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Comment · 1 year ago
What duopoly? Just off the top of my head, there is at least Schindler, Otis, Kone, Toshiba, ThyssenKrupp, and Mitsubishi.
Comment · 1 year ago
macOS is not really a good OS for running a server anyway, and Docker Desktop is intended for development more than anything else.
Comment · 1 year ago
Jobs tries to bully and threaten a smaller company into signing an illegal agreement and all you have to say is how great of a writer he is because of how few sentences he wrote?
Comment · 2 years ago
To be fair, the tweet says that they don't work on the models at Google anymore, not that they have left Google.

Might be true, might not be. It's unsourced speculation.

Comment · 2 years ago
(1) You can't really go based off "views" on Twitter. They don't really mean anything, just that someone scrolled past the tweet. I found that baguette tweet you were talking about, and it only had a couple thousand likes. Nothing about him seems like a master troll, that's a cop out in the style of "joke's on them I was only pretending".

(2) I think that was more down to him being the former CEO with access to inside information rather than a master manipulator...

(3) His wife having long COVID doesn't give him a free pass to promote literal conspiracy theories, where all the world's governments and press are working together to hide the truth from everyone.

Comment · 3 years ago
> Why wouldn't it have one?

Because that's illegal?

Comment · 3 years ago
Most maps do that, even print ones. It's not about a "clean look", but about readability. There is also a scale, in the bottom right corner.
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm not sure Elbakyan receiving this award is particularly appropriate, considering she is strongly pro-Putin and is a big fan of Joseph Stalin (she regularly quotes him on VK).
Comment · 3 years ago
Nice conspiracy theory, but there is no declared upper limit on vitamin K.
Comment · 3 years ago
He only made 4 commits to the repo, so probably not.
Comment · 4 years ago
While "toxin" refers specifically to a poison produced by a living cell or organism, "toxic" does not -- it's a synonym of poisonous, directly derived from the Latin word for "poisonous".

"Toxin" is a newer invention, derived from "toxic" by adding the biochemistry-related suffix "-in" to indicate toxic substances of biological origin.

Comment · 4 years ago
No, they definitely do not. Foreign relations is a federal responsibility, as laid out in the constitution.
Comment · 4 years ago
Have you read the commerce clause? It's not very long, so I'll post it here:

> To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;

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