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How is it cheaper than $0? Is someone paying you to take them?

about 5 hours ago on Google's potential Nexus Q successor revealed in FCC filing 1 recommend

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I think it would be fair to say that the EU policy of subsidising their farmers is one of the greatest drivers of inequality in this world.

about 10 hours ago on ZTE and Huawei face EU investigation over predatory pricing 1 recommend

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If they’re thinking of charging a boatload for it again, needs 802.11ac

about 11 hours ago on Google's potential Nexus Q successor revealed in FCC filing 1 reply 2 recommends

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Unless the Mac Pro seriously moves downmarket, I doubt we’d see a Haswell in a 2013 model – the Haswell Xeons aren’t due until 2014, so the promised refresh this year will probably have Ivy Bridge EP.

My mind would be blown if they came up with a retina-class Thunderbolt display. That would be so incredibly amazing.

The common consensus seems to be that they will redesign the chassis to fit into a 19" server rack. I think that it would be a good idea.

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No, I’m pretty sure the image has been cropped. If you panned up, you’d still see the Mercator Projection with the massively-stretched Greenland.

3 days ago on Google Maps integrates Google Earth and Street View in completely redesigned interface

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Am I the only one who thinks that the new Maps gets the fundamentals wrong? The screenshots all seem to show three types of roads: orange roads (highways), white roads (major roads) and light gray roads (minor roads). The light grey has very little contrast against the white roads, and it generally seems like it will be difficult to differentiate between which roads are more important. Why is yellow MIA?

3 days ago on Google Maps for desktop: hands-on with the world's most-advanced web app 3 replies

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I don’t even know what to say after reading that… how can a piece of writing possibly be so utterly and completely terrible???

4 days ago on Someone is jealous of Paul...

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I think a filter to sort posts by category would be a pretty good idea.

But it would also present some challenges though: what about drones, or tech policy, etc?

4 days ago on Back To Your Roots Verge, Please 1 reply

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Every version of maps.google.com has had way too much UI chrome that is completely overwrought on the typically-sized Chrome window. This looks like a great leap forward in that regard.

4 days ago on Google Maps overhaul leaks ahead of I/O conference 1 reply

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Yeah I know. I was just being facetious. :)

I am interested in knowing how test tubes became associated with science laboratories, though. Wikipedia says they “are widely used by chemists to hold, mix, or heat small quantities of solid or liquid chemicals, especially for qualitative experiments and assays. Their round bottom and straight sides minimize mass loss when pouring, make them easier to clean, and allow convenient monitoring of the contents. The long, narrow neck slows down the spreading of vapors and gases to the environment.”

Obviously not ideal for many usage cases, such as growing babies.

6 days ago on Would you eat a $325,000 test-tube burger? 2 replies

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I’m inclined to believe that it’s more likely that this is a Petri dish burger than a test tube burger. Test tubes would be too narrow and long, no?

6 days ago on Would you eat a $325,000 test-tube burger? 1 reply 1 recommend

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Haha I got the Australian outback 3/5 times on the first go.

6 days ago on Helplessness, despair, and Street View come together in 'GeoGuessr' Google Maps game 1 recommend

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fresh water shortage

Desalination. Very expensive and energy-consuming, sure.

crop wipe outs

If it gets that bad, there will be enough money in this problem that someone will genetically engineer crops important crops to cope.

collapse of a food chain

How does this affect humans significantly? Plants go through photosynthesis, and cows and sheep mainly eat grass.

Would this be terrible? Yes. Is it true that “nothing can protect us?” Probably not.

8 days ago on Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels reach milestone high as global warming worsens 1 reply

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I’d recommend this 4 085 760 times if I could.

8 days ago on Is One World Trade Center really the tallest building in the West?

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Am I the only one who thinks it’s slightly out of date?

Section 4:

We do not invest in companies that we cover, and employees are forbidden from owning, trading, or buying stock in companies we cover or companies in the general tech sector, without exception.

should read…

We do not invest in companies that we cover, and employees are forbidden from owning, trading, or buying stock in companies we cover or companies in the technology, technology culture and culture culture sector, without exception.

9 days ago on The Vergecast is live (and Top Shelf: Google Glass is at 5:30PM ET)

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Actually, as a non-American looking from the outside, I wouldn’t feel too safe about that. America’s police forces seem overarmed and quite trigger happy, from many accounts.

13 days ago on First 3D-printed gun fired on video, blueprint files available to download 1 reply 4 recommends

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I’d imagine it would be reminiscent of what happened to Space Shuttle Columbia.

15 days ago on X-51A WaveRider hypersonic missile successfully hits Mach 5.1 in final test 1 reply

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I can’t move apps to SD card.

It’s a good move, in my opinion. Why should software developers get blamed when people inevitably move apps to the NAND equivalent of the gunk that flows out of the bottom of an oil refinery, thus bogging down the performance of their phone and further ruining a user experience that’s already suffering from TouchWiz and glossy Hyperglaze plastic?

15 days ago on Samsung says microSD slot makes up for Galaxy S4's storage shortcomings 2 replies 15 recommends