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by imron 8y ago
By that same logic, you might as well just use Fastmail and save yourself the hassle of running your own mailserver altogether - their cheapest plan is $3 a month (or $2.5 a month if you pay for a year at a time).
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by imron 8y ago
I second this. I ran my own mail server for a couple of years (a good educational experience), but after a while I figured it was far less hassle to pay someone else to deal with it. FastMail have been an excellent email provider, and supp
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by imron 8y ago
Don't worry about trying to click the 'continue' link, just keep scrolling down and it disappears. It's still annoying, but not as annoying as trying to click the tiny link.
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by imron 8y ago
No-one pushing rubbish code this time.
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by imron 8y ago
Exactly this. Apple is laughing all the way to the bank.
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by imron 8y ago
It wasn't made by the current designers?
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by imron 8y ago
What a pity.
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by imron 8y ago
Right, but who's to say though whether some breakthrough in space travel will lead to technology that ultimately helps cure cancer? In fact, if you look at NASA's spinoff brochure (space technologies that have trickled down to dai
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by imron 8y ago
In the lead up to the launch I remember seeing their artist impression CGI rendering of how they expected the launch/landing to go, and both boosters landed at the same time. I thought to myself "I bet they don't land both bo
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by imron 8y ago
> Windows 10 is already better I strongly dislike the flat UI theme of W10.
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by imron 8y ago
Could 2018 finally be the year of the Linux Desktop? /s
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by imron 8y ago
They indirectly make money from the fraud, so incentives are not aligned for them to stop it.
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by imron 8y ago
> Both Toyota and Honda ventured into hybrids and battery technology long before Tesla was founded. Exactly! So how come they are so far behind. If they had been serious about it, they could be far ahead of where Tesla is now, instead,
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by imron 8y ago
> They also are giving customers what they want — few consumers want electric. In words often attributed to Henry Ford “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” And your comment proves my point. Exist
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by imron 8y ago
> but imagine white Toyota or Honda could do with Tesla’s battery/platform technology. Sit on it and do nothing, to preserve their ICE business? The rest of the auto industry is being dragged very reluctantly into the EV market.
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by imron 8y ago
> Young people who can’t use keyboards How is this different from previous generations? The examples listed (not knowing how to use a keyboard, not knowing how to double click and not knowing what a 'cell' in a spreadsheet is)
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by imron 8y ago
That doesn't stop other companies seeing it as a viable business model.
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by imron 8y ago
Being bought/aquihired by Google/others seems to be a business model several companies aim for.
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by imron 8y ago
Yeah, not exactly his finest hour.
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by imron 8y ago
> as long as you can make the case for classifying them as an 'enemy combatant in an active war zone Under the Obama administration, they decided to count all military-age males in a strike zone as enemy combatants, unless there was
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by imron 8y ago
> Meanwhile, all the local staff got was a bar of made-in-China chocolate I can understand why they revolted.
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by imron 8y ago
Sure but the reason the licorice was used was to simulate accumulated dirt and grime, so he's either licking licorice or he's licking centuries of dirt and grime. Lucky for him it was licorice!
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by imron 8y ago
> You should read the Wall Street Journal. Sometimes I do if I see an interesting article there. > People know me by name. I don't :-) > Sometimes I forget that trying to have a meaningful conversation can be perceived as bein
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by imron 8y ago
How big is your short position?
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by imron 8y ago
Glad to see other people prefer old.reddit too.
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by imron 8y ago
> “I licked the chair and voilà,” he says. “I could taste the fraud.” That's dedication. I don't even want to imagine the years of dirt and cruft he'd be licking if the chair was authentic.
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by imron 8y ago
That's an interesting piece of information to know, thanks.
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by imron 8y ago
> And all the "blue collar" workers at those hotels and truck stops? Don't worry, universal basic income will save them. /s
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by imron 8y ago
> Is there no way to do that? There is an app for that ( https://gfx.io/ ), but it doesn't switch automatically when battery is in use so you have to enable it manually (and you have to close any apps that are using t
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by imron 8y ago
I on the other hand wouldn't mind if they made the laptop a little bit thicker in exchange for better battery life. When the discrete graphics chip is being used, plus a retina display, and or several dongles plugged in for ethernet, u

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