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Taiwan pressured to move 50% of chip production to US or lose protection
As opposed to what? Losing Taiwan to China and thus a 100% loss for the US?
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Taiwan pressured to move 50% of chip production to US or lose protection
As opposed to what? Losing Taiwan to China and thus a 100% loss for the US?
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Michigan family files $100M lawsuit after boy killed in hyperbaric chamber explosion
"Isn't it so crazy that people with ADHD just work better under pressure?"
The psychiatrist with weirdly ambituous experimental tendencies whose clinic just installed a hyperbaric chamber: "Oh yeah?"
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Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust case
Who cares about chrome? Of all the things Chrome is the easiest to replace. Android is the real deal.
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It's the dream
This is a very weird fetishization of autism that does not reflect at all the hardships you have to go through as someone with it.
This is like saying ADHD people could run the world perfectly on hyperfocus while ignoring all the tradebacks like getting tf out of bed, and then the house, on time.
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Anon plays Arkham City
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Yeah, and maybe it should be mentioned that Arkham City has a huge amount of political prisoners and other innocents inside of it.
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7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux
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Bruh what? Did you really just say that not having to buy software exclusive to a certain hardware makes the software free?
That's like saying the OS on a PlayStation is free because you only had to pay for the PlayStation.
Nah man, you purchased the OS with the hardware. That's why it's exclusive.
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Everything went from kinda expensive to really expensive.
Isn't this because coffee harvests fell short due to drought caused by global warming?
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Aurora Borealis
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"Organize your workplace and get collectively laid off"
Don't wanna be pessimistic but it never would've gotten this far is this was as easy as you said.
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America
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Post meridiem and ante meridiem
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Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'
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While this is true, the majority of the wikis are not at all low quality. Some are the only ones existing for a topic. The wikis are community-based, after all.
But its easy to vandalize and is highly profit-driven. The fandom wikis are filled with ads that absolutely destroy navigation. Infamous is the video ad that scrolls you up automatically in the middle of reading once it finishes. You have to pause it to read the article with no interruption.
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‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops
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Engagement. I'm a teacher and using all of your senses to look for information makes you remember that said piece of information more.
It's funny, most studying comes down to that... And motivation, which is also something you have if you prefer books over laptop.
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UN delegates hold mass walkout as Netanyahu insists Israel must ‘finish job’ in Gaza
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Why is a criminal according to the UN with a arrest warrant by the UN allowed to speak at the UN?
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The double standard
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So you didn't get the meme.
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Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air
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Kinda homeless? The victim is the largest french gaming streamer and definitely not homeless. There's indications of mental health problems but it's only visible on camera. There are no documents verifying it unfortunately (though it seems evident). The two killers are people he's known and hung out with for years.
Edit: The apartment was rented specifically for this stream.
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🐙 Octopus is Octopus 🐙
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Kleenex is Kneenes according to the rules of Latin, actually
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Only one generation knows how to fix tech...
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Same here, but I'm a border generation (born in the late 90s)
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The AI of Power
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Some call it congress
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7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux
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Technically not. MacOS wouldn't be what it is today if apple didn't get any money out of it. They get that money from selling the hardware the software is exclusively on among other things. Let's say i. e. Ubuntu: When it first got released then it relied on its owners personal revenue for a long time. None of the hardware sold financed Ubuntu, because Ubuntu didn't earn money through hardware. It's obvious that the money earned by apple through its sales also go back into macOS, because if the hardware didn't make any money, macOS ceases to be developed as well.
With OPs logic, every software is technically free. But no, you pay for macOS with the hardware you purchase. You purchase the hardware because of the OS, not because of the hardware. Technically, you could spin the argument and say that you pay for the OS, and for it to be run a certain way and the hardware that comes with it is free. If that sounds like bogus it's because it is bogus.
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A schoolbus, stopping in front of a residential home, is rear ended by a full size truck
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Probably not, because it says 'initial'?
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Oat milk w/ coffee: ya or na?
I prefer it, but only specific ones with a barista label or ones meant to replace milk. Cheap oat milk doesn't cut it and separates too often for my liking.
Someone mentioned the Oatly Barista one. If you're in a country with Alpro, I really like their "Not Mlk".