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bhelkey
5y ago
I imagine that it would be easier to use the Google or Cloudflare DNS (8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 respectively). Disclaimer: I work for Google.
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5y ago
The site describes itself as, 'The Public 3D Asset Library'. I suspect that a good portion of this is downloading assets.
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5y ago
Someone put the QR code on the parking sign.
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bhelkey
5y ago
> No, they could just be guilty of felony or local equivalent. I think this is a different in definitions. Could you define 'criminal'?
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5y ago
> Crypto things however seem a whole other level of energy waste. According to the New York Times, Bitcoin uses a little less than half a percent of all the electricity consumed in the world [1]. [1] https://www.nytimes.com&#x
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5y ago
> That would be older than Google for example. Google was incorporated in 1998 [1]. To be fair, the patent for PageRank has since expired [2]. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150623193037/https://www
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5y ago
The PS5's optical drive is paired with its motherboard[1]. If you replace it, even if you take the disk drive from another PS5, it will not be able to read your PS5 game. I imagine that 20 years from now you are going to have a hard ti
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5y ago
> a key measure of inflation climbed to a level not seen since June 1982. Am I missing something in the article? Which key measure? The only other time 1982 is measured in this article is the following: > Food prices in restaurants ju
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5y ago
>it's to prevent accidental embarrassment I am not sure I understand where you are coming from. Are you suggesting that people accidentally take screenshots and share them?
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5y ago
It looks like this news article goes into more depth: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/facing-hostile-chine...
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5y ago
> Will I, as a teetotaler, be ripping this out of my future car on sheer principle? Yes. >> also teetotalers can get tired >>> I don't understand how this is relevant to the point You mentioned that you are a teetotal
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5y ago
Elsewhere in this thread: > Don't use GIFs, use audioless mp4s instead.
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bhelkey
5y ago
I would argue that a social media platform that default to reinforcing negative emotions and one has to "aggressively moderate" to get value from is not a good social media platform.
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5y ago
> I couldn't tell from the article, it only hinted that he did something wrong but did not disclose what it was I also have zero background knowledge here. Maybe this article just doesn't target us. In a stand alone 2.5K word a
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5y ago
>> This is quite evidently not how most socialized healthcare systems work. This is how socialized healthcare systems work. In an ideal world, everyone would get the healthcare they needed whatever the cost. We live in a world with fi
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5y ago
I am not sure that Scott would fit into a newspaper environment. Scott has some really interesting articles. He has one huge advantage over journalists. He seemingly doesn't work in the same deadline constrained world that typical jour
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5y ago
Basically, you are saying: 100K house + 120K mortgage + 120K assets could become 100K house + 120K mortgage if the market you invest in craters? I get where you are coming from. I don't share your conclusions, but I understand the reas
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> 1...2 These make a lot of sense to me. I can certainly see many non financial reasons to do it. Decisions often have a variety of components (financial aspect, social aspect, how stressed it makes you, ...). These are great reasons to
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5y ago
The 100K was just for example purposes. The same example with different numbers: Is 1.4MM house + 1.6MM 30-year mortgage + 1.6MM in assets worse than 1.4MM house?
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5y ago
I hope you will excuse the naivety of youth but could you elaborate on this? Clearly you are worried about something. I just don't understand what the issue with going underwater is IF AND ONLY IF you have the assets to pay off the loa
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5y ago
One could still have a mortgage. Depending on the interest rate, it might not make sense to pay it off faster than the term length.
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5y ago
>Time wise, a 0.1% error rate for a month means a 43 minute complete downtime. This article assumes relatively constant usage. If a service is used heavily in a single time zone this number could be considerably lower. The flip side of t
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5y ago
> See tire pressure monitoring for example. I am not sure I understand what you are saying. I appreciate knowing when my tire pressure is low.
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5y ago
It would probably help to specify your location.
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5y ago
Because regulation coming in from multiple places, I suggest adding "US" to the title.
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5y ago
> between April and July last year, there was a drop of 37 per cent in the number of detected breast cancer cases, and a 23 per cent drop in detected bowel cancer cases compared to the three years prior. While that is interesting, the ov
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5y ago
>> If Autopilot poses a significant risk to other road users, then an investigation is warranted. > Except there's no evidence that it does. It sounds like you two are talking past one another. I don't believe op is pres
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5y ago
From TFA, >Eligible hospitalizations were defined as those among adults aged ≥18 years who had received SARS-CoV-2 molecular testing (from 14 days before to 72 hours after admission) and had a COVID-19–like illness discharge diagnosis† d
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There was a study earlier this year which had the opposite findings [1]. This study addressed the discrepancy: > these findings differ from those of a retrospective records-based cohort study in Israel, which did not find higher protecti
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5y ago
> Now lets see what happens with buffers. > Understanding why I'm out of ammo: wait, I'm not out of ammo. I've got thousands of ammo buffered up right now. As such, I don't fix the problem for 2 or 3 hours. We don&
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