kbelder

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1. 2071.▲
   by kbelder 6y ago

   Maybe soon you'll be able to pay another $12 to do the same on Google Maps. The ad-free 'Premium Search' is where they'll really make their fortune.
2. 2072.▲
   by kbelder 6y ago

   The typical victims of bullying are the ones that don't act to stop it. That's why they're being bullied in the first place. I don't want to victim blame, because they are victims... but it's often enabled by the
3. 2073.▲
   by kbelder 6y ago

   We do a full orbit around the galactic core about once every 250 million years... so our solar system has made about 20-30 orbits. It's very likely that our stellar neighborhood has completely changed since the Earth formed.
4. 2074.▲
   by kbelder 6y ago

   Yeah, I think EV adoption will stall out for a long time at around 50%. Families will have one EV and one gas vehicle. That covers all their needs; two EVs won't. And the gas-burner will get used just as much, since both parents nee
5. 2075.▲
   by kbelder 6y ago

   It reminds me a bit of programmers who condemn any large Excel sheet, saying that it should be moved into a database. What it usually means is that they don't understand the problems it's solving.
6. 2076.▲
   by kbelder 6y ago

   The upside is that it reduces the gatekeeping that so many degree-holders would like to have in place.
7. 2077.▲
   by kbelder 6y ago

   The engagement engine doesn't end at YouTube. It's always active, everywhere, and this type of article exploits it.
8. 2078.▲
   by kbelder 6y ago

   Occasionally I'll see an headline making a marvelous claim about 'Gravity Waves'... something like 'shrimp synchronize reproduction to gravity waves'. I always read it as gravitational waves, and for a split second
9. 2079.▲
   by kbelder 6y ago

   I think the people arguing with you are simply stating that the judges who ruled that it is constitutional are _wrong_. It's a stance I agree with.
10. 2080.▲
    by kbelder 6y ago

    That's a false positive every day in a normal-sized school.
11. 2081.▲
    by kbelder 6y ago

    I'm testing it, and so far I'm happy with it. I think I'm going to expand it's use, as Firefox continues to disappoint. You're right about how it seems to... generate a certain kind of negative reaction when mentio
12. 2082.▲
    by kbelder 6y ago

    Plus, how many distinct 'interesting patterns' are there? 1,2,3,4,5... 2,3,4,5,6... 10,9,8,7,6,5... if there are a hundred patterns that make people go 'wait a second', the odds of getting _one_ of those is a hundred ti
13. 2083.▲
    by kbelder 6y ago

    Leave it, store the 11th bit in the top bit of the first byte of the company name. That'll future proof us.