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by rospaya 5y ago
> As a result, everyone else had to sell... some kind of earbuds and charger. These didn't have to be good, but they did have to be in the box. Are you implying that before the iPhone nobody sold chargers or earbuds with the phone?
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> Before the iPhone, the only smartphones anyone really had were Blackberrys Because the US sucked for mobile phones until Apple beat the providers into submission. The rest of the world used Nokia or Sony Ericsson smartphones that had m
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You failed to mention 194 nations where it does mean something.
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I'll admit Spotify (and other platforms in a smaller degree) aren't ideal and operate in an ethical gray spot the size of the moon, but the convenience is so hard to beat, it would literally take hours every week to make my music
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This basically keeps the status quo and gatekeeps any marginal opinion. Today's toaster fucking is tomorrow's right to repair or yesterday's abortion rights. It only helps to preserve the system. I for one am happy about all
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The US has a presidential position that is too strong (the US-type presidential system is often called one of the worst US exports) but there are long established institutions and mechanisms that keep the ball going. Trump(ism) found gaps a
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by rospaya 5y ago
> The first American born president (born after the revolution) was Van Buren, the first 7 were born British citizens! Van Buren was born in NY, in the US, but was the only president that used English as a second language. Both of his pa
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by rospaya 5y ago
> The next wave is 3D I wasn't the last 5 times I heard it, what makes you think it will be this time?
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by rospaya 5y ago
System-wide? Not really since AWS has hundreds of services. Some services or some regions fail sometimes, but in 99% of cases good architecture can avoid that.
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> No, $100B is a tiny, single digit fraction of NATO military spending Are you sure about that math? Total NATO spending is 1.2T.
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I'm surprised nobody mentioned Europass. Personally, I'm not a fan precisely because it only shows raw info and doesn't leave anything for interpretation - it's cold and bureaucratic. But I understand why people love to
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by rospaya 5y ago
I was in love with various tiny computers, had a Sharp Zaurus C760 for some time, it was a full Linux machine in a small clamshell. https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7162
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Buzzfeed makes money from the quizes and other crap so they can make serious journalism - which nobody is prepared to pay for.
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by rospaya 5y ago
Not that I don't agree, but: > Iraq war Largest protests in history and (less noticable) a decline in US power, leadership, respect. In 50 years the Iraq war fuckup whill the thaught as the moment the American empire began to fall.
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by rospaya 5y ago
> The Balkan states in particular come to mind, they also had a chance to start anew with a clean slate in the 90's This is an ignorant thing to say and it borders on orientalism and ignores all the facts that led to them being &quo
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by rospaya 5y ago
Just another victim of the ultra-polarising US media machine that's halfway between dumbed down mass entertainment and media wings of political and commercial interests. Some more, some less, but it's increasingly forcing people t
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This would convert his business to fighting fraud 24/7 practically overnight.
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Notice I wrote ONLY. Of course it's a huge motivation, but would I move to a country or city I hate for x dollars? Would I work in a company that's making chemical weapons that work only on kids? Would I work for Facebook? No I wo
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by rospaya 5y ago
It's a sad life if money is the only motivator.
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I read an alternative history book that suggests that 9/11 would be worse in that case. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/16034689-43-when-gore...
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Everybody kills Hitler on their first (time) trip. https://archive.briankoberlein.com/2015/11/09/everybody-kill...
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by rospaya 5y ago
> there is no middle ground anymore Isn't there a grand coalition in Germany for most of the last 15 years between the center-left and center-right which did very well?
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by rospaya 5y ago
Sounds like Linkedin.
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In some countries mobile phone numbers have a prefix so you know by that.
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by rospaya 5y ago
It's not that rare - Iraq, South Africa, Liberia.
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Even a quantum computer?
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Microsoft likes to throw around cloud figures that include Office 365 to make their market share sound bigger in comparison with AWS.
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by rospaya 5y ago
> If Maciej had hedged his bets and accepted Bitcoin payments for Pinboard in 2013[1], it would most have been the most cost-effective action of his entire life. He would be worth millions more today. This argument makes me hate cryptobr
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by rospaya 5y ago
It's extremely ironic to read this on the international workers day, May 1st. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day People died so you can have an 8 hour workday, and they organized in the wor
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by rospaya 6y ago
> I'd bet there are hundreds or thousands of genius programmers living in Russia, Brazil, the Balkans, Guatemala and many other countries that simply couldn't land a job at FAANG even if they wanted to. I could make more money

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