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by yborg 6y ago
>having a fundamental patent on it exposed the Bell System to great anti-trust scrutiny I don't understand how this follows, having fundamental patents should lead to the breakup of basically every large US company by the government
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by yborg 6y ago
Because hedge funds aren't the only entities that trade in the market.
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by yborg 6y ago
I'm very peripherally following this story, mainly because it is the Duke Nukem Forever of this age, but my take on this is that after this much time and money how could he not have figured it out? He's making vastly more money NO
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by yborg 6y ago
The "new focus" isn't that new, it's been the same since Baker became CEO, and it's a focus on making Mitchell Baker really, really rich. Mozilla's privacy branding is in direct conflict with Baker's visio
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by yborg 6y ago
Every time something like this happens, Keynes is proven right again.
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by yborg 6y ago
30 years ago the global economy wasn't running on shared servers. But even back then, if you also mentioned that that "data" was their bank transactions and the password to their account, I'm pretty sure they would be al
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by yborg 6y ago
That certainly solved the unauthorized entry problem.
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by yborg 6y ago
I think this is every Apple Intel platform. My i7 6-core Mini can manage about 30 seconds at full clock if they're all lit. One problem seems to be that the fan hysteresis is too long, it spins up the fan too slowly and the CPU is alre
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by yborg 6y ago
In a way, it's fortunate that the two MAX crashes happened overseas. If they had happened in the US, Boeing could have used its regulatory leverage to cover up the problem for a few more crashes.
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by yborg 6y ago
Python sounds like a large predatory snake.
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by yborg 6y ago
>I can't trust an open protocol and platform that lets me set up a server and peer with Gab today with no restriction It's Gab that didn't get the point of Mastodon, thinking they could somehow monopolize (and monetize) th
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by yborg 6y ago
Terrible tag idea, it's implicitly negative and accusatory. In this instance, the guy was apparently just honestly misinformed. The main problem is that most of the original thread ballooned with upvotes because it became general &quot
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by yborg 6y ago
>I don't use X, but I'm now going to tell you why X is shit based on "my experience" with something totally different You don't like the mod policies of a Mastodon instance, you find another one. You don't l
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by yborg 6y ago
It's a tech forum, not a general discussion board. It's a courtesy they leave these topics with zero tech content at all. There are a million places to engage in current events discussion, not every place needs to be filled with t
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by yborg 6y ago
It is mostly constructed of stamped sheet metal and toasters to this day primarily use nichrome heating elements. The lever arm mechanism is probably the most difficult part, but I saw nothing in this construction that would be toxic. The o
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by yborg 6y ago
Why is this not made anymore? I would buy it in a heartbeat!
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by yborg 6y ago
So the counterargument is hydrocodone. It is legal, and people that would never in their lives think of shooting smack now had doctors, many of whom knew better, prescribing them a highly addictive narcotic in order to get compensated by th
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by yborg 6y ago
There's no possible situation I can think of except for a record speed attempt for using this switch, it's baffling that it exists. Even if it increased engine thrust by 10% somehow, compared to the 80% boost from reheat it's
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by yborg 6y ago
Boot Camp support will remain for Intel machines. Current understanding is that ARM machines will have no Boot Camp capability at all.
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by yborg 6y ago
That ship sailed decades ago. Rightfully so, because everyone that has the money for a Mac can easily buy a console, and much gaming has shifted to mobile platforms. Unless you think rainbow colored keyboard backlighting is a key innovation
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by yborg 6y ago
You are suggesting that just simple combustion of the HE lenses surrounding the core won't damage it at all? Even if the explosive just burns it would melt the physics package, there won't be any reinserting it anywhere. You could
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by yborg 6y ago
Yeah, that ship has sailed already. https://www.hattislaw.com/cases/investigations/western-digit...
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by yborg 6y ago
Licensing, probably. Apple doesn't have to pay unless a user actually downloads the font.
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by yborg 6y ago
f.lux is still a thing. https://justgetflux.com/
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by yborg 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Malheur_Nati...
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by yborg 6y ago
What's really amazing is that people that don't make $160K/yr aren't eating their own children to survive. I don't have kids so I have no choice but to use extreme willpower to exist on my barely 6 figure comp.
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by yborg 6y ago
Over where? Germany is full of hot springs.
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by yborg 6y ago
>The way I see it, if an article didn't address a topic relevant to HN, then it wouldn't rise. It's that simple. This is, at best, naive. On a site this large, posting come current affairs clickbait is sure to attract a lo
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by yborg 6y ago
No, the article was calling out Carl Icahn for directing $57M last year to other companies he controls while being a minority owner of Hertz and the company obtaining $1.4B in new debt maturing no earlier than 2026 to service expiring debt.
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by yborg 6y ago
What is this bug? I've been using Mail on Catalina for the last 6 months and haven't noticed any problems.

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