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Comment · 7 years ago
From the list of businesses in this thread this was the one that caught my eye. However, I am Australian and a lot of the time businesses don't ship here. Like you say, it's a physical business, you need to move physical products.

I opened your website and immediately looked for shipping, 'countries you ship to' is nowhere to be found until checkout, where there is a dropdown with no options other than the USA.

Comment · 7 years ago
I doubt it will be most new devices that actually use data are now being shipped with it, even my drone came with usb-c

Soon enough there will be a major shift

Comment · 7 years ago
They use massive mega apps e.g. WeChat
Comment · 7 years ago
You're probably requesting with a degree of sense.

If you requested your 5.6 weeks off all at once and over an go-live date that you were 100% responsible for, you might receive a request to see if you could move those holidays a bit later

Comment · 7 years ago
They offered Amazon $3B tax breaks, while the city would have profited $27B. The city would have a net gain of $24B.

Now the city doesn't gain anything.

Comment · 7 years ago
I'm not sure VR headsets are the future of gaming either.

I had one of the PSVR headsets and it makes gaming even more isolationist.

Playing a console (where I believe the majority of gamers come from) is quite casual, you sit on the couch quite a distance from the screen with a basic controller.

Playing on the PC is more serious endeavour, often with headphones and sitting quite close to the screen.

VR is even more serious than playing on the PC, you need a dedicated space (to run around), you're completely cut off from the outside world.

VR means you really want to set yourself up for a long gaming session, due to the headset it is always going to be quite isolationist in ways other avenues are not.

Comment · 8 years ago
I was on that project as a grad.

They spent a billion dollars, over 5 years, with a staff of 1,000 strong to replace old software.

I would be surprised if even 20 of the 1,000 were touching COBOL.

Comment · 8 years ago
> besides getting a few folks home faster.

How is that not solving a problem? Isn't this the purpose of undergrounds/metros?

Comment · 8 years ago
8 inches of weeds is a pretty solid amount of weeds
Comment · 8 years ago
YBB YBP?

This is some pretty incredible jargon is this widely used, I've never seen it before and needed to look it up.

Is it really that hard to say 2,500 years ago?

Comment · 8 years ago
You could change that.

I loved using D3 directly and found it amazing.

Comment · 8 years ago
If it's really needed, why the aren't tax dollars enough?
Comment · 8 years ago
Is the condominium not a part of a larger building?
Comment · 8 years ago
Digital servicing and apps, no need to head into a branch, ever.
Comment · 8 years ago
The banks spent $1B dollars,

What are you saying they've not adopted.

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