cobookman

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by cobookman 6y ago
I'm surprised congressional office's laptops do not embed remotely detonated explosives/destruction devices triggered with sat or cellular comms.
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by cobookman 6y ago
If you don't care about battery damage, could probably increase the charge rate without a larger battery on board. Sure might increase the ods of a battery catching fire, or reduction in battery life. But if you're trying to get t
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by cobookman 6y ago
An EV that just works that appeals to the luxury buyer. Tesla is still far from that. I've yet to meet a tesla owner who's car just "Works" without any issues or fiddling. GM's & Nissan's EVs fit that bucke
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by cobookman 6y ago
This why I'm so excited about Cloud in the public sector. Its so easy to defer upgrades on a server fleet, even though it might cost someone more money later on. The Public Cloud provides a monthly expense that just becomes part of the
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by cobookman 6y ago
Check-out T-Mobile home internet. 50$/month unlimited 5G & LTE hotspot.
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by cobookman 6y ago
It's not a new form factor...yet. The implications from a chip this powerful, with its low-wattage, heat dissipation...will enable the next generation of laptop form factor.
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by cobookman 6y ago
A company could hire their own janitor, buy their own janitorial supplies and save money. Or they can go through a 3rd party consultant to take care of it so they can focus their cycles on more important issues. Not everyone is an infrastru
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by cobookman 6y ago
Each starlink satellite can only handle ~20Gibps of throughput across all customers connecting. Say there's 10,000 of these in space, that's 200,000Gibps or 195Tibps. I don't think that's enough bandwidth for high speed
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by cobookman 6y ago
They said SF, not SF Bay area. I'm certain the city of SF will be seeing a loss of jobs as they move to Oakland, East Bay, Peninsula and South Bay.
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by cobookman 6y ago
I believe YT makes a cut of this ad rev. It's also much harder for ad blockers to block these kinds of ads. So why would YT block it?
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by cobookman 6y ago
When you're watching a video and there's a ~1min segment on squarespace...etc, its an ad.
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by cobookman 6y ago
You still have ads with YT Premium. Most creators place multi-minute ads in their content.
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by cobookman 6y ago
My phone recently bricked itself, requiring me to factory reset my iOS. Because of the redesign, i decided to try out Apple Maps before attempting to re-install Google Maps. Have yet to re-install google maps since, with Apple Maps actually
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by cobookman 6y ago
So is California. Around 80-90k of pension liabilities per household. Just California has Prop 13 protections for land owners.
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by cobookman 6y ago
Wouldn't rents just shift from cities to suburbs, offices to homes/banks.
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by cobookman 6y ago
Gentrification has a part, but so does the work of city & community leader. East Palo Alto became a city in 1983, before that the county handled the area's affairs...and given the smaller size/population it was not a primary f
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by cobookman 6y ago
Let it sink in that East Palo Alto, former murder capital of USA has less crime per-capita than San Francisco. East Palo Alto is a shining example of how a township/city can clean up its streets in a short time period, by investing in
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by cobookman 6y ago
because everyone else did similar printing. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/21/eu-leaders-reach-a-breakthro...
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by cobookman 6y ago
I'm still waiting for my equifax settlement.
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by cobookman 6y ago
Sounds like this deprecates it though :( https://9to5google.com/2020/09/30/android-tv-replaced-google...
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by cobookman 6y ago
Google just deprecated Android TV as well: https://9to5google.com/2020/09/30/android-tv-replaced-google...
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by cobookman 6y ago
It's why I like a dumb tv with seperate 'smarts' as an external attachment. I generally keep my TV much longer than I keep a laptop/computer.
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by cobookman 6y ago
I'm totally confused. So I have an Nvidia Shield that I bought a few years back. How is this different?
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by cobookman 6y ago
Is Google TV rebranded Android TV?
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by cobookman 6y ago
Or NYC can cut their budget. NYC spends 3.2 Billion on homeless services. https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-citys-spending-on-home... Not saying the cuts need to come from that segment, but let the sheer size of so
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by cobookman 6y ago
Boston Dynamics was founded in 1992. That was almost 30 years ago. Just me, or is it crazy they haven't had 1 year of profitability in nearly 3 decades of operations.
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by cobookman 6y ago
It's also used in the customs process.
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by cobookman 6y ago
> Why in the hell should the Rockefeller’s of today be billionaires??? I'm curious what the statistics are for a family remaining wealth over a long period of time. Even with wealth evenly split between each generations kids, given
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by cobookman 6y ago
I find that this is super convenient that this is happening during COVID restrictions. I'm not needing a taxi/uber/lyft for leaving the bar. I'm not going out to a restaurant with friends. I'm not traveling for work
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by cobookman 6y ago
You do realize that most 1st world countries have experienced a rolling black of some sort in the same time period. 1 rolling black out every 20 years isn't all that crazy. Would you rather we spend billions/trillions on infrastru

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