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by guyzero 4y ago
the standard response here is to ask which native american tribe you're a member of.
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by guyzero 4y ago
I don't think China and India (or literally any other country) ran saturday morning cartoons for decades talking about the fact that their country was built by immigration. There's a disconnect between America's rhetoric and
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by guyzero 4y ago
This is great less because anyone needs a folding display but because hopefully it won't shatter if you look at it wrong (like all their other displays).
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by guyzero 4y ago
Businesses with high long-term customer value and high customer acquisition costs will always dominate these sorts of transactional ad channels.
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by guyzero 4y ago
"I believe only one was lost in combat." I think that means that we lost more to weather than combat, which was their downfall.
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by guyzero 4y ago
every one of my closest friends who are all very successful Wall St finance guys are hugely bullish on Bernie Madoff's investment funds.
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by guyzero 4y ago
The classic libertarian position that naively assumes that companies and individuals have equal negotiating power.
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by guyzero 4y ago
Unfortunately I suspect this would be selling gold shovels to dirt miners and the economics of it are not compelling.
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by guyzero 4y ago
I have chickens and while the eggs are great, what you have is new pets that also happen to produce eggs as a side-effect. (Assuming you live in a city and not on a farm) You treat them like any other pet. Chickens will live 3-10 years. One
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by guyzero 4y ago
They were profitable in like 2017-2019. Their financials are public, it's easy to see at a macro level where the money is going.
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by guyzero 4y ago
"I don't like it" != financial distress. From Twitter's 2021 10K: "FY 2021 Highlights Total revenue was $5.08 billion, an increase of 37%, compared to 2020." 2021 net losses were $221M, which is a big improveme
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by guyzero 4y ago
Amazon ran A9.com as a search engine from 2004 to 2008. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9.com#A9.com_search_portal
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by guyzero 4y ago
DDG does run ads just like Bing and Google, so it's just a way for Bing to get more search ad inventory out there. Once upon a time there were other sites that did the same thing with Google, but eventually Google decided they didn&#x2
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by guyzero 4y ago
That's wild, although it seems to be server parts in a workstation case. I guess none of Intel's "desktop" chips support a dual/quad CPU configuration though, so that's your only choice. Quad 8 TB NVMe drives i
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by guyzero 4y ago
That's just over $31,000 in 2022 dollars. I don't think I can even imagine what kind of modern desktop you could build for that much money.
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by guyzero 4y ago
It simply wasn't super hardened, but I'm no expert on mid-80's UNIX variants, maybe they had all the same issues. The filesystem was questionable as I said. But certainly it was pretty advanced for its time - probably not a l
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by guyzero 4y ago
Tapscott has been a "futurist" for years, probably decades now. Sadly the trouble with being a futurist is that you gotta keep making up a new future every year.
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by guyzero 4y ago
I think they had some sort of GUI but we never got it at our school - they just dropped you into a command prompt on boot like God, Thompson and Ritchie intended.
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by guyzero 4y ago
I grew up using these throughout high school in the mid-to-late 80's. They were the perfect machine for a budding hacker because they were very close to a real UNIX system without actually being well-designed. They had networking. They
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by guyzero 5y ago
"- Lots of things are software intensive these days. This is not unique to EVs. Why single those out?" Very much this. The description in the article sounds like owning a laptop vs a desktop pc. People don't care that they ca
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by guyzero 5y ago
Seems like axe grinding to mention a policy that ended 35 years ago.
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by guyzero 5y ago
Come on, this is a partisan hit piece. Which is too bad because it's a legitimate and serious issue, but any pretense of objectivity went out the door when we get to "Howard Anglin... was previously Deputy Chief of Staff to Prime
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by guyzero 5y ago
This essay, but not ironically. If you think you have something that no one else in the world has noticed, you're probably wrong. You're going to need a LOT of evidence to prove yourself right. Lots of people & companies spend
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by guyzero 5y ago
This may be Waze beacons which use bluetooth to help position the user when they're going through tunnels, where there is no GPS coverage. https://support.google.com/waze/partners/answer/9416071?hl=e...
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by guyzero 5y ago
GCP is making 10-year sales deals, so it better be around in 5 years. https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2020/07/31/google-clouds-expan... "GCP has recently announced a number of ten year transactions in
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by guyzero 5y ago
My mental picture reading this press release was a child's book of dinosaurs, immense, roaming the earth, unaware of their impending doom.
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by guyzero 5y ago
RIP. One of the great spiritual thinkers of our lifetimes.
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by guyzero 5y ago
In March of 2020 when pretty much everything in North America closed and they reopened in May of that year. I didn't notice at first that the ticket was issued at that time. The understanding of covid was significantly less then and so
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by guyzero 5y ago
While the pandemic has certain gone on far too long my experience with teenagers is that none of them has forgotten what a human face looks like, most go unmasked around family and close friends and they're still meeting in small group
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by guyzero 5y ago
My kids are out of high school so I don't know as many Canadian teenagers as I once did. They know stuff. Nice to hear you had a pleasant childhood.

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