duncanawoods

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by duncanawoods 4y ago
Big Tobacco settlement - $206 billion Deepwater settlement - $20 billion VW Emissions settlement - $14.7 billion
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by duncanawoods 4y ago
There are 100% recyclable blades (including production byproducts) currently being tested. They are using Elium as the composite material which can be chemically broken down back into glass fibre and resin for reuse. https://www.
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by duncanawoods 5y ago
> By comparison Steve lived in a simple house on a public street. Up until his death, he was in a court battle to demolish and rebuild his mansion that sat on a 6 acre estate.
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by duncanawoods 5y ago
We can play the word game of hunger too. Any claim of hunger that is not followed by eating when given the opportunity is suspect. When a child complains of being hungry and pointing at the donuts, we offer them an apple and they storm off
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by duncanawoods 5y ago
Or have you mislabelled your internal experience? No observer could describe you as curious. Identifying unknowns is universal but if it doesn't motivate you into action, surely that is the definition of incurious? Laziness is no doubt
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by duncanawoods 5y ago
> Is curiosity a desire to gain knowledge? Is it a desire to see if you are right or wrong? Is it a drive to test existing hypotheses? Is it a motivation sparked by novelty or uncertainty? It would be odd to describe it as an emotional m
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by duncanawoods 5y ago
You are getting downvoted but this is the traditional history of philosophy as I understand it too (the history of Christianity will be different). Hellenic culture and texts had permiated Africa and and Mid-east. There were various ancient
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by duncanawoods 5y ago
I used InSync with a mounted drive. I rebooted and it ran before the drive mounted and deleted my entire online google drive contents and then deleted the local files when the drive mounted. The google UI is such garbage that you can't
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by duncanawoods 5y ago
Understandable but it didn't seem to happen like this in commercial GPU sales.
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by duncanawoods 5y ago
That feels a like a partner dipping into the scalper world whereas you want the top level companies to set out something more transparent.
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by duncanawoods 5y ago
It's a Taiwanese company around since the 90s. They may be more Europe focused with a German office. I've never heard a US reviewer mention them but in the UK, they offer cards cheaper than the other brands. Beyond that, I don&#x2
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by duncanawoods 5y ago
Yes, soon after posting I realised I was referring to Asus/MSI/Palit etc. rather than Nvidia. It means either two levels of auction or the Nvidia chip sale is a % of the end unit sale.
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by duncanawoods 5y ago
It's a puzzle to me why companies like nvidia didn't just raise prices and instead left both customers and profit to the dirty world of scalpers. I guess it's "brand damage" but I feel there would be something more
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by duncanawoods 5y ago
> Computer Shopper was such an amazing magazine to go through I really miss that type of advertising. I don't want advertising intruding on unrelated activities, ruining tools and destroying my neighbourhood with billboards. But the
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by duncanawoods 5y ago
> That is despicable on Dell’s part Meh. It was well known when I bought one so it's not underhand and I find it a pretty irrelevant feature anyway. Ubuntu logs-in very quickly so using a power button finger print reader is a more c
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by duncanawoods 5y ago
I believe there are drivers available for fingerprint riders for Ubuntu 20.04. Needs an up to date bios update and I'm not sure about compatibility with older models e.g. http://dell.archive.canonical.com/updates/p
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by duncanawoods 5y ago
On Ubuntu, nvidia drivers update seamlessly as part of system updates. On Windows, I have to sign in to an nvidia account, solve 3 capcthas and then manually download half a gig of "driver".
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by duncanawoods 5y ago
Yes, I think you are right, that counts as precedent. I was thinking of the famous battles chasing each other around the map that included entrenchment but didn't stall as significantly. I can see an argument that Petersburg is the las
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by duncanawoods 5y ago
Given the Ludendorff offensive failed I don't think you can call stormtroopers alone a solution. High casualties, outrunning supply and obtaining territory that is hard to defend which weakens your overall position. I don't agree
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by duncanawoods 5y ago
Calling trench warfare stupid because of conceptual obsolescence seems suspect. It was a new problem with no obvious solution. Trench warfare in the US Civil War didn't end in such a stalemate so there wasn't much precedence, Ther
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by duncanawoods 5y ago
Unlocked double doors create their own hazard. There is the tendency to bust through them saloon style, partly out of hedging your bet for which one is unlocked, only to lay a Loony Tunes like booby trap for anyone following behind you: ht
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Amazon’s Lumberyard game engine is now open source(gamasutra.com)
5 points by duncanawoods 5y ago|1 comments
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by duncanawoods 5y ago
> And Amazon...I can never quite figure out why they show me so much content that I can't access If you click the "Free to me" link at the top then it works pretty well for just what you can access. The filter carries forw
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by duncanawoods 5y ago
Aw, I thought this was going to be about football pitches... John Beck did a fair amount of "pitch doctoring" at Cambridge United. He would play an exclusively long ball game, hoofing it to a set of 7ft tall strikers. To help with
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Major internet outage ‘shows infrastructure needs urgent fixing’(theguardian.com)
5 points by duncanawoods 5y ago|0 comments
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by duncanawoods 5y ago
If you want the global sport then use global football revenue. If you want apples to apples for a regional league then compare US to Europe or normalise by population for a single country.
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by duncanawoods 5y ago
EPL is higher if you normalise by population.
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by duncanawoods 5y ago
Sounds pretty painless to me! The "update bios" solution is in the 2nd and 3rd hits on google for his error code. A real headache are things like faulty components/drivers causing intermittent faults with no error code. He di
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by duncanawoods 6y ago
Wow - I can't even install dotnet on a linux machine because the packages repo is down.
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Edmunds Tested: Electric Car Range and Consumption(edmunds.com)
6 points by duncanawoods 6y ago|4 comments

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