ProAm

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by ProAm 4y ago
Did you read the whole series? I really enjoyed 2061: Odyssey Three, even 3001: The Final Odyssey was good.
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by ProAm 4y ago
How do you pay for your news?
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by ProAm 4y ago
The only benefit is its a little cheaper and less contracts to maintain but Teams so significantly inferior to Slack/Zoom. The only reason we continue to use it is because of cost savings.
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A Hollywood sci-fi prop shop became the best kept secret in aerospace(supercluster.com)
3 points by ProAm 4y ago|0 comments
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by ProAm 4y ago
This is why Im against the uninsured deposits being bailed out. There was a lot of under the table back office deals. Everyone with a million dollars knows what the word uninsured means.
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by ProAm 4y ago
> that most of the time they are the leaders and the rest are just copies. Apple is almost always a follower and rarely an innovator. They take something that exists, and polishes it. They are very successful at it, but a leader defini
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by ProAm 4y ago
The problem is no one wants to learn how to do it. Everyone wants the easy button. This is why we have the cloud, iCloud storage, google photos, amazon photos, back blaze, etc.... None of this is that hard to do, not one just wants to put
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KPMG Gave SVB, Signature Bank Clean Bill of Health Weeks Before Collapse(wsj.com)
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by ProAm 4y ago
> as would most of you. I think we are okay with selling of the soul, it was the rhetoric that they were good, honest, and open before hand. This comes across as just another VC marketing pitch where greed underlies everything in the en
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by ProAm 4y ago
For Alexa it is. None of the others have shown any improvement or added value in years. Id say they have a long uphill battle, and these companies are already looking to trim as much fat as possible. This is a new epoch and I don't
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Musk brought internet to Brazil’s Amazon. Criminals love it(apnews.com)
6 points by ProAm 4y ago|0 comments
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by ProAm 4y ago
PG is back on Twitter? I thought he left a month or two ago?
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by ProAm 4y ago
Change is good.
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Even Hubble’s seeing a growing number of satellite tracks(arstechnica.com)
3 points by ProAm 4y ago|1 comments
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Radio interference from satellites is threatening astronomy(theconversation.com)
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by ProAm 4y ago
They capture markets by loss leading, killing competition, at the same time hamstringing their suppliers/sellers with demands that are unreasonable. Only to either raise prices later or default to selling counterfeit goods, or change
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Amazon pauses construction on 2nd headquarters in Virginia(apnews.com)
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by ProAm 4y ago
> - Average Insurance ~ $1,771 per year > - Average Car Monthly Loan ~ $700 per month Both of these are crazy high. Maybe not for everyone, but 1771 per year for insurance you should be shopping around or using a broker. And a car p
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Sources say prominent US rocket-maker United Launch Alliance (ULA) is for sale(arstechnica.com)
1 points by ProAm 4y ago|0 comments
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by ProAm 4y ago
What are your thought on data transfer speed? Why USB 2.0 speeds unless you pay for the more expensive phone and certified cable?
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by ProAm 4y ago
> Studies don’t tell you facts about your own experience I'm not even sure how to respond to this. Personal experience not based in science is something that should never be regarded as factual or can be broadly attributed to other
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by ProAm 4y ago
There have been studies on it. Whether its harmful or not I do not know. [1] "To address this question, Feinberg, et al. (1975) compared the sleep patterns of experienced marijuana users on tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and a placebo.
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by ProAm 4y ago
I'm fairly certain he was just making a joke about HN and not a literal comment to the OP.
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by ProAm 4y ago
And now Hollywood moves to kill the greatest story of them all. We've ruined superhero movies, destroyed Starwars.... onto Middle Earth.
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by ProAm 4y ago
And better than The Hobbit. That should have been one 3 hour movie or maybe two 2 hour movies. But it was greed and slop when they made it three.
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by ProAm 4y ago
2015
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by ProAm 4y ago
Wait until you see all our other wars. America is a war faring country. The economy is dependent on them being at war. It's political fodder. Economic necessity. If there is always a war on drugs at the border, we'll always f
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by ProAm 4y ago
Ahh I misunderstood your comment. That does makes sense.
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by ProAm 4y ago
I think it does provide a little bit of color to the reasoning. The ACLU is very direct in what they stand for.
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by ProAm 4y ago
> My read was that it’s tired and dull to keep harping on exactly the same feedback for a decade as though it’s unique. I hear what you are saying but just because something is bad for a long time doesn't make it acceptable just bec

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