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by bronson 10y ago
Sometimes the government needs to step in. (in no particular order:) lead paint, DDT, opioids, microbeads, antibacterial soaps, ... Sometimes the government gets it wrong, of course: prohibition, pot, ... I don't know where sugary dri
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by bronson 10y ago
It has 8MB of NOR storage. Sure, you aren't putting Debian on there, but it'll take your wifi creds.
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by bronson 10y ago
You think selecting one is confusing? Wait until you try to use it!
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by bronson 10y ago
Wait, where did the OP say it was better or won some contest?
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by bronson 10y ago
Do you think that 100% of Linus's emails are vitrolic spew? He writes kind emails too, you know. Even today.
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by bronson 10y ago
No, Bush just commuted his prison term. He was still convicted, disbarred, and had to pay the fine. Obama pardoning Hillary might prove to voters that the system really is corrupt... That could backfire in a big way.
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by bronson 10y ago
Why Every New Macbook Needs A Different Goddamn Charger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyTA33HQZLA
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by bronson 10y ago
Right. Given Twitter's headcount, Vine probably has 550 people working on it.
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by bronson 10y ago
When modeming into the university unix system, I really enjoyed being able to type `sz file` and bam the file is on my local machine, with progress meter and everything. So I wrote rzh, "receive zmodem here". Navigate to where yo
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by bronson 10y ago
The video appears to have had a few tens of thousand views before Samsung's complaint. Two days later, it's nearing 1.4 million views. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GhODn4FRoE Nice job Samsung!
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by bronson 10y ago
That would have the opposite effect from what you want. It's hard to think of anything that would grow the ranks of the NIMBYs any faster.
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by bronson 10y ago
Chip layout/floorplan isn't like laying tiles. Not everything is gridded and fits together perfectly.
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by bronson 10y ago
> Building cars is a low-margin business. So is building phones.
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by bronson 10y ago
It's unlikely npm would accept patches moving it in the direction Yarn is taking. Different priorities.
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by bronson 10y ago
> Not world domination but still a success. Not to current and past Twitter investors. They expected a lot more.
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by bronson 10y ago
They maintain React Router to help promote their training business? I suppose that could explain its instability.
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by bronson 10y ago
FTA, on why this is important: Next is that this is an operating system upgrade free of commercial and marketing constraints and drives. Compared with, say, an iOS upgrade that trumpets the addition of a search function or blares out a pro
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by bronson 10y ago
The Planck constant presumably, if we can get that far. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_constant#Significance_o...
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by bronson 10y ago
Phonetically similar. It's one way to choose an English name.
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by bronson 10y ago
You said, "proved that heavier-than-air flying machines were physically impossible". That's rather an extreme statement that isn't supported by the passage you quoted or, it seems, what you're saying now.
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by bronson 10y ago
If you're installing all these apps, you're not actually interested in peak productivity.
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by bronson 10y ago
It's much harder to hide 500,000 dollars in small bills than it is to hide Bitcoin.
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by bronson 10y ago
They may have been just following our example. 'Meshcheryakov, the Soviet physicist, like all of the international observers, was not allowed to see any more than the reporters. But he still saw much. The mushroom clouds from Able and
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by bronson 10y ago
You're asking if rubber is considered hard? What type of rubber do you have in mind?
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by bronson 10y ago
Or a homeowner.
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by bronson 10y ago
All of your examples have a domain name followed by a single, short landing page identifier. No knowledge of URLs / paths needed. You seem to be reinforcing the OP's point.
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by bronson 10y ago
So my car is engineless if I never look under the hood?
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by bronson 10y ago
I don't understand why more people haven't flagged this story.
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by bronson 10y ago
The first word you see when you visit "Honest Al's Used Car Lot" is "Honest". Doesn't mean anyone should just trust it.
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by bronson 10y ago
because free == low quality ??

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