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by sdk16420 1y ago
I used to have a similarly priced Withings smartwatch clone; worked very well for years until I switched to a new phone and the app turned out to be gone from the store and the log in servers were offline. Without the app you can't get
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by sdk16420 1y ago
Living was always expensive, in developing countries, goods are still expensive but so is living. Save for subsistence farmers, but those are a minority in all but the poorest countries.
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by sdk16420 1y ago
High 5 figure salaries can bribe ethics, especially if the engineers are on a Green card
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by sdk16420 1y ago
Not to mention they charged $45 a year for a service that included backups in their cloud should your save become a dead link. Imagine paying that amount for several years and when you need it they pull the rug. https://web.archi
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by sdk16420 2y ago
Consider this too next time you read about a billionaire supporting charity (besides their motives likely being tax breaks). For example Zuckerberg donated $75 million to a San Francisco hospital, which was plastered all over the news. Prop
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by sdk16420 2y ago
I found several websites switched to 'press here until the timer runs out', probably they are doing the checks while the user is holding their mouse pressed, it would be trivial to bypass the long press by itself with automated mo
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by sdk16420 3y ago
You are confusing installed capacity with power used. The consumed power is going down since the early 2000s, but since the generated power by most renewables depends on the weather and season, more reserve capacity needs to be installed.
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by sdk16420 3y ago
Not having my browser nagging me to install Chrome every time I open search, maps or gmail?
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by sdk16420 4y ago
>Sometimes, people want a more efficient way to read articles, rather than actually reading them. Is it too much to assume that readers have had at least high school education and know about lead sentences and summary paragraphs?
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by sdk16420 4y ago
But those were sold with the expectation to be used by Saudi Arabia for that purpose.
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by sdk16420 4y ago
I feel that we are employed above of all to be available when it matters rather than to do a certain amount of work for the hours you are paid for. Compare it to a workshop with some tools, you buy a hammer not because you use it for 8 hour
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by sdk16420 4y ago
Drum brakes are in the same spot and can last for the life of the vehicle.
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by sdk16420 4y ago
Hub motors are in development for cars too, e.g.: https://lightyear.one/articles/lightyear-and-elaphe-develop-...
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by sdk16420 4y ago
WhatsApp has led to dozens of brutal deaths in India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_WhatsApp_lynchings
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by sdk16420 4y ago
There appear to be few good apps left that do not use a subscription model, and when they do, more often than not they charge at least €5/month, or a yearly €40 subscription. I remember around circa 2012, apps like Nova Launcher and Ti
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by sdk16420 4y ago
>Too bad you used the same phone number that you have on file with the university. Regardless of the legitimate discussion on cheating, why would a lecturer have access to student phone numbers, either directly or after asking the studen
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by sdk16420 4y ago
I was hoping most people would be familiar with the exponential chessboard story, of which this is pretty much the inverse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_problem
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by sdk16420 4y ago
>100% of all villages had erected strict and high barriers to quarantine their villages off from the rest of the China. https://www.ifpri.org/blog/lockdowns-are-protecting-chinas-r... You may not be locked inside yo
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by sdk16420 4y ago
>just try things out without so much pressure. I highly doubt you have any experience around promovendi
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by sdk16420 5y ago
A similar thing is happening in inorganic chemistry. On https://materialsproject.org probably the majority of materials are 'discovered' computationally, by using DFT simulations to determine if and how stable any crys
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by sdk16420 5y ago
If there is a wikipedia entry on the topic, use the interlanguage links to find the most commonly used words for that term in a foreign language.
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by sdk16420 5y ago
>Works like precaution To keep scientists of Chinese descent out of US academia, yes indeed.
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by sdk16420 5y ago
What is a crime depends on local legislation. Being homosexual is a crime in many countries, hence there is still nothing wrong with 'criminals' performing forced labour?
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by sdk16420 5y ago
SponsorBlock has a video highlight part option now, as more users start submitting it, you could use that to judge.
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by sdk16420 5y ago
Have never used OF, but does it really have a good discovery algorithm? From the outside it appears that most new subscribers are from the links that are shared everywhere, similarly to Patreon.
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by sdk16420 5y ago
>What's so "dignifying" about a job getting humiliated by entitled customers in retail or waitressing for minimum wage or breaking your body doing hard manual labor? The fact that you can (at least in theory) quit, recover
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by sdk16420 5y ago
It also reduces the amount of reposts, on Reddit, Instagram and Twitter it's full of 'forwards from grandma', which can disappoint users. But when users get served the original post by default, reposts will gain less tractio
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by sdk16420 12y ago
Mazda doesn't use turbos, yet manage to be competitive in the European market. Their engines, like the 2.0 SkyActiv are well liked by motoring journalists.
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by sdk16420 12y ago
> The rigid slide-by-slide hierarchies slice and dice the evidence into arbitrary compartments Is there something like a combination of PowerPoint and Prezi? Just one continous vertical slide where you just scroll down during a presentat
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Twitter Demotes Product Chief Daniel Graf(nasdaq.com)
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