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by shoes_for_thee 7y ago
I'm part of one of those big companies that also maintains free tools and contributes back to the community because we have a vested interest in doing so. I would value our contributions back to the community at around $500k annually,
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by shoes_for_thee 7y ago
Wouldn't the advantage of being able to cruise at low RPMs massively increase range with the same size battery? And wouldn't not replacing the transmission result in lower costs for the retrofit? If the upfront cost of a retrofi
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by shoes_for_thee 7y ago
Why bother replacing the gearbox?
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by shoes_for_thee 7y ago
It's less about sharing their interest in those things -- sports, wine, kids -- and more about being interested in the person: "why did you find yourself interested in wine?" "what was it like having kids?" etc. lea
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by shoes_for_thee 7y ago
These are excellent, very much open questions. I mostly wanted to point to the parent comment and say, "Things are not quite so pat." I should have explicitly said so. Sometimes I think paradoxes exist to teach us that many things
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by shoes_for_thee 7y ago
So are you technically a different person when your every cell is replaced?
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by shoes_for_thee 7y ago
> (Americans fetishize a sort of "rugged individualism" where you alone can solve every problem you're faced with or else it's not a real problem) Nearly any attempt paint American Culture with broad strokes is going
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by shoes_for_thee 7y ago
leisure suit larry, for one. being a child at the time of its release, the boss key made absolutely no sense to me. neither did any of the humor in the game.
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by shoes_for_thee 7y ago
presumably this darknet service to decrypt RSA is being used for nefarious purposes. i suppose you could prevent yourself from having access to the stuff people are decrypting and hope some kind of safe-harbor law would protect you.
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by shoes_for_thee 7y ago
You're going to have to launder a lot of money. What's your strategy there?
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by shoes_for_thee 7y ago
You can do that now.
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by shoes_for_thee 7y ago
"the population bomb," eg
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by shoes_for_thee 7y ago
Going from one side of a river (okay, a strait..) to another sounds more dramatic when it separates continents.
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by shoes_for_thee 7y ago
having data and experience to back this up -- you are entirely correct.
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by shoes_for_thee 7y ago
How is that unfair?
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by shoes_for_thee 7y ago
This is addressed in the article.
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by shoes_for_thee 7y ago
> Should I use this in real life? Dear god yes.
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by shoes_for_thee 7y ago
Hi, yes, thank you & welcome to the Society of the Spectacle.
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by shoes_for_thee 7y ago
It's really the unintended deceleration you need to worry about.
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by shoes_for_thee 8y ago
Please see SDS and the Weather Underground, in that case.
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by shoes_for_thee 8y ago
> As a developer, I want to work with people who are at least as knowledgeable as me, and preferably much more so. If they embraced the same sentiment, people who you prefer to work with (eg, those who are much more knowledgable) would p
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by shoes_for_thee 8y ago
Oh god, yes. At my previous job this would happen constantly. Super annoying.
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by shoes_for_thee 8y ago
Ban Clickbait Title Bullshit
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by shoes_for_thee 8y ago
> I strongly doubt Digital Ocean would give customer data to anyone without a warrant from a judge A subpeona from a grand jury or an NSL would be more than sufficient.
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by shoes_for_thee 8y ago
perhaps it was known that hCG is present in the urine of pregnant women. and also that hCG induces ovulation in frogs. If injecting frogs with urine is cheaper than other methods of detecting signaling horomones.. well, there ya go.
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by shoes_for_thee 8y ago
That sounds lovely. I imagine the weather must have been fairly warm? I spent a few summers in my youth similarly barefoot in Virginia from June until September. I remember enjoying it, and it's something I often wish I could revisit a