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Naw I removed it. Just idle speculation. I'll put it in my about if you want to repost.
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Ah, Marvin the Paranoid Android, thank you.
Comment · 5 years ago
Was Marvin named after Marvin Minsky?
Comment · 5 years ago
Might their be some need to legislate chip allocation?

What would sink GDP more: one year of no new cars, or one year of no new phones? Which would have the greater domino effect on the economy?

Because auto manufacturers are such low margin, they can't buy chips reserved by monopoly businesses. But what happens when people can't afford a new phone because they can't get to work?

Comment · 5 years ago
Long ago, the accuracy would decline as scar tissue formed around implanted electrodes. Not sure if that's changed in recent years as techniques improved.
Comment · 5 years ago
A loose remaining proxy will be the ratio of like count to view count. Perhaps one of those will be axed next. I don't understand why complaining creators don't just turn off voting.
Comment · 5 years ago
Because they are pivoting to being an ad company like Google.
Comment · 5 years ago
Old people will show up and say: "Paid Firefox, I remember that when it failed as Netscape." Although technically that was Netscape Communicator? Maybe times have changed though.
Comment · 5 years ago
Anyone have stats on how much it costs to run Wikipedia's collection of websites? Do they release itemized expenses (servers, programmers, lawyers, management, etc)?
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