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by xnyan 6y ago
>A bit melodramatic It might seem so, but I'd say it's accurate, for exmaple: “Their last dying words are, ‘This can’t be happening. It’s not real,’” Doering said, adding that some patients prefer to believe that they have pneu
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by xnyan 6y ago
I fell in love with train travel in eastern europe. Get on a train at night, curl up in your bunk to get gently rocked to sleep by the movement of the car, wake up in the morning in another city refreshed and ready to go. It's the clos
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by xnyan 6y ago
I’ve used both windows and Apple developed operating systems for a long time, generally I agree with you - Microsoft is the trailblazer in user-hostile self interested decisions. This however is something that Microsoft has absolutely dream
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by xnyan 6y ago
Thinkpads. Lenovo is far from perfect, but they have been good stewards of the brand.
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by xnyan 6y ago
I have always loved tearing things apart and fiddling with them. The one exception to that is my primary phone. There's a set of functions I expect it to perform, and that's it. I don't see it as a general purpose computer, n
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by xnyan 6y ago
>Are you confident 1 iPhone can outlast 3 Pixels Extremely, because I've owned several pixels and iPhones of various models. As an example I got my partner an iPhone SE in 2016 and it's still working perfectly, it even still lo
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by xnyan 6y ago
My wife applied for a renewed US passport 8 months before an international trip. 7 months and dozens of calls, emails and letters later, we had no response besides "we are busy and can't tell you when we will be done, but it will
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by xnyan 6y ago
> People tend to like iOS better because the app ecosystem is better and it is that way I can’t speak for you but I know that I am prone (as most humans are I think) to project myself on others. I use iOS because it’s the only OS that ru
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by xnyan 6y ago
I think you’re kind of conflating what I believe is the ideal versus what I perceive to be reality. We are one of billions of people. The fundamental nature of existence is that our sum ability to affect the world around is generally quite
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by xnyan 6y ago
Sound is weird and I agree it is a subjective experience. I’ve done some unscientific blind tests with nice modern class Ds on people who avowedly think all digital amplification is trash. 9 times out of 10 the reaction has been something l
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by xnyan 6y ago
I’m confused about what your disagreeing with - fundamental physics? you’re saying that when you cough, covering your mouth with your hand or arm does nothing? The aerosolized spit and mucous leaving your mouth passes through your hand unaf
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by xnyan 6y ago
Shopping for a dishwasher in September, the earliest availably date for the model I wanted was December 26 + an estimated 1 month backlog for delivery. Many others were delayed until March 2021. I found another model that was supposedly ava
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by xnyan 6y ago
This is like saying not purposely running into other cars is a just a moral judgment. It’s not a moral judgment, it’s a foundational element of all functional human societies. If you don’t agree, you should remove yourself from society.
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by xnyan 6y ago
Literally everyone has a little piece of cloth they could put over their mouth, and literally everyone should if it has a a reasonable chance of saving a life, to say nothing of many lives. The fact that there’s any controversy about this a
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by xnyan 6y ago
They absolutely did not need to speed a billion upfront on an unproven format. Nobody had tried this format before, so they could not have been confident that there was a market. They could have instead, for example, commissioned a few of
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by xnyan 6y ago
Here's an example. My facts, which I think are shared by almost all people for at least hundreds of years (at least anywhere there has ever been a plauge): 1) Sometimes human spread illness to each other via spit, like when they talk 2
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by xnyan 6y ago
>Yes, there is a ton of common ground What's an example of some common ground you see, and very roughly how does it happen? For example, we all agree that X is bad, so we will pass a bill to do Y. Obviously, that example is hypothet
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by xnyan 6y ago
The trifecta of outstanding power efficiency, low cost, and nowadays very good performance of a class D amp virtually guaranties that any amplified sound you've head from a mobile device, or any consumer device really, was amplified by
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by xnyan 6y ago
Netflix is bigger than the nascent game streaming market and more apple users (including me) expect to be able to use it. If they told netflix "we have to approve each movie and tv show on your service, and possibly take revenue from y
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by xnyan 6y ago
From a realpolitik perspective, It's not possible for their to be a standard procedure in practice. Even if the law is clear and unambiguous (it's not), prosecutors and regulatory bodies have the discretion to attempt to enforce o
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by xnyan 6y ago
Ahem, the US would like a word with you.
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by xnyan 6y ago
ISPs give the US government absolutely anything they want. You have no real protection from the government because of private ownership, the only difference is now both private organizations AND the government make decisions about your inte
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by xnyan 6y ago
I think that’s largely valid criticism. I would say the fundamental problem of settings control fragmentation is the fundamental challenge at the heat of the windows project - it’s trying to be all things to all people. for example, the thr
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by xnyan 6y ago
I would argue that the telemetry, updates and theming are not major concerns for Windows customers because they can be addressed or simply don’t care, but I can see your point of view and in my opinion are legitimate (though not unique) dow
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by xnyan 6y ago
I have some unpleasant news for you, literally everything you have ever eaten has some level of adulterants in it. It's allowed: https://www.fda.gov/food/ingredients-additives-gras-packagin...
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by xnyan 6y ago
>There is a belief running around that Tesla should act like a charity There is a belief that when you buy a car, features you paid for should not disappear for the sole purpose of ripping off customers. I don't accept that shit, an
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by xnyan 6y ago
all true, but in the end if you are an editor and you think the source is garbage, you can’t publish it. That’s your duty regardless of anything else.
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by xnyan 6y ago
Ad spam is not a mistake if you like making tons of money off people. words with friends is the worst offender and has been printing money for a long time.
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by xnyan 6y ago
I think that's because the cost of owning a gyro can be so much lower than a traditional fixed wing. As little as $20K can get you into old but high quality used or $100k for entry-level new. A fraction of planes. Not exactly cheap, bu
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by xnyan 6y ago
>but I promise you nearly every American adult knows If the next thing you are going to say is not "The current President of the United States", then sadly you are extremely mistaken because that's the only political fact

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