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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…