kingbirdy

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by kingbirdy 6y ago
Won't it still boil due to the near-zero pressure?
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
Influenza isn't in a steady state, there are hundreds of strains[0] that compete with each other and recombine to form novel versions. Each year's flu vaccine targets four of them based on modeling as to which will be most prevale
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
What's in it for Tesla to downplay demand for their product?
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
I think expecting a $40 piece of furniture to survive multiple moves is unrealistic on your part. You get what you pay for, and $40 for a desk that makes it through even 2 residences is $20/location for a desk which is ridiculously che
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
Not much, <sup> with you?
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
Could you substantiate that claim with specific ways it is biased or dishonest, rather than dismissing it without evidence?
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
That doesn't contract it being a secret beforehand, though, or indicate journalists are given advance knowledge. It sounds like the timeline was: 1. They fail to contact Doudna to inform her she's a winner 2. They publicly announc
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
Could you share the video? That sounds quite interesting
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
It was a hassle for the 360 as well, you had to plug the drive into a PC first and run a homebrew tool to "bless" the drive so that it would work with the console
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
FWIW you could put in a new HDD in an original Xbox, and put a 2.5" HDD in the 360 hard drive enclosure, but neither were officially supported.
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
Tech workers are a subset of intellectual workers. Just because tech workers don't need those protections in GP's view doesn't mean other workers wouldn't benefit from them.
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
I don't think this logic tracks - there are so many Cokes produced annually that even if every can had only 0.1 mL of lemon oil they'd still probably be the largest consumer.
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
Sir Terry sums this problem up quite nicely in Men at Arms: "The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allo
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
It would be nice if there was a right to get back the product you paid for (i.e. revert the adware update), rather than being forced to either accept the ads or return the product.
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
How does their DRM improve typography?
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
> Pyramids are hard to build without a super-feudal economy and society [citation needed] The 10th-tallest pyramid was built in Memphis, TN 30 years ago [0] and it's now used as a Bass Pro shop. Say what you will about working condi
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
Based on the famous Trinity study [0], $2M would be enough for he and his wife to draw $80k/year plus social security. That's certainly more than most people are able to retire on, but I wouldn't call it lavish, and I imagine
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
The jetpackers in the video at the bottom of the article aren't the same jetpackers the article is about. The people in the video clearly have permission as you pointed out, but I don't think we can say for sure as to whether the
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
Requiring a line of site makes it much more difficult than giving real-time tracking data away
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
Fortnite is popular enough to count as "big pressure" all on its own. I couldn't find recent numbers, but as of 2018 they had over 100M installs and were doing over $1M/day in revenue[0] and by early 2019 they'd alr
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
It's not about the amount of information you have, it's about the amount you have _relative to other investors_. In the era of algorithmic trading where companies are spending millions to get information milliseconds faster, the e
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
That link is in the fourth sentence of the article.
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
I want to know why WebContentEdit is the only one that doesn't follow this pattern
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
Private prisons represent only ~8% of the US state & federal prison population[0]. Private prisons, while bad, are a distraction from the larger issues of policing and incarceration in the US and aren't the reason why we have so ma
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
> I’m a huge fan of capitalism and free trade, as laid out in Adam Smith’s genre defining book The Wealth of Nations. The fact that he included an Amazon link to a book that came out over 200 years ago and is available on Project Gutenbe
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
If I have to pay higher taxes but it means everyone is working in a job they love that seems like a worthwhile trade.
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
Microsoft is approaching that strategy with Windows - they're very nearly giving away Windows 10 at this point, and it ships a lot of data back to MS, plus you're essentially the beta tester for software updates for their enterpri
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
There's very little incentive for US banks to implement these features due to a combination of regulatory burden, technology, and most US bank users aren't even aware things could be more convenient, it's just a given that ba
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
That point is mentioned in the article, including the example of Toyota trucks
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
Not sure why this article came out today, the new comics were released on the 7th. https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff

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