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by readams 6y ago
A key distinction here is whether you could write your no-code system using your no-code system. If you no-code system is self-hosting, then you've made a higher-level programming language. Otherwise, it's a tool that lives on som
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From 2010
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Foxconnfidence Game
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They tend to get dust packed into them that you can fix with a pin.
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I think you are very confused about how availability is tracked. If a class of users is always getting an error this would be investigated. There is literally no way, at any scale, to guarantee 100% availability.
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I have some hope that Amazon and SpaceX will force prices to go down for at least home internet by bypassing the ISP monopolies. Might be a while though if ever. Google Fiber has sadly fizzled out because of the anticompetitive practices of
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Google makes the browser because they are profoundly vulnerable otherwise to platform owners demanding payment for access to their platforms. Android exists because Google wanted protection against a Microsoft mobile monopoly that seemed in
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They are free to launch their own counterintelligence operations.
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Wrought iron is not steel.
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Nobody makes actual Damascus steel. Layering multiple steels and forge welding them is not how Damascus steel was made.
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The main error in this comic and that I see repeated many times is that because it is not illegal for Facebook, Reddit, or anyone else to censor their communication channels, that it is therefore a good idea that they do so. You have to ask
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Mostly it's driven by the teacher's unions. If we wanted to we could find ways to open the schools. It's just the people who feel the effects of the policy making are not the ones with a voice.
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The result isn't really doom. It's just you have shitty taxi services and everyone is sad. Nobody remembers the reason is bad regulation. Uber started in the first place because taxis in San Francisco were and are so bad that they
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So you imagine that Uber and Lyft drivers will spend their extra money on Uber and Lyft rides so the number of rides won't go down and it will be a perpetual motion machine?
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XBox is the walled garden, not Windows.
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Only if the elites are very short sighted. You can extract far more wealth if the economy is strong.
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Google uses Chrome on Linux internally. Most Google employees use it on their main computers. There's also ChromeOS.
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PayPal fraud protection is mostly about making sure PayPal isn't the one holding the bag in the end. Any actual prevention of fraud is secondary at best.
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This serves as a useful definition of progressive politics: What you get it you make policy considering only first order effects.
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It also includes the fact that their network may be oversubscribed.
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Cows have to go through quite a lot to make it happen, with a multistage digestion process, multiple stomachs, regurgitation and additional chewing of food, the right microbiome. In short it's not an easy trait to just "evolve&quo
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The 5 second load time is exactly the slowness people are complaining about. It's a ~100x slowdown.
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But you cannot use 100% renewable energy without some storage technology not currently known. Nuclear is the only carbon free energy source we have that can supply power reliably.
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Chernobyl was actually very close to the worst case scenario. And it was an especially unsafe design.
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It's value that they created only by preventing business from servicing themselves. It's more like demanding payment for not torching your shop than by offering a unique value generating service. If the app store were really so in
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Large scale infrastructure is no longer possible in the US for all kinds of reasons. But you can't just compare infrastructure projects from the 1930s and pretend it will work. If you had to build the interstate highway system, or tran
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Yes the key thing to remember here is that without something to augment it, wind and solar get diminished returned as they become a higher percentage of your generation capacity. You need either nuclear or some heretofore not invented stora
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This is why the defund the police people really need a better slogan. You can argue that the police should work differently than they do, but it's just obviously stupid to not have police.
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The new UI is awful. I've been trying to figure out how to like it in the previews but the bookmarks are just totally broken and I can't figure out how you're supposed to use it. I just want some pages I can go to easily. The
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You could refuse to transact any tumbler output.

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