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by baobrain 8y ago
A simple google search returns this as the first result: https://store.google.com/us/product/usb_c_headphone_adapter?...
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by baobrain 8y ago
I'm not sure how bringing up personal experiences and racial stereotypes contributes to any conversation, especially when it is about the entire population of China (1.4 billion), its culture, and its history. I highly recommend readin
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by baobrain 8y ago
Perhaps a different way of viewing it is developing countries' polluting enables the high living standards in the developed world. Who is then responsible?
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by baobrain 8y ago
I've been through 3-8th grade education in Chengdu at a top 100 school. The rest of my education was in the US, so I may be biased in one way or the other. From my perspective, I didn't really see it that way. Like any country,
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by baobrain 8y ago
They mention in the article that GDDR5 is embedded "on chip", which presumably means on package.
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by baobrain 8y ago
Yes, no matter what you get chances are it'll work well. I currently have a 1700X with an Asrock X370 Fatality Mini itx board and it works perfectly. I recommend checking out level1techs on youtube as they test motherboards with linu
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by baobrain 8y ago
Oh wow, I never noticed this before, this must be a recent thing...Thanks!
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by baobrain 8y ago
What is not working? I have been using google flights to book trips for months without issues now. The only google services I've had some trouble with firefox are hangouts, and even that is fixed.
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by baobrain 9y ago
How is the word of Jesus an objective moral standard? Should we cut off a man and woman who had sex during the woman's period from society?
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by baobrain 9y ago
> the Chinese government doesn’t want to acknowledge that they are separate mutually unintelligible languages. Except they are not mutually unintelligible. Put someone from heilongjiang province in Sichuan and they will still be able to
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by baobrain 9y ago
Is this still accurate with the release of the new ryzen apus? I have my doubts. Specifically in the 1500x price point, the r5 2400G seems to have performance on par with a gt1030. https://www.anandtech.com/show/12425&#
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by baobrain 9y ago
WARNING: ANECDOTE From my experience entering the country from LAX and BOS, passing through security at many airports around the country, Global entry is extremely convenient if the airport is large and busy (LAX) but not that much more con
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by baobrain 9y ago
DISCLAIMER: EXTREME SIMPLIFICATION Given a statement and a sample with a mean and standard deviation, what is the probability that you manage to choose a sample with that mean and SD, assuming the statement is true? For example, my statem
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by baobrain 9y ago
> Theoretically, then, there should be a niche for an insurer who covers more, who treats you less shitty, but costs more. There is something like this for the wealthy [0]. Obviously, concierge medical services are very expensive, and m
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by baobrain 9y ago
> Good day, I've received word from the VAC team that this is intentional and not open for discussion on Github. > In general VAC issues are not handled on Github in any capacity and further issue reports on this may result in be
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by baobrain 9y ago
My experience with consumer cards may not apply, but AMD drivers, especially their open source ones, have been very good for the past two years or so, especially after AMD's announcement of their intention to mainline much of the graph
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by baobrain 9y ago
Comparing China to the US is a false equivalency. For one, Chinese ISPs are state owned (China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, Great Wall). They do not have much of a profit motive outside the typical corruption of people at the top.
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by baobrain 9y ago
Here is the non-amp link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-09/china-to-...
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by baobrain 9y ago
Note that your fivethirtyeight article even mentions a caveat to the study: > The paper’s findings are preliminary and have not yet been subjected to peer review. And the authors stressed that even if their results hold up, their researc
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by baobrain 9y ago
Techradar's reporting...has had some issues. Initially the graphs on their threadripper review were misleading (link to imgur album [0]) and later changed. Anandtech[1] (prior discussion[2]) and Gamers Nexus[3] are much more reputabl
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by baobrain 9y ago
You can't possibly take Shenzhen taxi drivers and compare them directly to HK drivers... Shenzhen was a tiny fishing village in the 1970s, HK was already a metropolis. There are many people from rural areas that flock to cities in mai
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by baobrain 9y ago
family currently lives in a tier 1 city 5-10 years ago, hk was still the go-to place for my family if they wanted name brand things, short of coming to the US. Now, they come to the US or even Japan if they don't stay in the country
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by baobrain 9y ago
> (Correction: apparently Intel made some claims but Apple owns it.) This doesn't seem to be correct. While I can't find anything with a simple search, the thunderbolt technology website is copyrighted by Intel, and Wikipedia
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by baobrain 9y ago
> there is hardly any computer store in Europe selling Chromebooks. Very different reality in the US. My local best buy and Target have at least 4 high end chrome books each for sale. > Chrome's memory usage on the process syste
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by baobrain 9y ago
Even now in smaller Chinese towns/villages it is largely burned. In large cities the practice is banned b/c pollution though.
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by baobrain 9y ago
If I understand the root comment correctly, here's my 2c. Ars used to be the premiere tech news website, focused on tech instead of things like society and politics. After it was acquired by conde Nast (owner of wired) many think there
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by baobrain 9y ago
I have yet to meet someone else that does this, but I use nfc tags to shut off my alarm in the mornings. It forces me to get out of bed to shut off my alarm. Not very exciting but indispensable to me.
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by baobrain 9y ago
IANAEducationExpert Textbooks are written by publishers and reviewed by boards appointed by the state. However, this is a costly process and most small states do not bother with it. Due to the size of Texas, it makes sense for them to revi
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by baobrain 9y ago
Not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for, but greenify might do the trick. You might need root. Also Android now has the doze feature that should hibernate apps by default when not used. [0] https://play.google.
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by baobrain 9y ago
The proprietary charger is magnetic and makes me less concerned about someone tripping over it. Plugging it in and unplugging it is also much easier imo. This is one of the few occasions where I hope they stick with their proprietary char

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