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by rfwhyte 2y ago
I love OLED panels and their amazing color reproduction, but I'll never buy another device that uses them ever again if I can help it. My current laptop developed pretty horrific burn-in after just a couple years of regular use, and th
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
No, it's more that the so called "Journalists" have directives from their editors and corporate overlords to never link to any external content that might see people who could be reading the article and thus served ads leave
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
"The Brooklyn-based startup is making the 32-inch model’s price available on request." What incredibly lazy and feckless journalism. You're writing a bloody article about the thing, request the damn price and publish it.
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
You can get wrist worn step counters on Amazon for literally one single dollar. You can get Bluetooth connected "Smart watches" that count steps and monitor your heart rate for less than $20, so in what world is this thing at $56
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
One interesting thing to note, is that in 1949 Levit sold houses in Levittown for $7990, which adjusted for "Inflation" to 2024 dollars is equivalent to $105K. Those exact same houses that sold for $105K in 2024 dollars in 1949 ar
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
It's always seemed patently obvious to me that humans were the primary cause of megafauna extinctions. First and foremost because the timing of extinctions aligns so closely with the arrival of humans in a given region, but also becaus
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
I sincerely hope you're joking. The Richat Structure is a natural geological formation and Atlantis isn't real. Anyone who says otherwise is either a conman trying to sell something, or is an utter moron.
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
Another fact that supports this perspective is that the North American megafauna survived through numerous cycles of ice ages prior to the arrival of humans. There was nothing particularly unique or special about the last ice age, the only
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
I'm 100% convinced the Rabbit R1 and the Humane Pin are in fact not AI "Assistants" but rather "AI" spying / user data harvesting devices. This is the reason their batteries deplete so fast. They're consta
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
Second chances are yet another of the many, many privileges afforded exclusively to the rich in our society. For the rest of us, one mistake can literally be terminal. Mistakes cost time and money, neither of which the majority of people ha
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
Yet more fuel on the bonfire that is the fact that basically all tech journalism these days in thinly veiled "Sponsored content" that places the interests of advertisers above the interests of the reader. The trust consumers once
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
I am 100% convinced that Trump Media is Trump's endgame graft. He stands to make literally billions upon billions of dollars from this unabashed scam, and I think selling MAGA suckers shares in his MAGA "Social media platform&quot
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
A decade and a half ago a film-producer buddy and I, along with a motley crew of some other rad folks did a web-series based on putting out a series of "Bait-bikes" and trying to film people stealing them and then us eventually re
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
Based on the fact it looks like a Teenage Engineering product, I can already tell it'll be wildly overpriced. I'm betting >$500, which is flat out insane given you can get a pretty decent mechanical keyboard for $50 these days.
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
Greener cities are absolutely a necessity for humanity, but sadly will be reserved for the wealthiest who can afford the "Luxury" of such things as clean air, clean water and greenspace. Until the extreme inequality at the core of
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
$500 USD is an absurd price for a "Phone" with such limited usability. Unless you're some edge-case who absolutely "Needs" the longer battery life, I really fail to see how this can justify a $200-$300 price premium
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
The problem I have with extreme, gratuitous wealth, and the inequality that creates it, is that it is fundamentally anti-democratic. It is well known by anyone with a pulse that money = political power, which means those with the most money
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
I find it somewhat feckless how basically every review I've read so far of the Vision Pro seems focused more on the "Potential" of the device than on the current reality of the device itself. Every fault is seemingly boot-lic
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
They are marketed as investments, not housing. The majority of people buying these "Homes" never intended for themselves or anyone else for that matter, to live in them in the first place.
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
I imagine largely because it can happen much quicker than grid scale projects, as it's a lot easier for thousands of individuals to make modest personal investments, than it is for governments to make huge capital investments. Plus the
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
China also built more coal fired power plants in the past year than the rest of the world combined has built in the last decade, and has more operational coal power plants than the rest of the world combined. China's so called "Co
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
Pretty intellectually disingenuous to present a fringe theory that is far from the scientific consensus as accepted fact.
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
The people pushing for "Return-to-office" are by and large people who have substantial portions of their personal wealth invested in commercial real estate. Most wealthy individuals hold at least some real estate in their portfoli
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
Typical corporatist hand-wavey economics bullshit. "Market forces" and a lack of regulation are precisely why we've ended up in this situation in the first place, so yeah, great idea, let's just double down on letting co
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
Hancock is a charlatan of the worst sort. He knows the vast majority of what he says is a distortion of the truth at best, and completely fabricated nonsense at worst, yet continues to say it for the money and attention it has afforded him.
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
Automakers haven't cared about the people who actually drive their cars for a decade or more unless you're in the ultra-premium segment where they make the fattest margins. They keep shoving shit we don't want down our throat
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
The "Earliest known" "Civilizations" all in fact exclusively originated in modern day Turkey, the Levant and Mesopotamia. If you're going to speak on archeology you should at least get your facts straight. There are
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
Without a complete accounting of this companies ties to the CCP, there's literally ZERO chance I'd ever use their man in the middle attack vector device. Giving all my most sensitive login credentials to a Chinese company that&#x2
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
Really don't understand what about this thing makes it worth $6KUSD. Induction cookers aren't new technology, and batteries certainly aren't either. Just reeks of yet another "Tech" startup slapping a 1000%+ markup
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
Cool, you built your own YouTube with hookers and coke and... bitcoin. Lots and lots of bitcoin. Cause lord knows there's literally (checks notes) dozens of people out there clamoring for an "Anti-censorship" streaming plat

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