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by luma 4y ago
...are you suggesting cars can make conscious decisions? If not, then what exactly is your point?
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by luma 4y ago
They directly wrote about the problem, it's not the entire market they are moving, just the market for the specific parts they are attempting to buy. They hired brokers to source some key components and later found out that the two br
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by luma 4y ago
From earlier videos and blogs, the rationale behind this move was a little more clear: by publishing complete gerbers for the electronics, they find themselves competing for parts on the BOM with other companies that are trying to manufactu
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by luma 4y ago
And none of those come with the support and reliability of Prusa.
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by luma 4y ago
How are you and your goals involved in that machine being able to survive and multiply? You are made of carbon which that machine might put to better use.
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by luma 4y ago
I’m not sure that your analogy makes any sense in this context, particularly given that the result of what you described has been ever increasing record industry profits.
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by luma 4y ago
To me, all I know of you is words on the screen, which is the point the parent comment was making. How do we know that we’re both humans when the only means we have to communicate thoughts with each other is through written words?
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by luma 4y ago
I've been on calls w/ Moshe :D Infinidat is all about capacity, we tend to see them as B2D targets or for long term warm storage. Pure is more about performance. They have never shipped a device with spinning disks in them, so
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by luma 4y ago
So ... you didn't read the article then?
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by luma 4y ago
I have an older gen m10 here at home. You can in fact run Pure at home, and doing so is costing me around $84/mo just to have it plugged in and consuming electricity. Not something I would recommend for most people but my lab VMs are
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by luma 4y ago
It's worth noting that they are talking about a single Pure disk pack for one of their arrays. Their disk packs include NAND, a bunch of RAM, some NVRAM, and storage device controllers all in a hot-pluggable module. This isn't s
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by luma 4y ago
> Some organizations have in-house standards to which cable lacing must conform, for example NASA specifies its cable lacing techniques in chapter 9 of NASA-STD-8739.4. It's right there in the article.
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by luma 4y ago
The world is messy and "the rules" aren't often written out for us in black and white. Teaching somebody to deal with uncertainty by way of studying the problem before jumping in without the full picture doesn't seem li
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by luma 4y ago
> Yea, this did not happen We know, which is why that line from the CCP is ridiculous every time they say it. You're missing the larger picture, nobody is upset at the people of China. I also don't fault China for doing how th
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by luma 4y ago
I’m no fan of Trump but even a broken clock is right twice a day. China is not our friend, and they do decidedly unfriendly things.
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by luma 4y ago
Not a solution that works or is available to everyone, but for me, small doses of marijuana taken just before bed has changed my world. I’m currently traveling and in a state where that isn’t an option and I haven’t had more then 4 hours in
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by luma 4y ago
As a former Audi owner, the old saying was absolutely true: if you can afford to buy two Audis, you can afford to own one. Absolutely fantastic vehicle until it blows up and then you are buying VW parts with Porsche price tags.
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by luma 4y ago
Many people in the art world at the time argued exactly that, just like they are doing today. From the photographers side it took lobbying, an act of congress, and a supreme court decision to finally grant copyright protection to photograp
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by luma 4y ago
Check your timelines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_photography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_art The thing you are implying is explicitly what I am claiming in the post.
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by luma 4y ago
It absolutely happened with the advent of photography that was certain to destroy the lives of hard working painters. Those painters at the time were mostly employed to paint pictures of rich people and something that could "easily&qu
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by luma 4y ago
I couldn’t decide between Harbor Freight and hydrofluoric acid.
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by luma 4y ago
Agreed! Here's a fun video by suckerpinch trying out some truly insane data storage ideas https://youtu.be/JcJSW7Rprio
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by luma 4y ago
> Almost every government has a history of unleashing a tax department on their political enemies Financial crimes tend to be a lot harder to hide than bodies, and the witnesses (in the form of records) harder to bribe.
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by luma 4y ago
So the UN is a way for powerful countries to justify taking action against less powerful countries if other powerful countries kinda agree to it.
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by luma 4y ago
Even crazier, it lets you interop between the languages by way of sharing variables between them. Polyglot is pretty darn impressive.
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by luma 4y ago
If it's being used instead of some other wire transfer in order to dodge government rules on capital controls etc, then yes it's used to evade the legal system and thus also fraud. The fees are not incredibly low nor is the servi
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by luma 4y ago
See also: the majority of the international trade in art and the use of Freeports. Now you don't even need to move the things around.
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by luma 4y ago
I was talking about telephony in a discussion about telephony standards but Apple users seemingly confuse notions like "SMS" with apps like WhatsApp. When I say everybody not-Apple, I mean literally that. All modern entrants in t
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by luma 4y ago
The main excitement is hopes of getting rich quick with very little skill or effort applied.
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by luma 4y ago
The overwhelming volume is in wash trading, which is just a different kind of fraud. It's all fraud.

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