klrefg

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by klrefg 4d ago
2G -> 3G -> 4G were all massive jumps that all enabled new use cases. I doubt majority of phone users who have a decent 4G connection would notice the difference if they upgrade to 5G.
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by klrefg 4d ago
> build a compliant accessible browser from scratch Which is not something even Google ever succeeded. They had a significant head start due to Webkit being open source.
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by klrefg 4d ago
Wasn’t Chrome mostly a wrapper on Webkit, though? You had to add the engineers who worked on Safari and KHTML before to the count..
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by klrefg 4d ago
Twitter is an empty shell though. Yes it technically works, that’s about that.
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by klrefg 4d ago
And how many engineers does Google have? The people working on Chrome are a tiny, numerically insignificant fraction of Google’s employees. A much better comparison would be people working on Google ads and their other commercial products.
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by klrefg 5d ago
How are these traits inherited by descendants who don’t consume drugs that increase the plasticity of their brain themselves?
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by klrefg 5d ago
Look up how much the signatories of the constitutional convention drank the night before signing the constitution. Alcohol consumption remained massive during the 1800s by our standards, people just drank we more than we do and probably mor
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by klrefg 5d ago
> is probably the worst drug of all in terms of societal destruction. We are yet to observe a society where the overwhelming majority of the population regularly uses fentanyl, crack cocaine or meth-amphetamine. I bet that if we try comp
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by klrefg 7d ago
So.. you’d have both higher taxes and higher interchange fees? What’s the appeal of that?
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by klrefg 7d ago
How do any of they rent cars when they travel? I think that still requires a credit pretty much anywhere in Europe. I’s bet the proportion is way higher than 5% even if the overwhelming majority use their credit cards the same was as debit.
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by klrefg 8d ago
Carney is one of them few (if there are any) leaders of Western countries who is actually genuinely popular and has a very high approval so he does have a lot of leeway to do what he thinks is best.
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by klrefg 16d ago
It wasn’t “tens of thousands a month” outside of some exceptional months. IIRC usually it was in the single digits which is not fantastic for a two people in the US