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by expensive_news 3y ago
Not to derail, but this reminds me of a cave in Southern Arizona. Graffiti is banned and it’s heavily enforced, but there is ‘historic’ graffiti from the 1920-40s that is preserved. I always found this case very interesting.
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by expensive_news 3y ago
Are you suggesting that the Terms of Service you sign when you create an account bars you from ever creating a competitor app? That sounds like it would not hold up in court. It would be as if Threads could be shut down if a single person o
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by expensive_news 3y ago
The source you linked to states that funding has fallen around $1220 per year per student, after adjusting for inflation. But it goes on to state that tuition costs have increased $2708 per year. So what are universities doing with that ex
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by expensive_news 3y ago
Why does Apple have the only map (that I know of) that projects Earth as a ball, as it is? It seems like a very obvious solution.
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by expensive_news 3y ago
That was a strange one. My Freshman year of college I wore AirPods and everyone looked at like I was an idiot with too much money. By my Junior year everyone was wearing AirPods and there was a greater stigma against people with wired earb
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by expensive_news 3y ago
Likewise you have governments like the UK who are discussing bills that will effectively ban E2E encryption for children’s safety. If passed, companies like WhatsApp would just leave the market. I believe your comment is somewhat true, but
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by expensive_news 3y ago
I’ve been trying it out, and I like it a lot. But I wish that you could still tap a post to collapse it, like marking a comment chain as read.
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by expensive_news 3y ago
Agreed. The first 6 months to a year you might do it to get information, after that you keep it up so they can’t tell everyone what you did when they get released. You also have to think the people employed at these prisons enjoy torturing
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by expensive_news 3y ago
I think the point is the only evidence that you provided for the argument that “Musk got his wealth from his family’s emerald mine” is that his parents paid for his college expenses. And that is, in my and many others minds, is a pathetica
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by expensive_news 4y ago
You’re correct. I used Dark Sky for years and switched to the default iOS app when Apple bought Dark Sky and added all of the functionality to Weather. I did prefer the design of Dark Sky, since the data was larger and more visually separa
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by expensive_news 4y ago
I remember trying to get this installed on my Mac a while ago. Do you know if it can run on M1 now?
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by expensive_news 4y ago
There’s a disconnect between what the masses find entertaining vs. what the elites find artistically valuable. This gap is far wider now than it has ever been. Throughout the 60s and 70s 19/20 films that won best picture were in the T
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by expensive_news 4y ago
Somewhat of a meta-comment but I’m shocked at how many people are complaining about you not taking cash. Has anyone ever walked out of your coffee shop because they only had cash on them? I can’t remember the last time I paid or even saw s
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by expensive_news 4y ago
I started buying UHDs (mostly Criterions) recently. I mostly don’t like owning too many things (and even buy most of my 4Ks on iTunes when they go on sale for $5) but for some films the extra quality is worth it (plus you can’t get the Cri
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by expensive_news 4y ago
Could you give some examples of a page on Wikipedia being rewritten? I’m familiar with the incident of redefining what a ‘recession’ is but I’m always curious for more examples.
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by expensive_news 4y ago
Not OP, but the reason is because that the values that you’re looking for tell you how to do the weighings, where the rows are weighings and the columns are the indices (it’s easier to see if you don’t translate from {0,1,2} to {-1,0,1}). B
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by expensive_news 4y ago
I like how simple the deciding process becomes but I’m afraid there might be a problem. This solution works when the odd ball is always heavier, but it could either be heavier or lighter, and you don’t know which. For example, say ball 7 i
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by expensive_news 4y ago
I did too, but the first line of the thread: “winter is coming (freezing emoji)” primes you to think about temperature. I’m not sure it would have been nearly as obvious if after a few months in the field I suddenly got a few bug reports.
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by expensive_news 4y ago
I never watched Twitch but this is true of myself for YouTube and Reddit. I was never ‘happy’ when I scrolled through Reddit for 3 hours. (Reddit in particular was horrible for my mental health). I never watched 4 hours of YouTube when I
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by expensive_news 4y ago
Short answer, no. It might be possible that with very ($1000+) high end headphones about 5% of people could tell a difference, but even that is questionable. I have done many blind A/B tests with my $500+ headphone setup and no one ha
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by expensive_news 4y ago
I agree with all of your points. To me this seems like correcting an oversight in Apple’s original implementation vs Apple taking away a ‘feature’. I’ve gotten AirDrop spam here in America and welcome this change.
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by expensive_news 4y ago
Where do you live? That sounds absolutely insane.
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by expensive_news 4y ago
He’s kind of said it himself on multiple occasions. “Twitter as a company has always been my sole issue and my biggest regret. It has been owned by Wall Street and the ad model. Taking it back from Wall Street is the correct first step.” h
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by expensive_news 4y ago
Twitter has lost money nearly every year since it’s been public, and was losing $4 million a day when Elon took over. If jobs don’t generate money they can’t exist in the free market, and the real shock is that the previous board of direct
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by expensive_news 4y ago
> There’s nothing inherently interesting about photos with a blurry background Congrats! You took a bad photo with a shallow depth of field! I guess the photographer does matter more than the equipment. > Achieving it with software ef
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by expensive_news 4y ago
It shocks me how many people link articles they don’t even read.
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by expensive_news 4y ago
There’s a lot that goes into it. I’m mainly talking about iPhone, because I’ve personally only been disappointed in expensive Android phones. Camera, as you mentioned. But also the build quality, the display, the longevity (software update
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by expensive_news 4y ago
I’m surprised to see that Apple isn’t on the list of companies being subpoenaed. Maybe one advantage of not announcing your hotly rumored VR project until it’s done and available is that no one can subpoena you to ask about it.
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by expensive_news 4y ago
For what it’s worth I was also unable to reproduce this. I’ve tried scanning but not clicking, AirDropping, iMessage, adding to Photos library, getting the url from Photos library… nothing triggered as a page visit. Relatedly, searching for
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by expensive_news 4y ago
Yes, this is also what I most appreciate about Apple’s approach. They’re the only company that care about calibrated displays on consumer products. Even top-end TVs like LG OLEDs ship with terrible default settings. The only display that’s

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