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by ponker 6y ago
With a net worth of over $300 million.
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by ponker 6y ago
You must not have heard the old joke "Office 361."
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by ponker 6y ago
The destruction, in this particular case, is that a lot of people aren't going to get a vaccine when it's released, which will kill a lot of people. More broadly, the fact that mis- and dis-information spreads more widely than rea
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by ponker 6y ago
In a nutshell, how does VAC work?
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by ponker 6y ago
Be careful what you wish for... while I've always been a huge fan of the First Amendment, the consequences of completely unrestrained speech have never been clearer, with quite significant numbers of people believing that Bill Gates en
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by ponker 6y ago
But the kind of people with the ambition to be Supreme Court litigators usually will prep for the LSAT enough to get a high score.
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by ponker 6y ago
The Supreme Court is the only branch of government that still has legitimacy — bringing it to the Senate will make it just another political football.
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by ponker 6y ago
What about printing it into a static image and then extracting the curves?
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by ponker 6y ago
The real reason for the updates to the list are to get clicks. If the list doesn’t change at all, there’s no news. If it’s a completely different list every time, there’s no legitimacy. The list is tweaked by the amount that makes it a news
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by ponker 6y ago
Couldn’t you have a program to print the font to a big PDF and then re-ingest it?
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by ponker 6y ago
*flout
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by ponker 6y ago
The best way is to take one of those day gigs selling anything under the sun: magazine subscriptions, American Airlines credit cards, Joe Biden fundraising, etc. Getting over the fear of the “no” is critical, and getting the occasional “yes
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by ponker 6y ago
It’s not an IoT oven, it’s IoT power monitoring and switching. If you turn on the power to the oven that doesn’t turn it on.
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by ponker 6y ago
Kind of a dumb suggestion given you have no idea how much money the parent has, so how much they can afford to pay to avoid annoyance.
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by ponker 6y ago
I thought to myself, “Did I leave the oven on?” I checked my phone, I had, and I turned it off without needing to go back home. The fact that most IoT is shit doesn’t make IoT a stupid concept.
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by ponker 6y ago
The W3C’s core mission is web standards, not FOSS. They are right to prioritize standards #1 just like the FSF website must be FOSS.
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by ponker 6y ago
The W3C has to make accessibility priority #1 — commercial entities usually deprioritize accessibility so the W3C must lead by example.
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by ponker 6y ago
The prevalence of this behavior makes negotiating more important... the company is lowballing you so you have to take what’s on the table.
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by ponker 6y ago
I’d love a small robot that I could put inside the walls of my house that would crawl around and check for water leaks, bugs, etc.
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by ponker 6y ago
Do you seriously think that Amazon never thought of not showing you a second power washer? The data must show that this is more profitable than the alternatives.
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by ponker 6y ago
That's cool but accessible to about 0.1% of the population.
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by ponker 6y ago
There is a big advantage of cloud based cameras and that is that the data is off premises and can't be just taken away on an SD card. Of course you could send video to your own server but that is beyond the capabilities of most users.
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by ponker 6y ago
It's entirely rational behavior. Once a business adopts a technology, they will almost never switch to a different vendor, because the product gets deeply integrated into their business processes. Think about how often you switch your
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by ponker 6y ago
It’s hilarious how small these busts are. 179 people, 500 kg of drugs, $6.5 million of cash/crypto? $6.5 million probably doesn’t build the entryway to the “Sackler gallery.”
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by ponker 6y ago
What is your claim here? That Americans do not consume in absurd quantities as a way of life? Meat, sugar, oil, land, etc.? Is this even a matter of serious debate?
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by ponker 6y ago
The claim here is that the device can actually induce a specific behavior in a cow. A fence can't do that.
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by ponker 6y ago
The Boeing 747 has some art or sexuality to its lines, I can't explain what it is, but I cannot look away from one when I see it. An A380, on the other hand, looks like a fish who got dared by his friends to inhale as much water as he
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by ponker 6y ago
Of course. I am not refuting the point, only highlighting that none was actually made. The deficiency of the argument by trying a more obvious statement of fact. “Two plus two isn’t five, it’s just not.” Agree with you, cap’n. “Two plus two
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by ponker 6y ago
Better modeled as a pinball machine... try to avoid ascribing motives, as they change too fast to build a coherent model.
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by ponker 6y ago
What’s so great about this CEO? Would a cheaper CEO do worse?

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