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Re:The American Bumblebee Has Vanished from Eight States on Saturday October 09, 2021 @04:14PM (#28812864)
you might be seeing feral bees or carpenter bees, those are the two I commonly hear misidentified as bumblebees
Re:A new biography of John von Neumann on Saturday October 09, 2021 @12:43PM (#28811306)
the point is that genius doesn’t come out of a vacuum, people tend to act like he was a miracle… he was highly intelligent AND highly privileged… he was who he was because of both
Re:A new biography of John von Neumann on Saturday October 09, 2021 @12:40PM (#28811283)
I mean you could appreciate his achievements but it does seem weird to have a photo of him on the wall, for some women it might be a red flag
Re:Board Gaming in Figma on Thursday October 07, 2021 @06:02PM (#28792661)
nope
Re:Bitcoin is a Ponzi on Thursday October 07, 2021 @12:48AM (#28782090)
hmm… you mean the people who sold the tools made most of the profit …and the vast majority of miners destroyed the environment to lose a gamble…
Re:Bitcoin is a Ponzi on Thursday October 07, 2021 @12:45AM (#28782058)
yeah but i’m not going to create a new element on the period table
Re:I'm sorry on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @07:49PM (#28779951)
welcome to open source, it’s just this thread over and over again every day
Re:U.S. Tech Salaries Grow, but Not for Everyone on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @06:49PM (#28779480)
don’t forget that more women dropped out of work to handle childcare during the pandemic
For me it’s a cost issue, this is over $200… I might pay $100 for it, but this wouldn’t be a must-buy for me until it hits ~$50
it’s because snapchat is a fraction of the size of facebook, a rounding error by comparison