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StephenSmith

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    Comment #48368798

    I tried this last week and had the same experience. It was terrible and they got $140 out of me before I realized what it was (not) capable of. Their support was nonexistent as wel…

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    Comment #47181135

    I find this language fascinating. On one hand, the Department of "War" gives the department an underlying, unspoken goal that it should be involved in war with something. On the ot…

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    Comment #47181039

    I had to dig this up. Elon Musk signed an open pledge in 2016 to disallow Robots/AI to make kill decisions. https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/lethal-autonomous-weapo... He's now…

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    Comment #47121755

    Also, MicroVision, the company in OP's article bought the IP from Luminar. This feels like a circular venture capital scam. Luminar originally went public via SPAC and made a bunch…

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    Comment #46693718

    If the goal is to make US goods attractive to other countries and to decrease our trade deficit (not saying I agree with this goal), either the dollar has to become fundamentally w…

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    Comment #45799799

    Every country has rare earth elements. Just google "X discovers rare earth" where X is your country of choice and you'll find articles about how they have huge deposits. The underl…

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    Comment #45413248

    Lead poisoning.

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    Comment #45186135

    Who actually wants a thinner iPhone?

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    Comment #43404477

    Trying to buy a physical copy. It says "This product is not currently for sale." Would love to buy this.

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    Comment #42229555

    I just wanted to highlight that he was also an entrepreneurship professor at NC State and shaped many students' views of what they could do with their lives. I was one of those stu…

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    Comment #42206438

    We make an AI camera for residential home builders. I'd love to chat to see if there's any synergy here. bedrockwireless.com Ping me, stephen [at] bedrockwireless.com

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    Comment #41646829

    When they use sound effects in news reports, they're called "nat pops." They're often used to make reporters sound like they're somewhere they're not. They can be very convincing.

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    Comment #41430262

    Just learn dvorak or colemak - they're not hard to learn, have tons of benefits, and are readily available on all operating systems

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    Comment #41321011

    And then refuted that with a different study at the end. Weird.

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    Comment #41079331

    Most of the citrus growers are just selling off their land for housing developments. Florida is still experiencing high growth. A lot of that growth is older populations trying to …

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    Comment #40696678

    Now do POE

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    Comment #40611121

    AKA kill half the worlds population

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    Comment #40528894

    This video explains this fairly well (Hank Green). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk8pwE3IByg

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    Comment #40440961

    Yes, but Waymo hasn't (yet) made Google $1 of profit and FSD is almost pure margin for Tesla.

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    Comment #40135932

    "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." -Abraham Maslow

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    Comment #40135269

    If you're in the market for a new-to-you car, then I recommend looking at the model years where they switch from wired car-play to wireless car-play and buying the previous model-y…

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    Comment #39905326

    I recommend switching to any of the apps that support Podcasting 2.0 - The features are better and the index is not controlled by Apple/Spotify. https://podcasting2.org/

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    Comment #39104659

    But character Design is. Here's a good summary of just how close a lot of the characters are. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1749183059877085396.html

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    Comment #39103785

    I've seen a few arguments, but I still don't see how Gamefreak/Pokemon isn't just going to sue the crap out of these developers (Pocket Pair). Maybe they can get away with loosely …

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    Comment #38901982

    I mean, the guy built a DIY mailchimp. That seems hackernews relevant. There's tons of services like mailchimp that are all varying costs. A low cost DIY solution may be interestin…