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Comment #45237565
I will use the "rabid" replies I got as evidence towards interests of minimizing the scare for nuclear because there's many other interests behind it and I doubt it would get a fai…
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Comment #45237542
If you're not looking for a perfect sample, pretty simple, the way it was discovered: with sticky tape and graphite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_graphene
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Comment #45233204
>50 direct fatalities This is a crazy understatement of just how many human-years of life have been lost due to that incident. How many people got leukemia in neighboring countries…
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Comment #45191198
Doubt most people want it as thin as possible. This is just the phone industry running out of ideas and trying to tell people what they actually need. There's not much left to "fix…
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Comment #45190933
>Statements like "I'm not going to explain it to you, you'll see exactly what it does" and "This is when it's zoomed out, you can still see it traveling" seem to be careful wording…
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Comment #45190780
UFOs came a long way in the last 70 years or so. Started with saucer shaped crafts that housed biological aliens to drone like crafts. Can't wait to see how their tech advances in …
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Comment #45178576
Most of Earth's powerful armies are all into war AI/AGI machines and I doubt any of these movements can do the least bit of change about that. If anything these kinds of movements …
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Comment #45162159
That might account for a small set of scenarios, most times they just go for whatever sticks to their hand, in pockets/purses, without knowing what they'll get. As long as there's …
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Comment #45161959
>discourage theft Does it though? Are there statistics that clearly show devices aren't being stolen anymore because they cannot monetize them anymore? The way I see it the only th…
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Comment #45160644
Ignoring how strangely against this idea you are, for no justifiable reason, it wouldn't look like a 3310, it would still look like a smart phone, probably OLED so more battery lif…
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Comment #45160360
You missed my point, a simpler hardware/software phone needs less resources to maintain. No eyecandy/cushy features to maintain, security becomes easier to maintain by the communit…
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Comment #45160036
The trick is adding a ton of features which expose extra attack surface that needs them to maintain and fix, under the pretense that it will make everyone's life easier. Make it co…
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Comment #45159989
Security/privacy?
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Comment #45159952
Seems like there needs to be a split of both hardware and software. Mobile phones morphed into something else lately. Not all of us need all the features of a smart phone, but stil…
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Comment #45142011
Just get a hat? They breakout into Arduino UNO style connectors and you can use hats designed for that on top of it.
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Comment #45141927
Still no I2S.
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Comment #45141901
But no GPIOs or similarly low total power draw.
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Comment #45141857
The way I used my Raspberry Pi boards fits into two categories, either always on providing some network service (with a shield), which usually benefits from very low power draw, ei…
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Comment #45137981
Ah for sure, that's not what I meant. I was talking about the fact that sooner or later people running the business figure out they can increase the workload if employees have too …
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Comment #45136035
Lately there has been a larger power difference between governing and governed, and it shows itself in these kinds of moves.
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Comment #45134602
I don't see anything strange going on, market just finding out how to properly milk the new tech. Where it is useful and where it is not.
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Comment #45134581
>If the individual is more productive, they can work fewer hours. I have never seen people working fewer hours due to technological improvement, productivity just goes up from them…
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Comment #45125692
My guess is ICE cars sell more energy which is packaged as gas, which benefits certain industries. More control over price. Not as much control over electric with solar and other s…
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Comment #45125520
That most people cannot even understand where the problem is. Downvotes make my point as well. I do not want to say the right thing so people aren't offended so I am granted access…
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Comment #45107408
You are making my point though. You'd have a problem if you'd have to fake your religion or your sexual orientation so you get served, but it's fine if we do it with how "likable" …