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beedogs
10y ago
Capitalism's race to the bottom continues unabated.
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beedogs
10y ago
Facebook is terrible. I wish people would cease using it.
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beedogs
10y ago
Yeah, whatever. I'm sure I'll remember that when I run my phone into a giant iceberg.
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beedogs
10y ago
Oh come on, as if Apple's app store is any better. It's a terrible mess, too.
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beedogs
10y ago
Seems like a pretty accurate estimation, to me. The phone itself is 7.3mm thick, which means the case would be at least 1+mm on each side. Let's be generous and say the battery's 3mm thick now. Adding another 1mm would be a 33% c
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10y ago
> However, having increased dust and water protection are something I'm very happy to get if it improves the longevity of the device. Really? How long do you keep your phones for? 2 years, tops? I've never damaged a phone I&
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beedogs
10y ago
The Apple Airpod headphones cost 15 times as much. They're $150USD. It's absolute madness.
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beedogs
10y ago
Great. Now how will I learn TV/VCR repair?
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10y ago
> Personally I don't think the government has the right to bar anyone from getting any kind of education. Yes, some of these are a shame, but the student might still learn something. That's some of the most threadbare reasoning
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10y ago
> but that probably means that you were not the audience Niantic designed (and playability-tested) the game for. And that's entirely the developer's fault, not the players'.
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10y ago
And now they're taking over mounting and unmounting filesystems, too. What's it going to take to get this cancer out of Linux distros?
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10y ago
"Posted from my iPhone during my interminable, soul-sucking 90-minute commute."
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beedogs
10y ago
At $100k a year, once you've factored in income tax, you'll still need to come up with about $1000 per month to make that $6740 mortgage payment.
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beedogs
10y ago
Anything to keep the all-important stock price up. Capitalism is wonderful, isn't it?
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beedogs
10y ago
Something about a sucker being born every minute seems appropriate.
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10y ago
I still can't understand the impetus behind open plan. It's abominable.
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beedogs
10y ago
It's an obvious lie. Par for the course for the totally dysfunctional Coalition government, which hasn't even managed to pass a budget in three years.
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beedogs
10y ago
I haven't seen flash on the web in years, because I've uninstalled it. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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beedogs
10y ago
A small amount of current leakage is actually normal in a well-designed switch-mode power supply, as odd as that may sound.
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beedogs
10y ago
That might be because smarter people tend to be progressive.
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beedogs
10y ago
The IRS did nothing wrong there; conservatives just thought they could fraudulently register a bunch of 501s and get away with it. Turns out, they couldn't.
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10y ago
> It's ridiculous that it took Google so long to implement such a basic feature on their phones. At least they've done it. I haven't heard a peep about this functionality coming to the iPhone.
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beedogs
10y ago
Will the last tech company to leave the UK please turn off the lights?
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beedogs
10y ago
They would surely have noted that as the reason if it were the reason.
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10y ago
> Layoffs reportedly came after a long executive retreat for the company's leaders and were conducted with no advanced notice. Employees who were not let go were told not to show up to work today. Those who did show up were the unlu
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beedogs
10y ago
Still a garbage dump full of racists, misogynists, and low-class trolls, too. Reddit should be nuked from orbit.
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beedogs
10y ago
AMD and ARM have them, as well. It's almost impossible to avoid these hardware backdoors.
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beedogs
10y ago
What game is that? "Collecting zero revenue until you're somehow bought by Facebook"?
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beedogs
10y ago
Frankly, I don't care what you think is ideal user behaviour. Users on reddit are by-and-large such feral pieces of garbage that deleting one's account and starting over every couple of months is a necessity anyway. Once the trol
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10y ago
Or just take a taxi. Uber will never get my money. They're a terrible company.
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