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by vl 4y ago
+1 for NA beers, I’m drinking them instead of real ones since the beginning of pandemic. In last couple years NA beers really got way better than they used to be. Guinness NA is great. Heineken 0 is great. Clausthaler Grapefruit is great.
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by vl 4y ago
In Poker all skilled players remember all probability tables, and there are heuristics for calculating probabilities on the flight, and players also count chips, so any players has all the information for theoretical optimal bets. The game
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by vl 4y ago
Germany car marked is skewed towards Germany carmakers. Apart from obvious reasons, car leases through employers are only for German cars.
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by vl 4y ago
This is a quote from TV show Patriot. Spy embeds into O&G equipment company and has to learn the process.
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by vl 4y ago
When you drop your iPhone on the floor and it shutters, how exactly are you going to get to your SMS 2FAs? The point of SIM is that you can transfer service to another handset without talking to anyone. Which is invaluable, for example, whe
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by vl 4y ago
I’m confused about what it is. It looks like it’s Cloudfare’s MVNO eSIM. What’s zero trust about it?
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by vl 4y ago
And this is exactly why I’m not going to buy new SIM-less iPhones. In typical Apple asshole fashion, in China you can buy an iPhone which takes two sims, in US - zero. Talk about carrier lock-in and Apple helping it.
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by vl 4y ago
Yes, you can, but during normal times at most dealerships (current market being atypical) it means that you left few hundred dollars at the table.
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by vl 4y ago
The whole idea is that there is a car and non-negotiable advertised price, you pay the price + taxes + registration + processing fee, which are all known in advance and get the car. That’s it. If you are talented negotiator and have time, y
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by vl 4y ago
For trade-in compare price they offer to Carmax (including taxes and fees adjustment), if less, just sell to Carmax. Whatever is on the sale sheet is included. You can order extra stuff, they will install it for you, but obviously it’s not
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by vl 4y ago
It looks like it was luxury brand dealership?
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by vl 4y ago
BTW, apart from fixed price online sales, there are fixed priced dealerships. They advertise price on the website and don't negotiate. You just show up and get car at this price. Very smooth.
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by vl 4y ago
What’s strange is that they used to have Soulver for iPhone/iPad/Mac and then discontinued this version.
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by vl 4y ago
Or how skates work on ice.
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by vl 4y ago
I haven't used Javascript/Typescript for the few years and some needed to refresh it, so I bought a copy of Modern JavaScript for the Impatient . This is great book, can't recommend it highly enough. Few hours reading and I
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by vl 4y ago
Never use Coinbase for anything. I tried to transfer my regular ETH out today - and they locked transfers on my account "to protect me from scams". After id verification they said that it maybe will be unlocked in the week. Look
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by vl 4y ago
Dark Sky hyper-prediction is very location-dependent. In some places it’s spot-on, in other not even in the ballpark.
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by vl 4y ago
Wunderground allows you to scroll 24 hours back.
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by vl 4y ago
I actually think Wikipedia would benefit from way more photos. Even in this example - give me 10 different photos on the right, right below right information panel. For many things and topics there are too few photos (and maps, for that mat
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by vl 4y ago
I forgot what a great game Quake is. Gonna replay it. Looks like it's available on Steam!
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by vl 4y ago
They already make robotic lawn mowers. You can go and buy one right now.
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by vl 4y ago
Soviet Union lost 20 to 27 million people during WWII, which amounts to 10-15% of entire population at the moment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the... And terrifying graph for percentage l
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by vl 4y ago
Or just 31 grams (1.1 oz) per person! I always thought that by this time it would be way more.
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by vl 4y ago
Not at all. In 1998 there was 0.25 um, ie 250 nm process, now we have 5 nm process. 50x improvement. In 1998 processors were ~100MHz, now we have 2-4GHz. 20x-40x improvement. Modern chips are incredibly faster even on the single core. You
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by vl 4y ago
My professor in 1998 was saying that whatever we had then was the last technological advancement of chip production because it was not possible to make elements smaller due to the length of light waves, and CPUs are not going to get faster.
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by vl 4y ago
Smart contract’s binary code is visible to anyone once it’s deployed. (And it’s pretty simple to disassemble). For most contracts they link actual source code to make inspection even easier - large part of trust in the system comes from the
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by vl 4y ago
This is exactly what exchanges already do.
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by vl 4y ago
TC mixer is different though, it’s smart contract/zero proof based. Once it’s deployed, it just continues to work. Owners can’t steal funds. If you believe that smart contract is implemented correctly, you can continue to use it. TC ut
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by vl 4y ago
OMG, this is a game-changer. It makes selection so much easier then trying to position long-touch.
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by vl 4y ago
>I still can’t explain how Google got beaten at their own game (cloud / computing at scale) by an e-commerce site : Amazon. But it wasn’t Google’s game at all: cloud computing is a low margin business (relatively speaking). Amazon k

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