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by max76 8y ago
T-Mobile is the front runner carrier for dealing with spam and fraud phone calls in the US. I'll link some official marketing about one of their features, but they are doing a lot in this space. I suspect they find that these features
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by max76 8y ago
I'm not sure how much laptop companies are in control of the battery life of laptops. I mean, they could always add more batteries, but those cost weight and their doesn't seem to be a market for that. X86 CPUs, screens, and wifi
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by max76 8y ago
I fret much more over subscription purchases than one time purchases. They can be annoying to cancel, they can be forgotten, and they can be heavily underutilized. In fact I think these attributes are a cornerstone of the business plan.
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by max76 8y ago
I recently wanted a very specific model of TV, and after 15 minutes of price checking I found the it was noticeably cheaper (about 10%) at best buy than anywhere else. Picking it up was a breeze. I'd suggest price checking at best buy.
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by max76 8y ago
Throwing money around sounds like politics as usual. At least this policy seems to come genuine desire to help.
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I don’t know why I did the math to answer your question, but I did. Please don’t upvote me, I don’t want encouragement for this behavior. Apparently 1% of the total traffic in LAX in 2015 was for connecting flights to SFO [0]. Assuming th
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by max76 8y ago
Still, SFO and LAX is the most traveled route in the US, with 30,000 flights in 2015 [0]. If HSR is viable anywhere in the US it’s this route. [0] https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/07/05/americans-fly-lax-sfo..
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Aside from the benefits to daily commuters there is demonstrated demanded for travel among the west coast that can be satisfied by this. How many people fly between SF and LA every day? There are large number of short flights between all o
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Downtown Seattle has bus lanes that are well enforced. It's feasible in the US.
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We could have pre-industrial civilizations that arise on Earth if we exhaust the natural resources. I imagine that we have enough scrap metal lying around to not prohibit post-disaster civilizations from working with metal. It’s really a m
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> There is only first strike, and whoever attacks first wins. This is a huge part of why every player is incredibly careful - there is no surviving, enduring, or being prepared for an attack. There are three key attributes to a dark fore
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> What’s most going to be remembered of our culture in 5000 years? There is a good chance that computers will have an uninterrupted existence for the next 5000 years, and we’ll be remembered for creating the first network with 1billion+
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There are a lot of things I really like about Ebay. I have found myself using it more and more over the last year. I hope they highlight what makes them unique instead of trying to clone other e-commerce websites. * I know exactly which b
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by max76 8y ago
> You're absolutely right about the hypothetical power of an organized village! Yet, in this scenario such a thing never comes about and can never come about. A village requires collaboration and trust, things the hunters do not pos
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Oh. In UT1 there number of seconds in a day is constant, so it's value is defined by the rotation of the earth which is slowing. UTC is better than UT1 in that regard. Maybe UT1 is fine for humans, but really humans just assume ut1.
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by max76 8y ago
Just like the amount of mass in a gram doesn't change based on location, time, or any other variable it's very important to have some measurement of time that is as constant and precise as possible. This helps us conduct science,
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Twelve states and D.C. allow illegal immigrants to acquire drivers licensees [0]. Washington State was the first one in the early 90s, but the list also includes the boarder states of California and New Mexico. I would imagine if a state w
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by max76 8y ago
I really hate bad science, and this is an example. Springer Science+Business Media (the publisher) does not transfer copyright of the paper from the author to the publisher like many other journals. This begs the question, why isn't t
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Following up with this, it is highly unlikely the overflow will happen at midnight, or at the top of an hour. Even if a timezone or clock adjustment is possible on the system leap years and other calendar offsets will be different that can
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While this is currently true, there is no guarantee this will remain true in the future. What happens when a founder dies?
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It's simple. Apple doesn't use location data in their products. Google does. Apple specifically avoids these types of products. Google's main revenue stream depends on them.
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The difference exists only to the point that Google is an ethical owner of the data. I'm concerned that Google is in the business selling products based on a monopoly of consumer data. These products are likely to become more and more
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It's refreshing to see a journalistic article use the word "toxic" while referring to specific chemicals.
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Is it wrong to produce and distribute porn of people 18 and 19 years old? Legally this is okay in the United States.
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Is this a computer generated sentence?
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> without being funded by US taxpayers It's not US taxpayers that are footing the R&D bill, but United States based customers of non-generic prescription drugs. These are technically two different sets of people.
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Japan has a very unique healthcare crises based on it's aging population. The median age in Japan is over 9 years older than the United States and the population is continuing to get older. This crises would be very hard to deal with i
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I'm not convinced such a bomb would be routinely used. It doesn't break MAD. The current trend in warfare is towards precision strikes, and this is pretty much the opposite of precision. I am convinced that, in the case that ther
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Solar has a few problems for spacecraft, especially when talking about objects not in an earth-centric orbit. 1. The further the spacecraft is from the sun the less efficient solar panels are. 2. Solar panels are a pretty heavy thing to lau
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The current diseconomies of scale hitting solar panels is that we have a limit on the number of batteries we can produce, as we are expanding our battery production as fast as humanly possible. We can use solar cells to offset peak perform

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