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by jerlam 1y ago
Discord is designed like this, because there is no special "presenter" or "organizer" and all participants are equal. Everyone can present simultaneously and you can mute individual speakers for yourself and not everyone
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by jerlam 1y ago
It also prevents the election losers from lighting everything on fire on the way out.
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by jerlam 1y ago
Laptops have tradeoffs, just like all other mobile devices. I don't avoid using an ultrawide monitor at home, because sometimes I have to use a phone that fits in my pocket.
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by jerlam 1y ago
It's only a matter of time until those locally owned coffee shops become popular, expand, over-expand, then get acquired.
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by jerlam 1y ago
Looks good, they kept the negative tilt which I find very important but nearly impossible to pitch to non-ergonomic keyboard users.
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by jerlam 1y ago
Goo.gl didn't have customers, it had users. Customers pay , either with money or their personal data, now or the future. Goo.gl did not make any money or have a plan to do so in the future.
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by jerlam 1y ago
> Where are all the cheep rubber dome splits? The only halfway decent player in this category was Microsoft, with its line of Natural Keyboards. I've used four or five of them, decent enough. I doubt Microsoft was making a lot of mo
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by jerlam 1y ago
BeReal? The graph shown for its MAU ends in mid-2023 and already shows a steady decline.
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by jerlam 1y ago
I live in California where property tax is fixed at 1% due to Prop 13, so I don't really know how it works anywhere else.
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by jerlam 1y ago
No, what you said is mostly correct; but I'm mostly talking about not having home prices go down, which is different but related. There are different kinds of homeowners. There are those who are flipping houses and directly betting tha
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by jerlam 1y ago
It's a much bigger group than homeowners. Banks don't want housing prices to fall, since then homeowners start foreclosing and then banks lose interest payments and own undesired property. Cities don't want housing prices to
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by jerlam 1y ago
There is some reason to the madness, at least for connected Bluetooth devices. Some people only have a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard (no wired devices), so the computer must maintain a connection to those devices so a mouse or keyboard click
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by jerlam 1y ago
It needs some work. I wanted a boring, reliable car with unlimited budget, and it recommended a seven year old Audi.
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by jerlam 1y ago
The average commute is not entirely within the streets with the 30 km/h speed limit. City planners usually try to route car traffic away from residential areas and places with large numbers of pedestrians, through arterials, freeways,
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by jerlam 1y ago
At the top levels, there isn't much privacy already. In 2007, the GC leader of the Tour was removed from the race because they had lied about their location a month prior. Racers are required to tell UCI, the cycling governing body, th
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Rivendell Bikes Has Crafted the Rear Derailleur of the Century(outsideonline.com)
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by jerlam 1y ago
It is a regression from Austin, where they had "safety monitors" in the passenger seat. The media should be ashamed to use the term "Robotaxi" if there is no automation involved.
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by jerlam 1y ago
I had one of the first newly redesigned Volvos after the Ford acquisition, an S80 T6, either the first or second year released in the US. It was a fantastic car - extremely comfortable, fast, and analog controls for everything. After five o
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by jerlam 1y ago
When I saw the price, I thought it was a typo. Volvos aren't the cheapest cars but they're not six figure cars either. The base price (USD) is 81K - after clicking on every single option, I managed to bump it to 105K.
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by jerlam 1y ago
During these "free" preventative checkups, if your doctor asks if you have any other medical issues to discuss, having an answer other than "no" can change the visit from a free preventative visit into a standard non-fre
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by jerlam 1y ago
Asian-Americans specifically have higher levels of PTFE in their blood too: https://pfasproject.com/2023/08/25/asian-americans-have-much...
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by jerlam 1y ago
In my experience, they're also not particularly reliable either. After filing a change of address form, I got quite a bit of mail still going to the old address. The forwarded mail, if it arrived at all, was significantly delayed. It a
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by jerlam 1y ago
I think the comment you replied to was sarcasm. It is kind of amazing how quickly the US political system started showing faults. For example, the first President warned about the rise of political parties at their farewell address, yet eve
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by jerlam 1y ago
This is a lot of effort to avoid the obvious solution, allow for-pay bathrooms to exist again.
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by jerlam 1y ago
Uber Shuttle already exists: https://campuslifeserviceshome.ucsf.edu/transportation/uber-... https://www.timeout.com/chicago/news/you-can-now-get-a-ride-...
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by jerlam 1y ago
> Costs will likely rise at an even higher rate next year, driven in part by [...] doctors using artificial intelligence to more accurately bill insurers Ignoring the use of accuracy and artificial intelligence in the same sentence, this
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by jerlam 1y ago
The SAG-AFTRA voice actor strike just ended this month, after 11 months: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%932025_SAG-AFTRA_vi...
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by jerlam 1y ago
> With as few as 419 Starlink customers in an area the size of Tacoma, Washington, service for all users in the area could become unusable. Starlink has over six million customers - I would think this threshold has already been reached s
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by jerlam 1y ago
I believe that most Hyatt hotels are franchises and not directly owned by corporate. The hotels have certain "brand standards" they must obey to be part of that brand, but management is local. Same as Hilton. Here's someone a
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by jerlam 1y ago
It seems there are people deeply afraid of admitting they don't know something, despite the fact that not knowing things is the default. But giving the wrong answer is always worse.

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