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by filoleg 2y ago
Well, that sounds… good? They don’t meddle in the communities unless child abuse and other straight up no-doubt illegal content is involved, in which case they do. Feels like a less centralized reddit, which sounds like something for which
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by filoleg 2y ago
Probably because their official stated purpose has been “conducting investigations into currency and financial-payment crime, and protecting U.S. political leaders, their families, and visiting heads of state or government.”[0] Especially s
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by filoleg 2y ago
Yeah, plus one on this one, extremely curious to hear as well. I am aware that remote robot surgeries have been a thing for quite a bit of time, but this is the first time ever I am hearing about unassisted robot surgeries being a thing at
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by filoleg 2y ago
Mostly agreed, but imo Taylor Swift’s music trajectory is kinda similar to Beatles. Swift’s fanbase has been mostly teenage girls, who now grew up, and now her concerts are filled with women in their 20s and 30s, as well as plenty of guys (
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by filoleg 2y ago
I do not buy their take either. However, a more generous interpretation of their comment would probably sound something more like “some substances/products get banned on the grounds of being detrimental to people’s health, but this isn
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by filoleg 2y ago
They still do (at least as of a few years ago, which was when I left). Out of all tech companies I’ve seen, their moonlighting policy is by far the most permissible one. You fill out a short form, they review it fairly quickly, and then you
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by filoleg 2y ago
Yeah, the Shibuya office is significantly larger. IIRC Shibuya Stream building is around 35 floors, and Google occupies at least half of them.
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by filoleg 2y ago
You mean in Shibuya? Because the Roppongi office (the older of the two) has been much smaller, and iirc it got closed permanently very recently.
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by filoleg 2y ago
Geoguessr. Its popularity has only been on a steady rise to this day. For those curious, there are different modes, including the one where you cannot move along the street at all (but you can look around by turning in that same stationary
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by filoleg 2y ago
Nah, let’s not go this far. Might be true for some AmazonBasics product categories, but I have a specific example where this is just not true. Their AmazonBasics monitor arms are manufactured by Ergotron (aka one of the most reputable and b
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by filoleg 2y ago
Read the expanded version in russian[0]. Page 71, 3rd paragraph, explicitly saying “I was a patriot and supported Putin.” And here is the source claiming she was attempting to join the Comminist Party of Russia[1] (though she ended up not b
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by filoleg 2y ago
Take my advice with a grain of salt, as I am a customer rather than someone running a product with customer support. I would say this would only feel justified if the product pricing page already had clear tiers outlined for paid support. P
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by filoleg 2y ago
I mean, people have been surviving for far longer before electricity was discovered compared to after. What does that have to do with anything at all?
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by filoleg 2y ago
What about Nexus 6P? I personally liked that one quite a bit, until it started hitting the issue with shutting down at ~30% battery (on top of the battery already being weak in the first place) and bootlooping. Sadly, those problems started
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by filoleg 2y ago
> those kind of people never notice the flaws in their theory, such as there being so many shadow groups that they would have to compete for power, the same as if no shadow group existed There is a simple explanation for this within thei
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by filoleg 2y ago
Given the insane sales numbers of airpods and their prevalence, I am not surprised there are some people who would have it. Given large enough userbase for a product, someone is bound to have an issue like that. I am just curious how preval
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by filoleg 2y ago
Is this common? Asking because I went through multiple pairs of airpods (due to upgrades and just straight up losing a pair), and I’ve never encountered such an issue (and none of my friends encountered it either). I had a problem occur lik
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by filoleg 2y ago
I know it is anecdotal, but I am just glad you didn’t get to experience the Uber ride I took from JFK to Dumbo earlier this year. It was around 1.5 hours of the driver trying to talk to me about Putin actually being a 5D chess mastermind an
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by filoleg 2y ago
Got mine done 8 years ago with around -3 lenses, but also with some notable astigmatism (forgot the number). Couldn’t have been happier. Yes, sometimes I get dry eyes, but it is such a minor thing that I don’t even notice it, and it can be
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by filoleg 2y ago
Tangentially related, but I will say that I was pleasantly surprised by how well Airpods (at least the original ones) worked with Android phones. I got the original Airpods about a year before I switched to iPhone, and they worked pretty mu
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by filoleg 2y ago
> Abandoned power stations found in the middle of rural California built by nameless workers simply using pattern books are more aesthetically significant buildings than most high end projects today I would say that the time will tell. I
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by filoleg 2y ago
> organizations that behave like this tend to be dysfunctional Disagreed. The only thing this means is that their recruiting process is dysfunctional. That doesn’t mean that it would automatically lead to poor hiring decisions and subopt
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by filoleg 2y ago
I feel like a moron, because until now I had no idea you could bypass it by using ctrl+click, so I’ve been using that “System Settings > Privacy & Security” flow the entire time…
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by filoleg 2y ago
I wonder if this this region/language dependent. Because I remember that in russian, they’ve been called “Czechia” since at least when Czechoslovakia got broken up, but in english it still seems to be squarely referred to as “Czech Rep
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by filoleg 2y ago
I guess it is about the spirit of it, just all the incongruent different groups of people coming together and making something greater than the individual sum of them happen. And just the whole grander idea of forging your own destiny, no m
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by filoleg 2y ago
Fair point about recent software updates, I can definitely believe that (I moved to a place where a car is not a necessity at the beginning of this year, so I didnt get to test the recent updates myself). However, I can still see someone cl
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by filoleg 2y ago
In Japan it wasn’t the case, it was straight up just people bicycling on the sidewalk in-between people walking. They just somehow figured out how to do it in a way that doesn’t disrupt the pedestrians, and I am still not sure how.
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by filoleg 2y ago
You are very correct about biking on the sidewalk, but I am not going to lie, I was madly impressed how it created pretty much zero disturbance for pedestrians ever. Totally despite the fact that it was happening all the time. Meanwhile, ha
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by filoleg 2y ago
Sure, but the major difference is that Waymo already operates a real service accessible to absolutely anyone in certain cities that actually transports passengers from point A to point B with no driver present in the car. Tesla FSD is not a
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by filoleg 2y ago
Agreed. No matter how good the biking infrastructure in major cities in Japan is (and apparently it was good enough for me to see someone biking at almost any given moment, so I assume it was pretty good), I cannot fathom how people did it.

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