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871.
by callalex 3y ago
The size of transistors has very little to do with TV prices. They are cheaper now because they are built with outsourced exploited labor and because they are full to the brim with ads and stalkerware.
872.
by callalex 3y ago
That attitude has already fallen apart though. There are a lot of offerings these days for cloud based file syncing, chat, gaming, email, document editing etc. etc. but you can’t even turn on and log into a Windows machine without being for
873.
by callalex 3y ago
Yes, the religious voting bloc that still cares about such things for some reason is very powerful.
874.
by callalex 3y ago
The body governing TLDs really jumped the shark. The out in the open corruption and extortion is a serious dark mark on the tech industry.
875.
by callalex 3y ago
In Oakland, CA they won’t raise the cap for any amount of money.
876.
by callalex 3y ago
Nah man they’re disrupting and decentralizing housing according to the video.
877.
by callalex 3y ago
A luxury Class A motor home or a nice trailer serves that market way more effectively and comfortably and those have existed for 3/4 of a century.
878.
by callalex 3y ago
Aren’t those kind of phones typically infested with malware from the manufacturer to begin with, making Google’s stalking the least of your worries?
879.
by callalex 3y ago
I don’t mean this in a rude way, but do you have Ferrari money? Traditional financial institutions work VERY differently for the kind of people who do compared to the average person.
880.
by callalex 3y ago
Wait but I was told the reason cryptocurrency would change the world is that it’s censorship-proof?
881.
by callalex 3y ago
Everyone here on Hacker News seems to be painting this issue as universally disliked and unwanted and obviously bad. However, that is just blatantly not the case. The “think of the children” and “all opposition are pedophiles” arguments are
882.
by callalex 3y ago
Yea, but the lack of world wars is pretty nice.
883.
by callalex 3y ago
Yea, they aren’t stalking you everywhere you go, and they don’t install malware on your device.
884.
by callalex 3y ago
I take all of my health advice exclusively from statistical language models.
885.
by callalex 3y ago
Because someday jongjong is totally going to be a billionaire, it just hasn’t happened quite yet, but when it does the law must be there to protect them.
886.
by callalex 3y ago
Uhh, I don’t think most people would appreciate the location that sensor would need to be to continuously measure core body temp…
887.
by callalex 3y ago
The alternative would be to properly fund the system with tax money instead of ad money. When you bring that up most Americans start acting like a toddler, cover their ears, and shout “bla bla bla that’s communism”.
888.
by callalex 3y ago
When you put your money in a pocket it automatically sets it on fire and provides nothing in return.
889.
by callalex 3y ago
I’ve been told in earnest that the earth is flat but people of Jewish decent are hiding that fact from me. Including only the successes on your list is misleading.
890.
by callalex 3y ago
This 11.1 figure doesn’t include all the money they had to spend on wine and golf club memberships to gift to the owner class.
891.
by callalex 3y ago
Nobody under the age of 50 can afford to own their own home, which means they are much more likely to be in a small or shared living situation and cannot justify having a desk separate from the table they cook and eat at.
892.
by callalex 3y ago
Keeping an old car that has already been produced running is almost always the most environmentally friendly choice instead of throwing it away and producing a new car. The only reason to upgrade should be the changes in safety technology.
893.
by callalex 3y ago
Studies such as?
894.
by callalex 3y ago
Ubuntu’s backwards-date versioning system is offensive enough on its own.
895.
by callalex 3y ago
You cook your own meals, which is unfortunately a huge step above many many people.
896.
by callalex 3y ago
This kind of thinking is how food deserts happen. I know because I live in one.
897.
by callalex 3y ago
Sorry, it was 1998. I’m pretty sure Mac OS 8 had drop shadows but even if it didn’t, I took that machine all the way to 10.4 and every version of OS X had drop shadows.
898.
by callalex 3y ago
My 0.3GHz iMac in 1996 could draw and resize window drop shadows at 60fps while simultaneously encoding an MP3 without a hitch. It’s seriously inexpensive computationally.
899.
by callalex 3y ago
That wouldn’t work very well because pretty much every webcam has auto exposure adjustment. Also a camera is good at determining how much light is in the room behind you, not how much light is hitting the screen. There really is no substitu
900.
by callalex 3y ago
This is one thing Apple got right a veeeery long time ago. Every screen they have sold since like the mid 2000s, both integrated and standalone, has had auto brightness. I don’t understand why other manufacturers still can’t that right, to

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