mickotron

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by mickotron 4y ago
Seems like Russia struck at a moment of vulnerability, while they were disconnected from the grid. I wonder if they knew in advance of the test.
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by mickotron 4y ago
You’re looking at history through a very Western lens. In other cultures, some substances were ritualistic and culturally important.
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by mickotron 4y ago
It’s why I am happy to have a predominantly dumb car with almost no automation, and manual. Would be nice to have EV without all the “smarts”. Having a single screen as your UI to control basically everything in the car is scary as hell.
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by mickotron 4y ago
If your country/city was being shelled, you wouldn’t have the luxury of turning this into an abstract intellectual exercise. What happened in Afghanistan was devastating and horrific. You think because I’m a Westerner that I have “pick
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by mickotron 4y ago
Elon has a bit of a history manipulating markets to his advantage. This could just be that, again.
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by mickotron 4y ago
And there aren’t any White Supremacist or Nazi groups in Russia that have influence? Or the US? Or Poland, France? Should they all get invaded? It’s a smokescreen, dude.
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by mickotron 4y ago
So you think the invasion was justified? I believe the US and friends are not saints. But whataboutism is meaningless when cities are being destroyed and civilians are losing their lives, regardless of where it is.
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by mickotron 4y ago
Don’t quit your day job Elon. A lot of us are counting on your other businesses succeeding far into the future.
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by mickotron 4y ago
Can you please ELI5 why it would only take a year? Asking for a friend..
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by mickotron 4y ago
As a SpaceX customer, this makes me sad. I want that money to go into his existing businesses. Not some ego trip for silly idealogical reasons. $43B could go some way for more satellites, more ground stations. Investing in businesses alread
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by mickotron 4y ago
He had access to use the actual POTUS twitter account. Wasn’t his personal account banned?
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by mickotron 4y ago
The POTUS should be treated as just a person to Twitter. However, that person has the resources of the world’s most powerful government. POTUS doesn’t need Twitter to get a message out.
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by mickotron 4y ago
Was it ever supposed to?
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by mickotron 4y ago
At least your trains run on time, or at all. I guess your criticism is based on the level of service you have become accustomed to in your country, which is incredibly good by world standards.
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by mickotron 5y ago
Nice! Ok, now someone needs to do WinMerge
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by mickotron 5y ago
I can’t deal with phones that physically big :( if pixels were the size of the mini I would have bought it.
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by mickotron 5y ago
That is amazing. I have been a happy GOS user for years. Sadly, my Pixel 3a EOL is next month. I opted for an iPhone this time as they generally are supported for longer periods of time. Maybe my next phone will be a phone designed for GOS
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by mickotron 5y ago
Scrolling through hundreds of replies not about the topic, but a small, pedantic, niche interpretation of it, or events loosely connected to it. So comically so, it's as if bots were written to reply to posts and they miss the point co
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by mickotron 5y ago
Skype was amazing until it was acquired. Would Zoom even exist today if Microsoft never bought Skype?
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by mickotron 5y ago
I live south of Brisbane and I have Starlink and 4G as primary connections. 80-180mbps on 4G with mounted antenna, and 100-350mbps on Starlink. NBN is a backup. I get maybe 18mbps from that connection on a good day.
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by mickotron 5y ago
They should have targeted the Saudis, not Afghanistan.
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by mickotron 5y ago
Where's your evidence they his soldiers in evacuation groups? You can't drop that in there without backing it up.
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by mickotron 5y ago
Yeah, those approval ratings are as reliable and accurate as the polling numbers on election day for Putin.
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by mickotron 5y ago
The US is not currently occupying Japan, but they did at some point. The US and Japan are currently in an alliance. Japan's constitution requires a self-defense force, so they don't have a normal military. That was imposed by the
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by mickotron 5y ago
Do you deny those things occurred? Way to put up an insta-Strawman. Instead, try to address what the person actually said and meant, in good faith.
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by mickotron 5y ago
I get what you are saying. But referring to it as "Peace Talks" is misleading. There is no goodwill or altruism here. It is purely another military strategy. If the outcome is occupation, that is not peace.
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by mickotron 5y ago
It's not peace talks. It is something like "agree to our demands, otherwise we keep bombing". It's trying to get the outcome they want without further military action. And a takeover by any means is not a peaceful action
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by mickotron 5y ago
The conspiracy theory comments here on Hacker News are very disheartening and not what I expected from this community. Sure, as tech workers we are cynical and pessimistic, and think we know better than the average person. But to think we c
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by mickotron 5y ago
DIR /b /s
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by mickotron 5y ago
I use Aurora Store to anonymously download and update apps on Google Play store, all without any Google Play services (I run GrapheneOS). Signal app on my phone is basically the same APK on Play store.

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