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by andygates 7y ago
"Pay for the ad-free version" is pretty common. I don't see that option in these services.
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by andygates 7y ago
The fungus doesn't affect other insects - this was part of the test. So the worst case is that it becomes uncontrollable and wipes out the mosquitoes.
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by andygates 7y ago
This is untrue. It's a particularly rapacious Wall Street meme, but a company can do whatever its board dictates, including not being a monopolizing monster.
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by andygates 7y ago
I mean, no. It's easy to swap browsers and ad-infested pages are broken pages.
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by andygates 7y ago
That's why they're not bricking any phones. "No more updates" ain't bricking.
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by andygates 7y ago
Meet the new hegemon, same as the old hegemon. "Let them fight"
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by andygates 7y ago
(Insert obligatory OpenStreetMap plug here.)
68.
by andygates 7y ago
Channel discovery feels like a feature here; safe intimacy is what the article is enjoying. Invitation only.
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by andygates 7y ago
That's not creepy and McCarthyite at all. No sir.
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by andygates 7y ago
We had extended support for a couple of years but now it's dead dead deadski. Like any other large industrial org, there's some bits of million-pound kit with integrated, essential XP. Likewise old essential software where the su
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by andygates 7y ago
Capex on new solar is cheaper than opex on old coal. It's not an expensive process, not any more. Objections that it is are just out of date - fairly common for objections to tech.
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by andygates 7y ago
Anyone announcing that the first generation of their motor will start hot-fire testing this year and be ready for service by X date is a liar or a salesman. There's many a kaboom between test and ship. The other dates are to match the
73.
by andygates 7y ago
Expand that buzzword into something concrete, please. "Lander... mumble... O'Neill Cylinders!" does not count. That's hopes and dreams, not technology.
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by andygates 7y ago
Was that a while ago, before the management shakeup?
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by andygates 7y ago
The Reg is unusually bad, though. When they can't get plain science or tech right, it's time to not read them any more.
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by andygates 7y ago
That sounds like it's good for less than a year. Really? That's flimsy pre-trash if so.
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by andygates 7y ago
Some reviewers are showing the "do not remove it" packaging that they got. Picky little primate fingers! But some did not get that packaging.
78.
by andygates 7y ago
A screen between collapsible grips is nice design and it comes round again and again. But has to work one-handed once folded out, and be strong enough unfolded.
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by andygates 7y ago
It absolutely is scummy. When reviews are bogus, I stop shopping. Plenty of other places to go. They're poisoning the well.
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by andygates 8y ago
These obs are in radio. We could replace your eyes with radio eyes... ..but it's friction heating so it ought to be broadly blackbody, so I would say yes.
81.
by andygates 8y ago
Start with the shape and spec, then iterate the features and quality over a few frantic generations. Classic catch-up engineering.
82.
by andygates 8y ago
Drive round the living room, fire laser (n) times to get dad's attention, wait for dad to load it with peanuts, drive back. That was a very good xmas.
83.
by andygates 8y ago
"Tastes like this mass-market volume selling product" is a great way to sell a product in volume to the masses.
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by andygates 8y ago
That's not fundamentally ethical at scale, it's a systems problem. "Do the least damage" is the interim fix while the industry decarbonizes. Not eating cute critters is fundamentally ethical.
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by andygates 8y ago
The core problem with this is finding the land to fill. It's not as simple as any ole hole, the stuff is a low-grade contaminant that oozes nasties over decades. For the huge bulk of plastic waste that's a lot. Better by far would
86.
by andygates 8y ago
Deposits and glass work well for fairly local industries; the big soft drink companies have a broader geographic reach and so are motivated to make a lighter bottle to reduce shipping costs. Legislation would probably be needed to require r
87.
by andygates 8y ago
You may not be the market. Solo vehicles run to motorcycles; weird podules are a third-vehicle choice after a full-featured car or two.
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by andygates 8y ago
That's almost exactly backwards. For any decent-sized payload there's too much atmosphere to ignore (so you need heat shielding) yet not enough to exploit (so you need heavy rockets), parachutes rip off of big payloads... the skyc
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by andygates 8y ago
I mean, they brought most of that with them. The only thing they evaded was religious persecution.
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by andygates 8y ago
It would probably be a long party and psychodrama. Intensely interesting to the participants, but we're not them.

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