tymekpavel

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Apple's iMessage Service Is Down(macrumors.com)
20 points by tymekpavel 2y ago|2 comments
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by tymekpavel 3y ago
Apple/iMessage/Safari Google/Android/Chrome/YouTube Meta/Messenger/Facebook/WhatsApp ...just to name a few.
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by tymekpavel 3y ago
I’m curious if you have a source for that? There has been lots of speculation on how much X traffic has reduced, but the best data I can find basically says that it might’ve dropped from the 2nd most visited website to the 5th most visited
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by tymekpavel 3y ago
I believe this also inspired mtrek, which was an implementation played over telnet. https://mtrek.com/
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by tymekpavel 3y ago
I’m sure you didn’t mean it, but in the English language “Pollak” and its variations are derogatory terms for people of Polish descent. The preferred term is “Pole.”
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by tymekpavel 3y ago
There are also many students who have phones in high school and graduate valedictorian, so I’m not sure we can draw any conclusions.
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by tymekpavel 4y ago
When I was buying a Tesla with autopilot back in 2015, the salesperson was telling me that autopilot would become FSD with only software updates. Honestly, it felt more like poor training of salespeople rather than outright fraud because th
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by tymekpavel 5y ago
I can confirm I’ve received a check for $0.01 from the IRS. My understanding is it was because of miscalculation of interest owed.
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by tymekpavel 5y ago
You assume that most people who want to invest even understand what SPY is, what a proper allocation looks like between stocks and bonds, what tax-loss harvesting or rebalancing is, etc. For those folks, robo-advisors provide a huge value-a
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by tymekpavel 5y ago
It is easy for SpaceX to create a shell company that circumvents this.
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by tymekpavel 5y ago
“Breached” seems like a strong word: “ LinkedIn tells Bloomberg in a statement that it looked into the matter and found that the data was web scraped public information from its site and other platforms.” So they scraped a bunch of websites
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The Forces That Will Move the Venture Capital Market in the Next 5 Years(linkedin.com)
2 points by tymekpavel 5y ago|0 comments
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by tymekpavel 5y ago
An interesting side effect here is that people are opting for domestic alternatives. We are in the process of remodeling our house and were going to get our windows from Italy and our heat pump system from Japan, but given the long lead tim
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by tymekpavel 5y ago
Do you know why Sia is overlooked so often? I see a lot of shills on forums and the founder seems to tweet bitterly about Filecoin, but folks seem optimistic about the tech. So what am I missing that makes Sia not get adoption vs. Filecoin?
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by tymekpavel 5y ago
See the comments below - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26905472 ~$200 for a 6-piece sushi roll.
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by tymekpavel 5y ago
I don't follow. If someone is being condescending to you, your opinion doesn't carry weight? You don't have to understand any of the OP's post to have a reasonable opinion on this topic - corporations should pay their fa
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by tymekpavel 5y ago
I don't understand any of what you listed, but I believe corporations should pay a mandatory minimum tax. Also, I believe people can have opinions even if someone is being condescending to them.
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by tymekpavel 5y ago
Yes, because they are convenient for other reasons (don't require infrastructure over land) which makes them suitable for connecting rural areas where it doesn't make sense to run fiber. But fiber will always be the fastest you ca
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by tymekpavel 5y ago
Satellite links are orders of magnitude slower than fiber.
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by tymekpavel 8y ago
Assuming these are all in ms, how do you conclude that Safari is faster than Chrome or Firefox? It's slower in almost every test.
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by tymekpavel 9y ago
I've always wondered why companies don't just take all the close-captioned TV streams and use that as training data for their voice models. Seems like it would create a much more natural sounding voice model (at least as far as hu
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Oracle acquires Opower in $532M deal(usatoday.com)
2 points by tymekpavel 10y ago|0 comments
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by tymekpavel 10y ago
lalala12399 is using an idiom in the American English language.
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by tymekpavel 10y ago
I'm surprised the chancellor hasn't been forced to resign yet. Beyond authorizing the pepper spray incident, she's made many more questionable decisions. 1. Serving on the DeVry board without permission from the UC President,
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by tymekpavel 10y ago
> Interesting correlation to the Book of Mormon, which originates ~600 BC in Jerusalem. The Book of Mormon was written in 1830. Am I missing something here?
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by tymekpavel 10y ago
Last year folks were leaving Amazon in droves.
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by tymekpavel 11y ago
You need a VIN to claim the credit.
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by tymekpavel 11y ago
During the pilot, if you receive an older battery you can take your car to a Tesla service center and they'll replace it with a new one.
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by tymekpavel 11y ago
Do you think the recent cutbacks in startup workforces and VC funding will be sustained, or are just a temporary market correction?
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Google Releases BumpTop as Open-source(bumptop.github.io)
1 points by tymekpavel 11y ago|0 comments

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