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by chungus_khan 6y ago
If they don't want to have to look for qualified local talent every-time the visa renewal comes up, and the employee is being a valuable and productive member of society, that seems like an ideal case for some kind of permanent residen
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
Cash-only and cash-intensive businesses are an incredibly easy and common vehicle for money laundering. The less customer information involved, the more effective. Such businesses are incredibly widespread and vital to organized crime, and
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
Do you have a similar problem with cash-only businesses?
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
And cars are frequently used to smuggle illegal goods. All sorts of legitimate and useful things get used illegitimately.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
This isn't really true. Jailbreaks are not the main concern here, privilege escalation vulnerabilities are. Those are discovered somewhat regularly in both Android and iOS. Jailbreaks on iOS make use of such vulnerabilities when they d
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
And most of the rest of congress aren't just not doing anything about it, they consistently support the American surveillance state and voted on its expansion. It's incredibly rare for privacy to even be on the ticket.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
In Canada it is possible to order online directly to any post office via a special address and pick up there for free. This is IMO a much better solution because post offices are already necessary and present everywhere, and individual reta
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
I think 2x improvement in productivity is a pretty optimistic number unless you don't write much code and mostly just compile it. In heavier workloads there certainly can be decent ROI though.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
A lot of it is because eventually production will catch up, and in the meantime companies want to catch consumer attention with the actual intended retail price while still big in the news rather than scaring them away with a higher launch
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
It also basically doesn't matter for 99% of people. Most people just need their phone to be fast enough to run common applications responsively. Benchmarks are irrelevant to the average user, and are mostly a dick measuring contest. Pe
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
I mean technically it was, but only in the sense that computers at that time were generally shared systems and the pitch was that a worker/user would have their own individual (personal) computer at their desk and wouldn't have to
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
When the term PC was coined by IBM they ran PC DOS and were entirely single-user and incapable of multitasking of any kind.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
That, and their goal isn't actually to make a better product. A better product can be a means to an end, but the real goal is to increase the rate of growth, and more often than not that flat interface style convinces some manager or c
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
Those who do not remember the Bell System are doomed to see it repeat in varying permutations.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
I'd say 17% of the computer market is sizable but still small and segmented enough to be premium. Macs don't factor into the purchasing decisions of the vast majority of ordinary people.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
It's an important distinction that is often obscured by the number of products that aren't professional equipment/software, and don't have this kind of attitude, but affix the word "Pro" to their consumer produ
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
The process is called parfrying and is really common for a lot of stuff. It's more efficient to do it higher up on the chain because the restaurants don't need more prep work and it can all be done at once. Instant noodles are als
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
This video goes into something vaguely related with how the coordinate system works in Mario 64: https://youtu.be/kpk2tdsPh0A There's a lot of interesting problems that arise when making a 3d game vs a 2d one.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
And if you didn't need the extra power you could get all the suffering of a Sun box for the cost of a common office PC. I think that's why I've seen very few workstations using it, but it's pretty common as a shared in
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
Even then, it still is about capital, it's just that the power and interests of capital work inside this organism the same way individual cells further their own life in a multicellular organism. The whole coheres as a result of a conf
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
If your product is something the users will genuinely want and find very useful, and you present it as a member of the community who decided to make it for the community's benefit, people will be thrilled generally. If you show up as a
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
The idea that individual action even can is so utopian. When I'm emperor there will be no crime because everyone will recognize that crime is bad, even if doing crime benefits them. Individual action isn't bad or anything, but we
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
NeXT was also mostly ahead of the market on the software side. Their machines were a very tough sell compared to the price and performance of other UNIX workstations of the time (which is why I know SunOS and not NeXTStep). All the vision a
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
If Qualcomm is implementing it, I'm sure it will on a technical level. Linux is important to AMD and Intel, but Linux-running devices represent nearly all of Qualcomm's non-embedded SOC market. Whether vendors can use it to restri
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
Philosophy will cease to be relevant when thinking ceases to be relevant. I would cast suspicion on the intentions of anyone who wants people to stop reasoning and questioning.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
I would personally prefer a public works project with fruits that have a little bit more return on them than blowing up Afghani farmers. Plus acquisitions and operations/maintenance eat up much more than personnel costs anyway, and the
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
And that's no accident. "Defense" is a very lucrative industry with a lot of money and power behind making sure those dollars go towards buying toys to destroy schools on the other side of the planet instead of fixing them ba
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
Users don't recognize Swing, but I wouldn't say it didn't succeed. There are an unbelievable number of little utilities, obscure programs, and company-internal tools written in Swing that people use every day and don't r
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
That, and for better or worse, Wordpress. A lot of things that used to have been frontpage sites became Wordpress sites of varying quality and maintenance.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
I think this is more a case of only noticing them as housewives when it gets called to your attention. Neutral/warm depictions of housewives are incredibly common but don't grab your attention because of how ordinary they are. It

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