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by yborg 4y ago
>harder to bribe ~13,000 representatives than 435 If you're a multibillionaire, not really. And you really just need certain committees and committee heads.
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by yborg 4y ago
This points out the fact that ceding your technical manufacturing base to other countries, especially your possible enemies, is good way to lose geopolitical relevance in a hurry. The implicit assumption has always been that nuclear weapons
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by yborg 4y ago
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman.
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by yborg 4y ago
Logitech dominates the market, and it dominates it by marketing spend, not on making a better product, since they know that the average consumer will never know the difference. I bought a C920 on the basis of many shilled reviews, and I kne
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by yborg 4y ago
The claim is that people will be too lazy to make multiple trips for food, thus saving on "food waste"; this actually saves the university money on the food the students have already paid for with their meal plan. In reality, coll
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by yborg 4y ago
Perception is reality. One commenter above felt that the "2-3 seconds" it took Vivaldi to start up was intolerable. Every post about this browser is always flooded by people whose main benchmark is that if a browser does not match
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by yborg 4y ago
Hubble's optics are contained within the spacecraft structure and would only have been damaged by a likely catastrophic strike that would have disabled the entire spacecraft. Webb's mirrors are completely exposed.
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by yborg 4y ago
There are a lot of useful features lumped under 'Accessibility' because I guess Apple couldn't figure out what to do with them.
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by yborg 4y ago
> Russia over-estimated the capabilities of a generation of the Sidewinder missile and built their equivalent to match what they thought it must contain No. The K-13/AA-2 Atoll is a literal copy of an AIM-9 reverse-engineered from a
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by yborg 4y ago
First receiver I ever bought was an Onkyo ... in 1985. It still works.
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by yborg 4y ago
What surprised me the most about this story is that apparently nobody tried this obvious experiment in the last 50 years. It seems basic to supporting a settlement on the Moon.
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by yborg 4y ago
>In other words, the Fed feels it can continue to juice financial assets and exacerbate wealth inequality so long as the average person doesn’t notice price increases... And the Fed is not quantifying stealth consumer inflation, which pe
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by yborg 4y ago
That is how it was in the US with private insurance 30 years ago. But then everybody involved bulked up so they could improve shareholder value (i.e. executive comp).
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by yborg 5y ago
Maybe you should contain your outrage until it's based on something other than uninformed speculation.
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by yborg 5y ago
Yeah, this seems like trying to drive your users into a paradigm that is contrary to how people are actually using it. The central problem with any social network is discoverability, which is hard on a decentralized platform. For me, the pr
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by yborg 5y ago
I was working in a lab one day by myself and kept hearing a faint voice somewhere in the room; this turned out to be an AM station that was being picked up by the drive coils of an old seismograph-type pen plotter and vibrating the mechanis
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by yborg 5y ago
How do these things do GPS tracking from under a car seat? Wouldn't the seat frame and car body basically block the device from acquiring satellites?
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by yborg 5y ago
>But that's the problem with Google: INT 18, WIS 3 This is the whole tech industry in a nutshell, not just Google.
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by yborg 5y ago
The route originally was flown by 3 or 4 engine aircraft so a single engine failure still left you with at least 2. They are now flying it with an A350 twin-engine. Worst case you are 5 hours from a landing site with one engine.
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by yborg 5y ago
Naturally, there is no chance that it had something to do with the popularity of cats in general.
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by yborg 5y ago
I kind of had a similar impression, but Jean-Louis is kind of an elder statesman in the industry from his time at Apple. I actually find it heartening that a guy in his mid-70s and long out of the industry still follows it from a technical
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by yborg 5y ago
The "Chinese model" is as old as civilization and has been implemented and collapsed many times in China itself. If Putin establishes a new czarist dynasty in Russia, it will end up just like the last one.
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by yborg 5y ago
You seem to have a very naive view of how the financial system works. It's not like there are a lot of options for small depositors, it's one of the set of too big to fail banks. And they can get all the free money they want from
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by yborg 5y ago
Your setup is also probably 5x larger and uses 100W more power. It's a question of priorities.
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by yborg 5y ago
The Apple upgrade cost to 1TB is also $200.
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by yborg 5y ago
I assume it's as a source of tax revenue, not to protect a domestic car industry. The assumption is that in a very poor country these import duties fall on those able to afford them. But people want to roll...
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by yborg 5y ago
This is why I'm still on Catalina. I used to be in the "trail by one point release" mode on macOS, now I'm in the "trail by 2 major releases" camp.
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by yborg 5y ago
The possible crime observed was the destruction of a very expensive spacecraft and the deaths of 7 people. One of the reasons to preserve all evidence is to discover if there was any malfeasance somehow involved, however unlikely. Some of t
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by yborg 5y ago
Firefox: Review pending Should update presently.
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by yborg 5y ago
Apparently an enemy just needs to time an attack to happen at 0800 local for whatever regional command is in charge to get an hour or so before HQ can do anything about it :/

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