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by ddalex 4y ago
But this is not direct speech that they use - they use indirect speech referring to "the community" and "our" apology, trying to avoid associating personally with either the problem or the apology. Then they come out and
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by ddalex 4y ago
But there is no "We apologize" either. There is a "we hope you (the community) accept the apology" - which apology ?! there wasn't one to begin with, because there is no "I/We apologize/are sorry&quot
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by ddalex 4y ago
> except to note that it was not an apology at all. Ctrl-F there doesn't show a single "sorry" in the text. Or "Casey" for that matter. Why is it so difficult to say: "Casey, we are sorry, you were right and
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by ddalex 4y ago
The benefit is the modularity - trains don't solve the last mile problem, individually router containers on autonomous drives do.
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by ddalex 4y ago
If somebody creates an FB account with my email address, I will took it over immediately and remove it.
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by ddalex 5y ago
Whom's freedom of expression has been infringed here ? @pmarca's freedom includes his choices in whom he blocks.
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by ddalex 5y ago
But it doesn't have 0 marginal cost - the R&D that went into developing the hardware needs to be recouped and a profit generated; just because the cost is virtual, in missed profit, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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by ddalex 5y ago
In fact in my old manual I got so good at matching revs I could just not use the clutch at all except moving from stand still
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by ddalex 5y ago
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
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by ddalex 5y ago
Am I the only one that finds that the typing speed doesn't matter... it takes me way longer to figure out what I want to write then actually writing it...
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by ddalex 5y ago
How is this different from synergy ? I used to use Synergy all the time before the computer got so powerful that I didn't need multiple computers to drive all the monitors and run things in VMs
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by ddalex 5y ago
> : Stop the attack against their neighbour and the sanctions are lifted. That would be too easy - there needs to be war reparations paid to Ukraine too - although nothing will bring back the lost lives. So what about - yes, sanctions li
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by ddalex 5y ago
The only truth here is that Russia invaded Ukraine, and without the invasion this destruction would not have taken place. Russia brought the war, and now are acting as "well it's your fault for resisting, why can't you just b
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by ddalex 5y ago
But under serfdom peasants were not allowed to move. Workers are free to move to better opportunities as they see fit - that's a big difference.
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by ddalex 5y ago
People must stop using west-based numbers for these calculations, the economy is totally different in the east * lost equipment costs basically 0 - they are mostly old hand-me-downs, the factories are not producing them anymore, so all the
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by ddalex 5y ago
It doesn't matter what Russians think, it matters what Dughin's fanboys holed up under Altai Mountains think. Go back to 1986, and imagine what the Soviet response would be if NATO would have breached the Iron Courtain and would h
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by ddalex 5y ago
It is very, very likely. Russian leadership see Ukraine as a Russian province, and the heart of the russian motherland, and they will treat western armies there as invaders - they are prepared to risk everything to keep that from happening.
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by ddalex 5y ago
65km convoy means, what, 6000 vehicles and 30k people ? How do you control with 30k soldiers a city of 3Mil that freely distributed guns to residents ? It's going to be a slaughter, on both sides :(
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by ddalex 5y ago
there were Russian press articles auto-published celebrating the quick victory over Ukraine
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by ddalex 5y ago
This is a pattern I've been seeing again and again ... from the outside everything looks neat and nice, but under closer inspection, it's trash and wired together with duct tape and hopes... from software to military to medical to
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by ddalex 5y ago
US can't intervene in Ukraine since that would lead directly to WW3 (americans and russians firing at each other) So far China didn't threaten nuclear war for anybody helping out Taiwan, the way Putin did just today.
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by ddalex 5y ago
A marketer's trick. But he has at least one big win - SpaceX.
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by ddalex 5y ago
But there are local competitors, they just got smothered and bought up by US based corps. Why ? Because the US has a lot more money, which translates to more money for investors to dominate the economic landscape. Why does the US have more
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by ddalex 5y ago
But would you pay $120 / month ? Because AFAIK that's what Google makes using the current version. Disclaimer: I work for Google but in no way related to search, business models, or product decisions. My words are my own.
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by ddalex 5y ago
Yea, if the public trades in Solana. But they are out of $320M in ETH which is way more used then Solana.
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by ddalex 5y ago
> After 20 seconds, the figures drop to 134 hp and 184 lb-ft of torque Almost exactly the same :)
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by ddalex 5y ago
as I just discovered running fdisk on the default disk a>
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by ddalex 5y ago
> suggesting/hinting that those competitors accept payment for placement when in fact that wasn't happening https://www.searchenginejournal.com/yahoo-adopting-paid-incl...
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by ddalex 5y ago
The error is that it doesn't connect, not that it doesn't serve an HTTP response. But now it connects, correctly.
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by ddalex 5y ago
> This site can’t be reached - REDACTED refused to connect. Am disappointed and my day is ruined

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