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by Strom 9y ago
Yes video conferencing doesn't use 4K as commonly as other video equipment of the same luxury class. It's an example of technology being held back by low internet speeds. One example of many, and the theory is that there are even
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by Strom 9y ago
Nobody needs 4K video conferencing, or any video conferencing at all. It's just nice to have, and 4K is nicer to have than 1080p, which is nicer than 240p. 4k deserves more of a mention than say 16K because that's what the current
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by Strom 9y ago
To me the bigger lesson here is that they have a prewritten reply (by a bot?) asking the feedback giver to e-mail it to somewhere else. How hard could it be to subscribe to the thread with their feedback e-mail? Asking people to do stuff is
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by Strom 9y ago
For the same reason why shovel manufacturers don't dig their own gold. Why take the risk of uncertainty that comes with the whole mining operation?
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by Strom 9y ago
Listening to users for ideas works well in plenty of scenarios, but there are also plenty of other scenarios where the users won't suggest something innovative because they don't have the same persective of opportunities as the de
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by Strom 9y ago
An excellent player with a ton of great features. However I'm not sure if it ever caught up to VLC in terms of performance. Specifically it was around 10x slower at seeking in H.264 video compared to VLC. When used on low performance m
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by Strom 9y ago
That's not being proposed here. It may not be explicitly proposed, but I'd wager it's still implicitly there. Definitely for army/police, but probably for ruling class as well. So, again, a mistake. Understand the fig
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by Strom 9y ago
That's a pretty interesting goal. I haven't thought too much about this, but for that to happen we'd need some high bandwidth brain-computer links. Then those new VR systems with brainlinks would also have to be cheaper than
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by Strom 9y ago
The 10M figure does include Gear VR yes. It's less capable than a Vive but ignoring its success while prophecising VR's doom seems weird to me.
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by Strom 9y ago
The $399 sale was what put me over the edge to finally buy one. Based on comments around the internet that I've read on this sale announcement, there are plenty of people similar to me.
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by Strom 9y ago
How do you define widespread adoption? When adding all the current gen VR systems together we're already over 10M units sold.
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by Strom 9y ago
What you describe sounds like an irrational fear of machines, or perhaps fear of change? Let's take airbags as an example. Do you understand why airbags are allowed, or do you also find it obvious that airbags shouldn't be certifi
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by Strom 9y ago
Unlikely. For example the Estonian constitution explicitly forbids revoking citizenship obtained via birth. There may be ways to revoke some other rights like encryption, but my citizenship can't be lawfully removed, unless the constit
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by Strom 9y ago
This seems incorrect. I've traveled around in EU and haven't seen a single ID check for SIMs yet. Where is this happening? In my home country of Estonia we even have SIMs being given away for free on the streets as advertisement.
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by Strom 9y ago
Some of those IE11 input bugs have been annoying me for a long time. Glad to see them fixed.
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by Strom 9y ago
The best projects/rates are through your network if your network is in a rich country. For someone who is in an average country, and even more so for a teenager, upwork and similar places can be very useful. Definitely were for me when
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by Strom 9y ago
The parent's central point isn't that the the victim is to blame here. It's that this sort of harassment is very much possible even without facebook existing. Being a victim does not make one immune to criticism. Agreeing to
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by Strom 9y ago
I'm not in Sweden, but my Swedish bank SEB offers this. It's part of the "order a card" UI, not flash as the parent is talking about though.
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by Strom 9y ago
Inexperience. These ransomwares aren't written by good programmers. They're put together like lego by people who have barely graduated from copy-paste script kiddie level. For example it's pretty common that botnet C&C sy
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by Strom 9y ago
A reasonable apporach to take, but The Verge does have a few proper journalists left. That work isn't sustainable with their ad model though, so most of their content (like this article) is written by the classic clueless copy-paste bl
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by Strom 9y ago
This is definitely an interesting question which I've pondered myself before. The best answer I have is choice . In the Russian <-> Baltics case existing habits were prohibited and new ones indoctrinated forcefully. People kille
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by Strom 9y ago
In my experience the common reason among Russian parents who send their children into local language schools and want their children integrated cite "a better future" and economic opportunities. Also, you make a sarcastic remark r
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by Strom 9y ago
In the case of the Baltics, it's not so much the natives that are under the increasing propaganda. [1] It's the Russians who were transported here during the various occupations by the empire & soviets. These people weren&#x27
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by Strom 9y ago
I thought we already knew how to make a home on Earth. What is this in reference to? That our current methods are unsustainable? There are plenty of ideas for solutions. That the current state of human cooperation is below the necessary thr
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by Strom 10y ago
The ransomware scenario is serious, but merely opting out of a connected car yourself won't be enough. You can still get a text demanding payment or other cars on the road will ram into your manual. As for sharing roads with others who
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by Strom 10y ago
I think the most impressive 3rd party engine implementation is FOnline. It has been under development for over a decade and has been used by plenty of actual games for almost as long. FOnline combines Fallout 1 & 2, with some additional
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by Strom 10y ago
You implied it, especially by talking about all major browsers except IE . There weren't multiple major borwsers besides IE a decade ago, there was only firefox with 20% market share.
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by Strom 10y ago
Don't be ridiculous, Chrome didn't even exist a decade ago.
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by Strom 10y ago
I imagine quite a few came from the HN thread [1] where he originally made the bet that he could do it. That's how I found the site. It was 95% blank and I just decided to draw a bit. Later I came back several times to see how my drawi
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by Strom 10y ago
That number comes from a research group's website whose purpose is to track old people and they claim to have validated these people. Do you have anything more concrete than "lol bullshit" to counter it?

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