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by taoistextremist 9y ago
Isn't Xiaomi subsidized by the government? Hard to compete against that in price.
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
I guess it depends on your interests, but I'd suggest going to meetups centered around activities that necessitate or strongly encourage socializing. I go to meetups to speak a different language, and I tend to make pretty good friends
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
The EU is originally an economic union with aspirations for political unity. Taxes is actually really appropriate for it to be involved in if you consider why it was formed in the first place.
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
As far as I've always understood it (I poke around on Chinese internet from time to time), it was mostly just a little joke because Xi is kinda pudgy. I think the backlash is because this kind of messes with an attempted cult of person
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
In a way, this is all kind of a free market solution to energy over-use (I'm not saying this happens all the time), companies develop electronics to be more efficient so that customers will look at how much less they'll spend on e
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
I live in the burbs, but whenever I'm down in Detroit, what I really get is something like "get out more" or "try something new". This could just be my age talking, I'm in my 20s and that's a calling I thi
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
>I really think they should work to bring back the daily city/event stories too. I remember this showing me how great some places are across the world that I never thought of, when they were daily (or was it weekly?) a different cit
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
Nothing covered in this article is stuff I'd consider very complicated, but I took a class on graph theory and the kinds of algorithms and concepts covered in the second half of that course were much more complex, though the fact that
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
Line was originally Japanese, it was just acquired by a Korean company, explaining the lack of market share in that country. I think Kakao predates pretty much all modern messengers, including Kik, so it's kind of surprising they never
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
A quick look at the prices, Stride is under half the price of Slack. No idea if quality correlates with price here since I've never touched Stride.
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
I don't agree that distributed ledgers are a bad idea, though ones that can be controlled by large amounts of computing power might be. In general, though, something that doesn't rely on central trust to accurately record somethin
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
Facebook is ripping off a larger variety of apps than WeChat, it seems more like they're trying to push into Snapchat's market share. I'm not familiar with payments being a feature on iMessage or Messenger, though. Unless you
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
Isn't that part of the reason why they restructured and departments like Waymo are now separate from Google? I would imagine this way they have people more familiar with these types of services running things at the higher levels inste
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
I don't think so. He could have given away money in a more discreet fashion and it would be evident that he did so and not have been for publicity.
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
I'd be interested to see how they intend to make this plan successful, then. There's no other avenue for the rail to collect revenue in that case, unless its economic benefit is already a significant net profit for the government.
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
I'm not sure how Germany organizes their rail systems, but I'm guessing the rail companies profit from increased property values like in much of the world. This makes free public transport potentially workable (and even profitable
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
When I go to more rural areas I find LTE isn't as frequently available on Verizon. I'm not sure if they're still eventually planning on expanding coverage there or if they've abandoned any plans given other carriers have
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
I was wrong about China Mobile, it is just WCDMA, but China Telecom is using CDMA.
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
>CDMA is only used in a single country As far as I'm aware, two Chinese carriers, China Mobile and China Telecom, use CDMA. China Telecom I believe for everything, China Mobile for its 3G (4G in general is a bit harder to come by th
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
So will these phones ever support CDMA or is that just going to be ignored? I wonder how they're doing in the US specifically considering their phones can't be used on two of the larger carriers in the country.
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
>The great thing about a headphone port is that if you stick something in it you won't ever hear anything over the speaker. This still kind of depends on good software. On the Galaxy S5 (which I've managed to get along with sti
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
>as a result of its strong bias against Android I'm not familiar with this, and the most prevalent Snapchat users among my friends are Android users.
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
The point is there is a gender disparity between professions, and so my argument is that this isn't entirely surprising.
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
I won't disagree with you, except maybe to point out I don't think it's necessarily just biological, but psychological/physiological gender as well that causes the difference. There is some evidence, though last I checke
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
This would create a new argument in support of piracy.
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
In the realm of innocent fun with this stuff, just how much time would it take to insert myself into the entirety of a movie? I'm just imagining how fun it would be to invite friends around to watch something we're all excited abo
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
What is a "regular password" in this context? For anything I'm concerned for the security of, I use a unique password, and for other things (accounts for job applications, my accounts on sites like Duolingo, Coursera, and oth
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
>Perhaps that means we’ll be seeing an AI-powered Xerox instant camera in the future… I know this is just the writer and not Fuji Xerox, but how would that even work? Instant cameras use an analog medium, so it seems like anything you co
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
Makes me think how I've just given up on doing any kind of complicated formatting with word processing software. They give you the tools for it, it seems, but you start adding tables and graphics and equations, the minute you hit enter
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
I have this suspicion, though, that not all these streaming services will fare well. Sadly, yeah, there's going to be a handful and it'll feel similar to cable, but I think some will forego an independent streaming platform (or ab

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