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> an expert at overturning conventional wisdom Did you just invent a field so you can win an argument? Does it mean you revolutionized the field of inventing fields to win an argument? What about his less successful ventures like the Bor
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A decade ago his antics were seen as whimsical and perhaps funny, especially to his fan base. With that fan base ever shrinking his antics today are disgusting and trying to appeal to the crowd which still appreciates something this low-br
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You start by saying "not that sure" but then continue to support my point. So now I'm also not that sure what you mean. 3000€+ in the early 2000s is easily 5000€ today accounting for inflation. Even if you mean they are 3000€
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> Many products are hard to compare due to the enormous price difference Well that explains a lot, doesn't it? The article is right overall but occasionally glances over the importance of the "quality/price" ratio. As
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> The hidden message of the title: Plant based alternatives may not succeed. I don't see this message in there. If you ask me the real message is that companies trying to sell overly processed, way too expensive, imitations of "
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For collectors and archivists out there, just in case you would like to keep a local copy of the walkthrough: https://github.com/rebane2001/matterport-dl
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> The main benefits are entirely around transistor density increases which allows for things like bigger caches SRAM is probably the the worst example as it scales poorly with process shrinks. There are tricks still left in the bag to de
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> "they made their decision, let's see them enforce it" This was one lesson the common people never wanted to learn because it was so much easier to live on the belief that their system is intrinsically immune to abuse, it
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> is revealing itself Not really a revelation though. The ones with most of the power always leveraged any tool they had at their disposal to have their way and press everyone else into compliance. Sometimes it's carrot, sometimes
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One thing's for sure, it always starts with the "terrorists" and "pedophiles". But it would never be used against someone like you, would it? Turkeys voting for Thanksgiving is what this is.
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> > If it’s not being recorded > They keep all the video I guess you could say that Axon servers keep every single video that was never recorded because the camera was off. It's very space efficient too.
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> it's not a sustainable approach For the current Broadcom leadership this doesn't have to be sustainable, just bring in enough of a profit to justify the whole thing. They do not want a slow and steady profit stream but a big
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> has an atrocious UX - a slow on/off button instead of a trigger, and an amazingly useless "smart power" feature that just varies the power almost completely randomly as you vacuum. Contrast that with the Dyson v15 which
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1y ago
> I never take them as they are also often rude and I cannot rate them You should check if there are taxi apps where you live. In Europe a lot of these apps consolidated under bigger brands (e.g. FreeNow) so it's a good bet that you
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> I don't think any big tech company has ever done anything as evil and predatory as Apple walling off iMessage Is that really the worst thing you've seen big-tech do? That's very fortunate. What about Blackberry Messeng
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Look, I get it, you're a power user with very special needs. But the rest of the home user world is on a different page. It's funny if you think home users in general have these kinds of wants or needs just because you're a u
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> Expensive for home use, but they can buy older technology I can't imagine home users being interested in buying mostly used SCSI or SAS tape drives while navigating a world of format compatibility challenges and problems with impr
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You are using a niche window manager, with a niche theme, on a niche OS. This is almost as far as it gets from being representative of the majority.
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The cause and effect are not so clear cut. Customers also expect something new. That way they feel like they got something new when they have to replace their phone, especially in the "evolution not revolution" phase of a device.
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> But your judgment that god's word must be understood in this way just reflects your own belief about how god has chosen to communicate with us. I'm trying to understand it in the most likely way it would have been understood
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> If you don't believe the divine will is knowable, then why would you follow any religion? This doesn't follow. If you believe you can just decide how to reinterpret the word of God then you put yourself at the same level as H
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> but the response here seems obvious: by putting his law in writing, god invites (even demands) interpretation. You, just a man, purport to know what God invites and even demands us to do.
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> what high-profile companies like OpenAI do, vs. what low-profile industry giants like Cisco and Oracle have been doing Not that I disagree but you're whatabouting your way into an argument, and you used to be against it [0]. And y
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> any loopholes in the rules were put there on purpose > The true sinners are those who think that they know what God wants better than what He actually passed down as commandments. God knows what He wants and wrote it down exactly li
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The points are generally applicable to any decent employer in the EU and most non-EU European countries, white collar work in particular. This is the norm not because companies are so much nicer. Most of this is codified in law. Some countr
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You can be a superstar and still not succeed alone, without other superstars around you. They are so successful because they know each other. And survivorship bias guarantees that all those who didn't make it are unknown, or not ment
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It doesn't matter if you upgrade Docker or not. All tech, self hosted or not, fails for three reasons: 1) You did something to it (changed a setting, upgraded software, etc.) 2) You didn't do something to it (change a setting, upg
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To make matters worse, not all ranges and percentages on that scale are equal, whether they're the same in absolute or relative terms. Humans have a narrow relevant "operational" temperature band. Even 20 degrees between 10-3
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This kind of false equivalence only brings the quality of conversation down and also waters down the gravity of what's really happening. I just never expected anyone would go so low as to equate people being turned away at the border o
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> make old games unplayable that you need patches and emulators for So then they're playable just fine. You can use a PC/console from that era, VMs or emulators, apply patches, or get the versions from storefronts like GOG. Tha
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