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You have a wife and a boyfriend?
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This criticism is a little weird. This is an internal protocol in Google’s datacenters. Why should it have to be compatible with anything?
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All networks are “lossy” because any cable can be cut, etc. A “lossy” protocol is one that doesn’t attempt to compensate for that. In most cases, but not all, that means a higher level protocol will need to ensure that every bit of data has
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Such rampant pillaging of taxpayer dollars should have been more severely punished. If I was on a jury I would have sent them to jail for 20 years and slept well that night.
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Imagine obeying a corporation that doesn’t even pay you
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Yes, engineering team.
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Threads is a 12 person team.
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I’m sure the Cisco CEO is quaking in his boots thinking about this cronjob
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Very basic engineering would be to modulate the sender at a specific frequency
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The problem is that these companies are so large that they can only handle customer service with automated error-prone systems, but are also so large that if you get blackballed by them you are in a real jam because they’re the only vendor
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McDonalds has one of the most extensive food safety programs in the restaurant industry and a sterling track record. McDonalds is perhaps the meal least likely to give you food poisoning of anything in America
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“Because my friends have one” is one of the absolute best reasons for a middle schooler. It just doesn’t sound like a good reason to an adult. If the other kids are all playing a game the one without a phone is left out.
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Physics stopped Moore’s law
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“Here we have the newly installed Destructoid 3000, you put panda bears in this end and it burns them up and mixes the ash into the concrete.”
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Microsoft has pretty good customer service for their best customers (S&P500 corporations).
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Why don’t they just build a white noise generator into the app themselves?
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That’s the way the greatest countries were built
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Oh no, they might need to actually go into the office?
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Very cool!
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No, a common crook shuts his mouth and says “talk to my lawyer.” This is a guy with a God complex
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It would cost $600m minimum today
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Killing someone unlawfully should have a minimum of 10 Christmases in prison.
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This is a sneak preview of what will happen in the US when China cuts us off
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I’m sure I’d enjoy heroin but I’m adult enough to not try it
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Drugs have destroyed many societies and we look like we’re allowing it to happen to us.
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There is one great solution to all of this and it’s to never have a substance at all. I’ve had a few things but now don’t drink, smoke, or consume drugs and life is great.
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This is advice you should get from people who have been accepted, not people who have been rejected.
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What does it matter if a train driver is 10% better at math? If a gifted mathematician is 10% better at math they discover a new result.
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You don’t need to root the device for that attack vector. Just put whatever device you want inside an Echo Dot case and pass the audio through to Alexa so that it behaves as expected.
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This is why “democracy” is a flawed idea and why the educated elite should be making decisions (but in a way that offers some accountability to the common man).
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