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by ascorbic 5y ago
Minimally-processed doesn't need to mean lower quality. In this case, the expensive advanced codecs are for mainly for smaller filesize.
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by ascorbic 5y ago
Pumped hydro's main drawback is that it has very specific requirements in terms of geography.
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by ascorbic 5y ago
There's a famous psychological experiment where people are split into pairs and given a pot of cash to share. One person decides how it should be apportioned, and the other decides whether to accept that share. If they reject it, neith
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Peloton fights federal safety recall after its treadmills left one child dead(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by ascorbic 5y ago|0 comments
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by ascorbic 5y ago
I've noticed this recently among some of my American colleagues, and it's so obvious to me that at first I thought they were imitating an English accent. To my English ears, standard American pronounces the "t"s in butte
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by ascorbic 5y ago
Hagrid has a West Country accent. The character is supposed to come from the Forest of Dean, in Gloucestershire, and the accent is approximately from that area. The most obvious difference from RP English is that it has the rhotic "R&q
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by ascorbic 5y ago
> Instead of sending someone a bank transfer, you can send us a bank transfer, send the coins to someone via Signal, then have them turn it back into real money via bank transfer. Also, be quick, since the coins are volatile and might lo
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by ascorbic 5y ago
Beta features are usually opt-in. I'd be amazed if it was opt-in when fully released.
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by ascorbic 5y ago
Even if he has no coins personally, that's a very narrow claim. Far more likely is that he has an interest in the company which happens to have pre-minted and owns most of the coins.
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by ascorbic 5y ago
In all of the previous discussions, josh2600 has very pointedly avoided answering the question of what financial interest Moxie has in the MobileCoin companies. He's only said that Moxie doesn't personally own any of the currency,
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by ascorbic 5y ago
Ten years ago I worked on a neat calculator thing for Dow's solar shingle division. It shut down not long after.
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The tribes mourning the death of their god Prince Philip(bbc.com)
2 points by ascorbic 5y ago|0 comments
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by ascorbic 5y ago
According to the article, the law is banning routes that have a fast train alternative so I'd imagine that's fine.
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by ascorbic 5y ago
I'll take from the fact you dodged the question that Moxie does indeed have a financial interest
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by ascorbic 5y ago
What financial interest does Moxie have in MobileCoin Inc, MobileCoin TS Ltd or any connected business? Does he stand to gain from the success of MobileCoin? You could have avoided most of the criticisms if you had a clear explanation of wh
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by ascorbic 5y ago
But does he own any shares or options in MobileCoin Inc?
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by ascorbic 5y ago
I don't believe that's been leaked. Ubiquiti is still claiming that they have no evidence that any data was stolen. While that seems improbable, and it seems that's just because they didn't have proper logging, it would
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by ascorbic 5y ago
Most readers of the Economist aren't in the UK. It's not even its biggest market.
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by ascorbic 5y ago
I got a Model 3 on lease in 2019, and stumped up the extra for FSD. I switched jobs last year and had to return it. When I ordered another I didn't consider getting FSD for a moment. In the months that I had FSD, it rarely enabled navi
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by ascorbic 5y ago
Next week is PostGIS's 20th birthday
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by ascorbic 6y ago
TEU means Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit and is a measure of container capacity. A 40-foot container is 2 TEUs.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
CORS support in the predictive search API please, or better search in the Storefront API.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
It's extremely expensive
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by ascorbic 6y ago
The .aws tld is widely used for services on AWS.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
The main point of gold is to be a store of value. Anything as volatile as Bitcoin is a terrible choice for a store of value.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
The generic name is "booza", and it's popular in lost of countries in the region. The most famous comes from a shop in the souq in the Old City in Damascus, which is also the most efficient shop I've ever seen. The numbe
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by ascorbic 6y ago
It's a joint venture owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin. Buying United Launch Alliance, LLC wouldn't require buying the parent companies.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
If the company can't afford to pay for the legally-required benefits then they need to look at their business model. These are not optional.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
All you're saying is that inches are what you're used to. Being in the UK I am familiar with both inches and mm, and mm are far easier to work with than 16ths of an inch.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
She personally got a lot of abuse on Twitter about the FF Android rewrite. Nothing to do with layoffs. She doesn't need to prove this to you, but it was all visible at the time so I'm sure you can find it if you don't believe

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