their profits up even higher.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Most of the severe cases are old people, most old people are vitamin d deficient. This could be a whole non finding.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
So it looks like the youtube-dl repo owner has made no effort to reject the DMCA claim which github needs them to do before they can restore the project.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
I'm just saying it doesn't matter how the internal economics of the company work. Look at the end product and think "Is this providing enough value for its price". Trying to track a $3 cost savings through a complex supp
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
It seems like the price is fixed. Apple has done the research to know exactly what price they can sell the phone for. The only variable factor is how much stuff they put in the phone. When manufacturing costs go down they add in something t
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
It is weird that they keep selling the XR but while I was at the store they didn't even show that as an option. It was just the SE, 11, 11 pro, 11 pro max.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
They also moved OLED to the regular phone and added 5g. Without internal information its impossible to know what cost what. I doubt the brick and airpods cost anything more than $4.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Every single brick I have had on an android phone for the last 10 years work on the iphone. The last 5 years of phones my family has got have come with usb C bricks too.

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