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by biggc 3y ago
It’s usually not a new phone, it’s refurbished. Apple will then refurbish the phone you came in with and use it to replace someone else’s broken phone
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by biggc 3y ago
Pumped storage is definitely the most efficient method of energy storage, but is it the cheapest when taking infrastructure costs and land use into account? I remember reading about plans to use renewables to pump Colorado River water b
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by biggc 3y ago
How is this a recall? It sounds like if you're an early adopter all they're offering is a $100 discount on a new one.
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by biggc 3y ago
I personally enjoyed _work_ more in person than remote, but I enjoy my life overall more with remote work. I’m sure I’m not the only person who feels that way. If you’re in a leadership position, what are you supposed to optimize for?
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by biggc 3y ago
As far as click-bait/enticement "here's what you need to know" is one of the less annoying forms.
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by biggc 3y ago
With another satellite communication feature, how close are we until an iPhone can replace a Garmin InReach or similar device for most people.
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by biggc 3y ago
Why is that?
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by biggc 3y ago
About halfway through that video the cruise decides that a left turning car is double parked. It goes around the car in the oncoming lane and forces an oncoming car to stop
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by biggc 3y ago
Do you know about Hetch Hetchy? It's a valley near Yosemite that John Muir described as being equally beautiful. They flooded it to create a water supply for San Francisco.
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by biggc 3y ago
Lake Mead and Lake Powell are already drying out because there's not enough water coming down the Colorado river, I'm not sure how another reservoir between the two would help
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by biggc 3y ago
> Gears of War GoW is an Epic IP, so it would be surprising if it didn't use the Unreal engine
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by biggc 4y ago
Is anyone laid off with this message, or have they just set up the entire company to worry that they’re being laid off.
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by biggc 4y ago
> California’s law sought to evade that policy and, in doing so, would have denied employers and employees alike of the benefits of arbitration If arbitration is so great for everyone we shouldn’t need provisions in employment contracts!
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by biggc 4y ago
Ah, the Stack Overflow classic “this is a wrong problem to have”
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by biggc 4y ago
Akshually...
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by biggc 4y ago
Wow! I was trying to find those numbers and the highest I could get to was ~899k. Then I switched to the OS to Windows from Linux. That licensing fee is wild!
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by biggc 4y ago
I'm on an H1-B, living in the Bay Area, and working for a company with an office in the Bay Area. My team is remote, and I'm planning on moving to the Tahoe area, still in California, does my employer need to file an H1-B amendmen
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by biggc 4y ago
> like silently cancelling the return leg of flights if you don’t make the outbound I don't know about the "silently" part, but this is standard practice for most (all?) airlines.
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by biggc 4y ago
Maybe so, but I wonder how much of their PSU sales come from the excellent reputation of their GPUs.
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by biggc 4y ago
Current Anti Money Laundering regulations actually require the exact opposite! If a financial company's customer is under review for fraud or money laundering, it is illegal for that company to let their user know.
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by biggc 4y ago
> These are people who use floppy disks as a way to get information in and out of a machine. Imagine it’s 1990, and you’re building a big industrial machine of one kind or another. You design it to last 50 years and you’d want to use the
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by biggc 4y ago
Sichuan Peppercorn is not a new world chili, and is endemic to Asia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanthoxylum_armatum
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by biggc 4y ago
> the disorder is a psychiatric one That doesn't make the symptoms any less real for a person suffering from the condition.
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by biggc 4y ago
I believe that Stripe EOL'd IRC support when Freenode imploded. They've got a Discord, but I've heard that it's harder to engage with engineers there than IRC because of the volume of "general support" chatter.
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by biggc 4y ago
Would this apply to unsolicited reachouts from recruiting firms?
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by biggc 4y ago
Didn’t a handful of Coinbase employees make out like bandits before Ethereum was listed? What’s changed since then?
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by biggc 4y ago
I appreciate the depth of gamer’s nexus, but their videos are like watching someone read an Anandtech breakdown.
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by biggc 4y ago
> since the driver wasnt in the car. That's shocking. What does that have to do with liability? Hypothentically if my car's brakes failed while my car was parked, my insurance should cover any damages.
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by biggc 4y ago
> There are 9 million people in Canada (a country of around 40M) currently living here on 10 year visa's. - Crazy! Talk about distorting statistics in bad faith to further xenophobia… The 10 year visa is a non resident visa that all
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by biggc 5y ago
They don't have restaurants outside of the US?

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