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by z9znz 4y ago
> but Google also starts more Who cares how many they start? They could start a million products per year, and that would not change the fact that depending on a Google service involves considerable risk. I'm not sure why you'
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It’s not so much about medium or any other name, it’s purely a matter of a tease with no follow through. Any site which teases you with content and then slams the door in your face is obnoxious and aggravating. Sites that aggravate me get
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by z9znz 4y ago
I think the point they parent posters were making is that with Google you really never know which of their projects will live long and which will get axed. That makes Google products risky to build your business on.
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That's what we thought about the chances of Trump becoming president. But we should have learned by now that absurdities are not impossibilities and should be taken seriously.
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> abandoning the decimal money That would serve the already-rich like Jacob Rees-Mogg as it would make it more difficult for the masses to measure the broadening inequality gap. Perhaps that is the plan, including with Brexit: the curren
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Are these people dead set on pushing the UK as far down the global economic ladder as possible?
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> Hopefully it will become better/more generally useful within a decade This is kind of what Apple has always done: bring a new (cool) thing to the consumer, even if it isn't as good as it sounds. But so far they seem to catch
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The reality is that not all people should be able to vote, and not all people should be able to speak publicly. Of course the challenge is in deciding who is worthy of each. The new problem because of the internet is that critical masses of
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As Apple is making emergency satellite communication a consumer thing, I expect other companies will follow. So at least in unusual situations like this no-cell-service one, spending a cold night in the woods is hopefully less of a risk.
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You were an OG influencer! And in the real "influencer" style, you didn't actually live the life you were promoting! :P
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I have many fond memories of UO. Building your first house was a big achievement in the early days, as money took real time and effort to accumulate; much later, the challenge was finding an empty plot rather than affording a house. Walking
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> I cannot show her my cool new toys My partner would be happy if I could not tell her or show her the cool stuff I work on :P.
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That is considerably different from blacklisting an entire company.
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Do other countries put US hardware and software companies on blacklists for their involvement with DoD? If so, then I think quite a few major US tech companies would be unable to do business outside the US and Europe.
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> The trial’s primary analysis found that colonoscopy only cut colon cancer risk by roughly a fifth Perhaps it was oversold, but a 20% reduction still seems significant.
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Ok, let me say it more precisely: You can have ventliation without an HVAC system.
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> depth of field I know I'm a weird person, but I never got the whole depth-of-field/bokeh thing. While I understand that some people want the "focus" to be the sharp center of attention, and perhaps other things to
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> every wedding photographer I wouldn't be surprised to find that some measurable percentage of "official person tasked with photographing a wedding" are just using phones. These are not professional wedding photographers
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Many quick build and prefab projects are intended to be used to provide rapid (short/medium term) housing for people affected by natural disasters (or man made ones, for that matter). I'm not at all impressed in this particular on
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Ventilation is not HVAC. Ventilation can be as simple as having openable vents at proper locations in a structure which could be manually operated to provide air exchange on demand.
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I would advocate more research into learning how to "encourage" fungi growth to suit our needs without genetically modifying it. We just _never_ know the long term effects of our genetically modified creations (never as in "
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Agreed about the concrete. Fortunately there are efforts to replace concrete (in general) with other materials - some organic (fungi). > Plus, an unreinforced concrete dome This is not a dome. It could conceivable be more population de
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That will never happen. LinkedIn has long since peaked. Since it became cluttered with odd influencer types posting largely meaningless fluff, and more and more recruiters who make no effort to read candidate pages before spamming, its val
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Paywalled, so ? But I just used a passport (border entry) kiosk at DFW airport two weeks ago. Same machines I have used for 10 years of frequent entries at that airport.
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I'm glad people take on crazy projects and push them to some level of completion. That's how we learn and progress overall. Unfortunately for the people who do follow through with unconventional ideas, actually getting a thing t
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As a Clojure admirer who has learned it enough to get things done (and subsequently forgotten it) twice, I recently had the positive REPL experience that people talk about. Or at least I think I did. I was able to write a web scraping too
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> What happens when it’s a strong chess player A strong chess player would have to weigh the risk of losing all their progress and reputation if caught cheating. After this current situation, I expect the penalties for being caught cheat
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by z9znz 4y ago
I'm a big fan of increasing developer compensation, but if that compensation is based on inflated and unsustainable business models/goals, then it's a false promise.
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Meta just has nothing to offer. In fact, the only truly useful thing it provides is Whatsapp (which it acquired primarily to gain users); and there are good alternatives to Whatsapp, so it's an "also". The actual human connec
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