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by Strom 6y ago
There are free government and non-profit social counseling services where people help you figure out what job you can do. There's also reddit and your friends/family for easier non-professional advice. However, I think it's c
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The housing policy of San Francisco definitely makes lives more difficult than it has to be. My point is more so around realizing the wealth of opportunity. Yes not every DJ will make it in San Francisco, but as you allude to, in most place
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This is such a bizarre take. You're living in San Francisco, one of the most prestigious cities in the world, and yet you're describing your situation as if you're living in Sangvor, Tajikistan. No one in San Francisco is stu
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> phone calls This can make things awfully complicated when you and the dispatcher don't speak the same language. > waiting around for a taxi to arrive The worst part about waiting for a taxi is the dice roll of whether one w
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Would it apply only to the rich or to everyone? If everyone, then why bring out the richness? Do you want to prevent satellites existing completely or just keep it at some threshold that has been crossed? Most importantly, what's the a
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by Strom 6y ago
Apple phones have ad blocking, at least in the browser. Isn't there something for Android? Although yes ads are still an issue inside apps.
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> If you send a SEPA payment in Europe (most modern standard) it still takes one business day. The most modern standard is SEPA Instant Credit Transfer [1] which does transfers in under 10 seconds. As of right now 57% of European payme
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by Strom 6y ago
Seems like the issue was caused by logging into their Google account from a new geographical region. I've had my personal Google account locked a few times because of this, it's pretty annoying. Especially because I already have 2
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Not sure about Signal, but you can definitely change your phone number on WhatsApp. You will show up as a different person (with the same name) for other people though. The real effect of it is that the chat history will be split between th
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This does not match my experience at all. There's no limit to the amount of text I can send and it's not ephemeral. Thus there's really nothing preventing me from typing out thoughtful messages, which I do. As for attention,
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That's making a giant assumption that Tim Sweeney cares if he has 10 billion or 20 billion. I've followed his career for decades, and I doubt he would sell out his control for so cheap.
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Indeed, I remember when I was doing some mining early in bitcoin's history. I had custom hacked BIOS on my AMD cards to be able to overclock beyond regular power limits. This flashing was possible only due to an exploit of the BIOS sig
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You have a point when looking at Zimbabwe or something. However people move from Canada to USA too - or from Northern Ireland to Ireland.
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Two years absolute minimum.
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> TenCent can absolutely dictate a policy 40% ownership does not dictate anything. They can make a stern request and threaten with some leverage. Ultimately it still won't be TenCent's decision.
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> Over a billion people use Apple products That is not true. There are only 1.5 billion active Apple devices. I myself own 4 of those. Everyone else I know that has an Apple device also has multiple. I'm pretty sure the average Ap
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> you own a piece of something that is continuously producing value for people. People will only pay for the next Apple product as long as they believe it provides value to them. It's all the same. Perception is king.
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> for less work compared to AAA studios releasing blockbusters like RDR2 That's a pretty wild statement. Dota 2 is one of the most supported games out there with giant patches coming multiple times per year. Perhaps only World of
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> 1. Don't use personal gmail accounts for your business. A good practice but won't help with this issue. Google has a history of banning business (admin/paying) accounts when it thinks that some user (under that busines
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> Who has to google "photoshop"? A great question that I think must be considered. I use Photoshop all the time, but definitely don't google for it. Search trends are not a 1:1 match for usage. That said, the Google tren
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This is correct in my experience. It also cuts deeper than just advertising or selling user data. It's the classic exposure argument. Give me the service for free and someone else might pay for it who hears about the service through
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Depends on the field of view angle you want to achive, but 8K is unlikely to be enough. Back in 2015 Michael Abrash said: In order for it to have retinal resolution across a field of view of 180 degrees it would have to have something on t
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AnandTech Bench is a decent resource. https://www.anandtech.com/bench/
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Do you have a list of interests that a reasonable person likes? Based on my experiences people love wildly different things. I've met plenty of people loving things that I would avoid at almost any cost. I would guess that your view of
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ASUS is using Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut. [1][2] The metals it contains are tin, gallium and indium. This is the market leader in liquid metal thermal solutions and in high power desktop uses can reduce the CPU temperature by 20C compared
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Google provides a list of App Engine features they've removed. [1] Beyond that there is also a somewhat undocumented phase of working-but-forgotten . Classic App Engine features like the datastore, memcache, Users API, Python 2, Go 1.
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Discord is easier to use, no doubt about it. However that ease of use has been achieved by ruthlessly cutting control. Mumble options have I think literally 100 dials you can turn to tweak audio. Discord has like three. The Mumble options r
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To add some spice from the real world, you may find that the local stream has run dry: Farmers rely on access to groundwater for the cultivation of their crops. but since Coca-Cola's arrival, they have been confronted with a serious d
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Google trends can be interesting, but it's important to keep in mind that people who have dropbox installed and are paying the subscription don't spend their time googling for dropbox.
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When faced with that question, a good move is to ask yourself why would someone else want to watch other people's private videos.

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