max599

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by max599 4y ago
It's the shape of the grains of sand that's bad for concrete, not the chemical composition. It gets less angular and more round when it moves in the desert and it doesn't bound well with cement. Sand that is good for concret
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by max599 4y ago
A compromise for when you want a high quality webcam without spending money or dealing with the downsides of using an "real" camera is to use your phone. A 3 year old iphone/samsung will have a built in camera that is better
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by max599 4y ago
Twitter is not "trying to solve this problem", they are embracing it and benefiting from it. They are strongly incentivised to keep the bots because it gives them a massive boost in their number of active users and the valuation o
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by max599 4y ago
A DeFi loan is paying a premium and _decreasing_ the amount of liquid assets available to you. No, because from their point of view the crypto they put as collateral is NOT liquid. the entire point is do not sell them but somehow get cash f
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by max599 4y ago
>The whole point of a loan is that you're willing to pay extra over time in order to have access to more funds at the present No, that's not the point of these loans at all. They are the equivalent of remortgaging your home to
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by max599 4y ago
>Media started glossing over Nazi imagery on the very pictures of soldiers they spread, not even mentioning it. I think they genuinely didn't know what it was. Even on r/ukraine, they were promoting those picture at the beginn
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by max599 4y ago
>Not really. There's a certain political party who seems to want to redefine private companies as public commons, all because they don't like their hate speech being censored. no, it's because it actually became the new pu
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by max599 4y ago
> 1st amendment means regarding government censorship that's just a loophole from people who have no argument so they go with the [legal in the US = Moral]. Just because the modern "public space" is now private, it doesn&#
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by max599 4y ago
>That would plummet the stock From the point of view of the investors, there is no risk. If offer is accepted, they get their bags of cash and walk away with hopefully more than what they paid for those share. Musk could shut down the bu
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by max599 4y ago
isn't it one of those "No one ever got fired for buying XXXXXX" type of situation? Maybe i'm wrong, but the impression I had of Jira is that just like using sharepoint for file storage, the C-level people want it because
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by max599 4y ago
Being a leader at the top of the food chain in a company this big means that you get to take credit for a significant portion of the success of company and your paycheck has an extra zero or two more than most people working for you. It&#x2
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by max599 4y ago
>A modern airship could make the transatlantic trip in about 24-36 hours, so it doesn't really matter for casual vacation travel How many vacation days do you guys get per year?!? Only retired people would find it acceptable to tur
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by max599 4y ago
Most of the building code is written with the blood of victims who died in a horrific accident. If you want to know why doors in public places have to open toward the outside in modern countries and why "panic bars" are often mand
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by max599 4y ago
sometimes you can. A good exemple is Windows 8.1. Depending on who you ask, it's either the best OS Microsoft has ever made or one of the worse. If you know how to install a different Start Menu, you can get >95% of the benefits of
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by max599 4y ago
at least 20 years, probably more.
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by max599 4y ago
Excel allows you to force a specific type during file import or directly on the worksheet with literally two clicks once the region is selected. You can also create templates if you want all your new documents to use a specific type. The sc
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by max599 4y ago
> you should be able to tell it whether a certain column is a date or not, Not only is this possible, but the tool to do it is located in best location (large menu, center of the screen on the first ribbon tab). It take literally 2 click
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by max599 5y ago
>they've possibly already lost nearly a third of their previous "top 1%". I suspect a lot of them won't be leaving for real when they start shopping around for alternatives. The numbers I see looks in line with what y
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by max599 5y ago
>Video quality is significantly higher on Vimeo it stopped being "significantly" better a long time ago. The bitrate used to be much higher than YouTube but now they are similar. People only keep repeating this because it was
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by max599 5y ago
Bombing civilians in the middle east didn't stop in 2009.