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by hbosch 5y ago
Dogecoin literally started as a parody.
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by hbosch 5y ago
>Youtube is a poor substitute for that kind of learning, since most videos don't go into in-depth and don't provide critical feedback to the pupil. I agree with the latter point but not the former. Many, many YouTube videos on
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by hbosch 5y ago
I believe actual cash hoards on hand is considered bad business. Apple having cash on hand is seen as okay, at present, because investors trust them to spend it well on expansion. Remember share price doesn’t indicate how well a company is
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by hbosch 5y ago
UFOs make for sexy, apolitical news. Perfect for hitting a broad audience, and the more sensational you are the longer you can keep them tuning in.
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by hbosch 5y ago
> Was there some other, better, established method? We may learn from Taiwan*. Quote: "Extensive public health infrastructure established in Taiwan pre-COVID-19 enabled a fast coordinated response, particularly in the domains of ear
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by hbosch 5y ago
> Would Fauci have even known? I think yes. Perhaps not upfront, perhaps not in the following days or weeks. But if your organization had funded a laboratory's gain of function research, and that laboratory is suddenly the topic of
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by hbosch 5y ago
> And that's because it is true. And perhaps it's also true that crypto has also made an elite minority rich?
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by hbosch 5y ago
This is a handy reference to the impacts of drones being used as instruments of terror: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_U.S._...
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by hbosch 5y ago
I believe it is the case, that when you see your stored payment method is is obfuscated such that it only reveals the last 4-5 digits. Same with bank details as far as I know. However, showing the card issuer/bank + the final 4 or 5
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by hbosch 5y ago
Unfortunately, this stage of the Google product cycle is the hardest for me to start getting excited for. I hope for better, but I cannot resist the nagging feeling that this will 1) be very, very cool, 2) be sold to enterprise customers wh
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by hbosch 5y ago
It'd be impossible to "enjoy" lossless audio on a bus ride in the audiophile sense.
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by hbosch 5y ago
I think the tradeoff is often quality:latency. The higher the quality, the bigger the buffer, and the longer the latency? In anecdotal data, I noticed that my Bluetooth headphones had latency so bad they were not usable for gaming (CS:GO, V
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by hbosch 5y ago
Apple aren't marketing lossless streaming to AirPods. There are lots of hardwired devices ready to playback in hi-res via phone or Mac, surely. And AirPods Max support spatial audio already and are apparently good quality. I would expe
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by hbosch 5y ago
I agree. No idea what this is or how it benefits me at all, so of course I did not connect my account. From Google for the curious: "Music League is a weekly game which lets you share songs with friends and score points for whoever’s t
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by hbosch 5y ago
Honestly, the Plex app is very decent for music libraries these days. Except for oddball VA releases and obscure mixtapes I find Plex to often be terrific at library management.
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by hbosch 5y ago
Not cynical at all. There are a ton of factors worth considering, the jobs report and economic outlook at the top of the list IMO. Next are the set of realities that require confronting... such as the facts that vaccination sites are sittin
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by hbosch 5y ago
You don't get credit for being the first, you get credit for being significant. Zune and Windows Phone didn't get "people" into flatter aesthetics, Apple did.
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by hbosch 5y ago
I believe this was essentially the hope of "Lytro", or light-field cameras more generally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-field_camera
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by hbosch 5y ago
> The world is a scary and violent place. ... A lot is said about desensitization as a result of seeing horrible things on the internet, but in my experience, only the opposite was true. Seeing violence online when I was in my late teens
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by hbosch 5y ago
PMs imply privacy.
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by hbosch 5y ago
I assume it must be. The incredibly bright spots at Keene, North Dakota and the northern edge of Alaska have similar low population/bright spots.
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by hbosch 6y ago
>Maybe you can help explain this transition from hating, to loving, because of software. This concept is completely foreign to me and I honestly struggle to understand why anyone signs up for Fitness+ which - as far as I can tell - is ba
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by hbosch 6y ago
>Is it not possible to "self-publish" to Spotify and Apple Music without a record label? Of course it's possible. Good luck getting any streams, though. We're talking about "milennial muzak" here. It's
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by hbosch 6y ago
Buy a Deluge. :-)
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by hbosch 6y ago
I worked years ago at a major cell phone mfg company, and we were comparing vendors (circa 2013-2014) for the voice recognition/transcription software. I remember two of the leading options were SoundHound (dba then as "Hound&quot
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by hbosch 6y ago
When is the last time busting a union brought any additional scrutiny from the US government, in a material sense? While there are some stories lately about how much tax Amazon pays, the government is very much in the business of keeping Am
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by hbosch 6y ago
>Very interesting that they chose to go with a tipping model vs letting creators set up "pay to enter" chat rooms. I believe the only way around Apple requesting a cut of the payment is to explicitly avoid any notion of "u
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by hbosch 6y ago
My brother in law is an ATC. Didn't go to school for it, but studied and went through the training and passed the sequential tests required to get a seat in the building. He enjoys the job a ton. Based on just observing him through the
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by hbosch 6y ago
>A possible solution could be to expand the goalie-only area around the net. That would, in theory, force opponents to focus more on shooting and not on piling around the goalie. Pandora's box is already open. Bigger net, more space
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by hbosch 6y ago
I have a very short .co - gets 'em every time.

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