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by vl 7y ago
Well, that was both entertaining and heartbreaking. They both are great hosts.
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by vl 7y ago
MATT AND ANNA ARE DOING FINAL BROADCAST RIGHT NOW!
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by vl 7y ago
This article is absolute nonsense, each ten years we live life markedly differently. What’s interesting, often unimaginably so. If you would say that in 2000nds that most of the content would be consumed and most of the computing would be d
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by vl 7y ago
With flight specifically the progress is not the time, but availability and affordability. Which are beyond anything available before in any point in history.
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by vl 7y ago
People don’t care about comfort, airlines just sell what people pay for.
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by vl 7y ago
> More passengers are farther from the windows I’m not sure it’s a big problem: I took a flight in business class of A380, and it was a bit of surreal experience: you are so far from the window, and there are so many partitions, that bas
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by vl 7y ago
Rome is even more impressive - 2000 years old buildings. Pantheon is just huge!
878.
by vl 7y ago
Homelink is not software feature on Model 3 (anymore), requires installation of hardware module.
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by vl 7y ago
Most will not even ask for liability reasons: interviewers at large companies are trained not to ask questions that can expose company to a lawsuit, which basically includes all personal questions, including medical, etc. I.e. most simple e
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by vl 7y ago
> And ipads now have full usb host support And iPhones too, I just used iPhone with USB powered hub, USB mic and USB DAC for headphones, worked great :)
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by vl 7y ago
Self-driving cars will of course increase congestion because it will be possible just to chill out and do something else while car is driving itself. In Silicon Valley normal story will be “I worked in the car for 3 hours while commuting to
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by vl 7y ago
They figured out there is a market segment for cartridge-less refillable inkjets and now sell them as well. They cost more than regular inkjets, on par with cheap laser printers.
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by vl 7y ago
Epson EcoTank ET-3760
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by vl 7y ago
Nay, they just sell it at full unsubsidized price, it’s not cheap.
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by vl 7y ago
On top of that companies make refillable inkjets now. I own Epson like this - runs out of ink, add more ink from the bottle. I’m completely satisfied because there is no cartridge nonsense. In theory I can use cheaper non-Epson ink, but I d
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by vl 7y ago
But why there is a need to paint it all the time?
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by vl 7y ago
Except they didn’t. JoyCons are detachable from Switch and can be used for gestures. Nintendo recently released Ring Fit Adventure - adventure game that incorporates fitness.
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by vl 7y ago
That’s funny, because Paris in general is pretty dirty city compared to other European cities.
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by vl 7y ago
Flight to the moon was beyond reach in 1943, but it was clear that it’s possible to do and what technologies need to be developed. This later was done at great expense. We are in the similar situation now, we know what needs to be developed
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by vl 7y ago
> Last year, a committee of independent directors from Alphabet’s board hired a law firm to investigate its handling of allegations of sexual misconduct and inappropriate relationships by current and former executives as part of its lega
891.
by vl 7y ago
Transparent cost of driving will promote development of alternatives, change real estate prices and influence working/living arrangements. Long term result will be better public transit, better cities, business situated at better locat
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by vl 7y ago
In any large US city you need an electronic toll pass for bridges and etc. or get billed by license plate. So tracking is in place already.
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by vl 7y ago
There is an easy solution: make roads pay-per-use with price based on the utilization. This will quickly reshape cities and change public transit since the price will be transparent to everyone. More businesses would move out creating bette
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by vl 7y ago
Altruism is nature only works within same species since it’s beneficial for their genes propagation. Expansionist species capture resources and eliminate threats. As such we are lucky to be at the edge of the galaxy and not discovered.
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by vl 7y ago
There is nothing magic about crossing these distances, we can do it right now. It’s just very expensive and nobody wants to spend the money.
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by vl 7y ago
All perceptions are in the eye of the beholder. Anyway, my unobjective measure is number of interesting articles and discussions I want to read after scanning the front page. It’s declining over the years. It’s not really surprising since t
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by vl 7y ago
It’s degenerating in multiple aspects: Fewer constructive discussions due to aggressive downvoting based not on the quality of argument, but on the opinion expressed. More junk on the front page, this is general trend in attention economy,
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by vl 7y ago
While unrelated to the point you are making, I would suggest daily contracts - more hygienic, and don’t require fluid. I used both types and like dailies way better.
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by vl 7y ago
Singularity.
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by vl 7y ago
In recent years at Google a rule was adopted that TODO should be followed by a bug number or not be put in at all.

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