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by prirun 3y ago
The first page says: "instead of being stored as bits on a disk the information is displayed as dots on a screen" But the concept of bits has not been introduced.
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I don't know whether they're real or not, but ordinary people have reported and documented them.
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I would review this link about disputing the DMCA copyright claims against your museum: https://www.eff.org/issues/intellectual-property/guide-to-yo... IANAL, but IMO, you have several points in your favor to argu
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Spectrum puts account and security code on every bill page, even ads
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The goal for MS is as it has always been: to have everyone's computer running MS Windows. Or more recently, for everyone to require a subscription to MS Office365 or whatever it's called. Any product they produce that isn't
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by prirun 3y ago
You know what else would be nice? Being able to get a doctor's appointment in a reasonable amount of time.
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> But given the Snowden leaks ... if there was more truth to it, people would've done the whistleblowing already. People would have said the same thing the day before Snowden went public.
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This "study" says that the decrease in religion is due to exposure to automation, specifically, robots, for the last 20 years. This to me is ridiculous. Just because you have two trends going in the same or opposite direction doe
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> I'd like to see a new regulatory regime that allows individual health care providers like doctors, nurses, etc to start their own practices that are cash only. This is a non-starter because older people with Medicare coverage - th
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by prirun 3y ago
Rs 40 lakh = 48,423.84 USD
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No, but 99.9% are sheep, will submit to anything, won't want to know why, and won't care if you explain it to them.
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Bottom line: every computer that you want to work correctly needs ECC RAM. It's a damn shame that Intel has conditioned everyone to think that only servers need ECC RAM.
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I can't say I'm a fan of self-driving cars, but these days, with everyone texting and talking on their phones while driving, I'm not a fan of people-driven cars either. Of course there are going to be mistakes with self-drivi
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by prirun 3y ago
Chaterbate's cut is 50%. eBay's commission is up to 15%, depending on the category, and then there are PayPal fees on top of that. OF's 20% doesn't seem so unreasonable.
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by prirun 3y ago
Or "My pay is so lousy I have to work multiple jobs to survive"
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"State residents 25 and older — and without a prior postsecondary degree — can work toward an associates’ degree or certificate, and the state will cover costs from tuition and fees to books and supplies." I wonder how easy it wil
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by prirun 3y ago
I have an Applied Math & Computer Science degree, but was largely self-taught and working for computer manufacturers before doing the degree. When I am learning something new or working on something difficult, it's important to kee
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by prirun 3y ago
Light grey background with white text (Firefox)?
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by prirun 3y ago
> houses on average are much larger and feature more amenities A lot of truth in this. I was raised in the 60's in a 3-BR house with 1 bath, a kitchen, and a living room. There were 5 of us including parents, in 850 sq ft, without
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by prirun 3y ago
Just to give a different perspective on degrees, I did get a BS (Applied Math and Computer Science at an engineering school) and in my late 20's secured a large contract with IBM at Ford. Ford wanted me to do the work (they knew me fr
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by prirun 3y ago
Somewhat related, my sister was a medical transcriber. For the younger crowd who may not realize what this is, doctors used to dictate their medical notes to tape recordings and the tapes were sent to services that would listen to the tape
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by prirun 3y ago
"Please respect the truism that if you have a great career and a crappy marriage you will be unhappy, but if you have a great marriage and a crappy career you will be happy." This may be true, but it complete ignores the alternati
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by prirun 3y ago
The title is a bit misleading, because right underneath it says: "Price push by Disney, others is part of effort to trim losses, steer users toward more-lucrative ad-supported plans" If ad-supported plans are more lucrative, the o
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by prirun 3y ago
Or maybe not, since they'd have Microsoft as a 50% investor.
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Don't see the point if the product reviews are fake.
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I stopped reading on this: "On the federal level, the Democrats have found endless resources to bail out the banks and fund their plans for World War III against Russia and China." Really? I hate all politicians equally, but IIRC
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When Microsoft does not have market-share lead, they are pro-customer in that market - hardware in this case. If Microsoft has the leading market-share and doesn't feel threatened, they are anti-customer, ie, Windows. This usually hol
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by prirun 3y ago
In question 26, with the overlapping colored circles, aren't answers A and B ambiguous? In the original drawing, it isn't possible to tell whether the black circle on the right is over or under the wider blue circle, and this is
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People are fittingly characterized as a virus in "The Matrix". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5foZIKuEWQ
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A neighbor with diabetes is on Mounjaro. She's reducing her dosage because she not only has lost interest in food, she has to force herself to eat and it makes her nauseous to even think about food. It's crazy to me to think that

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