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> race to the bottom and then everyone has Chinese working conditions and salaries I think it’s doable to be competitive even under Western conditions assuming you have the rest of the ultra optimized supply chains because you can find w
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Sadly even eliminating all bureaucracy isn't the Holy Grail of saving the local workshop. The company has to pay German level taxes, the workers have to pay German cost of living, and most business owners also want to enjoy the fruit o
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A visitor who wants to record will just have a second recording device. Asking nicely to leave the phone behind could only protect from spying the phone owner never intended.
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> but tech VCs don't do due diligence anymore They hope they can cash out before the bubble bursts, whatever that bubble is.
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You highlighted the basis for widespread corruption. At some point you no longer do it to get an unfair advantage, you do it because without it you get an unfair disadvantage. Widespread fraud is no different.
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Sports doctors were never immune to misguided treatments. The regular ice baths after an injury have already been thoroughly proven to slow down recovery. You need ice only after the initial trauma, afterwards ice just hinders the healing p
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OP mentioned 5 properties and 5 children. Taking your suggested budget as reference today we’re talking close to $1.5-2m just in properties alone. That’s 10-20 times the median wealth per adult in the US while supporting a very large family
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I’m confused, doesn’t your toilet bowl already do that for you? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/despite-accessing-us...
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No offense but I don’t think you have a clear enough definition in your head and you’re making it up as we go along and you get challenged. >> I'm probably mistaken, but I've always referred to password resets as backdoors &
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> Is there another term they could be classfied as? As an advertised feature of the product. Your personal definition doesn’t match the general understanding of the word and concept. By your definition every window on a house or car is a
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Every definition of a “backdoor” in computing implicitly or explicitly considers it hidden/covert. In the house analogy you don’t see the backdoor when approaching the front. If it was just “an alternative everyone knows about and can
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Obviously I’m interested in the modern equivalent of whatever that man had. If those apartments were on the outskirts of the city, then something equivalent today. If society expected the kids to finish no more than high-school then but uni
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That’s the answer to a different question. We were talking about a printer who probably wasn’t acing the stock market in the ‘60s but his salary covered all that. Question stands, if anyone can offer a good equivalence for something similar
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> he had 5 children, a house in Daly City and 3 apartments across the street from Dolores park as well as a brand new home in Terra Linda How well would you need to be paid now in any career to support a family like that one while accumu
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You might be right but hard to tell without analyzing costs and benefits. Is a cutting edge model for phone stuff worth the slower performance and battery drain for example? The rate of change by itself doesn’t tell you the whole story beca
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At some point it’s got to be good enough for the normal “phone stuff” that appeal to most users. So they wouldn’t suffer from FOMO because they didn’t wait for the next model. Every phone gimmick went through the same evolution curve until
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Is anyone else wondering if this is just a “cover crime” for the ragebait while the real crime was s happening behind the scenes, not getting any attention because this news is capturing all of it? They’re doing something so ridiculously ob
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> through enshitiffication the new device will require call home to unlock I thought Matter certification demands that the device work without cloud connectivity, it's part of the spec. Being able to use any hub and have guaranteed
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An addendum is don't give money when you're called by a "legitimate contact", call them back first. The scammer is remote so they can pretend to be the "legitimate contact" but not so easy to block the real leg
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For IPv6 networks you're in luck. The hubs are not proxies so the IPv6 enabled IoT device in an IPv6 network can still be blocked at firewall level from accessing the internet. Less that the separation Zigbee provides but better than n
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The website tells you what you need to know: > Vibe Over Pixels This isn't about getting a good shot, it's about the vibes and the fun. The viewfinder is the gimmick that catches the eye but it technically doesn't do anyth
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> China, in it's modern incarnation, and every living member of it's military, has never seen a single real battle. Nothing. No one has any rank that has bearing on any kind of combat. Just decades of self-congratulatory war ga
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> they had to pull the aircraft that they would use to do bombing runs back to bases in Jordan and Israel because anything on the tarmac in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE is very vulnerable to Iranian drone and missile strikes. Look
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> There is significant overlap in that reasoning and not doing tap to pay. Or using a (smart)phone, right? No need to go to extremes, cutting Google specifically is the win because they centralize the “spying”, not cutting the technology
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> Is this an AI response? Probably not but you’re doing a bad job explaining what wanting to de-google your phone has to do with the choice of wireless payment methods. It’s in the name, “de-googling”, not “de-attack-vectoring”. People w
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Exactly! But don’t let the terminology bog you down. There is no market for single purpose (exclusively NAS, exclusively router, etc.) specialized devices outside of enterprise. We call it a NAS like we call the general purpose computer in
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For business it should be all storage. But for home use the best is all-in-one. A home user doesn’t benefit from specialization of equipment, just brings them more headaches managing more stuff. One device that has storage and can also run
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It’s not super common to stay in one place only 24h when traveling with kids. Other than the luggage, tourists and residents move in an out of the building just the same. People who live there also need to go to work or school every morning
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Didn’t you see how young people don’t bat an eye when modern day series paint black people in powerful/leadership roles in the ‘60s-‘80s, or even just treated somewhat equally regardless of color? For Hollywood it was always easy to re
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Some people see the movie as the typical Hollywood fiction and in that light you can only judge it in isolation. Good action, solid characters. As the screen adaptation of a work written about a real person, you’d need to have the prerequis

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