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by alliao 5y ago
YES! I still remember the earlier days of Google, when it was not only returning results, the results were a delight to click through. I genuinely felt happy using it. Infoseek was good in a way that it let you search within searched result
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by alliao 5y ago
the little under breath "oh my god" is so heartfelt... I had a razor mouse and it enrages me every time it needed to restart my computer to install it's special driver. no drivers are that special.
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by alliao 5y ago
many countries have regulations around fatigue driving, look them up and adapt them to your own driving schedule. Usually it's around a break every 3hrs of driving. Some countries have them longer possibly due to lobbying but often are
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by alliao 5y ago
I actually think these are all engineering problems. I mean they literally made light bulbs break when it's easy to make them last decades.
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by alliao 5y ago
South Korea/Taiwan don't have low population density. Best response comes from states with educated citizens with good basic hygiene and understanding of exponential so are able to accept early intervention. NZ have the benefit of
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by alliao 5y ago
I can't find it but I did recall there was some rule in France or some Scandinavian country that banned early childhood centres away from within certain distances to highways and a like
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by alliao 5y ago
this is a fallacy, I drive around countryside a lot. And they use a lot of chemicals. You just end up swapping one set of nasty chemical with another.
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by alliao 5y ago
China and it's 50k USD cap per capita restriction (probably lower and harder still now) practically become in infinite demand side pressure for these too. They can buy players /cheat to farm, then sell the virtual goods over to th
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by alliao 5y ago
I think so too. Previously we have a naive model of how facebook does tracking. now that apple closed this pathway, it's pressuring Facebook to reveal how they REALLY track or hide the fact they able to do so at some financial cost.
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by alliao 5y ago
Obscurantism isn't anything new, over to the East Chinese ancient philosopher LaoZi famously quipped in 65th chapter interpretation may vary, but looking it naively and translating directly comes to those who are good at ruling, kept p
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by alliao 5y ago
we have similar mechanism in New Zealand, under consumer guarantees act. But the way it played out is quite differently. Retailers end up slapping on a little extra as insurance. With lower priced items they'd just buy a bit more and j
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by alliao 5y ago
it is slightly worrying that society allows something so big that's so... fragile? it's like a disaster waiting to happen and bound to cause massive amounts of damage...
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by alliao 5y ago
Took me way too long to enable secure boot on my 2012 built PC, it's now on but I should've read closer, my CPU is simply too old and I still don't have TPM 2.0 so it's still showing as not supported.
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by alliao 5y ago
if you or your parents dedicated a large chunk of resources on said asset (education) it's hard to be detached from it... Ancient China achieved relative stability by pretending thus coercing intellects of the society that the only way
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by alliao 5y ago
what you're witness isn't actually Chinese food it's the melting pot of multiculturalism in action. Just like curry in UK, General Tso's chicken is now part of the US identity. New comers will bring new forks but the old
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by alliao 5y ago
obligatory references to Yes Minister https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA1VTG3Z23U
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by alliao 5y ago
yes reading your comments took me back to Peru and their corn and potato. Even chicken, I ate simplest food but had enjoyed them so much.
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by alliao 5y ago
extending quality of nutrition to lifespan is adding another layer of abstraction... maybe it's the taoism stuff talking but my intuition is these two things are not related and can possibly hinder.
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by alliao 5y ago
yes this. i used to be able to buy canned tomatoes that came out whole, nowadays it's ALL diced. I know their tricks but they won't even sell it hahah
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by alliao 5y ago
just saw another one, really black magic to me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-giC24SxwE
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by alliao 5y ago
do you know how does those volvo semis stop on a dime? are there some sort of destructive braking mechanism to perform emergency brake?
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by alliao 5y ago
I don't think he is saying he didn't pay for it, more like why can't other companies offer similar product with user experience this good?
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by alliao 5y ago
just like all DSP, more process = more distortion. If the original track had spatial in mind, and the artists put thought into it and that's what they want then fine. If we're just reprocessing mono/stereo content into spatia
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by alliao 5y ago
I do this counting thing subconsciously with the stuff I'm carrying from "scene" to "scene" of my life. And it show. If you suddenly throw me an extra thing to carry, I'll forget something I should've had
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by alliao 5y ago
I'm a gamer and my rig is a mini itx tucked away. I like it quiet and performant. Yes the market slaps RGB lighting on anything and everything gamer but it's up to gamers to buy them.
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by alliao 5y ago
not even if we have nuclear plants that can degrade gracefully and could never meltdown? didn't bill gates built one recently somewhere? using some sodium slurry as coolant etc.
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by alliao 5y ago
higher R0 meant more easily it runs into exponential growth, these newer variants with even higher R0 will compromise whatever strategy that used to work... lockdown really should be combined with closed off border. 2 weeks at a time.
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by alliao 5y ago
I like you. Thank you for the good work.
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by alliao 5y ago
the owners are mostly banks. And they aren't happy about the haircut for sure. but no matter, at the current rate of money printing everything's tolerable. Not happy, but tolerable hence these little random jabs gauging public opi
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by alliao 5y ago
thank you!

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