eyeinthepyramid

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by eyeinthepyramid 8y ago
Boomers were disdained as the "me generation" by their parents. Freaks, geeks, and long-haired hippies. It seems like the kids are always maligned by the olds, and vice versa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_
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by eyeinthepyramid 8y ago
Africa (and the world at large) has lots of problems. Some are technical and some are political. Just focusing on one issue means missing out on opportunities to improve people's lives in other ways. There are already a lot of organiza
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by eyeinthepyramid 8y ago
What Google services are required for daily life? Don't they all have competitors?
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by eyeinthepyramid 8y ago
except, of course, for all the retirement funds that disappeared.
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by eyeinthepyramid 8y ago
GDP per capita has doubled since 1975 in inflation-adjusted dollars according to this: http://www.multpl.com/us-real-gdp-per-capita/table/by-year
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by eyeinthepyramid 8y ago
>take Pepe - the only reason it caught on was because the left took the bait and lost their shit over it. Pepe was popular way before it was a political meme.. Pepe comes from a book released in 2006, and according to KYM feelsbadman bec
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by eyeinthepyramid 8y ago
Since cable companies are already a monopoly, they aren't really decreasing the number of competitors. They are just replacing the one incredibly bad ISP with a somewhat less bad one.
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by eyeinthepyramid 8y ago
Didn't the UK create GDPR like regulations first?
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by eyeinthepyramid 8y ago
I read that to mean that support didn't know how to deal with the situation because it's rare, not that Youtube doesn't allow that situation.
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by eyeinthepyramid 8y ago
Actually I found this post about it: https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/66957/is-salmone... Apparently there is some evidence that egg-related salmonella is 7x more prevalent in Europe vs the US.
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by eyeinthepyramid 8y ago
There are 6.5 billion non-Europeans, there's plenty of market outside of Europe.
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by eyeinthepyramid 8y ago
There are benefits to washing the eggs, isn't there? I have read that in Europe as a consumer it's a lot more important to wash the eggs before using them.
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by eyeinthepyramid 9y ago
If you look at how Communist China treats minority populations as a blueprint, it's not encouraging.
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by eyeinthepyramid 9y ago
People like round numbers and orders of magnitude, that's why it's significant.
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by eyeinthepyramid 9y ago
Along those lines, can you imagine getting a home loan in bitcoin?
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by eyeinthepyramid 9y ago
That raises interesting questions -- how much free will does an addict have? Are those who exploit an addiction for profit complicit in that addiction?
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by eyeinthepyramid 9y ago
>With the old order, it was all or nothing. Not really, HBO was always an add-on. In the new order, Internet access = basic cable, streaming services = premium channels.
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by eyeinthepyramid 9y ago
It's a Star Trek quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdSJFrhb-HM
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by eyeinthepyramid 9y ago
Isn't that the Guardian misassigning credit to Reuters?
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by eyeinthepyramid 9y ago
this tax proposal would change that though, right? it sounds like you'd now pay your personal tax rate or 15%, whichever is lower, on income received from the passthrough entity. Edit: "Beyond cutting the tax rate to 15 percent fo
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by eyeinthepyramid 10y ago
You're looking at throughput numbers, but Optane appears to be solving a iop / latency problem.
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by eyeinthepyramid 10y ago
> On another note, every state should ban election advertising from anyone outside the state How is this not a first amendment violation?
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by eyeinthepyramid 10y ago
I'd bet Netflix uses the watched but not rated signal, especially if you often rate things.
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by eyeinthepyramid 10y ago
it's seems easy to me, all they have to do is look for the /s! (/s)
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by eyeinthepyramid 10y ago
it's funny that that has become more special than transmogrifying reality into an ethereal form represented by numbers, stored by manipulating electricity, and recreated anywhere in the world by transforming electricity into light
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by eyeinthepyramid 10y ago
I wonder how this would affect fake news sites like the Onion? Are those going to be verboten?
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by eyeinthepyramid 10y ago
What kind of visa are you on? Was it hard to get?
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by eyeinthepyramid 10y ago
It'd be cool if it divided the day into 30 minute blocks and you could just allocate the tasks to the blocks. Like a type of paint interface, where you just color the blocks.
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by eyeinthepyramid 10y ago
hmm I could see it being the case that each individual car contributes more to the pollution, but if the total number of cars is reduced in a given area at any given time, it makes more sense to me that the aggregate pollution would decreas
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by eyeinthepyramid 10y ago
Are you suggesting that reducing the number of cars in Paris will somehow increase pollution?

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