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by allencoin 6y ago
> If you mean 'liberal young open-source company' then say that! Because that absolutely isn't what 'Silicon Valley' means. I didn't say that. I am a different person asking a different question. I recognize
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by allencoin 6y ago
> you paid Apple or whoever to make your phone so are you responsible for their conditions? Yes, absolutely, to some degree — do you think I'm not? Even if you don't think so, do you think Apple isn't to some degree respon
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by allencoin 6y ago
Ah, yes, the people that make Apple's iPhones are very pampered.
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by allencoin 6y ago
I was referring specifically to the "culturally" part. The geographic difference between Silicon Valley and North Carolina is indisputable, but I'm curious about your take on the culture. I see a lot of similarities between R
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by allencoin 6y ago
> The Carolinas seem as far as you can get from Silicon Valley, culturally Why do you think that?
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by allencoin 9y ago
For those skipping straight to the comments, they basically think it's 1 or more geostationary satellites that happen to be in the path of the observed star, Ross 128.
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by allencoin 9y ago
I remember learning Roman numerals in 1st or 2nd grade and finding them to be a lot easier for basic arithmetic. I mean, all of the examples we used in school to learn basic arithmetic had things like "(picture of 4 apples) + (picture
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by allencoin 9y ago
Why doesn't https://google.google redirect to Google?
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by allencoin 11y ago
I'm looking forward to trying the real-life implementation of "ChickieNobs" from Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake.
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by allencoin 11y ago
I see the difference here now. Thanks!
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by allencoin 11y ago
>Unmotivated? Just try harder Or my personal favorite, "Work harder."
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by allencoin 11y ago
I haven't done any mobile development, so forgive my ignorance. But the concept of a program not being "allowed" on my device is bizarre to me.
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by allencoin 11y ago
Yes, the "/s" is commonly used on sites like reddit to denote sarcasm.
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by allencoin 11y ago
Link to the lobbying page: https://www.youbetrayedus.org/facebook/
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by allencoin 11y ago
I would like a small, maybe 2-bedroom house, in a cool neighborhood in a cool medium-sized city. That's my dream.
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by allencoin 11y ago
I think if this story were about migrant workers I would feel differently about it because it would be an entirely different story—it would be about people not being paid much and forced to live in a truck versus a story about somebody bein
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by allencoin 11y ago
>Equity and saving for the future are things you do after you've established a home. He has established a home, it's just not a traditional one. It's a really-not-up-to-code tiny house on wheels. If he were living in a Win
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by allencoin 11y ago
>Certain companies have succeeded despite a sceptical specialized audience. Why is that? The first and most obvious reason is because there is simply not enough diversity in the audience for the wisdom of the crowd theory to hold true. R
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by allencoin 11y ago
The author of the original article references Flo Control and uses it in his implementation.
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by allencoin 11y ago
>PAGE: 1 2 3 4 5 ... 11 12 NEXT → Gotta increase those ad impressions.
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by allencoin 11y ago
Perhaps explains why I was having trouble with Feedly today. Past tweets from them[1] indicate that they use CloudFlare. [1] https://twitter.com/feedly/status/480809578368487425
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by allencoin 11y ago
Partially privatized. According to a 2012 source [1], there are 1.6 million prisoners in the US and roughly 8% of them are in privately-owned prisons. That number, however, unfortunately keeps growing. [1] http://www.propublica.o
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by allencoin 11y ago
That does seem like an entertaining read; thanks for the recommendation.
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by allencoin 11y ago
I think what this author is getting at is similar to the concept of flow. It's interesting, the article is based on "boredom" but I'm not sure that's the right word. Boredom is a state of "I want to do somethin
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N.J. Supreme Court expands police authority for warrantless car searches(nj.com)
4 points by allencoin 11y ago|0 comments
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by allencoin 11y ago
"The Uber of desks in an office building" might be a more apt description, but it doesn't have quite the already-very-cliché ring to it.
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by allencoin 11y ago
"The super-efficient LED panels, made by Philips specifically for the Edge, require such a trickle of electricity they can be powered using the same cables that carry data for the Internet." Power-over-ethernet, for anyone trying
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by allencoin 11y ago
Thanks. :) It's a pretty simple solution, I just took a fairly common IDE setup and configured my snap tool to let me easily put my windows where I need them.
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by allencoin 11y ago
I have a 13" Retina MacBook Pro (2014) and a MacBook Air (2015), having previously worked on 14", 15", and 17" Linux and Windows laptops. My computers get smaller as the years go on, and I like that. My MBP is the best c
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by allencoin 11y ago
Typically in the news process the copyeditor chooses or edits the title of the piece for brevity and "punch." By saying "WWII-era," the title very succinctly sums up the idea that "hey, there's this interesting

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