mrkstu

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by mrkstu 8y ago
Built ins are expected to stay- freestanding things like refrigerators and washer/dryers are usually negotiable. We just replaced our built in oven/burners with a slide out one and not sure what the expectation will be with that o
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by mrkstu 8y ago
A major component of the homeless issue was Supreme Court decisions making it extremely difficult to involuntarily commit mentally ill people into residential treatment and compel taking of medication for their conditions. A good summary ca
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by mrkstu 8y ago
I run into this every time I help my kids with their math homework- even for subjects I thought I had learned comprehensively their curriculum covers branches/approaches I've never seen before, down to elementary school work.
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by mrkstu 8y ago
Did until recently- notice that you can now get regular Diet Coke (and I assume other sodas) in mini cans and the new Diet Coke flavors come in skinny/tall cans only.
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by mrkstu 8y ago
Thanks for that link- I run the proxy at work, and since we do some ssl decrypt, dealing with FF can be a pain- this should lessen that considerably.
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by mrkstu 8y ago
I block advertising as a category at our corporate proxy (it saves about 20% of potential web traffic and about 85% of the vectors of infection,)! People definitely aren’t going to be happy if they start losing their accounts for listening
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by mrkstu 8y ago
Which works fine until they own a monopoly to a business with high cost of entry and decide to raise prices again. Things like this are rarely simple.
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by mrkstu 8y ago
Most westerners appreciate a balance between supporting one's country of origin in a generic, thoughtful way, and unthinking jinoism[0]. Part of the mental maturity process is being able to see the greater affects of the policies of on
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by mrkstu 8y ago
I'd add that Apple News has had a much better hit rate than Google News. It consistently has added new suggested categories based on my observed preferences.
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by mrkstu 8y ago
My wife's percentages have changed over time w/o a new sample- they've just refined their data and can give better results from the original data.
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by mrkstu 8y ago
A magnitude lower- its 3 actually: https://www.statista.com/statistics/196630/number-of-employe... Less than I would of thought- considering it used to be a rite of passage for many teenagers.
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by mrkstu 8y ago
Also note that DNS will load balance the IP presented. For instance 'dig'ing yahoo.com gives me the following: ;; ANSWER SECTION: yahoo.com. 92 IN A 72.30.35.9 yahoo.com. 92 IN A 98.138.219.231 yahoo.com. 92 IN A 72.3
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by mrkstu 8y ago
There is a scale model photograph in the gallery: https://img.newatlas.com/hyundai-elevate-walking-car-15.png?...
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by mrkstu 8y ago
Because that 'first class' keyboard experience doesn't actually let it work as a laptop. You still need a stable surface to work on.
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by mrkstu 8y ago
I carry all 3 (iPad Pro, MacBook Pro, Surface Pro) with me (work reasons), but the Surface hardly gets used as it is inferior to the iPad as a tablet and as a computer to the MacBook. I'm interested in moving to VDI based on the iPad w
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by mrkstu 8y ago
The pullback of outflows capital to foreign locations is the most telling to me. Chinese companies are starting to be net sellers instead of net acquirers of foreign assets. That would be fine if it was just because they were getting better
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by mrkstu 8y ago
Thats 100% because of Google Fiber- if you'd come in a couple years before that, the high speed choices were all expensive, bundled, and data capped.
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by mrkstu 8y ago
Ecologically the Soviet Union was the largest human caused disaster in the planet's history. More humans killed in pogroms and unnecessary famines in Soviet Union/China/Cambodia than those caused in all modern warfare. The me
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by mrkstu 8y ago
This is the brilliance of iMessage where it gets critical mass- fallback to SMS but pushing the iMessage identity tied to an account that follows you to new phones/devices. I think that iMessage network effect is a big reason for the s
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by mrkstu 8y ago
No, you are also directly providing them with metrics if you use their platform- whereas Azure/Google aren't going to turn around and start selling a competing widget if you use their infrastructure.
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by mrkstu 8y ago
Biggest exit by a Silicon Slopes (Utah) company (by far)? Ancestry.com was 1.6B, Omniture 1.8B. Plural sight and Domo maybe next?
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by mrkstu 8y ago
If you do that, you can just simplify it down to an automatic bluetooth beacon that identifies you to the government- and if you don't carry one you're not allowed out in public. I think they just don't want to be quite so bl
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by mrkstu 8y ago
An interesting aside from an iPad Pro review noted that Apple's silicon designers are focused on the best design for the purpose of that particular piece of hardware. I think that's an important insight on how and why Apple is lap
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by mrkstu 8y ago
At this point it's a good bet the next plain 'MacBook' will be an A series processor. We're looking at the leading edge of an eventual transition to Apple's full hardware stack using its own IP top to bottom, though
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by mrkstu 8y ago
If IBM has one brain cell left, they'll pull a NeXT/Apple merger and let Red Hat executives start running the combined company. That is the one path to a real future for IBM instead of its slow decline into complete irrelevance.
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by mrkstu 8y ago
I have 6 kids, some got spanked others not at all. But when you have a 3 yr old who isn't listening and may put themselves in danger with their actions, sometimes a quick attention getting spank can save a life or at least a hospital v
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by mrkstu 8y ago
I don't in any way expect that Twitter has reviewed a tweet for content and approves of the content therein. Equally so for Facebook et al. The platforms ubiquity makes them the Hydes Park / Public Square of the modern age- if any
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by mrkstu 8y ago
Are we at war with white supremacists? ANTFIA? Venezuela? Equating ISIS with supremacists is equating a nuclear bomb with an M80 firecracker.
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by mrkstu 8y ago
I think the onus is on those who would silence debate to prove the immediate harm they are advocating isn't the worse alternative. There is a reason why prior restraint on speech is almost impossible to compel in American courts. I fin
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by mrkstu 8y ago
Those aren't just ideas- those are vicious actions. I don't think giving access to those we are actively at physical odds with is within bounds of debating ideas. I doubt the founding fathers were inviting Quislings to their debat

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