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by Zanni 8y ago
It's an upgrade from my perspective. I paid $10K less than I would have paid for a 75D. But I take your point. It's not the best example. Nor are the other two I offered. But they're the best I can come up with, and I think t
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by Zanni 8y ago
The iPhone doesn't stand out as customizable because, compared to its current competition, it's not. But it's massively more customizable than what was on the market before, thanks to the app store. Yes, it's software-ba
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by Zanni 8y ago
I mentioned CrossFit specifically because that's where I observed this. It's been a while since I've spent time in a traditional gym, but when I did, the men and women seemed largely (self-) segregated. Men on free weights, w
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by Zanni 8y ago
Weightlifting is an excellent example. It's not controversial in the least to say that men (on the whole) are stronger than women. And the strongest man will almost certainly be stronger than the strongest woman. But that doesn't
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by Zanni 8y ago
That's a legit distinction, especially for a company that wants to work with/stay in the good graces of the Federal government (e.g. now the Air Force is pondering how to respond, given their relationship with Space X). But it&#x2
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by Zanni 8y ago
Bryce Courtenay (author of The Power of One) calls this "bum-glue."
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by Zanni 8y ago
From reading the comments, it seems a novel sales tracking system, Novel Rank [0], which depended entirely on Amazon sales rank data, has had their access denied, essentially shuttering the business. [0] https://www.novelrank.com
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by Zanni 8y ago
Exactly. When people talk about "future proofing," they're imagining the future as a predictable, linear progression--which it definitely isn't. The people best equipped to deal with the complications of the future are t
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by Zanni 8y ago
As a conservative who typically votes Republican, it frustrates me that an otherwise thoughtful individual like Wil Wheaton in the middle of a plea for empathy and understanding drops language like "President Shitler" and says o
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by Zanni 8y ago
Range will solve this issue. For 18 months I charged my Tesla at Whole Foods, Target, etc, at a paltry 20mph charge rate. When my commute was 40+ miles round trip, that meant I had to charge a couple of times a week for multiple hours. Very
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by Zanni 8y ago
Ugh, no. You'd gain the very minor benefit of being able to read in the author's dialect but at huge cost in reading speed. I cringe whenever an author forces an accent or dialect into their writing rather than simply noting that
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by Zanni 8y ago
Yeah, this article is a clickbait rewrite that adds nothing of value to Bill's original note. [0] [0] https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Capitalism-Without-Capital
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by Zanni 8y ago
Apologies, but I can't let this go: "Adrian sold another property around this time, a big house in Flatbush with a driveway and a copula for $100,000 to another LLC." Pretty sure that house had a cupola[0], not a copula[1]. [
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by Zanni 8y ago
You're right. It doesn't. That was reprehensible. Likewise, his pedophile tweet doesn't invalidate his remarkable accomplishments. People want to squeeze celebrities into boxes, as villains or heroes, all good or all bad. Mus
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by Zanni 8y ago
"Content cartels?" You mean copyright owners? I'm not sure the majority is on your side. A lot of folks, including me, generate copyright-protected content and are happy to see anti-piracy measures enforced. Facebook has othe
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by Zanni 8y ago
As there doesn't seem to be a consensus on whether relativistic Turing machines can actually exist, I'm not sure this constitutes a proof (though the paper itself is beyond me). The idea of relativistic Turing machines is fascin
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by Zanni 8y ago
You might enjoy John Scalzi's latest, The Collapsing Empire. Not quite the same, but it does feature fast "currents" in spacetime that are in the process of "drying up," leaving distant systems stranded by uncrossab
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by Zanni 8y ago
My experience is the opposite. I think Hold 'em opens up the game for playing more. Unless you're playing some crazy home game with wild cards, the classic 5-card games (draw, stud) are "you get 2 cards and fold most of the t
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by Zanni 8y ago
Here's an article on Tesla abandoning battery swap [0]. There was also an Israeli company trying to do the same thing that failed to pull it off. [1] [0] https://www.businessinsider.com/teslas-battery-swapping-plan... .
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by Zanni 8y ago
I've used Upwork in the past with no problems (from Upwork, I've had problems with clients). I ready the links you posted and not one of them mentions Upwork cheating or clawing back payments. Only the first article is really crit
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by Zanni 8y ago
I used to refer to them as American Embassies when traveling. If you're lost, tired, hot, thirsty, hungry, have to use the bathroom and don't have change for a public WC but you stumble on a McDonald's, they'll have all
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by Zanni 8y ago
At some point this is going to become the limiting factor for EV adoption, but I don't think we're there yet. The market's small enough that single-family homeowners can sustain it. BTW, depending on where you live, you may b
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by Zanni 8y ago
I don't know specifically what prompted him to write this, but I know he's called himself out for this exact behavior before on his blog ...
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by Zanni 8y ago
I'd assume marketing considerations dominate the version number discussion for (consumer) applications--whether you want the release to be seen as the good old whatever you know and trust or as new and improved.
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by Zanni 8y ago
We don't have that law in Hawaii, unfortunately. I used to love to eat at a local Quiznos which had outdoor seating, but was located next to a supermarket. People would park there cars five feet from where I was eating and let them idl
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by Zanni 8y ago
Thanks for the clarification.
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by Zanni 8y ago
Temperature inside a nuclear reactor: 300 degrees Celsius. [1] Temperature on the surface of the sun: 5,600 degrees Celsius. [2] Temperature of a CPU: ~75 degrees Celsius. [3] [1] http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/physics&#x
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by Zanni 8y ago
This is a brilliant comment that shouldn't be down voted, whatever side of the abortion debate you might be on. It exactly highlights the danger of suppressing free speech. While you'd be hard pressed to find reasonable people tha
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by Zanni 8y ago
This is the Performance model. The $35K base model hasn't shipped yet.
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by Zanni 8y ago
This is the kind of evidence I was talking about (and not presented in the article).

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