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by cc439 8y ago
It was the company who was infiltrated who was disgraced, not the company (more like companies, Chinese tech espionage is state backed and whatever is collected is widely distributed) that benefited.
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by cc439 8y ago
>As the article states, they lost their competency. I think people undereatimate how bleak the short term future (50-100 years) is looking right now. We've forgotten how to properly build many of the things we once touted as the pin
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by cc439 8y ago
The 919 Tribute is actually pretty close to what an "unrestricted" F1 car would look like. Fully enclosed bodywork (which used to be legal in F1 back in the 50's), an unrestricted hybrid system, AWD, and active aero + suspens
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by cc439 8y ago
>"In general, the prediction "future generations will laugh at X" rarely comes to pass. Better laugh while you can." Really? I'd say mocking the styles/beliefs/misconceptions of previous generations is
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by cc439 8y ago
I actually based my recommendations off of the most common areas of complaint I come across and specifically the areas the younger set complain about most often. Battery Life: You can find someone tethered to a wall outlet in almost any
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by cc439 8y ago
I would have bought/requested one of the Blackberry offerings a long time ago if I could manage landscape keyboards with my large hands. They're just too damned small.
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by cc439 8y ago
I've developed a strong loyalty to Motorola because of this. I've owned several Verizon exclusive models (Droid Turbo, Turbo 2, Z Play Droid) and all have featured incredible real world battery life and stockish Android. I'd
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by cc439 8y ago
I guess I should have phrased that as "even the most technologically illiterate users will come to recognize the superior user experience of a phone running stock Android after getting comfortable with it. This effect works regardless
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by cc439 8y ago
It's amazing how one, admittedly enormous, place in pop-culture history can define an entire country in the mind's of a majority of the first world's population. I imagine you feel the same way as people from Alabama and&#x2
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by cc439 8y ago
There are many wings in the halls of the left. I'd consider Time as biased to the left but they voiced the ideology of the establishment, coastal, urban leftist elite. They espoused the kind of left wing viewpoints expected of a ma
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by cc439 8y ago
It's not like it's hard to carve out a niche now that literally every flagship phone is functionally identical. There have been so many novel features that have been tried since the birth of the Android ecosystem that there are bo
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by cc439 8y ago
>a maps program that learns my routine and integrates with a weather app That sounds awesome until the company providing that service starts abusing their knowledge of their location. That abuse doesn't even have to necessarily
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by cc439 8y ago
OSHA also requires a minimum light level in the US but I believe it only pertains to hazardous working environments (like on a production floor in a manufacturing facility for example). Either that or the enforcement in white collar environ
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by cc439 8y ago
The more after reports on accidents involving self driving cars I've read, the more I've become convinced that the current state of the art in this field is merely an illusion. Reading between the lines, the complete disregard for
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by cc439 8y ago
>Instead, they continue prohibition practices even further, forcing manufacturers to use other (much more dangerous) substances The inherent danger in iterative research chemicals is a lesson I had to learn firsthand. I had tried the ini
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by cc439 8y ago
The Opioid/Opiate epidemic is the direct result of highly available, high quality, legal opioids. For the majority of places (i.e. anywhere that isn't a a top 10 city or former, now desitute, trade capital with a port like Baltimo
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by cc439 8y ago
It's actually not snark. I work in the industry and I legitametely believe Tesla's call to forgo traditional controls is defensible when viewed through this lense. Tesla's current business model is, and has been, 100% depende
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by cc439 8y ago
I can almost guarantee the brake pads glazed over due to overheating. The pad's surface will begin to work harden once a certain temperature threshold is exceeded and that hardened surface has a much lower coefficient of friction than
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by cc439 8y ago
I can almost guarantee the problem is caused by the brake pads glazing over. The working surface of a brake pad will become work hardened, which drastically lowers their friction coefficient, once pushed past their designed temperature limi
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by cc439 8y ago
It's a terrible design in terms of ergonomics and user experience but it's frankly genius in terms of development timeline efficiency and cost control. Tesla was able to condense hundreds of indididual parts that come from a suppl
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by cc439 8y ago
There's no definitive rule for determining whether a card is using rhe reference PCB design or not, but generally, any card using the reference cooler (1 ) and most card SKUs released on a new GPU family's launch day will use the
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by cc439 8y ago
You're right in that .223/5.56 is only useful for game up to your typical southeastern Doe or small Buck but milsurp rifles are a thing of the past. Not only is a decent Mosin ~$350 these days, they are awful, awful hutning rifles
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by cc439 8y ago
The only difference between "military-style firearm enthusiasts" and "hunters" that I've noticed is that the hunting focused crowd rarely shows interest in platforms like the AR-15 but they loooooove to talk about&#
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by cc439 8y ago
>That is intuitively wrong. Surely, the probability to have a violent revolution must be minimal right after the end of the last one, when the new status quo is in its most well established, everyone is tired of fighting, etc etc. Is t
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by cc439 8y ago
Here's an even better question: "what country would be any better if the world's economic lynchpin is no longer a safe and stable place?" If the US becomes unstable, it will cause everywhere else to become equally unstab
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by cc439 8y ago
Hunting won't be a viable method for replacing the majority of calories in one's diet in any scenario in which the public has to resort to finding such a replacement. Small game is only capable of supplanting other calorie sources
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by cc439 8y ago
Most of those trips appear to be under 3.5 hours each way... Why not drive since it's likely faster and cheaper than the train?
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by cc439 8y ago
We need that money for more adventures in the middle east and urban welfare though.
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by cc439 8y ago
That and practically every economist agrees that taxes on businesses are pointless. Tax the people working for said business and then you won't have the cost of taxation merely passed on to the consumer. You'd also likely be able
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by cc439 8y ago
A dollar can only change hands so many times before it's worthless unless it's going towards actual value-adding goods/services. Considering how deprived the general population is for funds to spend on value-added goods, I do

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