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by nico_h 7y ago
there are a lot of anecdotes about how a song or a book or a movie changed someone's life.
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by nico_h 7y ago
First of all there is no such thing as a free market. Universities advertise good careers if you go through them, and I am not sure these numbers are as balanced as they could be. Second even if it were, there is a terrible imbalance of pow
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by nico_h 7y ago
The top of the line gaming cards went from 899 for a 1080ti to 1299 for a 2080ti I hope AMD / RADEON and Intel put some competition in that market.
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by nico_h 7y ago
- I added a first name to my conversation contacts, but it keeps showing the phone number. In the app and in notifications. - There is a fixed pop under at the bottom of the screen asking me to confirm my profile name, with “Get Started” o
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by nico_h 7y ago
Is there no open source or European alternative? Just keep relying on some Californian dude that insist i give him my and my friends phone numbers? And harass me so i give him more info to “personalize my profile” !?
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by nico_h 7y ago
Just use email. Or whatsapp. Or iMessage with backups turned on.
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by nico_h 7y ago
I can’t figure out why we are not switching to active listening devices , star trek badge style instead of enduring this permanent surveillance thing. We’re reaching the point where it becomes feasible in terms of electronics density and ba
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by nico_h 7y ago
I have to plug mine, even though I haven’t touched it in years: Frankenstein’s ___.sh , a bash script that mash some html placeholders together with your multimarkdown content into a bunch of static files. Supports blog, hierarchical and p
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by nico_h 7y ago
I’m looking for a multi-platform (linux-mac-ios) markdown editor that saves at regular interval and keeps history and sync via git. Is there anything like that? How hard would it be to extend joplin to write a service driver to sync via Git
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by nico_h 7y ago
> With stocks you get the same returns and votes per share that anyone else does. I believe founders have wised-up to that and now there are differently voting shares, the most prominent being Facebook, which is controlled by the Zuck &a
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by nico_h 7y ago
That’s a double edged lever. If apple can’t make iPhones in china it can’t employ Chinese citizens, and these jobs move out of the country. So does the investment in training. Though it might clear up the market for local brands.
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by nico_h 7y ago
There’s a difference between a golden path for a demo for a product that will ship in 6 month and a public release thats still very buggy. And a public beta that will mess your files on other devices(!?)
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by nico_h 7y ago
Guru in sects would be an example. If you see people unconditionally supporting a company then someone has succeeded in highjacking their mimetic drive.
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by nico_h 7y ago
you should read Musk’s “Tesla Secret master plan “ then: “”[...]the overarching purpose of Tesla Motors (and the reason I am funding the company) is to help expedite the move from a mine-and-burn hydrocarbon economy towards a solar electric
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by nico_h 7y ago
Cue Musk’s goal of making desirable electric cars. As an attempt to use desire to alter species wide outcome.
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by nico_h 7y ago
Pretty sure the default storage is NVMe Plus you can put some pci NVMe card the can support up to 4 NVMe slots
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by nico_h 7y ago
my SE 64GB is nearing the end of it’s useful life (battery is old, dust on the front and main camera, broken back glass ). I’m looking into either a second hand 128GB SE or getting an out of warranty repair. The small size and one handednes
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by nico_h 7y ago
with code! loose some precision, gain some DNN depth!
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The Salton Sea is dying, threatening communities with clouds of toxic dust(2018)(theverge.com)
4 points by nico_h 7y ago|0 comments
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by nico_h 7y ago
It could be a good feature for Mozilla to be the best privacy protector. Firefox used to be the fastest, if they can be fast and the most private, they might be able to regain some mindshare and maybe market share. There’s just the proble
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by nico_h 7y ago
Isn’t that the problem? That the millennials are not accumulating wealth at the rate of the boomers?
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The climate change Valve Turners(nytimes.com)
1 points by nico_h 9y ago|0 comments
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by nico_h 9y ago
long-chain perfluorinated chemicals (C8 , involved in the production of teflon) see https://theintercept.com/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-decepti... Nictonoides in general (pesticides) are poisons, which we do
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by nico_h 9y ago
1) no 2) Don't know (maybe extraction shortage but not absolute shortage) 3) Aluminium air "batteries", Lithium Ion Graphene battery, solid state, flow battery ... 4) not super green 5) yes 6) different technologies for diffe
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by nico_h 9y ago
"clean natural gas" should read as "slightly less dirty" but it would be much less dirty to leave it in the ground, as both raw and burned it is a greenhouse gas, and I'm pretty sure liquifying and transporting it i
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by nico_h 9y ago
Not an encryption expert, and would likely use it myself. My guess is it's about as secure as putting an encrypted file on the internet. Except this has almost all the information you need to know how it was encrypted. Plus it has a us
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by nico_h 10y ago
A big part of today's media environment is mediated through tech's most popular and/or biggest companies (Facebook and Google, Reddit, probably to a smaller degree Apple), with the internal choices of tech's last big suc
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by nico_h 10y ago
Your point is well taken. I agree, in reality, "the market" thinks the CEO ought to be rewarded more, (I agree with the principle but not with the current levels). However if a CEO destroys billions of dollars of value, he gets a
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by nico_h 10y ago
In theory you could can alter your diet and exercise regimen (not easy but doable). Good luck getting a pension fund or a mortgage not affected by the stock markets these guys blew up.
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by nico_h 10y ago
"Being" a fast food worker, a janitor or "office drone" is not socially nor financially rewarded to a measure commensurate with the toll exerted on the soul or body of the human _occupying the function_. Also, you'r

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