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by ddeck 8y ago
Seem likely. The monitor shown at 1:09, 1:58, and 7:25[1] on the "TSMC Fab Tour" video on this page[2] looks suspiciously like Windows 95, but could be Windows Embedded I guess. [1] https://imgur.com/a/J4EhzPC
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by ddeck 8y ago
It is, but you can't do the work yourself.
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by ddeck 8y ago
That's some serious FUD you've got going on, and a total misrepresentation of what the rules actually say. You only need to apply to be an owner-builder if you are doing your own work instead of hiring someone who is already perm
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by ddeck 8y ago
Australian protectionism re: the building industry if disgraceful. In Victoria for example, you're not allowed to do any work on your own home if it exceeds a certain monetary value without first running through a Kafkaesque bureaucr
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And they are able to push all of their mobile games through Wechat, with over a billion active users. Gaming was 48% of their revenue for Q2, with US$3.2 billion in phone sales and US$2.1 for desktop. The other 52% comes from social network
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by ddeck 8y ago
I wish they didn't even have the video to begin with. It's literally someone reading out the first paragraph of the article. Of course the real reason is that it then auto loads the next video letting them push additional content
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Similarly for the batteries. If lithium-ion could be had for $0.26/kWh then a Tesla Model S battery would be $26. As it stands, Tesla batteries are estimated to be around the $100/kWh level for individual cells and projected to fa
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by ddeck 8y ago
Yep. One only needs to look at the recent story The Machine Fired Me [1] to see the potential impact of such system errors once things become connected and automated. That poor guy was effectively fired despite the fact that every human ag
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by ddeck 8y ago
As am I. I get pulled aside for the explosives check around 50% of the time when departing on an international flight from Melbourne airport. When I'm not tested, then there is typically another group being tested. They seem to utilize
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by ddeck 8y ago
Your entire submission history appears to be almost solely PR releases from/regarding Dr Bredesen and his claimed Alzheimer cure.[1] May I ask what your interest in this is? Is there any relationship you should disclose? [1] https:&#x
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by ddeck 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy#History
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by ddeck 8y ago
" If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, close it " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14226775
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by ddeck 8y ago
There doesn't even seem to be anything smart-ish about it, except that it uses the same form factor. > It brings a few essential tools to the Light Phone, like messaging, an alarm clock, or a ride home And yet further down it says
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by ddeck 8y ago
link to cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kP2I78...
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by ddeck 8y ago
While it's true that the "big 3" controlled strategy, there were quite a few more than that: At the start of the war on 1 September 1939, the Allies consisted of France, Poland and the United Kingdom, as well as their depend
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by ddeck 8y ago
I can't speak to the situation in the mainland, but in Hong Kong, "overtime" for employees in smaller local companies often means the period that you must work beyond your scheduled finish time, and for which you are not paid
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by ddeck 9y ago
>It should have been the guy that allowed all low level employees access to the official Marriott twitter account Where in the article did it say that all low-level employees have access to the official Twitter account? The employee in
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by ddeck 9y ago
The issue is not that he wanted better software, it's that he appeared willing to compromise safety to get it faster in order to beat his competitors to market, as is clear from the remainder of that quote: "To get to that better
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by ddeck 9y ago
Sunburns and risk of cutaneous melanoma, does age matter: a comprehensive meta-analysis https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2873840/ After reviewing over 1300 article titles and evaluating 270 artic
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by ddeck 9y ago
China bans Winnie the Pooh over internet jokes comparing him to President Xi Jinping http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-18/winnie-the-pooh-fal...
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by ddeck 9y ago
It's like that strange period in the 1990s when 40% of US corporate profits came from financial activities, and every big company had to have a finance subsidiary with a trading desk. That's so over. I realize that you're r
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by ddeck 9y ago
True, but in Android's case, the implementation seems to be flawed: In our lab environment we observed that in addition to periodic global MAC addressed probe requests, we were able to force the transmission of additional such probes
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by ddeck 9y ago
I believe this is the source for the article: Educational Gradients in Parents' Child-Care Time Across Countries, 1965–2012 [1] It's behind a paywall, but the PR from the UCI study states: Study findings were based on the Multin
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by ddeck 9y ago
>Most people who get and die from lung cancer are not smokers This is not true: More than 161,000 lung cancer deaths are projected to occur in the U.S. in 2008. Of these, an estimated 10–15% will be caused by factors other than active
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by ddeck 9y ago
For the data, the Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey provides affordability data for many countries and cities: http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf The top 10 least affordable with respect to median pri
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by ddeck 9y ago
That's true in the US. In other areas, leaving the city might not be a realistic option. Consider Hong Kong as an (extreme) example, where leaving the city means emigrating to another country with another language etc. (yes, HK is tech
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by ddeck 9y ago
You are correct. I mistakenly thought the incident was in May, but I see now that it's the August trades that are in question. His only sales were in May and August of this year.
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by ddeck 9y ago
>I agree the timing is suspicious More so considering that prior to the sale John Gamble (the CFO) hadn't sold a single share in the three years that he has been with the firm.
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by ddeck 9y ago
Defamation laws differ by state, but in NY for example, I believe libel (slander refers to oral defamation) requires that the perpetrator knew, or should have known, that the statements were false. The question would then become whether t
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by ddeck 9y ago
While I agree that Whatsapp is the dominant chat app in Asia, it's not number 1 everywhere. Notably - as you mentioned - Wechat in China, but also Kakao in Korea, Zalo in Vietnam and Line in Japan and Taiwan, where very few people use

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