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by CivBase 6y ago
That wastes a lot of my time as a call receiver. I'd rather the telephone companies do this for me instead. They could put together an automated service to receive calls from blacklisted numbers instead of just blocking them. That se
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by CivBase 6y ago
All of the scam/robocalls I get come from India and use spoofed numbers. We have do-not-call lists, but why should a telco across the world care about it? How can we even identify the relevant telco when the scammers are routing VoIP
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by CivBase 6y ago
This is probably a net positive for national security... but I still don't like it. I don't want the FBI doing anything to my computer without my permission.
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by CivBase 6y ago
Legal threats and spam blacklists are an endless game of whack-a-mole. I'm not convinced robocalls will ever disappear until the telephone protocol is updated so a receiver can confidently verify the identity of the sender. Once call
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by CivBase 6y ago
> Left unsaid, of course, is that ‘the conversation’ at scale is complete garbage Twitter is simply not a conversation platform. The medium is optimized for publishing small blurbs to as many people as possible. It's not designed
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by CivBase 6y ago
I'm just going to repeat a question I posted earlier today on a similar article. Hopefully it will get more compelling answers. Why should anyone believe they are pursuing a peaceful nuclear energy program when they do things like thi
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by CivBase 6y ago
Sorry, I misunderstood what you were referencing.
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by CivBase 6y ago
EDIT: Ignore this post. I misunderstood OP. The rest of this is just here to preserve what I originally wrote. --- Serious question: at what point is it no longer rational to return land wrongfully taken? To displace millions of people a
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by CivBase 6y ago
> Why should Iran hold up their side of a broken agreement? Because - and correct me if I'm misunderstanding things - so far as I can tell it wasn't really an "agreement" to begin with. The US essentially just said t
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by CivBase 6y ago
I'm not convinced every country without nukes is destined to end up like Libya. World politics are a bit more complicated than that.
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by CivBase 6y ago
> it's entirely rational for a country under constant threat like Iran (or Israel) to want nuclear weapons. No, it's really not. It's akin to citizens wanting to walk around with ARs in case they need to defend themselves
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by CivBase 6y ago
Could you elaborate on what kind of leverage this gives them? Does anyone doubt they had the capability to employ more efficient centrifuges and enrich uranium beyond 20% prior to this. How does choosing to actually do those things bene
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by CivBase 6y ago
> To mark the event and send a message to its negotiating partners, technicians at Natanz began to operate a small batch of IR-6 centrifuges as well. The majority of centrifuges at Natanz are a model known as IR-1, which is much less eff
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by CivBase 6y ago
> Because it’s not about proving they verified the parking lot was clear. It’s about proving the business did what is “reasonable” to prevent the problem. If that's the case, isn't your business already going what is "reas
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by CivBase 6y ago
I'm no attorney, but were I in charge of representing the plaintiff and you presented logs showing your facilities manager's locations throughout the day of the incident, my first question would be something like "how does th
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by CivBase 6y ago
> Also note that there are entire classes of scams that never get click baity titles because Apple DOES detect them and shut them down before they're widespread. That's beside the point. According to the thread, Apple detected
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by CivBase 6y ago
> You presume management has the capability to judge the quality of the work. I presume there was a job which needed doing, which is why management hired someone to do it. Management may have difficulty evaluating the quality or extent
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by CivBase 6y ago
> The US has by far the most confirmed cases of Covid-19 - more than 31 million - with more than 562,000 deaths, another world high. The BBC is usually pretty good about sticking to relevant information (at least compared to US media), s
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by CivBase 6y ago
A janitor certainly could clock in then sit around in the custodial storage area doing nothing. They could also clock in and wonder around the building doing nothing. If the concern is really whether they are doing their job, management c
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by CivBase 6y ago
> Employer should provide a phone for an employee and then whatever employer wants can be installed there. If something does not work, well, it is up to employer to provide support. Buy a scanner. Put it in somewhere the building which
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by CivBase 6y ago
Last I knew there was only one browser for iOS (Safari) which can neither be removed nor replaced, just reskinned. If that's still the case, it would be pointless to even give it a rating. EDIT: Getting downvoted. Is this incorrect?
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by CivBase 6y ago
Discord really should explain themselves if they are able. That said, this decision makes no sense unless Discord is being influenced by a third party, and like OP, my first and only suspect is Apple. Yeah it would be inconsistent for Appl
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by CivBase 6y ago
No worries! With how long it has taken them to move past 10nm, Intel has become quite adept at making CPUs run in extremely high temps. I couldn't resist. The joke was just too easy.
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by CivBase 6y ago
Hmmm... good point. It would be nice if the article clearly confirmed whether the suggestions would appear for those with third-party default browsers.
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by CivBase 6y ago
> There were no fund managers among the 100 richest Americans in 1982. Hedge funds and private equity firms existed in 1982, but none of their founders were rich enough yet to make it into the top 100. Two things changed: fund managers d
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by CivBase 6y ago
Sure. I think the key to my interpretation is "even when". > the pop-up will appear *even when* Microsoft Edge is the default browser "Even when" says to me that this scenario is in addition to some other scenario,
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by CivBase 6y ago
MS's strategy as of late seems to be buying their way inyo being competitive in every market instead of dominating a few markets. I suppose this gives them a great deal of stability and allows them to develop a massive ecosystem of in
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by CivBase 6y ago
> It’s worth noting that the pop-up will appear even when Microsoft Edge is the default browser and you’ve already pinned sites to the taskbar. The company is not targeting people who use Google Chrome and Firefox as default browsers. Th
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by CivBase 6y ago
I was about to say RHEL would be more in their wheelhouse, but then I remembered that ship has already sailed.
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by CivBase 6y ago
Speech recognition in consumer electronics continues to be slow, unreliable, and a privacy nightmare. I can't tell you the last time I saw someone use it seriously. There are reasonable applications for it, but they are few and far b

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