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by nip180 6y ago
When I read that the FBI was asking for help in identifying people at the capital on January 6th I didn’t think someone would actually help.
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by nip180 6y ago
I hope this gets more people in electric cars. If they are able to hit this price point in the US too would consider purchasing.
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by nip180 6y ago
The only thing easier than quitting is relapse.
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by nip180 6y ago
I would work 4 days for 80% pay. I would work four 10 hours days for 100% pay. I’m not sure that those solutions will provide the best business outcomes though.
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by nip180 6y ago
OSS is an important part of hardware ownership. If I cannot control the software running on my device do I really own the device? If I do not fully control the hardware and software of my devices my ability to participate in the Informatio
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by nip180 6y ago
2/3 of Americans support legalizing cannabis. I don’t understand why this bill is so bipartisan among politicians if so many citizens support it.
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by nip180 6y ago
How long was the postponement message up? I have left windows machines doing background processes for weeks to find them interrupted by a restart. Sometimes those interruptions have resulted in data loss. I’ve also had forced restarts whi
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by nip180 6y ago
I have an expectation that i shouldn’t have to interact with my computer every 35 days to prevent it from restarting.
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by nip180 6y ago
> Why is Windows a nightmare? I use Windows 10 on a PC I built and it's fine. I paid $200 for a Windows 10 pro license because I needed to run a Windows application in a virtual machine. I was very unsatisfied with my purchase. I
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by nip180 6y ago
I personally like to read primary sources and I trust Pfizer and other Pharmaceutical companies to not lie in their research findings. I believe in my own ability to read and draw my own conclusions and I trust Pfizer’s own fear of a lawsu
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by nip180 6y ago
Given exponential growth of the virus, and the very large changes to society made to avoid virus population growth I think the NNT isn’t an effective measurement tool. Clearly the value of the vaccine depends heavily on where/when you
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by nip180 6y ago
> we should let them bring DirextX to Linux too. The thing I like about open source is that you don’t need to ask permission to modify, expand, or target. Still, I would never run DirectX on my computers.
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by nip180 6y ago
Medium pays authors for their content.
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by nip180 6y ago
There’s ~1 billion Apple products and ~10 billion annually in payment from Google to Apple. Apple would need to make $10/yr per device in order to replace the revenue from Google. That’s a fairly achievable goal. Of course, there are
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by nip180 6y ago
Does Maps make money for Apple? Does Siri make money for Apple? Apple has a history of not expecting software to make money. This is changing somewhat with their new push towards subscription services. Maybe this will be used to encoura
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by nip180 6y ago
Every large tech company has their flops.
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by nip180 6y ago
Keyword ads are significantly less likely to be clicked on than tracked advertising, because keyword ads are less targeted. This is fact confirmed by Google’s and Facebook’s success at selling targeted advertising. If Apple sells keyword
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by nip180 6y ago
“To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.” is Google’s current mission statement.
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by nip180 6y ago
Considering the large amounts of money Google pays Apple to be the default search engine we are talking about one hell of a loss leader.
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by nip180 6y ago
MotoGP is having an exciting season because the previously dominated rider has been out for most of this season. This highlights the skill of the rider compared to engineering for MotoGP. There also seems to be a psychological thing happen
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by nip180 6y ago
Global wage equilibrium would be horrible for western labor.
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by nip180 6y ago
Minneapolis would have significantly different opportunities, experiences, and communities than Boston. I’m not sure I’d declare one over the other. In this example having the opportunity to spend a lot of time on or by the lake would be
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by nip180 6y ago
It shows Google search results without tracking — no ip, no cookies, not login. I’m not sure what the point is in this context.
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by nip180 6y ago
> The Jeep Wave: when you drive a Jeep, you are required to wave to other Jeep drivers. I wonder if there is an exhaustive list of all similar behaviors. I’ve seen this sort of culture before around other vehicles.
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by nip180 6y ago
I 100% agree he did. I 100% agree that this counts as a service to people in those countries. My point was that those things do nothing to add to the lore that he is an American patriot that defended American constitutional rights. The qu
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by nip180 6y ago
Hey may have defended the rights of people in the rest of the world, but only American citizens have rights protected by the US constitution.
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by nip180 6y ago
Is the server business so big that Intel can survive on just server chips?
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by nip180 6y ago
Are you aware of the very large number of desktop environments and window managers available on *nix systems? “Skins” were popular in the windows ecosystem around XP, but it was far from the peak of customization.
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by nip180 6y ago
I used the term “street heroin” instead of heroin because of all the complications that come along with it being illegal. This is a thread about black markets after all. I don’t feel like my claims are controversial at all. Take cocaine.
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by nip180 6y ago
If cost, purity, and consistency of supply (for the drug and all paraphernalia) wasn’t a problem it’s probably safer to consume heroin regularly than consume coca-coal regularly. With the realities as they are coca-coal is probably safer, b

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