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by neither_color 3y ago
Back when it was in news cycles that Tesla's stock couldn't possibly be worth more than legacy automakers' because it was only a matter of time until they came for Tesla's lunch, I couldn't imagine they'd fumbl
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by neither_color 3y ago
For me the desktop version worked fine for months until Beeper Mini got announced here. Too bad they weren't able to keep it low key. In my use case Im already fully invested in the Apple ecosystem. I have a mac, an iphone, and ipad. B
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by neither_color 3y ago
Ive tried the legacy version to consolidate Signal, Whatsapp, etc and you can't send/receive calls, only messages. It's very much still a work in progress
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by neither_color 3y ago
It effectively moves hundreds of millions of people every year between every major city at faster than car, slower than plane speeds. It may not be immediately profitable to the rail line operator but the factories that employ the workers t
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by neither_color 3y ago
Several countries already use the dollar like El Salvador, Cambodia, Ecuador, Panama. Cambodia and Panama use local currency in sub $1 amounts only, and El Salvador and Ecuador were exclusively USD until E.S added BTC, but I know from local
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by neither_color 3y ago
I like how inflation has made having a million just ever so slightly realistic for enough people(heck you can get million dollar mortgages now) that Steinbeck's quote has been changed to "temporarily embarrassed billionaires"
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by neither_color 3y ago
YouTube has been getting passive aggressive lately. My homepage is gone now because I have search history off. It used to just show me videos of channels I'm subscribed to but now I have to click on "Subscribed" to instead. A
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by neither_color 3y ago
Nearly all first world countries rely on immigrants at every skill level with parents who live thousands of miles away in other countries, from PHds to farm hands.
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by neither_color 3y ago
Well said. I just sped through his new bio and while the author seemed overly-apologetic about his assholish tendencies(like in the Thai cave diving incident), his ability to inspire his engineers and get things built is undeniable.
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by neither_color 3y ago
>they will use their substantial experience in dealing with people in poor economic circumstances to target the dates and times of day when benefits payments or paychecks have posted to your account. They’ll surge collection attempts at
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by neither_color 3y ago
The US economy is not stale, it is growing faster than Europe. I raise this comparison because the Euro block was the most similar thing to it in terms of development for the past decade. Other emerging economies have been developing faster
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by neither_color 3y ago
>Everyone involved knew what they were getting into. Not necessarily. For extreme sports like skydiving, bungee jumping, hang-gliding scuba and the like customers still expect a high level of adherence to safety and quality products and
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by neither_color 3y ago
This mental model is great if you assume that you're always going from home to Point A then back home. I've lived in decently walkable cities and whenever on a particular day I need to get to 3-4 or more destinations before coming
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by neither_color 3y ago
Being unwilling to enforce something is not the same as being incapable of enforcing something, and stopping complex state-level research(especially nuclear) is something the US has been doing in many countries for decades. It's why so
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by neither_color 3y ago
>Mr. Davies said he was ready to move on from Three Arrows by the end of last summer. “I really spent so much time meditating in Bali that I’m really just pretty zenned out,” he said. I always found this odd about hardcore meditators. Su
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by neither_color 3y ago
A tip if you travel often is to set up a wireguard tunnel to a home computer. You just need port forwarding on your router enabled. Works better than any paid VPN service for watching your local netflix and it can't be detected.
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by neither_color 4y ago
At those salaries you definitely either have work-provided healthcare or can afford Kaiser platinum
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by neither_color 4y ago
At first students would convert their assigned math problems into Kaktovik numerals to do calculations, but middle school math classes in Kaktovik began teaching the numerals in equal measure with their Hindu-Arabic counterparts in 1997. B
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by neither_color 4y ago
Layperson here: When I click on a forbes article I usually don't notice the author. On Substack I'm subscribed to specific authors and one former newspaper/ now independent journalist I follow.
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by neither_color 4y ago
>As of March 2023, 123 states are members of the Court.[3] Other states that have not become parties to the Rome Statute include India, Indonesia, and China.[3] I looked into it more and while 7 voted against, 21 abstained so votes don&#
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by neither_color 4y ago
I don't really understand what it is about you being an expat for 5 years that gives you unique insight into this situation. Do you happen to be an expat in China, where Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, google, et al have all been banned
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by neither_color 4y ago
To me this strikes me as "chabuduo" culture and not understanding how seriously first world countries take these things. "move fast and break things" and fintech don't go well together, at all. https://ww
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by neither_color 4y ago
I remember my dad asked for help rotating a PDF from portrait to landscape on his Windows PC and realizing he'd have to buy software to do it. It takes one click on MacOS. It made me determined not to get adobe out of principle and I d
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by neither_color 4y ago
I don't believe that "most modern countries" don't make exceptions for work that requires it or critical fields. In fact, those of us who've worked non-traditional shifts usually get some perk out of it. When I work
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by neither_color 4y ago
It's a way of sucking in ppl who have a desire to learn a language and to fool themselves that they are actually working productively towards that goal by using duolingo when instead, they're essentially procrastinating Now that
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by neither_color 4y ago
The last time I tried to do this it was impossible to sign into Office or Xbox on that same PC without logging into a Microsoft Account which subsequently takes over your local login. No way around it other than to not use those apps at all
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by neither_color 4y ago
The number of Americans residing in Portugal is at its highest level in more than a decade, according to agency data. There were about 7,000 Americans living in the country at the end of 2021, more than double three years earlier. source:
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by neither_color 4y ago
I'm like you I disable almost all notifications by default. For some pesky apps that try to be cheeky about it, like Uber Eats requiring notifications but then not letting you opt out of promotional ones, I turn them on only for the du
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by neither_color 4y ago
Only if you can even get a seat, and don't have to change buses/trains.
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by neither_color 4y ago
I don't believe it's fear mongering to accurately point out that the convenience of mandating USB-C is oversold using real examples from devices I own. Ultimately, people end up needing device specific cables or permanently connec

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