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4y ago
>Figure-Eight on a Bight >Easy to untie after it has held a load. I completely disagree with that description, Out of every knot you can use for an anchor or your climbing harness, the figure eight is the most difficult to untie. If
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why would being born with the right passport allows you to pollute 5x more with impunity? the planet doesn't give a crap about our made up borders. What makes Europeans/Americans individuals so special that they get to consume w
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4y ago
look at what hilti is making if you think electricity is a limiting factor for Power tools. they don't make power washers but they makes extremely powerful cordless electric tools. The kind that allows you to drill 1.5" wide hole
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4y ago
if he only paid 100$ for a modem and it was brand new, it likely wasn't an all-in-one station like what large ISPs are trying to push. Cheaper/dumber modems severely limit the amount of control Comcast have and how much they can f
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It would only work while the service is not popular and almost on one uses it. As soon as they attract the attention of copyrights holders, they will be forced to implement the same type of BS we see at youtube. The tech might might be dece
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4y ago
You can reduce the power limit a lot on a 3080 before it impacts performance. The last 3 - 5% of performance they are getting out of their chip is responsible for more than a third of the power draw on higher clocked cards.
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4y ago
The people using the intro of the whitepaper to justify BCH are also conveniently ignoring half the paper and pretends that entire technical sections are irrelevant and should be ignored. Ironically, trying to prove which chain is the "
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4y ago
>Their problem, not yours. Until your get a call from HR, the twitter mobs decides to target you, or when that "woke" person gets promoted and starts dictating policies in the office.
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4y ago
if it was that easy, writers wouldn't have to rely on misleading headlines like this one. They are not selling their data, they are selling a tool that process publicly available data. title: "Coinbase is reportedly selling geoloc
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every single year single the early iphones, they have had equal or better battery life than competing androids with larger batteries. They consistently have 500 - 1000 mAh less than their close competitors.
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I have had the same problem as you. All I want is the possibility to view other people's posts and zoom on the pictures. The part I never saw discussed anywhere is how the f()ck was Instagram planning to "verify " my identity
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4y ago
>SWEs make less than any other professional Except for almost all of them. Aside from a few exceptions (doctors, laywers), everyone else makes significantly less. A structural engineer with a master's degree for exemple will makes
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4y ago
>1. Code licensing is not always clear. Sometimes you are working with a code that some PhD student wrote, who left the field, whose advisor shared it with you. Can you share this code? Not necessarily... but this problem will go away wi
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One of the main difference between US and Canada is that in canada the government negotiates prices for the entire province. They have a lot of leverage because the contracts are for the entire system, not a single hospital. They have a pub
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>Why aren't dealerships just consignment stores for cars? That seems like it'd work out better for everyone involved. It wouldn't be better for the dealership when you take into the fact that they are a dying business that
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4y ago
They offer better rates and lower fees, that's why they are popular. Their cost of operation is lower than a traditional bank (no physical locations) and they normally pass a big portion of that saving on the costumers. In my region w
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5y ago
>The reality is the actual engineering is usually the easy part. The hard part is logistics I disagree. It's the opposite. If you have a hard logistic problem to solve, there is a very large number of companies who can solve all yo
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If you were trying to find a physical copy of an important tax related letter, would you prefer to search for it in a folder dedicated to tax document from that year or from a room filled with every single piece of paper that you have ever
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5y ago
With only a few hundred file, it's easy to look at the list and spot the outliers. In a real world scenario, how would you know that a few dozen files are missing when you search for "karl" and the files tagged with "Kra
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don't you think a tag system would require even more discipline? what do you think happens if you make a mistake with your tags and/or there are typos in the filename? With a directory structure, you can navigate to the location
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5y ago
>Sure, and regulators would make them illegal under pre-existing KYC laws. There is no such thing as KYC for exchanges that don't deal with fiat. In some cases, you don't even need to create an account at all.
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>Governments can make it a felony (jail time, fines) to interact with your wallet BTC >> Monero >> BTC. I take take <10 minutes for small amount and a few hours if you need to wait for multiple confirmations. There is plen
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5y ago
If they didn't give a fuck when those crimes were committed using fiat, why would they care when it's done using crypto?
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You should see the microchip ads from one of the think-tank he is funding. I wish I had kept the links/videos of them. They were strait up talking about the advantages of having a microchip in your hand and had testimony from "nor
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>Here's the problem - if I can't get my weather alerts from my local city township from Mastadon, but have to use Twitter, then the point is moot. For example - https://twitter.com/TravisCountyTX/status