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by FateOfNations 2y ago
The only segnificant difference is that with stock buybacks, they have a bit more control over how and when it happens. Investors have turned dividends into a religion. They must come every quarter like clockwork and never decrease; otherwi
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
For a while (currently?) there was SEO "wisdom" going around about not putting dates on content so that search engines would treat the content as "evergreen" rather than "stale".
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
Most of the population there is interested in those dates for non-DST-related reasons. They will want to know when Ramadan begins and ends, regardless of whether it's used to determine DST.
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
Whenever I've heard about someone having problems publishing a fork on the App Store, it was a trademark rather than a copyright issue. If you fork it, you must completely re-brand it to publish it on the App Store.
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
"Block access" doesn't capture what happened. A court with personal jurisdiction over the website operator ordered them to take it down under threat of fines and jail time. Websites are operated by humans, who are subject to
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
Amazon has a program (Amazon Vine Voices) that enables sellers and brands to send select customers pre-release items for review before the product goes on sale. Sellers/brands can also do that outside their sales platform. Note that th
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
It's about the actions of the business, not the person experiencing the product. If John Doe submits a review that says, "I bought and used this product, and it sucks," a business can't edit that to say, "I bought a
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
Well, that's a review for fulfillment, which may or may not be done by the same entity responsible for the product. Many review forms aren't clear about whether they are asking you to review the specific product or the entire tran
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
It seems like they used "non-profit" in that sentence to mean: "an undertaking being conducted for a purpose other than making a profit" …rather than… "an organization that has been recognized by the Internal Revenu
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
Newfold Digital, which owns Bluehost, is the only entity with a commercial trademark sub-license agreement from Automattic per the recently updated WordPress Foundation Trademark Policy: https://wordpressfoundation.org/trade
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
Digital First Media/MediaNews Group, one of the largest newspaper publishers in the US, runs its 100+ local newspaper (NY Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, etc.) websites on WordPress.
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
It can have some added effects for more modern vehicles. For example, if the AC is running in my car, the engine auto start/stop is disabled.
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
ICAO, the international organization which maintains the standards for travel document interoperability does have a public key directory that a reasonably large number of countries now participate in. The beauty of international organizatio
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
I was reading through the Synapse bankruptcy court filings, and oh jeez, is this a mess: > Synapse often used multiple Partner Banks to service different functions for the same Fintech Partner. In certain instances, end user deposits thr
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
The primary "special privilege" is that the extension is shipped with the browser and hidden. The API itself is available to any extension developer. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
Probably not. It's part of a bundled extension used to support Google Hangouts.
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
It's an API that is available to extension developers. The wrinkle here is that Google bundles a hidden "Hangouts Services" extension in Chrome with permissions for *.google.com (the extension's ID is the "nkeimhogj
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
Chrome extensions can access CPU and GPU statistics via a public API that any extension developer can use. Google Chrome comes bundled with a hidden "Hangouts Services" extension, which has permissions for *.google.com (that exten
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
Apparently, this system statistics API is generally available to extension developers. The underlying issue is that they bundle a hidden "Hangouts Service Extension" with Chrome. Zoom, Teams, etc. would have access to this API thr
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
Criminal charges are appropriate in situations where a human (or group of humans) acts with malicious or reckless intent that harms (or could harm) the community. Self-driving vehicles reduce (but do not eliminate) opportunities for malicio
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
I wouldn't be so quick to do that. A potentially defective self-driving vehicle is a more serious matter since it could affect many cars and will likely attract much more scrutiny and further investigation… which, in this scenario, wou
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
No, it didn't get a citation. When humans break traffic laws, it's often because they decide to break the law or do not take appropriate care to ensure that the law is followed. As a result, the process focuses on personal respons
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
The update to the law that requires a brief explanation of what is carcinogenic is helpful.
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by FateOfNations 2y ago
Tl;dr: The military requires that its diesel vehicles be able to run on jet fuel to simplify logistics.
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
Apple and Google have agreed on a standard for the anti-stalking functionality. Everything else is still separate.
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
At least not federal wiretapping. It would be wiretapping in the subset of states that require all parties to the communication to consent to monitoring/recording, which includes California, where Facebook/Meta is headquartered.
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
The point is that the government could pay 100% of the cost but chooses not to.
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
A number of aspects of the design of Pandas make more sense if you know it's background. It originated in a quantitative finance environment where it's common to be working with time series data. It grew from that in to a more gen
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
> I know it's unpopular to praise Tesla here, but in my view they deserve some credit for sitting pretty at SAE L2 while everyone else seems obsessed with quickly impressing investors with a half-baked rush to L3 or L4. My concerns
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
and on top of that, the pedestrian was crossing against a red (do not walk) light. Lots of human factors issues in this incident from all sides (driver, pedestrian, Cruise executives, regulators, media, policy makers, etc.)… The technology

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