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by smoovb 5y ago
Kills the touch bar, the light touch keyboard, adds back weight, card reader, ports and the mag safe. Feels like an apology for prior design decisions. My 2011 MBP is new again!
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by smoovb 5y ago
Some of the 10,000 species have this property, but by no means is it the defining characteristic. The massive scale of growing bamboo plants that would be needed would best take place in large empty deserts. Finding the right species and w
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by smoovb 5y ago
Yes, it's called bamboo and it sequesters 3x the carbon and grows to maturity 10x faster than a normal forest (3 years vs 30 years). And bamboo has some of the qualities of rebar, so should mix nicely with concrete. Of course it is b
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by smoovb 5y ago
Air-con. Sometimes you're just forced out of the heat into a mall.
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by smoovb 5y ago
Right. The state of malls in US is quite a contrast to Asia where new malls keep being built, especially here in Thailand. Malls across Asia represent the height of social interaction. Teenagers come and hang out. Social events like fashi
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by smoovb 6y ago
Tether is as legitimate as any non-US, non-regulated, company unable to do business with reputable banks or auditors could be. The NY AG case went a good way to legitimize them.
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by smoovb 6y ago
WhatsApp grew to its size because of its first mover advantage. The completion, SMS, had the highest cost of data transmission on the planet, so not hard to see the reason for its growth. WhatsApp squandered their early lead with slow devel
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by smoovb 6y ago
> As many tech leaders publicly voiced support for Black Lives Matter protests, Black employees at Coinbase said on the Slack messaging platform that they were hurt by the silence of Mr. Armstrong and other executives about the matter. A
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by smoovb 6y ago
Better than a sale, would be a one off borrow, and pay back your loan each month. No tax event.
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by smoovb 6y ago
I wondered if they considered the Nexo model where the card is a credit card and each transaction is a loan against your crypto assets. Paying pack the money your borrow each month should trigger no tax events given your never selling your
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by smoovb 7y ago
Agree, and I'm read to pay for Chrome Premium ( or as it is called now - Brave browser )
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by smoovb 7y ago
Covid-19 fallout is also saving lives with regards to traffic deaths and air pollution.
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by smoovb 7y ago
The 2 device solution seems best. One device for connectivity and essentials, the other device for personal stuff. Prepaid sims are so cheap, can't see how this is about saving money.
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by smoovb 7y ago
Your phone sees this as normal SIM and connects to cell towers in the same way, so not sure what this achieves?
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by smoovb 7y ago
• Elon Musk viewed as more unpopular than Mark Zuckerberg as his company passes 1T in valuation. • No new smartphones will contain SIM card slots. • US government follows China's blockchain based Yuan in issuing a crypto based USD.
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by smoovb 7y ago
A Delorean Hummer love child.
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by smoovb 7y ago
They made it to erase any doubt about an electric truck being tough.
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by smoovb 7y ago
Not meant to be mainstream. It's meant to be f'ing tough and show how much of a beast the electric vehicle can be. Really takes the air out of being 'Built Ford Tough' Likely just following the Roadster play book. G
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by smoovb 7y ago
More studies on the topic with microscopic images: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4624768/
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by smoovb 7y ago
With the ease of adding a roaming eSIM, there is not much need to worry about origin of international roaming plans. You can get an eSIM2Fly (Thailand) or Three (Hong Kong) eSIM for roaming in all of Asia for under $5 per GB.
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by smoovb 7y ago
Does this mean Stripe will change its allowed merchants? We sell digital telecom products and Stripe does not accept our business. This would be a product we could use, but can't if they are still rigid about their accepted business.
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by smoovb 7y ago
Chase that with this article - "Enough with the 'Actually, Electric Cars Pollute More' Bullshit Already" https://jalopnik.com/enough-with-the-actually-electric-cars-...
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by smoovb 7y ago
Glad it's been brought to light, but does seem to be a problem that is solve-able.
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by smoovb 7y ago
If only some scary entity with far reaching powers could make everyone scared enough to make a run on the Tether bank...
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by smoovb 7y ago
There are licensed and regulated stable coins on the rise ( like USDC, PAX ), that will play by all the rules, have better protections, be audit-able and have the ability to be revoked in cases of crime. In a free market there is also a pla
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by smoovb 8y ago
It takes a player with some size to move the needle on this one. And likely we'll have a few of these services. Civic still has a roll to play.
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by smoovb 8y ago
Telegram just raising $1.7B in a crypto sale, which means it is the largest chat app not owned by a major corp or government. Plus familiar interface to Whatsapp, they won't even know you switched them.
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by smoovb 8y ago
Line is clearly the most fun - making most of their money from selling virtual stickers.
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by smoovb 8y ago
Telegram is a hands-down better experience than whats app. I think it’s the first one to give the ability to edit messages after you sent them.
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by smoovb 8y ago
I have 12. No real switching cost. Telegram - Thought Leaders + productivity Slack - Biz stuff Line - Thai ppl WeChat - Chinese ppl Hangouts - school + free calls Viber - Old way to call WhatsApp - Late adopters Messeger - Sheeple Signal -

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