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by milcron 8y ago
>Manufacturers usually painted their pencils if they were looking to cover up imperfections in the wood. Accordingly, typical paint colors were dark: purple, red, maroon, or black. But Hardtmuth was looking for a way to advertise the cal
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by milcron 8y ago
If a woodpile isn't dense enough, then surely building homes and furniture out of wood isn't dense enough either. Can you think of a better way to store carbon!
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by milcron 8y ago
The open-source base OS is fine, the closed-source services layer and cloud platform are not.
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by milcron 8y ago
Electricity isn't a great market. End-users with solar power are allowed to use the grid as a perfectly free battery, which is why everyone is dumping power on the grid at high noon.
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by milcron 8y ago
That's mostly due to the hydroelectric dams, though. Negative prices come from too much solar power in the middle of the day.
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by milcron 8y ago
1 Satoshi is currently worth $0.000069, and transactions are being approved for as low as 2¢. So this isn't currently a big problem. In the future, bitcoin could be extended to have more digits. Or perhaps this will be dealt with on a
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by milcron 8y ago
>Dogecoin seems to have a great use case due to its cheap price What does the price per token have to do with anything? You can buy a fraction of a bitcoin, so I don't see how doge has any advantage over BTC here.
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by milcron 8y ago
This is quite possibly overkill, but I'm pleased with this setup at home: Cost | Purpose | What $109 | Router | PCEngines apu2c2 http://pcengines.ch/apu2c2.htm $10 | Router Case | http:&#
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by milcron 8y ago
"concerns about the illiberal, authoritarian communist government of China"
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by milcron 8y ago
>Well I don't really want to use Android. What I want is a long-battery-life GNU computer that fits in my pocket. Librem5 is definitely something to watch: https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ I'm also watc
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by milcron 8y ago
Daniel sounds rather burnt out, and also needs to find a new job. I wouldn't expect updates at the same pace.
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by milcron 8y ago
They could have more confidence now since the AT&T merger with Time Warner.
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by milcron 8y ago
It wasn't at first. The change happened over a year ago.
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by milcron 8y ago
Not to mention AMP on every news site, and Google Analytics on nearly every page.
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by milcron 8y ago
Which part of history are we rhyming with at the moment?
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by milcron 8y ago
>I also like going back into my browser history. I'm not sure what you mean by this. Firefox has browsing history, if that's what you mean. There is a different product Firefox Focus which erases your history when the browser c
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by milcron 8y ago
Firefox for Android supports full extensions, so you can install uBlock Origin or even uMatrix.
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by milcron 8y ago
> Venmo IS PayPal, just with different branding They were a startup in 2010 but got bought by PayPal in 2013.
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by milcron 8y ago
It might not be new, but newspapers had to target the general public. Today's feeds are hyperfocused on individuals and their preferences.
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by milcron 8y ago
On some phones, Facebook comes preinstalled as a system-level app that cannot be uninstalled. Idk what to recommend other than getting a phone that doesn't do that to you.
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by milcron 8y ago
OpenBSD is great if you enjoy rooting around in the innards. I find the code simple and easy to read. Man pages are extraordinarily complete and accurate. OpenBSD devs go out of their way to delete unused and crufty code.
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by milcron 8y ago
> Copperhead is an information security firm located in Toronto, Canada, specializing in protecting mobile data and devices through security assessments and secure endpoint deployments.
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by milcron 9y ago
QE is definitely a boost for asset prices, but the economy is way too complex and interrelated to draw such direct inferences. All things being equal, a QE program ought to raise real estate prices.
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by milcron 9y ago
Lyra2re2-based coins such as Vertcoin and Monacoin.
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by milcron 9y ago
Wait, they're getting rid of the patents grant?
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by milcron 9y ago
What about OSMAnd for Android? https://osmand.net/
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by milcron 9y ago
What is an ocean but a multitude of drops?
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by milcron 9y ago
Ah, EL from ELectronics. Search was turning up nothing.
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by milcron 9y ago
What is SEL?
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by milcron 9y ago
That's true. But regardless of which ledger is "the real asset", there will only be 21 million of that coin. You can clone the technology, but you can't clone societal acceptance.

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