Arn_Thor

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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
Okay here's ways in which I found the AirPods to be vastly superior to any other bluetooth headset or earbuds I've tried, including more expensive over-ear noise cancelling ones: -The H1 chip ensures a quick connection that's
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
Go to "manage libraries", then edit each library. Once the edit menu opens, go to the "advanced" section and untick "include related TIDAL content". That ought to sort it out
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
Thank you!
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
I'm not sure how those figures shake out, so if you could provide a source that would be terrific. Deaths per unit of distance flown for the 737MAX vs a comparable 70s plane. And still, even if that is the case, the anger stems from th
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
I think part of the problem is the focus on the financial figures for the next shareholder call. With a significantly longer time horizon it would be easy to justify investment in a total redesign, because it would lead to a number of cost
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
I read that as "cows" and thought "I never woulda guessed, but suppose it makes sense". I think it's time to call it a day
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
Sweden, Finland and Denmark are also very apt examples, none of whom have oil. (Norway also uses very little of its oil revenue, saving most of it)
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
I'd wager it just about maxed out their silicon, because it's taken two years of software optimization to speed up FaceID on the iPhone X. It was a little bit sluggish until iOS 13, which to me indicates some clever software trick
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
As long as a business' primary responsibility is to shareholders rather than, say, the local community, the consumer or the environment then that won't change. Investors are a big part of it, yes, as they demand quick returns toda
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
It is true. "New data show that extreme weather events have become more frequent over the past 36 years, with a significant uptick in floods and other hydrological events compared even with five years ago, according to a new publicatio
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
There are people who are alive today, and who won't be next year because of extreme weather events tied to climate change. And that's before getting into real live issues to do with water rights, habitation, crop resilience to cha
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
All this to say "Many Hong Kongers are racist". That's correct, sadly. But there is no doubt that anti-parallel trader demonstrations are a new phenomenon, and directly correlated to the disruption to daily life in the border
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
It is true that mainlanders face discrimination in Hong Kong. But let's not forget that a huge portion, if not the majority, of people who call themselves Hong Kongers were born in the mainland, or have parents that came from the mainl
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
I'm thoroughly confused by your comment. Was not Apple's FaceID a full year, if not more, ahead of the competition? Sure they didn't sit in cupertino, stitching together components, but they designed an integration of existin
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
Agreed on the comfort aspect. I splurged and got the iPhone X a few years back, and in daily use it still feels snappier than even the most recent flagship Samsung phones.
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
Are foreign-currency amounts calculated by the exchange rate at the time/on the day the transfer or spending took place, or does it utilize the current exchange rate? My budget operates with four currencies, easily, in a year so it add
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
A substantial portion of requests blocked by my pi-hole is Windows telemetry. And I can't turn it off. That alone justifies a high level of righteous anger at Microsoft. And then, in the last update, it installed Teams, and caused it t
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
Plenty of low-density cities make public transit work, all over the world—Canada would be your closest example. With a bit of public money and political willpower extensive, fast and functional bus systems can be set up even in the sprawlie
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
I think that kind of two-handedness is misguided and unhelpful. International media is openly reporting the violent side of the protest: brick-throwing, sticks, petrol bombs etc. Video footage of protesters beating away at police are openly
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
If wealth overall is being drained from the country that depletes the stock of resources that would otherwise have been reinvested locally in industry and agriculture. A simplification, of course, but the principle applies.
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
Yep, and bloatware. Restarted after a recent update and whaddayaknow? Teams suddenly starts up. Never mind the fact I never installed it.
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
There are many, many countries with GDPs per capita lower than China's which have democracy and freedom of speech. It's not an either/or proposition
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
> I don't see a reason why the Chinese wouldn't follow on that route That was the hope and belief behind Nixon's trip to China, and the inclusion of China into the WTO. But with Xi taking power, arguably the most totalita
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
IMO the CCP gets its legitimacy to govern from its performance in some key areas: economic development and stability/security. That plays to the party's strengths, so the state-controlled media has actively promoted the view that
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
Doesn't have to be greater than winter usage to be problematic. All it takes is several unfortunate events occurring at the same time—the kind of curve ball father time likes to throw occasionally. Say, extra hot weather, little wind w
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
It is a problem, if not a very big one right now. With the climate changing, expect Europe to build out more air conditioning to cope with hotter summers, raising power usage. Dismissing this very real operational problem for the power plan
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
> Words are the only immutable medium we have, which is why they are the vehicle of choice for extremely important concepts like the Ten Commandments, the Koran, and the Bill of Rights. Uh, certainly also maybe perhaps because written wo
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
I do miss freelancer.. From time to time I still think back to how enjoyable an experience it was. Found some solace in Elite Dangerous. It's not the same, but it scratches the itch, and offers something different as well
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
I thought I'd prefaced my comment sufficiently. It's not perfect, far from it. Hong Kong has unique quality of life problems, as you point out. But that doesn't discredit the urbanization model on its own. Don't throw th
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by Arn_Thor 7y ago
I am a huge Jacobs fan. She is so right on so many points. But her followers have taken on cult-like tendencies to the point where anything that isn't a block of five-floor walk-ups with stores on the ground floor by definition is wron

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