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by dwild 7y ago
> The card was just $135 at Microcenter, because it was open-box. Even then you'll need 27 months (2 years and 3 months) before being more cost effective than Geforce Now. That's considering that you are on a desktop though wit
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by dwild 7y ago
The customer will sadly always have to do something about an error... it's sad, but it's now in your property, there's a minimum of effort you'll need to do in every case. Bare minimum effort: 1. Contact Amazon
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by dwild 7y ago
> I doubt anyone would buy a 12k mobo from someone off the street. In fact, I doubt anyone would accept a _free_ 12k mobo from someone off the street - if you need that kind of hardware, the risk of questionable sourcing is probably high
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by dwild 7y ago
> In that case the OP should consider themselves the (un)lucky one since they several times happened upon box no25! It may happens only every 25th box, but he specifically order that specific barcode, so it happens on every box he order.
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by dwild 7y ago
Couldn't you add your own barcode on the boxes? It can even be a new barcode standard to make sure it never mistaken with another one.
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by dwild 7y ago
> All such merchandise shall have attached to it a clear and conspicuous statement informing the recipient that he may treat the merchandise as a gift to him [...]. That part make this kind of confusing. If it doesn't, then can it s
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by dwild 7y ago
> That doesn't make it any better. It was as slimy then as it is now. Oh yeah definitely, it still quite bad. It was just to mentions how that strategy isn't new and that we lived through similar abuse.
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by dwild 7y ago
> if you make performance markedly worse on the regression test, then that's a bug. Not at all, it's about not investing time on what doesn't matter. For sure it will means you spend less time on something else and that wi
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by dwild 7y ago
> Could it make harder to make a truly performant website for Chrome, because switching to better patters makes your code loose due to them being less optimized in the browser? I doubt it would, great pattern aren't just good for hu
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by dwild 7y ago
> The only reason to not use microbenchmarks is because you think they will somehow lead you astray and cause you to optimize things such that user experience actually gets worse. That's not the only reason. It's about putting
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by dwild 7y ago
Then if the goal was to sell, they wouldn't use Google Analytic.
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by dwild 7y ago
> My kid is only two, so I'm not quite there yet, but most of this children's advertising makes my skin crawl. I'm glad to see that I was right about Paw Patrol, it's clearly modeled to be source for many lines of toy
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by dwild 7y ago
Can you even export this information with PII on Google Analytics or only aggregate of that information?
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by dwild 7y ago
> It would be easier to just to have a normal job such as being a software developer. Sure it is, but there's a whole world outside of the US, where jobs aren't as easy to find, nor as well paying as software developer job in t
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by dwild 7y ago
You should check out Geforce Now then! I have been playing on there for more than a year and it's just amazing being able to play on a GPU that powerful. They just released today and it's only 5$ per month.
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by dwild 7y ago
> There is something about cooking, doing things with your hands that is fundamental to the human experience. I agree that doing more has plenty of avantage, but is there something specifically about cooking? Have you ever sew piece of c
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by dwild 7y ago
> I'll do a little pre-buttal here about what kind of science we're "losing out on" by not pursuing more space: Building for underground or undersea habitats has significantly less research put into it than space habi
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by dwild 7y ago
> The costs involved in turning Mars into an experimental environment I think it would be more realistic to say, if we are able to live on Mars instead of making Mars livable. Being able to live on Mars won't require "the sum t
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by dwild 7y ago
> Imho we are talking hundreds of years here. So we are already hundreds of years late, aren't we? Let's start right now to make this happen. > Better douse the fire first. Here we are again... the good old, well there'
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by dwild 7y ago
> And he leans into the craziness a bit beforehand by choosing to describe stuff in a way that sounds a bit unbelievable He did was able to build a car company and a rocket company. Sure you found example that are less crazy than what he
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by dwild 7y ago
> Google really wanted to do "the best we can currently do", they'd try harder Trying harder what? Trying harder to avoid showing traffic when someone with 99 phones in a cart wheel is walking in the street? They are doing
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by dwild 7y ago
They are pretty good to identify public transit from cars too.
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by dwild 7y ago
> Optimizing this should really be a goal. After many of my travel using Google Maps, I get a notification asking whether the route recommended was right. I never had a bad one (where they asked it at least) so I don't know what hap
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by dwild 7y ago
gtld != cctld One if generic, the other is country specific. .com and .net are both gtld, thus good for the whole world. .co.uk, .us and .io anre cctld, thus country specific. Segregating TLD makes sense, they are meant to understood what&#
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by dwild 7y ago
> A plethora of games that had no monetary reason to make them. I don't know for Newgrounds but actually many website paid quite a bit of money to sponsor games. Gemcraft for example was sponsored by Armor Games and I believe they w
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by dwild 7y ago
In a boolean sense sure, but the world is more complex that true or false, and some are more public than others.
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by dwild 7y ago
I think you completely lost the context of the conversation, we are talking about improving signatures. Everything you said against using private keys, apply to physical signatures. Sure hacks will surely happens, but they already do happen
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by dwild 7y ago
Have they done that during the first 70 days of the Switch release? Sure plan ahead but release are hard and 70 days isn't much.
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by dwild 7y ago
> So exchanges could decide to ban coins with mixing in their history or require extensive KYC information. The same way they could decide to ban Monero... seems like what you describe with z-cash is more complex to support in an exchang
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by dwild 7y ago
... nothing wrong with what followed? Why did you just quote the beginning when I cite a pretty good argument afterward and you don't even argue with it? We are on Hacker News please, be more thorough and defends your point.

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