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by mcny 3y ago
> Since shipping, I see around 87% of customers (out of around 20,000+) are using the service for free and only about a small percentage ~12-13% are paying. Congratulations on shipping! Are new people mostly "free people" or do
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by mcny 3y ago
Just two sentences prior to your quote, I think it is very relevant who is to blame: > A legacy of Algeria's bloody War of Independence from France (where an estimated 1.5 million Algerians were killed) is a powerful military and se
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by mcny 3y ago
I thought the whole idea of M2 was “exceptional product given the power consumption”. I don’t mind that it has nothing to show for all the talk once you throw out the need to basically sip power (like a notebook computer). Is this something
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by mcny 3y ago
> People often try to talk to me while I'm walking the dog and I keep having to tell them to repeat themselves after I pause the audio and turn off the noise isolation. Well that is just plain rude. I meant if someone with airpods
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by mcny 3y ago
> Having to take AirPods out of your ears is more obtrusive I think. I don't own airpods but I don't mind if someone comes to talk to me with airpods on. I think it would be stranger having someone come up to me and talk to me
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by mcny 3y ago
So correct me if I am wrong but my understanding is that islamophobia in the Indian subcontinent is a continuation of discrimination against the lower castes, as a lot of Muslims there are lower caste people who converted over, right? >
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by mcny 3y ago
> I think this is a v1 product This is exactly what I tell myself. This is equivalent to their five hundred dollar original iPhone with no App Store or even copy and paste functionality. I expect the SE to cost a third of this if not a f
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by mcny 3y ago
Looks like OP replied here https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/13tgscb/im_hasard_f16... I mean personally I don’t mind. It is better than some of the human comments I’ve seen…
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by mcny 3y ago
I am leery of anyone who advocates "states' rights". More likely than not these people are treasonous scum.
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by mcny 3y ago
> Are you saying the typical EVs you hear are _louder_ than ICE cars where you live? ICE cars are pretty quiet where I live. Either that or there is so much ambient noise that I've lost some of my hearing but either way I don't
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by mcny 3y ago
The next time it gives you a wrong answer and you know the correct answer, try saying something like “that is incorrect can you please try again” or something like that.
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by mcny 3y ago
That is one way to show your commitment to “encourage career growth” I guess? Assuming someone who works at the company would have easier access to someone who has access to the server in question…
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by mcny 3y ago
I’d say you are braking somehow if you are going at a constant speed downhill, are you not?
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by mcny 3y ago
> This is just irrational. The client is open source. You can build it and run it from source. Something I don’t understand is if the client is open source, why is it not in the fedora repos? Why do I need to add a new repo to dnf?
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by mcny 3y ago
> you can, but I am used to using uber app to call an uber. yes, waze had 100M+ users and still failed to have a successful launch with waze carpool. part of the problem is Google is too successful. If a business makes USD 10M a year a
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by mcny 3y ago
> Some fraction may not go through the normal cycle, but it can't be many. Maybe it is because I just saw an animated video on cancer (I’ll find the link when I get home) on YouTube but then so are we thinking of a bee hive as one i
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by mcny 3y ago
I downloaded the file and uploaded it to virustotal. Looks clean to me. CMC Threat Intelligence flagged the google drive link but not the actual file. https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/b0bdb52a8f65e45d663a9497...
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by mcny 3y ago
> Mesh networks can use Ethernet as backhaul and they can also use dedicated radios on 6GHz band for backhaul. I’m using a mix of both (still have a couple I need to run Ethernet to) and it’s fantastic. I wouldn’t recommend wireless back
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by mcny 3y ago
> If you are one of the few who have the power to stop something but you don't because you benefit from the status quo, you aren't a victim. You are the perpetrator. I know you said few and I am moving goal posts here a little
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by mcny 3y ago
> Because that's not how it works Exactly! I don’t know how to deal with people who talk about the economy in terms of a perfect competition free market where all participants have full knowledge and are all equal in terms of power.
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by mcny 3y ago
I used to think this as well but then I learned of something called a principal-agent problem. I am talking in general, so while fines might work in this exact case, they won’t work in general. The CEO and board supervising the crimes might
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by mcny 3y ago
We should absolutely use every tool available to us. I anal and I don’t quite understand if this is CFAA but it is my personal conviction that that the CFAA is both overly broad and unnecessary and must be repealed. Meanwhile, it is a misca
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by mcny 3y ago
The CEO and the board must serve prison time for things like this. No measure less than prison for the CEO and all board members is enough to curtail this because it just becomes the cost of doing business. No, you can’t say it wasn’t your
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by mcny 3y ago
> wireless I hope someone goes down this rabbit hole... is it possible to make a wireless e-paper display that does not need any battery? I am wary of batteries because I have managed to "swell up" two old android phones by kee
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by mcny 3y ago
What I don't understand is how come nobody talks about Microsoft Clarity? I don't know anything about GDPR but I would think if anything violates GDPR, it would be a literal screen recording app that tracks your mouse movements an
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by mcny 3y ago
Not that I am a fan of Churchill but I saw this quote yesterday so it is fresh on my mind > Winston Churchill once said, “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have tried everything else.” [Laughter.] I h
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by mcny 3y ago
> How exactly it doesn't work? Not even China has been able to make their Great Firewall resilient to stuff like VPNs. I don't have any inside information, but my uninformed guess is that this is by design or at least tolerated
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by mcny 4y ago
Divide and conquer 0. Learn the basics a. Build Android for yourself on your own Google Pixel. See https://source.android.com/docs/setup/build/building b. Source your own Android hardware and deploy
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by mcny 4y ago
> Are today's kids more concerned about the environment than we were? It seems they like to consume as much as anybody else I think we are talking about people who are yet to be born (in the future), not younger humans already born.
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by mcny 4y ago
You're absolutely right. At the end of the day, all we are doing is create, read, update, and delete data. I mean if you take away all the complexity associated with ranking and scale (not everything has to be Google scale), that is ex

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