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hpdigidrifter

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    Comment #47551739

    >literally the only use I live in Taiwan Can you find me an insurance company that will pay me out in case of a war with China? From what I see absolutely no one will insure that. …

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    Comment #47362508

    Closed source DNA testing software and hardware is a travesty imo

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    Comment #47178634

    Someone dropped $100k polymarket on US attacking Iran that day, it sent the whole place into a frenzy. There's degeneracy and then there's insiders and that's how these places work…

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    Comment #47178536

    >Of course it's you / partially you Absolutely love your work, go strong. I click these thread and always expect your name to pop up

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    Comment #47044498

    Creatine ruins my sleep Find myself getting up multiple times a night to pee. Even once is rare unless I've been out drinking for the night.

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    Comment #46921016

    Radiative cooling in space is not some unsolved problem. The problem is whether it's worth the launch costs for it.

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    Comment #46911069

    Airport is prime for this but in general the average person keeps wifi on and the click through on an Android to use open networks is so seamless

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    Comment #46910079

    Enjoyed the article but a note to the author it's not nice to read on mobile (Firefox Android)

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    Comment #46910059

    This is oh sweet summer child stuff. Have you ever gone to a crowded public place and setup an open hotspot?

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    Comment #46910016

    Am not a fan of dealing with worktrees Maybe for larger longer lived tasks but the time spent on merges from different agents is definitely a big headwind for parallel work. This s…

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    Comment #46855560

    Can't speak for copilot but Gemini cli is unbelievably bad compared to Gemini web. CC has some magic secret sauce and I'm not sure what it is. My company pays for both too, I keep …

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    Comment #46844154

    Pardon my skepticism but I find it hard to believe you can actually participate in western society without choosing to have a government mandated tracking device? Maybe you live so…

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    Comment #46769383

    http/2 is nothing like http/1 feel free to put them both behind load balancers and see how you go

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    Comment #46688016

    This was discussed on polymarket with the Galve Goat burning bet and assume it's why Essentially it's a big straw goat in Sweden that vandals sometime set on fire. Right towards th…

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    Comment #45956589

    I assume it's generally unbecoming to reference 4chan posts for an academic but surprised the Shopping Cart theory didn't get a mention given how close it was to the subject matter…

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    Comment #45832370

    >100% innocent Feel free to explain the submarine with no flag they bombed

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    Comment #45768164

    Wise customer service is amazingly good though. I'd much prefer to use a company that spends 100% of the time on 80% of customers than one that spends 80% of it's time on 20% of th…

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    Comment #45768125

    I've personally found wise to be more than helpful and I've changed addresses across continents, to far more red flag jurisdictions than my native Australia So while I feel for the…

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    Comment #45531376

    Strangely not mentioned much in here is how these accounts are up for sale. It's definitely never mentioned on reddit because simply saying one of the websites in an offhand commen…

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    Comment #45281133

    >This was previously impossible Isn't this what Mastadon is?

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    Comment #45124544

    >yet people still use Google Search Google search is widely acknowledged as drastically drying up in the last year or so, that's despite more worldwide internet usage.

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    Comment #44872104

    I get it's something you need but for the average user autotypers and clickers not working easily without permissions is a definite positive. It's entirely the point of moving to W…

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    Comment #44411596

    I'm always amazed how all the banks I've used in Australia require either their own proprietary app or some bizarre closed source unvetted 3rd party TOTP implementation instead of …