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Huh. I have a very fast metabolism and coffee greatly affects me. Even one cup and I get the sweats, my heart will beat funny and I get anxious and a bit hyper for a while before a crash later in the day. I wonder if metabolism speed really
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3y ago
After a decade of a cup or two a day, I switched to decaf, and then stopped that too. I had no idea, but it wasn’t until I stopped that I realized I had been living life through a fog… kind of dulled down senses and reactions. I love coffee
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3y ago
So you're saying one of the richest corporations on the planet can't afford to put down $700 million to guarantee their claims of infringement are actually accurate? Good, don't make the claim. Maybe multi-billion dollar comp
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3y ago
> His Tesla pay ask was rejected It wasn’t an ask. It was a payout agreed to by the board and shareholders if and only if he added a trillion dollars of value to the company. He did that, and now a court denied the deal. If my company
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3y ago
I understand why AirDrop doesn't get full ticks here, but I have to say it has saved me hundreds of hours over the last few years transferring literally anything from phone(s) <-> laptop(s) <-> laptop(s) <-> phones(s)
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3y ago
One of the richest men in the world has a billion dollar short position on Tesla. A lot of people stand to lose a tremendous amount of money if the stock price doesn’t come way down
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3y ago
I loaded OSM into my Garmin and have used it to drive around the world. No matter the country from Sudan to the Congo to France, the USA and Namibia, the maps have been precise to a T, and I'm staggered at the level of detail and compl
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3y ago
> Me being dense again: Why is this a necessary use case? It seems pointlessly complicated when taking the thing off is easy or just make calls audio only. What will the Persona ever add? How old are you? I distinctly remember the firs
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3y ago
If my car got stolen the last thing in the world I would do it take it back immediately. Who knows what damage has been done to the clutch, or the engine internals while it was bouncing off the rev limiter for minutes at a time. Also I'
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3y ago
> Toyota has seen and survived a few such revolutions. That sounds really interesting, I'd love to learn more. What such revolutions has Toyota survived?
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3y ago
> Can someone explain why they think the AVP version in 2034 will be light years ahead of v1? Think back to when the iPhone first came out - could you have predicted how it would improve over the next 10, or 15 years? Sure some things
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3y ago
A friend was an LAPD detective for 30 something years. Now retired. Extremely nice person. He emphatically told me I should never, ever, ever talk to the Police. Even if I witness a hit and run and just happen to be standing there and the
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3y ago
The IRS already "does" your taxes. They internally compute what you owe, and if what you submit doesn't add up, they dig deeper.
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3y ago
And how is that working out? In recent months dozens of shops got multi-million dollar fines from the EPA for "deleting " diesel emission equipment. Now it's unheard of in the US. It works.
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3y ago
> the reality is climate change won't kill us for longer than we'll live. That depends heavily on where you live. 3.6 billion people live in areas that are at a very high risk from climate change. https://www.who.i
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3y ago
There are laws against plastic straws and plastic bags. There are laws against chemicals that are known to cause environmental harm. There are laws against vehicles that pollute too much. Soon there will be laws against cars vehicles that p
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3y ago
We are at a point in society where we can't simply keep doing what those before us did. We are killing the planet, and every plant and animal on it, including ourselves. Yes, life is about to get less convenient and we have to give up
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3y ago
I lived 4 years in the Yukon, and it is impressively big with very, very few roads. Even today, there are twice as many moose as people in the Yukon. We would go on 10 canoe trips and not only not see other people, but not see evidence of p
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3y ago
When I want to go to sleep I put on an eye mask on the plane, or I stare like a zombie at the screen on the back of the chair in front of me. Either way I have noise cancelling headphones. Honestly, I just see something like a headset just
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Surely for a train to "travel" from LA to NY, it "starts" when the front of the vehicle passes a line in LA, and "finishes" when the front of the vehicle crosses a line in NY.
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3y ago
Soooo, they have access to the ocean through a deal with Somalia... which like all landlocked countries is only as good as the current deal maker makes it.. and will cost them. Soooo, they don't have "access to the ocean" in
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3y ago
> To sell the public that he achieved the dream of giving Ethiopia “access to sea”(which they already have access to) Sure, but the vision pro offers "bigger" monitors that can fill your vision (if you want)
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> To sell the public that he achieved the dream of giving Ethiopia “access to sea”(which they already have access to) When I was there Ethiopia being landlocked was a huge problem and expensive situation (I watched thousands and thou
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3y ago
You can use any physical mouse/keyboard as input for the Vision Pro, including the ones built into your laptop.
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3y ago
Haha, thanks. Some days I kick myself for not doing a better job filming the trip so I could put together a proper documentary, and some days I think I should just do it anyway with the footage I have. I'm also really happy I often jus
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3y ago
> I can imagine that will be somewhat easier in Ethiopia than in many other countries. Ethiopia has one of the lowest per capita number of motor vehicles in the world, in fact out of 195 ranked countries Ethiopia is 189th (tied with Bur
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3y ago
I worked in IT for a large telco for four years that has a monopoly on an extremely large part of Canada. After years there, learning the insides, working closely with marketing and sales and all the rest…..I agree with you 100%. They liter
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3y ago
I felt exactly the same about signs, and really loved the village. I don’t really like the world we’ve built, and I fantasize about leaving it behind. That’s a major reason I lived in the Yukon for years (many people living more like the vi
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3y ago
The font size is too small, and will be fixed with an over the air update in a day or two.
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