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3y ago
Is "abandoned" the narrative speak for a essentially bank owned real estate that's sitting in bankruptcy court somewhere? The premise this is a billion dollar asset that no one wants is patently asinine.
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3y ago
Why would they tear down a brand new - fully compliant with the current code - nearly finished building?
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3y ago
I'm sure you'll feel the same when someone paints "vote Trump" on your house.
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3y ago
That's gonna be what, $100k plus to clean it up?
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3y ago
Only anywhere near other people.
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3y ago
Had the same exact sentiment with the MH370 mishap - technology has made the planet seem so small that these type of events up being a good reality check: A multi million dollar piece of equipment that continuously talks to space can go s
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3y ago
Can't wait to replace starlink with a new take on back yard furnaces. This is just a re-marketing of the same socialist ideas that have empirically failed every time. People with positive inability to create wealth self-appoint to cont
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3y ago
Tell me you're a bitcoin guy that's never taken a single Macro class without telling me... Government prerogative is to create currency ex-nihilo; there's no need waste a bunch of energy in that process.
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3y ago
It used to be faster in Windows and you could disable omnibox suggestion and autocomplete stuff (google won't because they need that traffic for ad revenue). Then microsoft started adding MSN type of bullshit to it (rewards, bing chat
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3y ago
It's a self defense mechanism after all - someone demonstrably successful and accomplished holding different views forces you to introspect the narratives you were sold... so it's easier to just argue against the former. I would v
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3y ago
They must be vibrating the surface of those picks with ultrasound to modulate the friction. Pretty clever.
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3y ago
There are no rolling elements / wheels that I can see - it looks like low friction pucks that angle and raise/lower to push the objects laterally by having them slide to towards the lower pucks
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3y ago
Probably this: https://github.com/Andre0512/pyhOn/blob/main/pyhon/const.py
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3y ago
I'm not sure this even makes sense on more abstract level - AI "deep fake" bad, but making the same content with couple motionFX guys using Maya ok? Where's the distinction and in what way is AI even relevant here, other
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3y ago
Household appliance in general - our new GE washer and dryer has wifi for use case uknown, but to pay for the BOM they removed the interior drum lights.
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3y ago
Clearing out means swapping to disk, right?
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3y ago
I can never quite figure out what the use case is - as I sit here with 2 brave tabs open, my 10.13 mac is using up 13.58gb of ram. These conversations usually usually end up at "my 8gb ram machine actually swaps constantly, but it'
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3y ago
apple silicone doesn't need any memory tho edit: ha I guess people didn't see the /s in the above
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3y ago
New York just passed a law mandating ~$20/hr for food delivery people (excluding tips I believe), which I imagine will make the service more or less unviable to the customer. The most recent experience actually compelled me to walk up
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3y ago
Or, you know, self control. Otherwise it's just a matter of time 'till something else takes the place of your phone. (I'm ready for the downvotes)
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3y ago
Didn't Microsoft more or less just copy everything from Borland Delphi? They had drag and drop GUI stuff in the early 90s.
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3y ago
> i get two MRIs a year If I may ask a personal question, why?
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3y ago
Given that the source of payment is unrelated to the cost of the service or quality of service, the answer is probably elsewhere? Also I don't think you can come up an example where transitioning from private to state operated enterpri
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3y ago
Blood letting and crystals have been around for a while as well; I don't think that's really the benchmark you wanna go with for healthcare treatment.
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3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act Federal research grants that end up as patents held by US universities and pharma companies.
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3y ago
> Wait times definitely exist in the US as well, especially if you are waiting on a specialist, who likely isn't in your area unless you live in a big enough city. That is simply untrue, the only thing reminiscent of "wait time
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3y ago
Large, rich country + Baumol effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect Politicians pushing single payer or similar such state owned entity are just looking for power and influence.
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3y ago
Are you actually making an argument that microsoft would open up and license the 365 back end, for free, to a direct office competitior?
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3y ago
Looking at the video, that gentleman is one engine out away from dying in the tree tops.
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3y ago
Better analogy would be iWork 365 where Apple reverse engineers the back end to do the cloud storage and collaboration all using MSFT's azure boxes. And charge money for it.
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