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by jobu 9y ago
> Now content creators want to own the store, too. They don't want to let any company do what Apple did to the music industry. If another company owns the platform with all the customers, then they can dictate prices to everyone e
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> for a useless degree they'll never use Another part of the problem is that there's really no such thing as a useless degree. A person may never use what they learned from that degree, but the fact that they were able to ear
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When I tried to make a new user after unlocking as "root" it ended up making a group instead. (High Sierra 10.13.1)
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> Iodine shouldn't be taken at all if you're more than ~45 years old (as a remedy for radiation problems) as the side effects would be statistically worse than a slowly developing cancer. What side effects do you mean? The on
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VIPER reminds me of the "Enterprise Code" meme. Take a look at the FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition if you're not familiar: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
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> Also, polyethylene is one of the simplest plastics and can be recycled quite effectively Polyethylene can be recycled, but depending on the price of oil it's often cheaper to make new things than try to recycle them. Planet mon
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> how is this even taken seriously, given the Peter Jackson movies pretty much did justice to the books? (I'm assuming they did from the fan following. I never read the books) I love the books, but even I will admit they're a
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Apple has a couple moves for cornering the supply chain. Sometimes they work with manufacturers to develop specialized hardware under the terms that they will only be used to build Apple products for a certain timeframe (usually a couple ye
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> A bit OT but how did ancient civilizations know that they should NOT watch an eclipse with a naked eye? Doesn't it hurt when you look at the sun? Any time I've ever accidentally glanced at the sun it's literally a blin
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The counter protests and polling indicate that there was/is significant opposition to Catalan independence. Spain could've embraced and supported that opposition, or pushed for more negotiation, but instead they used violence and
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OP linked this article which explains the evaporation: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/10/13/557607443/wit... Bob Scott, a weed scientist at the University of Arkansas, recently showe
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> Evidence now shows that Dicamba will evaporate from the soil _after_ being applied to crops safely, meaning that it cannot be prevented from drifting into other fields and killing innocent farmer's crops. This is a _huge_ issue
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Since 2001, the potential size of a Kernza seed has doubled, and scientists hope to lengthen its productive lifespan from five to 10 years. That's pretty fast for traditional selective breeding techniques. It would be interesting wha
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As someone that took a tech job in a (relatively) rural area, I can say there are some amazing perks, but also huge risks. Tech jobs pay roughly the same in rural areas as they do in larger cities, but housing costs are low enough that you
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> my friends would end up polluting my news feed as well with crap that I wasn't interested in and got in the way of what I had originally joined FB for A few weeks ago I went back on Facebook and took the time to try cleaning it
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Great analysis! Why the hell did Blue Apron buy a ranch? https://youtu.be/UpQkAEei08w?t=10m59s
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The United States has been in a war or conflict in 55 of the last 60 years: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/america-war-93-time-2...
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It's likely weatherproof paper and a grease pencil. We deal with EMS agencies and modern technology is often useless for them in harsh weather. Screens can be difficult to read outdoors and any touch devices are unresponsive in a downp
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> this could all add up to a case where the price of truck transportation drops so much that demand for truck drivers actually increases The problem is that local drivers average about half the pay ($30-40k) vs long-haul drivers ($70-8
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> the exact cutoff before the wealth would be shared Wow. That is some really evil shit there. Maybe Levandowski is the reason they dropped the "Don't be evil" motto.
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It's too bad a Wealth Tax isn't even discussed in politics anymore. Seems like it could solve a significant amount of these tax loopholes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax
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Didn't realize that energy could be converted into gravitational waves. It does make sense I suppose, but I always thought gravity and gravitational waves were just a side-effect of the way mass interacted with space-time.
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> Windows Phone was a solid system with a decent easy to use UI it is kind of a pity it didn’t take off. Agreed. We developed a couple apps way back in Windows Phone 7, and the UI was slick and stylish. The developer tools were fantast
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Magnesium citrate and magnesium oxide (often called elemental magnesium or buffered magnesium) are the forms to avoid unless you're trying to clean out your colon. Look for Magnesium glycinate or magnesium bisglycinate, but be careful
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This seems like the key thing: There was another intriguing connection: Acinetobacter are molecular mimics of proteins found in myelin, the nerve cell coating that the immune system attacks in MS. It sounds like a very similar situation t
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> Though this may have something to do with Amazon (and retail generally trending online) Online shopping plus theres a growing trend to spend money on experiences instead of things. We've switched to buying our kids things like cli
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> > You go to Home Depot for expertise as much as for parts > Has not been my experience. Ace hardware is a little better, but not much. Most Home Depot employees at my local store were very knowledgeable for a while, but the const
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When the floods come, it only takes a little bit of soap: > Fire ant rafts do have a kryptonite: dish soap. “Dawn is a not a registered insecticide, but it will break up the surface tension and they will sink”
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> For me, FB, TW, etc have become unreliable sources of news. For me, it has shown that a large chunk my social network is incapable of detecting bullshit. Last year I tried linking to Snopes or Politifact when people would post obvious
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> It seems clear that we've become a Day-2 country, while China is still very much a Day-1 country. I hadn't heard that term before. Here's what I found: https://www.quora.com/What-is-Jeff-Bezos-%E2%80%9C

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