Eyght

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by Eyght 2y ago
I vaguely remember an index for the number of earthmoving machines per capita for a given country. It was a really good indicator for productivity. It doesn't seem like industrial robots have the same level of correlation. At least not
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by Eyght 3y ago
I'm in the accelerated testing group and I was moved from Mail to the new Outlook a couple of months ago. It's better than Mail for Windows in my subjective opinion, but it was a bit weird to switch just when Mail had gotten the l
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by Eyght 4y ago
I guess at some point we should expect a Sony SpaceStation.
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by Eyght 4y ago
Does the EULA cover leaving a 1 star review? It's a kind of retaliation.
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by Eyght 4y ago
It can be lucrative and fun, until you're confronted with the trail of human wreckage in its wake.
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by Eyght 4y ago
In e-commerce I've noticed that customers that request to be removed from the mailinglist and/or to have their info/account be deleted often forget about ever using the site. Then a few months later they order something and s
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by Eyght 4y ago
You can mitigate planned obsolescense with recurrent billing, like monthly fees.
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by Eyght 5y ago
I would love to use this for pairing a product with the correct image by decoding barcodes in the image.
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by Eyght 5y ago
The contention that mice are the most intelligent beings on the planet seems more plausible every year.
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by Eyght 5y ago
Sites could provide a cookies-manifest.json with the entities they provide data to. Then the browser could show a standardized cookie banner, if needed. The user could also disable the cookie banner completely, if they so desire.
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by Eyght 5y ago
My mind immediately went to the artificial 4-year lifespan of the Nexus-6 replicants in Blade Runner.
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by Eyght 5y ago
This makes me curious of how the gradual change from gas- to charging stations will affect these places. I could see clusters of charging stations gathering in the same place and causing a resurgence of shopping centers, maybe even malls, i
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by Eyght 5y ago
I'm thinking that it could work as an emergency rectal oxygen enema for astronauts in distress. It ought to be very compact compared to pressured gas. Just push 'oxyjet' and don't forget to clench after.
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by Eyght 5y ago
Governments and central banks are doing it to try to continue the cash economy, which has been slowly dying for some time now (a death recently sped up by the pandemic). Cash has some unique benefits over numbers in an account, the primary
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by Eyght 5y ago
Hello cm2187 what's happening. I'm gonna need you to go ahead and not recommend movies while at work. So if you could go ahead and get back to it.. that'd be great.
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by Eyght 5y ago
When we pay with physical dollar bills, it's an exchange of unique notes with their own serialnumber. A digital currency would be the same thing, but electronic. Imagine using GIT for accounting.
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by Eyght 5y ago
The current system just keeps track of inventory. Like when a warehouse inventory system says "15 Honda Civics currently in stock" it doesn't mean digital cars. A digital currency system would make a digital representation of
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by Eyght 6y ago
This is usually what's missing from people criticizing Curtis. It's a form of superficiality where people feel that they don't need to look further into the subjects before drawing fundamental conclusions. I've spoken to
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by Eyght 6y ago
One thing to keep in mind is that birds generally don't follow human law, and will certainly find creative ways to source materials from stores, people's pockets, cars, homes etc.
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by Eyght 6y ago
I have YouTube premium too. Even though I probably watch more Twitch streams than YouTube, I still wouldn't consider paying for the Twitch equivalent because YouTube has so many useful videos (tutorials, lectures, historical photage, i
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by Eyght 6y ago
Here is an image that shows how the cosmic web is usually illustrated: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5mBKPZgrdD6ebdRtV8NEDZ-970...
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by Eyght 6y ago
Unboxing comes to mind. It seems manufacturers are putting an astounding amount of effort into making the ritual of opening the packaging for your new gadget a long series of satisfying unfolds, slides and surprises.
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by Eyght 6y ago
This made me curious about how a business can defend itself if a competitor hires people to leave negative reviews.
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by Eyght 6y ago
I tested the phrase "go to kyle's channel on twitch" and it actually went to twitch.tv/kyle - which I found impressive.
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by Eyght 6y ago
Snowpiercer Most people see this movie as a very on-the-nose example of class struggle. But I see it as a commentary on how we humans build and interact with the very system that we collectively create to sustain ourselves as a species. The
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by Eyght 6y ago
I feel like the Chinese style social score system won't have enough support in government for most countries, but we'll receive a decentralized version anyway through corporate overreach. Also, it's always amusing to arrive a
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by Eyght 6y ago
One of the classics. Gasoline - This is my life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqd-JcjQo8I
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by Eyght 6y ago
> The need to be “in the know” was powerful, but I realized that I was consuming vast amounts of shallow information that resulted in shallow, uninformed opinions. I'd like to applaud you for admitting this to yourself. I feel like
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by Eyght 6y ago
Watch the same people that spread dangerous misinformation turn around and blame someone else when the consequences of their actions comes back to bite them.
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by Eyght 6y ago
The software would have to make a claim. For example, improve your posture.

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