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awinder
9y ago
Also doesn't have that Bixby shovelware or exploding battery feature. I get that a lot of Samsung phones are shipped and sold, but there's a difference in shipping shit at scale and shipping quality engineering at scale, and it&#
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awinder
9y ago
I'm sure this is what a lot of people at Apple told themselves, and the downside risk of that thinking has already arrived. Now voice assistants power connected speakers, a market Apple is trying to enter, and they're years behin
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9y ago
https://mazdatweaks.com Android Auto is working, but looks like mazda locked down the USB ports so there’s some disassembly required if you’re past a certain firmware version. Android Auto and CarPlay are supposed to be coming t
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awinder
9y ago
If the state was paying and your mother wanted to pay out of pocket nothing would stop her. Elective course of action is not banned in any single payer system that I know of.
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awinder
9y ago
Theres 3 different local / state governments to entice competition from with that setup, and montgomery county just lost Discovery which was a huge employer who they were wooing with a serious comp package. So you throw a spender like
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awinder
9y ago
How’s the Canadian relationship with Russia going?
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9y ago
For example, a financial application might need to show users' account balances. When users make a deposit, they want to see the result of this deposit reflected immediately when they view their balance (otherwise they
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awinder
9y ago
Cardin has name recognition in Maryland, people have seen his name on the ballot for decades
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awinder
9y ago
What you have to understand as a baseline is that AEI is a partisan think-tank, so they're not telling truths or exploring the spectrum of interpretations, they're coming at any given issue with an ideologically driven mantra. An
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awinder
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The secret is that having money is the fastest way to make more money and it’s a much greater multiplier than effort / intelligence / even luck.
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awinder
9y ago
this comment is completely unsourced, proposes illogical conclusions (numbers are higher because people can’t lie to the NYT on a survey response?), and then makes a wild claim about how a survey article is going to cause societal damage. T
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awinder
9y ago
https://www.fubo.tv/welcome
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9y ago
You could provide a smaller throttle to get the same effect over longer periods of time. Leveling the throttle over the average lifespan of the phone would provide a consistent performance experience. That’s how I read the argument at least
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awinder
9y ago
Probably because AT&T has no problem fronting the cash that they'll make next year, but this lets them get a publicity bounce because it's very topical right now.
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awinder
9y ago
They're clawing back deductions that helped high income earners because they also helped fund local schools & infrastructure that benefits everyone. They had no problem letting rich people give away 5M more tax-free in estate tran
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A Single Vote Has Flipped Control of Virginia's House of Delegates
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awinder
9y ago
I got scammed on some hdmi cables and iPhone charging cables a few months back. They all broke within a month, which I thought was weird, definitely the worst purchases I’ve made on amazon but they were top reviewed products on the front pa
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awinder
9y ago
This topic is very much in legal flux right now and will be going before the Supreme Court. I think election results like in Alabama can feature prominently in arguments but even more persuasive are more academic models which can compare de
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awinder
9y ago
Non-voters / people on the “there’s no difference” train also deserve a moment of reflection about whether their reality is true.
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ugh Apple is insufferable right now...
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Did this change for the iMac pro, ram has at least been user-serviceable on the latest iMacs https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/ram-upgrade-comp...
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awinder
9y ago
Reminder: big banks were giving out 1M+ bonuses to traders / c-suite executives in the midst of the 2008 financial crisis, while being bailed out by the taxpayers to the tune of trillions. We're now re-tooling the entire tax code
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Given that bitcoin can be boiled down to essentially a Chinese energy index, these two things are not unrelated.
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The numbers kinda prove this point. 35% of these founders believing sexual harassment isn’t under-reported is a problem. That’s how you get here, people willfully living under a rock.
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awinder
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To play devil's advocate, young americans have also seen the worst of capitalism run amok in America, coupled with tax policies that are skewed towards age cohorts differently. I'm not saying things would be better under socialis
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9y ago
In this situation at least it’s a 5 person company so the flux that they’re going to have to go through both with people and tech is gonna be pretty large. If you’re trying to gauge the future you could probably do the same / better jo
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I would love this even more if you could input your itemization total. This tool is so much better than the ones I’ve seen previously, and actually it’s kind of ridiculous that congress can’t create this tool. Being educated about the perso
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9y ago
At the risk of being labeled as an elite as a derogatory statement, because college graduates provide more social utility to the nation and tax revenue over the long term. So figuring out a tax policy that encourages that behavior is absolu
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awinder
9y ago
I’m not saying that it wasn’t considered, I just don’t know that a one time code audit offers sufficient downtime protection for me. If you’re worried about an external service being in the critical path then taking it out of the critical p
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9y ago
Are you going to audit all of their code changes from now into perpetuity as well? It seems like you kinda alluded to the thing that would actually be effective, which is not synchronously calling external services in high-uptime-requireme
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