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by dade_ 3y ago
The image Google has created in the market of their products is, stellar success or death. The article states and provides examples where the chips are completely missing the mark (that Apple is setting) and that the chips aren’t a stellar
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I find it interesting that the real problem we have in our world is technocrats (original definition: skill with power), yet we keep worrying about the made up redefinition of the term, rule made effective through technology (skill with kno
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Exports. Argentina should be a wealthy country, but it’s been squandered by corrupt politicians.
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by dade_ 3y ago
Except compared the Argentinian peso for the last 40 years and that the population uses electronics such as televisions as currency / savings as it is. https://www.google.com/finance/quote/ARS-USD?window=5Y
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by dade_ 3y ago
Something happened. There are a lot of consolidations in the industry, and as content contracts expire and get renegotiated this happens. On September 21: We regret to inform you that the magazine(s) you received through ZINIO will no lon
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by dade_ 3y ago
Picture it, a small conservative city in the year 2000. A black man dressed in drag with a Christmas tree headpiece made with green garland. Photos were taken for the front cover of gay newspaper. Photos came back from the photo lab. Defi
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by dade_ 3y ago
our understanding of DNA is pretty basic. I’d say we’re using a hatchet to do surgery. Did she make any reference to studies?
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by dade_ 3y ago
I don’t have a fear of chemicals. Everything is a chemical, but I’ve met the people you are describing, I promise to never use the work again. Keep in mind these studies are from 1997, the world wasn’t even ruined by the Internet at that
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by dade_ 3y ago
Chemophobia - it annoys me that people think that the only harm we must consider for herbicides and pesticides is humans, then proceeded to dump billions of gallons of this, which ultimately end up down rivers, lakes, and oceans. there are
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by dade_ 3y ago
But for me, it is Louis Armstrong and Nina Simone that titillate. Music that resonates with the spine. No disrespect for Nat King Cole.
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by dade_ 3y ago
The Internet ruined everything. If I have any regrets in my life, it was not fully appreciating the magic that was the 1990s in the moments I experienced them.
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The most dangerous surface in a farm is the farmer’s hat I was told. So they wear the hat in the sun, tilling the fields, but the reason the hat is dangerous is from spraying the fields. Pesticides and herbicides are downright scary chemic
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Success.
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It’s essential, though the Bullet Journal spells out nice, thoughtful, and adaptable techniques. https://bulletjournal.com/pages/book The reviews have caught hundreds of important ideas and tasks that had slipped my
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by dade_ 3y ago
Great project. I loved the idea of Visible Solar System on the Commodore VIC-20, but the execution was a bit limited by the technology 40 years ago to say the least. https://www.vic-20.it/visible-solar-sistem-1930/
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by dade_ 3y ago
These explanations are all very interesting, but the reality is that any good business person must decide when to invest. The conditions have been far from favourable for years in Canada. Real estate is simply too expensive. Sure commerc
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by dade_ 3y ago
I’ll stick with a company that actually supports its wearables for the long haul and doesn’t lock me into a phone or create obsolescence of perfectly good hardware. I believe Samsung is even worse than Apple. https://www.dcrainm
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by dade_ 3y ago
Windows has never respected users. Not in version 3.0, and not today in 11. Millennium Edition and Vista were particularly egregious, and 11 took it to a brave new world. There is no such thing as a single Linux experience, each distribut
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by dade_ 3y ago
Brain Eating Ameoba! https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53302773 Yes, it was in Florida.
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by dade_ 3y ago
I haven’t owned an an iPhone or iPad since they dropped the 30 pin connector and headset jack to proprietary lightning instead of USB-C. I bought my first iPad once Apple finally adopted USB-C and I look forward to switching back to iPhon
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by dade_ 3y ago
also, we didn’t get bored of it. we figured out how to make custom maps. yes including our school, and picked appropriate demon for each classroom to represent our fabulous teachers. Columbine hadn’t happened yet. even if someone found
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by dade_ 3y ago
It was a 90s and we met through our BBS systems. there was no debate what to play, doom. Warcraft came soon after. The Internet sounded cool, too bad actually kind of destroyed everything. some of us had pagers. we made plans, over la
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by dade_ 3y ago
same reason people don’t quit LinkedIn. It’s a self updated list of books, just like LinkedIn is a self updating Rolodex of people. They are very reliable for these core functions, and quite unreliable for any other. when someone figures
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by dade_ 3y ago
Clickbait because it targets people that are upset about the air quality this summer and the apocalyptic skies which were caused by fires in northern Quebec and Ontario. They had nothing to do with forest management practises in BC, it th
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by dade_ 3y ago
Quick close the barn door, the animals have escaped!
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Too crowded with robots designed to piss me off. The bots are like tourists. The population of Venice is in steep decline, but the streets are congested.
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Poor quality article. I’d never use the National Observer as a source as they are very biased. The National Observer are a group of well meaning social justice eco warriors that will gladly ignore any facts that don’t support their narrat
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by dade_ 3y ago
True, but such facts don’t fit the narrative. Fortunately, NPR is more interested in the facts than clickbait headlines: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/21/1188618934/canada-wildfires-a... ‘Canada is the sec
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by dade_ 3y ago
Yes, I remember when LinkedIn was tricking people into spamming everyone in their contact list on their phone and using the information to suggest connections. A coworker was fooled and sent out invitations to everyone in his massive conta
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by dade_ 3y ago
LinkedIn at least managed to retain its only useful function, a self-updating Rolodex. It would be nice to be able to disable the virtue signalling feed though.

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