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greendude29

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    Comment #48092169

    I'd go out and say the marketing is not subtle. The hype and fanboys/girls are so in line with the marketing that any level of skepticism is seen a an act of defection, but if you …

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    Comment #39623291

    Cool idea. I'm guessing most of the value to your users is in the content in your app since the hardware can be replaced by bookmarks for those have >10 or so plants. For me, I'd m…

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    Comment #38863795

    A TV will likely have multiple inputs like HDMI, USB, Cable, etc and hence presumably more parts, more complex board and higher power needs. I might be wrong, but that's an assumpt…

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    Comment #38863240

    Thanks for posting, this is a fun space to see more software in. Indirectly related, but I'm in the market for a 32inch+ screen which can be used for a photo frame. With the except…

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    Comment #38442849

    I really can't figure out what relation the doodle has to what's generated. I draw a dot, I get a cat as per the prompt. I add another dot, or a line; the newly generated image cha…

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    Comment #38400734

    This...is news?

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    Comment #38065923

    > First it was Jordan Peterson, then it i was Eric Weinstein, then Chamath, the list goes on. Most recently, it’s been Peter Zeihan. These are not intellectuals, let alone public o…

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    Comment #35031310

    It's not a controversial opinion as much as it is incongruent. > IMO It's better to adopt Chromium-based browsers and put pressure on Google to avoid letting it become the sole dec…

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    Comment #34917447

    I saw the headline on your post and felt horrified. I then read the details and I'm no longer horrified. There is a difference between advertising your own services vs injecting ad…

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    Comment #34917386

    > Maybe the CEO can jump on here again and give us a bunch of back-peddling double talk about how they’re misunderstood, as when they were caught censoring news results. I must hav…

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    Comment #34685467

    Craft seems really interesting. Applied.

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    Comment #34623335

    Highly subjective based on personal preferences. I use Gnome and the top bar is far from a checkbox for stylistic design for me. On it are applets that I use multiple times everyda…

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    Comment #34600792

    I noticed a sharp decrease in my world curiosity at 34. This was also the time in life that I accepted a lot of "responsibility" towards the traditional way of life, ie, stable wel…

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    Comment #34225881

    That's obvious. You're missing the point.

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    Comment #34225696

    Neat; but if I were non-technical person, the next question I would ask would be, why can't Mallory just forge Ted's certificate and use that to fool Alice or Bob? In this scenario…

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    Comment #34114046

    > Not in a free society with the rule of law, anyway. How strange to negate mountain loads of evidence with a single religion-like self-defending assumption. Of course you would be…

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    Comment #33904825

    Seriously, with what we know about PRISM [1], why do comments on here only fear China's surveillance and not that of the United States? Apple was revealed to be a participant in 20…

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    Comment #33409116

    Single data point with a spotty read of the outcome should not be enough to put any weight behind a theory. Chances are "big tech" advertises popular brands, both items in your poc…

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    Comment #33305151

    Ah yes, "naughty words", that's all that hate speech is. What a smart fella.

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    Comment #33305144

    Hate speech is not a joke. It predates the Internet. It has led to (and will lead to) massive atrocities. Some of the most well understood atrocities of the 20th century (Rwandan g…

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    Comment #33295971

    Detoxifying platforms is a "new" responsibility that a lot of social media has discovered over the last decade and with good reason (again, not saying that Twitter is doing is well…

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    Comment #33292051

    > Dramatically reducing the size and scope of the speech rules they implement to something akin to "If the speech is legal in a country, then it's legal on Twitter" would reduce te…

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    Comment #33291631

    > I feel like There's your problem. You're feeling more than realizing. Twitter's most complex problems aren't infrastruture; it's adhering to various national laws on language whi…

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    Comment #33221492

    Interestingly it crashes starting on "how many emojis on i"

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