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Comment · 16 days ago
I mean that’s the point right? Preferences have shifted.
Comment · 24 days ago
What cards are you using that get you 5% cash back on gas?
Comment · 2 months ago
Using 512gb of ram for a 22gb remote file does feel a bit weird for a benchmark but maybe they couldn’t get a large number of cores without lots of memory?
Comment · 1 year ago
Fully don't like elon but is it possible you need to touch grass and log off reddit/twitter
Comment · 1 year ago
I’m sure this group is good but jeez this is a lot of praise for a company whose security record is … uh … less than stellar
Comment · 1 year ago
This is such a lame comment. He's looking at publicly available geospatial data, not trying to build a bomb.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
This is a pretty crazy comment
Comment · 1 year ago
I think you're missing the heavy sarcasm there
Comment · 1 year ago
It feels like there should be a user option to allow (default deny) this. Like it doesn’t have to be that the minute you install WhatsApp it gets access to all of your texts or calls. But it sucks to be stuck w iMessage when that’s just locking me into apples ecosystem
Comment · 2 years ago
Oh boy, having worked w government/elected officials a lot, I can tell you that this is just for sure not true.

Sometimes bad behavior really is just incompetence

Comment · 2 years ago
I think we can pretty safely say bitcoin was a dead end other than for buying drugs, enabling ransomware payments, or financial speculation.

Show me an average person who has bought something real w bitcoin (who couldn’t have bought it for less complexity/transaction cost using a bank) and I’ll change my mind

Comment · 2 years ago
> universally appreciated by most

60% of the time, it works every time

Comment · 2 years ago
Isn’t the idea that the money and resources have to come from somewhere?

Raise taxes or debt for the monetary side. Divert workers and other resources on the implementation side. Both of those might be better used by the private sector

Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah but the website literally says “zero code changes”. It’s the long tail that’s dangerous since most people don’t understand it as well as a the core functions

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