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by sunstone 5y ago
What a difference a day makes. Yesterday the ransomware guys were on the top of the world pressing their advantage. Today their servers have all been compromised and all their crypto wallets have been emptied and the entire group has now s
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by sunstone 5y ago
Low interest rates also play a big part.
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by sunstone 5y ago
Not to mention that the Chief Medical Officer of British Columbia, Dr. Bonnie Henry, came to the same conclusion even before the national level bodies had decided. Dr. Henry implemented the strategy by stopping second vaccinations so more p
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by sunstone 5y ago
Particularly a human with a pocket full of stones.
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by sunstone 5y ago
“They chose us because of the quality of our network and the distribution and reach of our network,” Oh and Elon and Larry are pals from way back and Google invested $1bn in SpaceX when Elon suggested they might make a satellite constellati
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by sunstone 5y ago
Is this ex capex?
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by sunstone 5y ago
The obvious solution here is the world's first green transportation, a regular old sail boat.
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by sunstone 5y ago
The first successful landing of the F9 was in December 2015 so we're only five years and a handful of months since then and the Starship has just had its first mostly successful landing. Sure not from orbit but they are experimenting
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by sunstone 5y ago
My recollection is that hominids have been using fire and cooking for about 500k years. In which case if they wanted to reshape the landscape with fire it likely would have been long before 85k years ago.
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by sunstone 5y ago
A nicely prescient article given the pipeline shutdown on the East Coast.
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by sunstone 5y ago
That's where nailers come in handy. Using a hammer is kind of like coding on an Apple II.
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by sunstone 5y ago
It's worthwhile to google for "highest IQ in America" and then check these guys out on YouTube. When I did this I found they were palpably no where near as smart as say, W.O. Wilson or Richard Feynman. Perhaps IQ tests don&
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by sunstone 5y ago
Apparently Sun Records was on the look out for a white kid who could sing black music and they found him in Elvis Presley. It wasn't by accident.
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by sunstone 5y ago
It was fun while it lasted.
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by sunstone 5y ago
"I think therefore I am." -- Descartes Descartes was a deep skeptic and this statement was the one thing he could irrefutably believe must be true. Everything else is various degrees of speculation.
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by sunstone 5y ago
Hey you're one of the very very few sentient beings, in a universe with hundreds of billions of galaxies each with hundreds of billions of stars (read that in Carl Sagan's voice), that knows they live in an enormous universe. O
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by sunstone 5y ago
I'm sure linux will run on these chips as well. If I'm not mistaken linux has already booted on the M1.
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by sunstone 5y ago
It was still born.
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by sunstone 5y ago
You could call it a deviant standard.
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by sunstone 5y ago
Well this would certainly diminish the jockeying for position of those hoping to succeed the CEO.
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by sunstone 5y ago
The real reason to end the death penalty is because it's hypocritical for society to declare killing as a most serious crime and then turn around and kill the killers (and others usually, traitors, double agents etc). That's a &q
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by sunstone 5y ago
Stopped drinking alcohol from 2-3 drinks a day to 2-3 drinks a month. Something about alcohol causing my airways to block? Not sure exactly why but has made a big difference.
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by sunstone 5y ago
I learned early on with an expensive microprocessor emulator, just have the code raise the voltage on an IO pin as a print debugger rather than spend days debugging the emulator.
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by sunstone 5y ago
Heat the swimming pool during the day and then use the heat pump at night.
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by sunstone 5y ago
Bureaucracy run amok.
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by sunstone 5y ago
I thought I would be going back to Ubuntu with 20.04 but SNAP put me off so I've stayed with Linux Mint. This release looks like it's another step further away from what I prefer.
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by sunstone 5y ago
Yeah, who thought that was a good idea? I did the right click thing a few months ago.
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by sunstone 5y ago
The author asks,"Is one of these facts untrue?". Clearly the answer is that the second "fact" is not a fact it's just provocative ranting from the mouth of yet another journalist who's trying to get clicks by
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by sunstone 5y ago
Because they don't have a boss. They are the master of their domain.
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by sunstone 5y ago
Perhaps the issue here is that Autopilot and active safety features are more likely to be activated in highway driving rather than city driving which is messier. These stats might look quite different if the metric was accidents per hour of

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