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by drumhead 5y ago
Its best to stop bullies well before they have a chance to start causing real trouble. That was a lesson learnt the hard way in the 1930s. If you mean by whining, protesting about the treatment of minorities in China, then you may have diff
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by drumhead 5y ago
They're not reacting because they're forward looking. They know that these supply chain problems are only temporary, and that they'll disappear in relatively short space of time. Production capacity, distribution capability o
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by drumhead 5y ago
Do younger physicists still come up with revolutionary discoveries in physics anymore. Most of the recent Nobel prizewinners have been in their 40's or older.
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by drumhead 5y ago
Im prepared to take a risk on Linux for my next mobile. I dont use many apps, dont play games on it. Most of the apps I do use could be replaced with direct web access. I just feel we need to do something now about the cellphone O/s du
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by drumhead 5y ago
This is the best advice you'll get on this subject. Therapists can help you with your problems far better than we ever could. They can determine if you need medication to help you get through this rough patch and what sort of therapy y
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by drumhead 5y ago
It's great......when the wind blows. In the UK we have about 15GW of installed wind generating capacity, but it's very rarely fully utilized. The variability means it's balanced out by other sources mostly gas powered Combine
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by drumhead 5y ago
They were distracted by their "clash of cultures" wars in the middle east. They failed to fully identify China as the main threat to democratic nations and allowed the transfer of capital and technology to go on unhindered. The la
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by drumhead 5y ago
I was going to ask who, but then I realised everyone was.
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by drumhead 5y ago
A week, it took them a week. We were there for 20 years and it took them a week...
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by drumhead 5y ago
No, but I want really want to get a Pine phone ,by all accounts it a bit janky to use but I can live with that if it helps push forward an independant mobile phone sector. I have not real faith in Google or the Chinese manufactured mobile p
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by drumhead 5y ago
There isnt, just dont expect it to solve the worlds problems or keep things fantastic or great forever.
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by drumhead 5y ago
Once you've lost the ability to innovate or be original, all you can do is cut costs or raise prices.
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by drumhead 5y ago
Can only sign in with Google or Twitter, thats me out then.
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by drumhead 5y ago
Is this a reference model, could be see other PC manufacturers build their own versions of the Steam Deck?
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by drumhead 5y ago
I dont know how true this is, but as someone who's played WoW since vanilla, it has been heading downhill in terms of enjoyement for a while now. There's clearly an antagonistic relationship between the developers and the player
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by drumhead 5y ago
So Medieval. The Crown accuses you of corruption/sedition/treachery, prosecutes you then confiscates your property as a fine. A bit like Henry 7th in England during his reign. Also a bit like Putin against any oligarchs who dared
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by drumhead 5y ago
It doesnt work for people who want to get things done, a key colleague will be away or unavailable when you need them so everything gets slowed down, sometime its like trying to solve the three body problem making sure everyone is on on the
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by drumhead 5y ago
People will believe it because they've seen it go up thousands of percent in a decade, shaking off massive downturns to go even higher. That alone makes it look bullet proof even though its not. Whats going to burst the bubble? Governm
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by drumhead 5y ago
Its more like the new Dutch Tulip bulbs i'd say but with even less intrinsic value.
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by drumhead 5y ago
They've been doing this for years to prisoners, political or otherwise, but there's been no action. I hope they actually start doing something about it now, because a world with a superpower that does things like this is an unplea
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by drumhead 5y ago
The best penalty taker I ever saw was Alan Shearer(English Footballer). He's just pick his spot and smash it as hard as he could. He was very successful.
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by drumhead 5y ago
This feels like one of those x is great but.... posts that you see you in NSA or GCHQ manuals about influencing the narrative in an online discussion. I saw a lot of it during the Israeli/Palestinian conflict last week. This post feels
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by drumhead 5y ago
Is there any crypto currency actually being used as currency in day to day transactions or is it just a vehicle for speculation now?
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by drumhead 5y ago
Nice promotion project, I wonder how long it'll last.
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by drumhead 5y ago
I use Stadia, its actually very good, its fantastic technically, but it should have been a subscription service with Google doing what Epic did by throwing money at developers to get games on their platform, they should also have used it as
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by drumhead 5y ago
A combination of triumphalism and Stupidity. The govt there thought that they'd seen off the worst of pandemic and that they'd achieved herd immunity, so they didnt bother preparing for a second wave. Then politicans decided to ho
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by drumhead 5y ago
When I was a kid in the 90's the one country me and my friends all wanted to go to was the USA, it was the epicenter of all the cool things in the world to us at that point. However now my kids and their friends all look to Japan, but
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by drumhead 5y ago
The old Anderson Consulting. Forced to change their name soon after they were spun off from the parent, so adopted Accenture. Which turned out to be a good thing because Arthur Anderson soon went bankrupt in the whole Enron debacle.
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by drumhead 6y ago
My biggest worry is that these political fights will lead to a degradation in the quality of Free software products, a slowdown in code and software contributions from developers and coders and a general malaise in the whole Free software m
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by drumhead 6y ago
Its time to make a choice between more profits or taking a stand against a regime that uses slave labour, forcible sterlization of women, mass surveilance, "re-education". We'll see how many companies chose the former option

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