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by worrycue 5y ago
As another somewhat old fart, it feels like we don’t see any novel breakout titles take top spot at the box office anymore - titles that come out of nowhere; in addition to the movies you mentioned, Forest Gump, The Godfather, Goodfellas, …
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by worrycue 5y ago
Don’t think people are ready for pilotless planes. Computers are good at doing exactly what you tell them to do. But in novel situations that they haven’t been programmed for, they have zero common sense to negotiate the situation. That sai
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by worrycue 5y ago
Given the EU-China trade deal not sure the US trust the EU to be part of the alliance against China.
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What if the French don’t take bait?
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This seem dangerous as hell. Even with 2 pilots mistakes get made. Also what if the single pilot gets a heart attack or something?
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by worrycue 5y ago
Nuclear submarines are expensive to dispose of though. The UK hasn’t completely dispose of any of their retire nuclear submarines if I’m right. Is the US going to dispose of the subs for Australia when they reach the end of their life or ar
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by worrycue 5y ago
I hope the Australians are aware of the disposal cost of nuclear submarines - if I’m right the UK has yet to fully dispose of any of their retired nuclear submarines; they are just sitting in harbour. If Australia is alright with that, or t
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by worrycue 5y ago
Probably a repressed memory.
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Is having a gun in your purse really going to protect you from getting mugged? The person mugging you surely realises there is a possibility you have a gun and will shoot the moment he/she thinks you are pulling a gun out. Attackers al
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You never been told to keep your hands on the wheel where they are visible to the police officer and not to make any sudden movements, when you are pulled over?
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by worrycue 5y ago
This is probably 90% rose-colored glasses, but to play the devil’s advocate, the monoculture did give people more commonality and I wonder if people were more social - and maybe even less divided - as a result. There is something to be said
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by worrycue 5y ago
The point of abstraction isn’t to hide information from you. The point of (properly done) abstraction is to allow you to work without having to worry about the details. Abstraction has nothing to do with this. The problem is the side effect
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by worrycue 5y ago
I don’t know about giving occupants more time to get out. I have seen the carpark video of a Tesla going up in flames in China. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-04-22/tesla-inves... Thing went from
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by worrycue 5y ago
2009 - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-korea-samsung-idUSTRE5BS0... Somethings never change.
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> <easily adoptable green tech> isn't perfect so why bother Going to stick my neck out here. IMHO the people overzealously pushing green tech when it isn’t suitable isn’t helping. It just makes people skeptical when these zeal
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by worrycue 5y ago
Doesn’t matter if the CCP has a fixation on Taiwan. It will still have to take public opinion into consideration. People who are at risk of getting nuked aren’t going to take the CCP’s reckless behaviour sitting down. The CCP will have quit
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by worrycue 5y ago
Wouldn’t that motivate the other countries more to help out so it doesn’t come to Taiwan launching nukes and irradiating the entire region?
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“Reasonable price” has always been what the market will bare. This is true for all companies.
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Quite sure their bean counters have done the math. Intel like any company aims for max profitability given market conditions - i.e. Intel is only drop prices because it maximizes their profit.
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Talent comes and goes. If other companies can hire away talent, Intel can hire them back too. If you pay enough, people will come. Intel currently seem quite willing to pay.
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Reminds me of the Japanese guy that used FaceApp to pose as a pretty girl for social media. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56447357
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This isn’t the first time Intel has flirted with things outside their core competence. They dabbled with SSDs, mobile phone modems, … etc. It’s just something Intel does. Why? Don’t know.
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In the worst case we can just revert to the ways of the pre-computer days though. We will still have a somewhat functioning financial system.
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To be fair, Edge is basically just Chrome now no? It isn’t too bad although I stuck to Firefox.
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I doubt they will reduce their cut, alternative stores or not. If they are forced to allow 3rd party stores, I bet they will move immediately to the licensing model - like that used by Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo for their game consol
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Maybe I’m completely off the mark but I feel that if Apple isn’t making good money on their stores, they will shorten their support period for their phones. Apple will lose all incentive to makes sure their products last since their profit
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My guess is they will just stop doing “Top” lists and do more categorised “Featured” lists and “App Spotlight”. I think the end result will be the same, exposure for the lucky developers and potentially increased revenue. If there are other
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> but if it weren't for nationalism, my culture wouldn't exist today I wouldn't be so sure about that. Frequently the conqueror gets culturally influenced by the people they conquer - especially 100+ years ago where totali
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I feel it just artificially and pointlessly divides us and create needless "us vs them" situations. Nationalism has interesting "properties". It carries with it the implicit assumption that people miles away in the same