vertexFarm

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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Condescending, gets hung up on form and image instead of substance. Pretty obvious deflection. Everybody runs on emotion as well as reason, and there are perfectly reasonable situations to get emotional. Maybe you get a lot of ad-hominem at
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Your foolish fringe-science delusions and intellectual arrogance are going to drive your descendants to despair and death. But I have no doubt you'll go to your grave unconvinced no matter what the evidence points to, blissfully leavin
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Lately I've been wondering if a full-scale thermonuclear exchange might actually save us in the long run. Our endlessly growing industry is going to eventually wipe out much more of our biosphere than even a worst-case nuclear exchange
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Ah, I was getting my data from the same site but I forgot to toggle mobile browsers. Wonder why that's not the default option? That's silly.
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Have you ever considered that maybe it's due to past union efforts that they currently don't have massive transgressions they must currently fight against? Sure, we've all heard the anecdotes of a union protecting some guy wh
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Chrome------------------64.15% Internet Explorer--------10.83% Firefox-------------------9.89% Edge---------------------4.30% Safari--------------------3.80% Opera--------------------1.58% Safari will survive since Apple is their patron. Ob
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Thanks for the reminder. I try to give a little to Mozilla and Wikipedia on a regular basis. So far they are living proof that there is a way to make this whole mess work at a high standard of quality without resorting to the advertising mo
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
If you're tired of the butt jokes or if this planet is just too mainstream for you, might I recommend another mysterious, ringed celestial body in the same general region i.e. a bajillion kilometers from nowhere? Why not Chariklo! You
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Sure, okay. What about inflation? If we have 1% of people with 90% of money and assets, either: A.) The upper class are extremely rich and the rest are desperately poor, or: B.) The masses have enough money to live comfortably and the upper
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Just out of curiosity, what capabilities do you think are extremely valuable? This isn't an attack or anything, I ask with sincerity.
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Eeeehhh I don't think that's as guaranteed as you make it out to be. Surviving technologies had a honeymoon phase, a disillusionment, and then they even out into a plateau. Not all technologies are guaranteed to survive forever
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
I don't think counterfeit Macbook Pros are a threat to their market. Their users are usually pretty good about buying directly from Apple within their ecosystem. I don't think I've ever seen a counterfeit Macbook--there'
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
The target market being people who don't want their screens to work lol? Sure, thinness and lightness are beneficial to an extent, but surely you see there's a point of diminishing returns? What's the optimal thinness? Do you
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Luckily I've solved both problems by removing all the friends from the equation. No annoying emails, no dystopic social media platforms! Just me and a bottle or five. What's the downside?
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
As somebody who uses my cards for rendering in my freelance work and hasn't played a AAA game since my teenage years, I'm definitely hoping to see AMD kick some ass and competitively drive down some prices. Especially since they a
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Probably doesn't mention it because it's not a function of the gadget they're advertising. NLJDs cost several grand, after all.
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Oh god. Yeah there's a fair share of weird junk on that site, which probably goes hand-in-hand with having the necessary paranoia to build your own nonlinear junction detector. I found the link on Hackaday way back when, I have no idea
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
That's a good point. The IR filter should light up like a beacon with most red LEDs that include a bunch of IR, such as the ones you see in a ring around most night-vision security cameras. I don't know if that would be detectable
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
That's not how you should buy tools, though. Unless you're a professional who is making a living with these tools, you don't walk straight up to the Snap-On truck and drop several grand on all the highest quality stuff. You g
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
The LEDs on the front flash a certain wavelength of red light in an attention-grabbing manner and the filter blocks a lot of other light sources so the flashing red glint is easier to spot. It's pretty ingeniously simple. Of course it&
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Anti-Spy-Hidden-Camera-Lens-Bug-Det... Probably way crappier, but for what these electronics entail the one sold by the website in the post is vastly overpriced. It's a very simple radio,
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
I'm interested that it doesn't mention the nonlinear junction detector, but I'm no spyhunter or anything and maybe that's an obsolete piece of equipment now. After all, there's certainly a lot more innocent transist
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
This sentence gave me a miniature zen moment. It's gone now, though.
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
This is an effect more people should experience. Everyone should study and work in their area of specialty until they are considered professionally competent in that subject, then go check out that subject's subreddit. Feel bleak and a
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Some of this shows it's hurting smaller adtech companies (read: advertisers who aren't google, facebook, amazon) but nothing here really shows it's hurting smaller site's revenue in general. There's some speculative
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Yeah, I've been struck by this possibility while reading a lot of the rebuttals here. "Targeted ads work because otherwise why would they be so prevalent?" or "targeted ads work because x, y and z." There could be a
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
I'd like to see some data which was collected in a quantifiable, carefully controlled and rigorous way. I'm not trying to be snarky or saying it doesn't exist, I'd just like to see some credible data. I was able to find
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
It's also a typical horseshit vague claim that almost certainly is the result of p-hacking ludicrous meta-studies and other nasty practices. Same as those damn red wine studies that come out all the time touting its health benefits. Th
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
It's pretty rare if you consider it percentage wise, as in proportion to all the vehicles on the road. Because there's so many hundreds of cars we encounter every single commute, even small percentages are reliably represented whi
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
"Mr Siedentopf says he hopes the song will play for another 55 million years." I think I can hear the engineers over at the Long Now foundation pissing their pants with laughter: http://longnow.org/clock/ The

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