rimliu

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601.
by rimliu 6y ago
I hope not many other countries would want to do so, because many have solved internet problem already.
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by rimliu 6y ago
There is no contradiction there. You still will be solving problems and enabling, just with some low-pass filter in front. Which is (mostly) good. Less noice, higher the quality.
603.
by rimliu 6y ago
I don't remember the sky being awarded to America either.
604.
by rimliu 6y ago
So you say this idea was born by the company and not some human ambition? How did Amazon the company, or SpaceX the company come up with this? Nothing to do with Bezos and Musk for sure?
605.
by rimliu 6y ago
Do the targeted ads even work? For me I either see ads for something I just bought, or for something I have no interest in.
606.
by rimliu 6y ago
My bank never used SMS as 2FA. They supported mobile signature for… I do not even remember how long, at least 11 years now. TOTP was supported even before that and is phased out in favour of https://www.smart-id.com/
607.
by rimliu 6y ago
I'd guess US is the only country with the 2nd ammendment. Or at least the 2nd ammendment talking about arms.
608.
by rimliu 6y ago
I am considering building some paid apps for the App Store. If I had to deal with payment processors, handling subscriptions, etc. myself there is zero chances I'd do that.
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by rimliu 6y ago
Have you considered that he may not be the problem? It is known by now that too much sugar is bad for you. And for someone not raised on American diet of the dumb smiles and constant fake positivity that diet is indeed vomit-inducing. That
610.
by rimliu 6y ago
I don't really get this obsession with preserving the status quo. It is not universally good and by doing so we may prevent good things from happening.
611.
by rimliu 6y ago
I think this is English specific and could do more harm than good for someone with a different background. E.g. in my language counting anything > 1000 in hundreds would sound very weird.
612.
by rimliu 6y ago
It may also create necessary mental burden. I think too much has been considered "unnecessary mental burden" recently, including education.
613.
by rimliu 6y ago
So, the solution is to dumb everything down to the least common denominator?
614.
by rimliu 6y ago
What would be considere a proof in linquistics?
615.
by rimliu 6y ago
How is that being forced on everyone? E. g. I do not use Steam, so they can do whatever they want, it would have zero effect on me.
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by rimliu 6y ago
I am not sure non-technical people have any desire to "operate 'servers'". Not sure about their desire to own data, either…
617.
by rimliu 6y ago
You forgot european lives fighting american wars in ME.
618.
by rimliu 6y ago
Every payment and subscription going through Apple is one of the best features for me. Especially the subscriptions.
619.
by rimliu 6y ago
> but the two concerns are orthogonal really. They are not, really.
620.
by rimliu 6y ago
And murder is ok?
621.
by rimliu 6y ago
There are studies stating the opposite. They are not that popular in the popular media, because people don't like their "intuition" to be wrong". Not to mention, that the title is misleading.
622.
by rimliu 6y ago
> Developers wanting the last shinny programming > language instead of mastering one. Well, how about "developer wanting it all to be Java(Type)Script"?
623.
by rimliu 6y ago
I went so Safari as my default browser when Firefox (which I was using from Phoenix 0.3 irrc) became slow and bloated. Chrome and Google marketing had nothing to do with it.
624.
by rimliu 6y ago
Especially if you do tethered shooting. Many photographers switeched to it for that reason (among the others).
625.
by rimliu 6y ago
You do not even have to dispose it. You basciall have a single-use card. When it is used, another one is generated.
626.
by rimliu 6y ago
For video editing you can always try DaVinci Resolve. Free and very powerfull. There are some limitations, but they will very likely not be important for "some editing" work.
627.
by rimliu 6y ago
https://xkcd.com/605/
628.
by rimliu 6y ago
we get little oxygen from the mature forests.
629.
by rimliu 6y ago
You know, I grew up in USSR. There were no western made cars, only soviet ones: Ladas (based on 40 years old FIAT), Volgas, the dreaded Moskvich or Zaporozhets. Volgas were for the elite and not really accessible for the ordinary citizens,
630.
by rimliu 6y ago
Alas, your problem #1 is not really about memorization, it is about understanding. Take a human to the house they have never been before and tell them: "make me some tea". Now try that with any robot you want. It is you being opti

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