koalaman

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by koalaman 9y ago
Socialism is a bit of an over-loaded word. Most people use it to speak about market economies in western Europe with heavily funded public health, wellness, and education programs which intend to promote democratic constitutional goals suc
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by koalaman 9y ago
passive anticompetitive behavior, is just competitive behavior.
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by koalaman 9y ago
I took the poster you are replying to is being sarcastic. The Chinese community in NYC at least is notorious for tax avoidance.
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by koalaman 10y ago
Has high DPI support improved on Linux? The last time I tried this it was impossible to get the desktop and the graphical apps to usable. +1 to the Chromebook Pixel being amazing hardware. Thinkpad touchpads drive me nuts.
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by koalaman 10y ago
It's hard to express sympathy when you can't be understood. :)
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by koalaman 10y ago
But Google had its culture before it got rich didn't it? There are also a lot of small tech companies like 37 signals and fog creak that try to be ethical and and treat their employees well. I don't think thiel could argue that t
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by koalaman 10y ago
le centre pompidou https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Centre+Pompidou/@48.86...
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by koalaman 10y ago
'The Flamish are earlier adopters, are more experienced, and access English language websites or apps. Whereas some Walloon users might still hope for a Minitel comeback and tend to believe clickbait links.' Without citations this
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by koalaman 10y ago
they're also a community that is notorious for tax avoidance.
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by koalaman 10y ago
Google Maps transit directions are pretty amazing from my experience in NYC. I grabbed a bus a couple of days ago because maps had a live update that it was just 1 minute away from me.
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by koalaman 10y ago
I think it's called 'conspiracy theory'
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by koalaman 10y ago
pretty cool for an app engine app. I wonder how big their ops team is.
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by koalaman 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_in_depth_(computing)
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by koalaman 11y ago
Driverless isn't about driverless cars per say. It's about driverless vehicles and a future where large fleet based transportation companies use various driverless vehicle formats to optimize for efficiency, speed, and comfort. A
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by koalaman 11y ago
I'm confused, Alexander the Great was an Arab?
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by koalaman 11y ago
good AI tends to run on massive clusters. Barring some quantum leap in computing technology, I don't see how computation on local devices would fill our computing requirements.
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by koalaman 12y ago
Just curious, is this different from what the nsa is doing in the US?
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by koalaman 12y ago
For those of us too lazy to read TOS, why is Azure's product less of a privacy or security concern than Google's?
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by koalaman 12y ago
From my experience it was those things that caused me offense regularly that made me question my own beliefs and eventually abandon those beliefs which weren't rational. I suggest that perhaps a problem with our societies is that we t
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by koalaman 12y ago
you could make this a prison experience hotel kind of thing. It would be popular with bachelor parties, etc. People love this kind of thing.
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by koalaman 13y ago
I wish someone had done this for PCs 20 years ago.
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by koalaman 13y ago
But how many patents does Oculus have that are going to make it difficult to impossible for a competitor to deliver the same experience?
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by koalaman 13y ago
It's kind of neat the way that google translate includes the german accent.
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by koalaman 13y ago
I'm pretty sure Google's lobbying is focused on issues such as Internet Regulation, Software patents, and antitrust. You'll need to provide some evidence that Google is lobbying for tax shelters.
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by koalaman 13y ago
It depends on your port of call. Some places are fine and civilized. Others not so much.
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by koalaman 13y ago
How is writing 10 wpm by waving your finger in the air a good thing?
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by koalaman 13y ago
France is the text-book example of a country falling into irrelevancy through the protection of the status quo.
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by koalaman 13y ago
I don't totally disagree with everything you say, but my understanding is that Google was between a rock and a hard place because one branch of government was asking Google to delete the data, while another was asking them to keep it.
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by koalaman 13y ago
Isn't DDG just a search engine aggregator? If they weren't relying on 3rd party search engines, which do record log searches, they'd then probably have to implement a diminished search themselves. A search implementation whic
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by koalaman 13y ago
I recently started using ujelly https://github.com/marktran/color-theme-ujelly which looks similar as well.

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