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milcron

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    Comment #18351000

    >Manufacturers usually painted their pencils if they were looking to cover up imperfections in the wood. Accordingly, typical paint colors were dark: purple, red, maroon, or black.…

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    Comment #17961171

    If a woodpile isn't dense enough, then surely building homes and furniture out of wood isn't dense enough either. Can you think of a better way to store carbon!

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    Comment #17730148

    The open-source base OS is fine, the closed-source services layer and cloud platform are not.

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    Comment #17710531

    Electricity isn't a great market. End-users with solar power are allowed to use the grid as a perfectly free battery, which is why everyone is dumping power on the grid at high noo…

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    Comment #17710511

    That's mostly due to the hydroelectric dams, though. Negative prices come from too much solar power in the middle of the day.

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    Comment #17689280

    1 Satoshi is currently worth $0.000069, and transactions are being approved for as low as 2¢. So this isn't currently a big problem. In the future, bitcoin could be extended to hav…

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    Comment #17684400

    >Dogecoin seems to have a great use case due to its cheap price What does the price per token have to do with anything? You can buy a fraction of a bitcoin, so I don't see how doge…

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    Comment #17649946

    This is quite possibly overkill, but I'm pleased with this setup at home: Cost | Purpose | What $109 | Router | PCEngines apu2c2 http://pcengines.ch/apu2c2.htm $10 | Router Case | …

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    Comment #17553804

    "concerns about the illiberal, authoritarian communist government of China"

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    Comment #17323241

    >Well I don't really want to use Android. What I want is a long-battery-life GNU computer that fits in my pocket. Librem5 is definitely something to watch: https://puri.sm/shop/lib…

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    Comment #17322362

    Daniel sounds rather burnt out, and also needs to find a new job. I wouldn't expect updates at the same pace.

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    Comment #17307454

    They could have more confidence now since the AT&T merger with Time Warner.

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    Comment #17297969

    It wasn't at first. The change happened over a year ago.

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    Comment #17297495

    Not to mention AMP on every news site, and Google Analytics on nearly every page.

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    Comment #17249573

    Which part of history are we rhyming with at the moment?

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    Comment #17241409

    >I also like going back into my browser history. I'm not sure what you mean by this. Firefox has browsing history, if that's what you mean. There is a different product Firefox Foc…

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    Comment #17202168

    Firefox for Android supports full extensions, so you can install uBlock Origin or even uMatrix.

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    Comment #17182535

    > Venmo IS PayPal, just with different branding They were a startup in 2010 but got bought by PayPal in 2013.

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    Comment #17139745

    It might not be new, but newspapers had to target the general public. Today's feeds are hyperfocused on individuals and their preferences.

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    Comment #16854228

    On some phones, Facebook comes preinstalled as a system-level app that cannot be uninstalled. Idk what to recommend other than getting a phone that doesn't do that to you.

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    Comment #16740680

    OpenBSD is great if you enjoy rooting around in the innards. I find the code simple and easy to read. Man pages are extraordinarily complete and accurate. OpenBSD devs go out of th…

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    Comment #16640884

    > Copperhead is an information security firm located in Toronto, Canada, specializing in protecting mobile data and devices through security assessments and secure endpoint deploym…