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by Anechoic 2y ago
Important to remember just how close we really are to slavery. It's not ancient history by any means. Absolutely. My grandmother's grandmother was a slave. It's still hard for me to wrap my hand around the fact that I knew
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by Anechoic 3y ago
It would also give Walmart access to the breadth of customer data collected by Vizio’s smart TV platform and the revenue stream created by serving up personalized ads and taking a cut of subscription fees.
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by Anechoic 3y ago
I don't know why other car manufacturers don't make D2C a bigger focus for their business Because in most cases it's literally illegal . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_dealerships_in_the_United_...
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by Anechoic 3y ago
Not to be TOO snarky, but given how quickly corporate cancels employee labor despite rising revenue, it would not surprise me for other corporate to also cancel "low paying customers" for "high paying customers". Loyalt
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by Anechoic 3y ago
If a system is attacked or fails in novel way, and the system design was done in accordance with best-practices, the follow-up investigation will note this, the system implementers will in all likelihood not face any repercussions (because
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by Anechoic 3y ago
>Microsoft bailed out Apple with an investment entirely because of anti monopoly regulations. Not "entirely", it was a lawsuit settlement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Canyon_Company
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by Anechoic 3y ago
This is about AirDrop, not Air Tags.
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by Anechoic 3y ago
Yep, you’re correct, I was using old numbers - Springfield MA lost some population while Springfield MO grew. But we still have Dr. Suess!
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by Anechoic 3y ago
It’s the first, largest and (unfortunately) poorest Springfield. (I’m writing this from Springfield right now)
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by Anechoic 3y ago
When I’m on my way back from an international location the last thing I want to do is sit in a TSA office and answer questions about my identit Well you're in luck - it's not TSA that interviews you, it's CPB!
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by Anechoic 3y ago
> RCS fixes the cost / reliability problems of SMS, It doesn’t fix the end to end encryption problem unless google opens up their system.
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by Anechoic 3y ago
protects you from liability for incorrectly filing your taxes. In practice, it's not really needed. The thing is (and I realize that it's not the general perception) if you sincerely try to file your taxes and you screw up, the
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by Anechoic 3y ago
They did both those things purely because the DoJ made Gates sweat. They did both those things to settle a lawsuit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Canyon_Company
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by Anechoic 3y ago
Exactly, which is why "as-builts" are a thing.
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by Anechoic 3y ago
It could be in response to the p-wave, which arrives before the higher-amplitude shear wave.
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by Anechoic 3y ago
Other way around-they’re scanning iCloud but not photos stored on iPhones, except in iMessage.
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by Anechoic 3y ago
Absolutely. I'm guessing most of the responders on this thread didn't use a Mac in the early aughts - Flash ran like dogshit on Macs (when it wasn't crashing) and Macromedia/Adobe had no interest in fixing it because &qu
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by Anechoic 3y ago
The T backtracked on that a while back: https://patch.com/massachusetts/northend/yes-you-can-take-ph... (the original MBTA link is long gone)
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by Anechoic 3y ago
Commercial flop because the US banned it for "reasons" There was ban that was quickly overturned. The ban was not for "reasons," the issue was noise pollution and it is a legitimate issue. A lot of working is going int
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by Anechoic 3y ago
pivoting to a productive, merit-based approach For the right definitions of "merit", yes. I'm not confident we've figured that part out yet.
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by Anechoic 3y ago
You're comparing a 2-mile, $6.5 bridge to a 130-mile, $0.5 bil/year system and you think this looks good for the bridge? Not to mention in addition to direct costs, you need to look at externalities.
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by Anechoic 3y ago
It seems this will end quotas, Quotas have been illegal since the 1970s.
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by Anechoic 3y ago
a guy who knew nothing about aviation It's not that he knew nothing about aviation (he ran Denver International Airport), he didn't have first-hand experience as a pilot. But here's the thing - that's okay. FAA is a me
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by Anechoic 3y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted, but you're correct - they do.
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by Anechoic 4y ago
Singapore became one of the wealthiest countries in the world by studiously copying the aspects of the British financial and legal system that worked Did Singapore copy those aspects because they chose to do so, or were those aspects impo
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by Anechoic 4y ago
Presumably pair-locking still works to mitigate against evil chargers? https://reincubate.com/support/how-to/pair-lock-supervise-ip...
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by Anechoic 4y ago
Boston prioritized capital projects Because U.S. transit systems get Federal money for capital projects, but don't get Fed money for regular maintenance.
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by Anechoic 4y ago
but if Trump paid directly himself, it wouldn't violate campaign finance laws? That's my (uneducated) understanding, but the speculation is that he didn't pay it himself because then he couldn't deny (to friends/f
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by Anechoic 4y ago
Keep a “Notes” field where you can add extra data, like 2FA backup codes, for each password! I'm not sure if the reference here is to Keychain's "Secure Notes" or the "comments" field associated with password
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by Anechoic 4y ago
runs the biggest rocket company That would be Boeing Defense, Space & Security (50,000 employees and $23.3 billion in revenue vs 12,000 employees and $2 billion revenue) runs one of the biggest car companies. Tesla, with it's $

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