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by berelig 1y ago
Solving for a longer charge may get them some sales from holdouts who went out and bought a Garmin instead. Cramming more features that make existing Apple Watch users feel like their watches are obsolete will get them a lot more.
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Mercury's High Risk, High Rewards Strategy Runs into Regulatory Reality(fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com)
22 points by berelig 1y ago|12 comments
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by berelig 1y ago
I've been looking around for a book like this that has scientific/engineering topics presented in a bite-sized fashion so a teenager (or even adults) can discover which ones pique their interests and are worth a deeper dive. Would
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by berelig 2y ago
NYT gift article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/nyregion/shooting-midtown...
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by berelig 2y ago
Just adding this on OP's behalf: WGU = Western Governors University https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees/computer-science.html
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by berelig 2y ago
Note that by doing this most (or maybe all) credit card companies will only honour whatever protections and insurances they offer on the original portion of the limit. So if you make an $11k payment, $10k of that is like handing cash to the
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by berelig 4y ago
Mine had a similar recommendation about eye drops and additionally strongly advised me to never use drops with vasoconstrictors like Visene.
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by berelig 4y ago
20 days into the new year and there have already been more than 1/3 of 2022's total layoffs. Admittedly most of those have come from a handful of large companies.
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by berelig 4y ago
I kept a note on my phone with details about my girlfriend (now wife) that I would otherwise easily forget. Favorite flowers, songs, restaurants, etc. As I got to know her family I briefly had a few lines for her parents and siblings but no
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by berelig 4y ago
Per year? What length of time are you referring to? $14,200,000,000/27,855,050[1] = $509 per tax filer (regardless of tax contribution) Also, the bottom 40%[2] of Canadians pay $0 in income tax, so every Canadian that actually contribu
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by berelig 4y ago
This is exactly how Shel Kaphan (first eng @ Amazon) handled the state of a shopping cart in the mid 90s. Here is him discussing some of the pitfalls: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/1995NovDec&#
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Why some tech CEOs [skeptical of their workers] are rooting for Musk(platformer.news)
19 points by berelig 4y ago|12 comments
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by berelig 4y ago
It has a $3/month Premium account tier for no ads, increased storage, and double the steps history.
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by berelig 4y ago
There are exceptions of course: https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/29/tripactions-ipo
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by berelig 5y ago
> ...like that villain from Shrek: "Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make". Surely you see that in this analogy it is Putin who is the villain (Lord Farquaad)?
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by berelig 5y ago
Companies that otherwise spend $20,000 to fill a role. Headhunting is a huge overhead
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by berelig 5y ago
> I've been using MacBooks for 8 hours a decade, for over half a decade now To be fair, 4 hours is not a lot of time to learn a new OS :)
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by berelig 5y ago
For one it doesn't lag when I scroll through their landing page unlike linear.app 2015 MacBook Pro with Firefox
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by berelig 6y ago
There is an option to print using the system dialog on the right panel after you press COMMAND + P
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by berelig 6y ago
If an app like Clubhouse wanted to hide communication with Chinese servers would it not be trivial for them to proxy all of the telemetry calls through a US-based AWS or Azure server?
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by berelig 6y ago
Are they not in line with the APA styleguide? https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/bias-free-... I know it's a recent trend but I thought the capitalization was applied to all ethnicities.
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by berelig 6y ago
Also not if for most of humanity the mates with this hypothetical gene were repressed into heterosexual relationships.
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by berelig 6y ago
Can someone explain what this means? Does it benefit those working on Linux support for M1?
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by berelig 6y ago
I should have prefixed that this is drawing heavily on what I remember reading about Walmart and their effect on rural/suburban economies when they expanded. In that sense it is conjecture on my part as I'm not drawing on any stud
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by berelig 6y ago
As Colin says, I don't disagree. I don't think twice about ordering an item on Amazon for $2 that a hardware store downstairs sells for $5. I understand why the store's margins need to be that high but I also need to make sou
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by berelig 6y ago
You live in a small town with small businesses that are undercut by Amazon's price and scale. Those businesses slowly die out as everyone in your region switches to ordering online (primarily from Amazon). Amazon opens a warehouse in t
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by berelig 6y ago
Looks like it has (as of 6 hours ago) https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2020/11/geekbench-53/
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by berelig 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome
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by berelig 7y ago
Unfortunately Firefox on iOS doesn't have access to content blockers and can't install its own ad-blockers.
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by berelig 7y ago
For a blog post about simplifying there sure are a lot of links embedded in the text to take your attention away.

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