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by sunstone 6y ago
The issue with China is not China specific or CCP specific, the issue is Xi and how he's clearly playing directly from Putin's playbook to the detriment of world stability.
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by sunstone 6y ago
What they get in return, and the reason they paid megabucks for it in the first place, is that no other social media entity is able to get control of Whatsapp's 100's of millions of users. That's worth while in itself withou
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by sunstone 6y ago
I second this. Google was such a huge step ahead of the yahoo and altavista's of the day that using it just one time was typically enough to convert the user. A real breath of fresh air.
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by sunstone 6y ago
If so I believe this would be the second time that Israel has saved Intel's bacon. The first time being a microprocessor replacement for the power hungry Pentium III in the early 2000's.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Yes I agree. Jim Keller was the canary in the coal mine. When he left without finishing his assignment, after a decades long reputation for excellence at multiple companies, that was a clear signal to sell your Intel stock. Intel could b
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by sunstone 6y ago
Telegram is very clear that they do store our stuff on their servers. And in clear text unless you choose end-to-end encryption. My concern is not about my data being stored on their servers. My concern is about having having marketing da
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by sunstone 6y ago
So kind of like an office tower but on its side.
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by sunstone 6y ago
It's not as hard as quitting oxygen.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Is the electric car market share going to increase faster than the growth of all cars?
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by sunstone 6y ago
Yes I have a feeling dog domestication went along these lines. The first were wolf puppies that were raised with the tribe and were imprinted on this "pack" as their own as they grew up. Dogs and humans made an effective combina
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by sunstone 6y ago
Sure but what will fix it is a tax payer funded, independent (like the courts), news organization. Almost every other liberal democracy has something like that. It's time for the US to get with the program.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Let the bike shedding begin.
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by sunstone 6y ago
You definitely should consider putting your net worth into shorting the stock given how over valued it is. Keeping in mind of course the old cliche, "The market stay wrong longer than you can stay solvent."
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by sunstone 6y ago
The article doesn't mention lock in. When I was looking at GAE in the early days I gave it a pass just because of this. I wanted a regular linux cloud server that I could move my app to another provider with very few problems if I wa
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by sunstone 6y ago
Many large corporations including Apple are pouring millions of dollars annually into OpenStreetMaps so they have access to a decent map system.
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by sunstone 6y ago
In practice it's likely that we'll do both. That is, all the doses will be used, and none reserved, as they arrive according to a priority schedule (ICU staff, care home staff, care home residents first, etc). Then when it's
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by sunstone 6y ago
If you're programming a basic business app then you won't need too much math. If your app is simulating the big bang origin of the universe you would probably need a bit more.
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by sunstone 6y ago
A project has been announced to move energy from the Australian outback to Singapore, a distance of over 3000km mostly underwater.
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by sunstone 6y ago
The moon might be a better bet. It's a lot closer with plenty of rocks and very little top soil.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Perhaps the final word on this goes to Ronald Reagan,"No one ever died from hard work, but why take the chance?".
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by sunstone 6y ago
Tokugawa's shadow lies heavy still on the land of the rising sun, and it's not hard to find with a little perception.
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by sunstone 6y ago
I wonder if anyone will make boats out the steel that the cybertruck will use? It Should be at lot cheaper than aluminum, though might not be corrosion resistent enough.
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by sunstone 6y ago
It did trickle down but to China, Vietnam, Indonesia and Silicon Valley.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Anker over the ear bluetooth wireless headphones. $70 and handles bluetooth adeptly, sounds good, very comfortable and convenient controls. A great deal all around.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Google plays the Grinch at Christmas and takes away our toys.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Horse poop.
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by sunstone 6y ago
I'm not a student of serial killers but it's hard for me to even begin to formulate a motive for this particular guy. Men that kill women is common; women that poison men is pretty common. Let's theorize these people have a
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by sunstone 6y ago
MBA graduates are fine for simpler industries which typically hire high school grads or similar. You really don't want to be them in charge of a highly educated workforce of say engineering, medical or scientific post grads. That&#x2
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by sunstone 6y ago
Not to mention sugar.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Too bad it couldn't have been you and Walter Pitts in the library with the pencil.

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