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by not_math 5y ago
While living in Montréal, I could walk around 5 minutes outside (from my apartment to the metro) and never have to go outside again to go to work or school until I had to come back home.
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by not_math 5y ago
It's easy to save money, just pirate it ! You're right about it saving money, but maintaining a server, making sure there are backups and all the work and money you need to put into it can easily outweigh the savings for many. Jus
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by not_math 5y ago
Right. Oculus Rift has been developed in the US, and seeing all the companies that have followed the trend of VR (Valve, Sony, HTC, HP), I guess this could be an example of a revolutionary tech. Tesla while not revolutionary (electric vehic
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by not_math 5y ago
AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, Nvidia and Apple are all American companies that are innovating in the CPU and GPU market designed in the US. Except maybe Samsung with their Exynos chip, who has better innovation in this sphere? Might have been a lon
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by not_math 5y ago
From my experience, apps are not developed anymore with power user in mind. There use to be a terminal app (DOS) at a company I worked at which only worked with shortcuts, the learning curve was pretty steep but after a while using it you c
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by not_math 5y ago
Look at most of the biggest banks' website and their UI/UX is not even in the same league. I feel like stripe understood that their main clients are web geeks, so they are ready to pay the price and give the ressources needed for
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by not_math 5y ago
DuckDuckGo is pretty good, is all about privacy and they don't have way less ressources as Apple. But we saw how the launch of Apple Maps was not perfect, so maybe it's easier and better for them to accept the $15B.
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by not_math 5y ago
The Airbnb is a solution to a temporary problem, which is that there is a lot of Afghan coming to America and need temporary shelter while they find something else. The homelessness problem needs a more long-term solution than 25k shelters
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by not_math 5y ago
Before 18 (or 21, or 16) it's debatable that humans have the capacity to self-control, or make their own decisions understanding the effect on themselves and those surrounding them. I'm not saying that they're completely obli
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by not_math 5y ago
It was pretty clear why they dropped them, which is most people hated it (while a few very much loved them). I loved my Steam Controller but right now I'm using mostly my Xbox controller for PC. The Wii U was a failure, but I feel (and
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by not_math 5y ago
It's not okay to over hype a product and calling an autopilot when it's really just a glorified automatic break system and steering system. This caused people to die, and similar story doesn't seem to happen with other car br
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by not_math 5y ago
Why don't they host on an alternative to GitHub?
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by not_math 5y ago
I feel like it's not a knowledge problem to the counterfeiters, but more of how the economics work in counterfeits. A lot of people are ready to pay for a 20$ bag on AliExpress and probably never seen how a real Louis Vuitton bag feels
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by not_math 5y ago
It seems like they at least created the recipe at first, so it's not just 100% marketing. > Austrian entrepreneur Dietrich Mateschitz was inspired by an existing energy drink named Krating Daeng, which was first introduced and sold
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by not_math 6y ago
From reading about it, Drizly has partnerships with retailers in 1,400 cities, which might be easier to get if you just buy the company than working 2-3 years to get to this level, and fight the market share with a well established company.
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by not_math 6y ago
It's a failed dream. We don't see more building designed like that in Montreal, just more skyscraper so we can be more like Toronto or New York.
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by not_math 6y ago
There's this Codenames clone [1] that's great, you can play in multiples languages and you don't need to share a screen to play. It's for 4-8 players and it's easy to play. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by not_math 7y ago
From Wikipedia: "The concentration of active psilocybin mushroom compounds varies not only from species to species, but also from mushroom to mushroom inside a given species, subspecies or variety. The same holds true even for differen
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by not_math 7y ago
Mathematics is used in statistics, physics, biology, finance, engineering, medicine, social science and more. Even in the 15th century, most mathematics was done by non-mathematicans, it's not a new thing.