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Understood. Even then, though, you couldn't mod the same item more than once, iirc
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Rob Malda of Slashdot has shared some of that valuable information with The Coral Project community: https://community.coralproject.net/t/let-s-begin-at-the-begi...
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Doing which? Allowing multiple likes? Cross-site accreditation? Slashdot hands out Moderation points sometimes, and asks people to meta-moderate sometimes -- both different from Likes.
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from the linked article: > “While OS/2 is not running any visible part of the system, it does serve an essential purpose, and there are hundreds of OS/2 computers in service,” says Neil Waldhauer, a consultant who helps New Yor
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> a limited set of carefully curated stories, chosen by experts among topics we care about That's a good definition of a magazine and of a newspaper.
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w/r/t selection bias, "As of the third quarter of 2016, Facebook had 1.79 billion monthly active users." https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly... Their sample pool cover
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It is smart to be involved in the manufacturing process. There's a spectrum between building a factory and outsourcing completely : having an active say in how your products are made makes sense. Paying for and owning every step of
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"“Over time, the majority of our engineering effort is going into engineering the factory as a product itself,” said Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk …“It’s the machine that builds the machine. If we take creative engineers and apply them to desi
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2017 is projected to be the first year ad spend on digital ($US77BN) is greater than ad spend on television ($US72BN). 2015 was $60BN digital vs $69BN TV. https://www.emarketer.com/Article/Digital-Ad-Spending-Surpas...
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Would increased adoption rates drive app dev in significant new areas? Or does a bigger base primarily mean iterations on the same type fitness apps?
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The piece does cite sell-through, specifically. Is it a meaningful event w/r/t wearables? What are interesting use cases for this watch or others?
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That explanation is sublime.
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The New Yorker is precisely where I saw & adopted the dieresis way back when. It's also simpler to type on vkeyboards than a hyphen -- click-and-hold vs switching layouts and back.
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Ballsy and dangerous coördinating that many people to execute something like this. Cool show with the play-by-play shot well / from multiple angles to explain it all. Will check out more of it.
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> Remember, the NSA piggybacked on Google Analytics tokens for years to track users. Makes all the sense in the world they'd do so, and I have no recollection of that. Do you have the links to share while I look myself for same? TY
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Is a government somewhere witholding assistance from anyone because they're not donating blood or an organ? Or is this a "logical conclusion" you presume it would be taken to should monetary compensation be made available to
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One change could make a difference to the availability of transplantable organs in the US: make donation upon death opt-out vs opt-in on drivers' licenses. There are arguments on both sides of opt-out ("presumed consent"), bu
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I don't disagree the poor would be targeted or coerced to participate. I do disagree people would be "forced," en masse, to donate organs. I also think removing it as an option misses a lot of opportunities.
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The deception is made more difficult via the significant match screening required. When I donate blood, they ask me a series of questions. I can answer as truthfully as I like. How much testing they do to the whole or processed blood likely
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The organ has had x years in a foreign environment. The new host / donee has taken an ongoing regimen of anti-rejection drugs for the duration to prevent that foreign environment from being overly hostile. The organ is not particularly
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Kidneys are amazing -- filtering blood, removing excess liquid, regulating blood pressure. And they're redundant! My brother lost one kidney in an accident that also left him paralyzed and with a slew of other problems. Recurring UTI a
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"Your last two works have been more amusing and exciting to write than they will ever be to read." is a good zinger, and likely true in mnay cases
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throws an error and reloads the page in a loop for me on iOS.
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They have the AWS Marketplace https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace That along your lines?
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You're right. I didn't address the primary issue. And Apple's services have plenty of room for improvement. Making US$20BN in revenue gives runway to make those improvements. The other US$200BN+ / year and cash warchest
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> because Apple has demonstrated it just can't do services "In Fiscal 2015, the Services bin, “revenue from the iTunes Store ® , App Store, Mac App Store, iBooks StoreTM and Apple MusicTM (collectively “Internet Services”), App
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Yes. Still, another successful experimental landing, and another option for experimental relaunches -
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http://www.space.com/33444-spacex-reusable-rocket-first-refl... http://mashable.com/2016/07/16/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-relaun...
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Open by December would be amazing even if it's only from from 72nd to 96th Streets -- The 2nd Ave line has been "in construction" at least since the 1960's.
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Wasn't a big player 20 years ago though many colleagues and employees were -- many occasions finding the "LAN guys" holed-up in the darkened data center at Prodigy frag-festing. Been playing OpenArena for the past several mon

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