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The cost of building large 5+ floor concrete structures that can take significant floor loading in kilograms per square meter? Building vertical anything isn't cheap, this is why you see massive…

I don't think you can treat it like a commodity exchange (futures contracts for N tons of soybeans, for example), even if you restict the platform only to dried flower bud product and ignore ever…

It will be difficult to find anything with a mini-itx motherboard (170x170mm size, standard ATX type rear I/O plate) or smaller that supports ECC RAM. There's lots of ways to put a nearly si…

> Steps 1 and 2 are more subject to state law, but their step 3 Step 1: Collect underpants Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit

Doesn't entirely fix the problem, but using public/private key auth and a private key created just for the backup cron job, the server can push a backup via scp/ssh to its own user acco…

We had a previous discussion about this, and for its price ($675 with no RAM or SSD?) you can build a really nice mini-ITX system that uses a full size PCI-Express 3.0 video card. The mini-itx system …

I have had a oneplus one for 2 years, running cyanogen on it, and have gone through all the OTA updates to the latest 6.x based OS with no hiccups. My only complaint about cyanogenmod is their recent …

Really happy with my oneplus one which I have had for two years now. Excellent battery life and does everything I want. One of the most important things for me is that it can run CyanogenMod vs. the c…

> which tries to filter out suicidal employees The cynic in me says they don't particularly care about the high suicide rate of assembly line factory workers in China, as long as said factory …

“While taking a piss in the men's room, I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize…

Having spent some time in India and Pakistan, the actor's accent (Kumail Nanjiani) is upper class/elite Pakistani English, most likely influenced by going to a good quality private school. H…

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There is no proper English accent, to a New Zealander, people born in California sound weird.

And now the Weissman score is a real thing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weissman_score …

As likely as that is for 98% of the population, everyone on my list is somebody I know face to face. And I don't put personal milestones/problems/drama on facebook. More like technology…

Except the "beneath" part, I think that's more of a reference to Peter Thiel and Blueseed/Seasteading.

That is really, really creepy. I will not pay money to or enter into any sort of business relationship with a real estate firm that wants to be on my Facebook 'friends' list.

it's more meta than that, the 6500 satirizes itself with how people use it

Oh they're still the apex of something, now they're the apex of Ontario-Quebec region Canadian technology corporation failures, having taken the place of the previous reigning champion, Nort…

> Peter Gregory = Peter Thiel > Russ Hanneman = Mark Cuban it's so obvious when you look at the sources - Peter Thiel and Blueseed/libertarian idealist offshore things, and the oil rig…

they're done worse with the hardware - in the garage with the GPU rigs there were a few brief shots of a cisco 6500 chassis with totally the wrong linecards for what they would be doing. actually…

except that it's not set in silicon valley at all, it's set in the early 1980s Texas PC/semiconductor industry

Anything that breaks DKIM so the signature coming from your SMTPd is no longer valid, not matching the public key published in your DNS records, will make your mail MUCH more likely to be flagged as s…

> will only retrieve balances from open loop prepaid debit cards so the poor get fucked two ways: 1) these prepaid debit cards have a lot of fees and service charges associated with them, they'…

this is a puff piece documentary, but take a look at the scale of the consumer electrical goods manufacturing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlSHo61nRWw I think what we will see is …

well, .com domains are only like $10, assuming you already have your own DNS and httpd, it's not a bad impulse purchase for 1 year considering I see people regularly spend $6 on a fancy coffee dr…

SMTP is ancient and we've been piling crap on top of it for 20 years to keep it working (and all the OSI layer 5, 6 and 7 things that depend on mail continuing to flow). SPF, DKIM, DMARC, IMAP da…

Do you have any local manufacturer sources for things like fiber optic cables (fully assembled with connectors), patch panels, splice enclosures and other fiber-related stuff for physical infrastructu…