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Viper007Bond

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    Comment #17191608

    An absolute ton of Reddit users browse the site via apps too. Something to keep in mind. I still agree that Facebook is larger though.

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    Comment #17087628

    My 3 months of mining back in the day (aka heating my apartment with video cards instead of electric heaters) netted me about $4000 a few months ago. I found it hilarious.

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    Comment #16815089

    Interestingly PowerShell is petty awesome in that regard. You pass around objects instead of trying to parse strings and things.

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    Comment #16798576

    No different than HEVC or anything else. My CPUs are a few generations behind (i7-4790K and i5-4690K) and they can't hardware decode/encode HEVC.

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    Comment #16784098

    Extremely common in many parts of the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_circumcision

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    Comment #16783257

    All of my past couple laptops have been touchscreens. I never find it that useful honestly. It just ends up leaving fingerprints all over the screen.

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    Comment #16769693

    The winter of 2016/2017 was really bad here in Portland and caused an unbelievable amount of damage to our roads. Whole portions of streets came up from the freeze/thaw. It was nut…

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    Comment #16761033

    Commercial flights have actually slowed down for efficiency reasons. They were faster in the '70s.

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    Comment #16738098

    What size is that? I run a 34" 3440x1440 21:9 and it's nearly a bit too wide. EDIT: https://www.asus.com/us/ROG-Republic-Of-Gamers/ROG-SWIFT-PG3... 100Hz is awesome, even for just …

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    Comment #16738042

    The more RAM you have, the more your OS will use. My 16GB laptop is currently using 8-9GB and I don't have much open. What's the point of RAM if you don't use it? If I get low on f…

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    Comment #16737963

    I don't see Intel going out of business any time soon...

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    Comment #16721296

    That would make a hell of a racket. They more likely boiled their brake fluid or something, possibly due to a stuck caliper.

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    Comment #16721263

    I thought for sure you'd be wrong, but nope! https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1080_...

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    Comment #16541169

    The ~600 person distributed company I work for doesn't use phone or email and obviously doesn't do anything face to face. We relied on IRC for years before switching to Slack so ye…

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    Comment #16495823

    You can actually connect to Slack via IRC: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connect-t...

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    Comment #16370750

    Yep, my CPU (i7-4790K @ 4.7 GHz) smokes my dual GTX 780s in hash rate for Monereo.

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    Comment #16365064

    Because even when you're not paying for electricity, there's much more profitable coins to mine.

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    Comment #16330843

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16330228

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    Comment #16305950

    Really interesting video about that: https://youtu.be/8e-H4sEHB54

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    Comment #16261854

    Isn't Dr. Pepper currently distributed through Pepsi? I wonder how this will affect that.

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    Comment #16261012

    Even better than Google Maps? It tells you what lane to be in and everything.

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    Comment #16241948

    I pay my townhouse rent via Google Wallet. I assure you it's alive and well.

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    Comment #16216709

    I use Developer as my only browser. Never had any issues. It's not a buggy alpha version or something.