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by dandotway 5y ago
It's slowly starting to trend because of three realizations backend developers are having: (1.) Although scalability is hard, distributed apps are really hard, particularly distributed debugging and logging. (2.) Monolithic servers are
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Class B shareholders can do anything they want that hurts class A shareholders, so long as class A shareholders can't successfully sue. 67.8% of Fortune 500 companies incorporate in the state of Delaware[1], largely because Delaware ha
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2010: Move to cloud hosting to save yourself from scalability hassles. 2020: Move from cloud hosting to save yourself from surprise billing hassles.
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For Merkel's generation in East Germany, nudism was a popular form of youthful rebellion (and Europeans are generally less puritanical about nudity than Americans). When some old black and white pictures of a group of young nude German
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The article said it's not activated by default for western buyers, but that Xiaomi has the ability to remotely enable it. On that note, there is no setting on either Apple or Google phones that lets you tell the phone, "Under no c
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You are absolutely correct there is no "solid theory" for FTL. Rather, there is "solid theory" FTL truly is impossible in the universe as we know it, because it would allow effects to happen before the events that caused
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My 2012 iPad is stuck on iOS 9 and can't load many websites anymore, such as Reddit, because its Safari version is too old to support the "let" keyword, etc. This is one of two reasons Apple only allows Safari on iPhones. Bes
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But those improvements aren't worth buying a new phone for most of us, as the existing camera and speed is just fine for messaging, reddit, twitter, all the most common smartphone stuff. Also, the newest phones still cripple mobile Web
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We hit peak cell phone back around 2015. Indeed, the older phones have a nice privacy feature the new ones don't: they are too old for Apple and Google to bother quietly rolling out their 'think of the children' spyware on, w
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+1 As a society we want to do all we can to accommodate the handicapped so they can work, and many deaf persons are extremely effective lip-readers able to handle retail customer interactions. If Richard's lip-reading isn't up to
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> Does not having crew on board really make the ship better? North Koreans and Iranians can't capture the crew and hold the crew hostage after claiming the ship violated territorial waters, if the crew doesn't exist.
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Corporate ad-spend funds the woke stories. Apple doesn't want to buy iPhone ads for stories about how Apple has 300,000 Chinese working for $3 an hour making iPhones that sell for over $1000 (with a gross profit margin exceeding 50%) w
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1080p 13": 169 dpi 4K 13": 338 dpi Laser printer: 600 dpi Photo printer: 1200 dpi Laser printers use 600 dpi because most readers who appreciate typographic design and sharp fonts do not consider 169 dpi to be "
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> in the 90s when programs could target 10+ different Unix systems Fast forward to present: programs can target 10+ different Linux systems. Fast forward 30 years to the future: programs can target 10+ different Ubuntu systems.
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All their laptops are limited to 1920x1080 display resolution. Do you like sharp fonts when you're going to be reading and typing text all day? You can get a Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu preinstalled and a 4K 3840x2160 display. Way higher D
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+1, this is the text of the February 2020 deal signed between the USA and Taliban which stipulates full removal of all USA troops: https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Agreement-F... Reading
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Perhaps Kabul fell so fast because the CIA is actually helping the Taliban to ultimately harass China across the 47-mile long China Afghanistan border[1], which leads right into Xinjian province where Chinese communists are putting Uygur Mu
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So it seems the Byzantines preferred to mutilate when most other civilizations preferred to mutilate-execute. In nearly all cases political mutilation was only carried out for High Treason, a crime nearly every civilization throughout histo
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The Wikipedia article for him says, "It is not known for certain when and how Dandolo became blind." We don't know if it was political mutilation.