Keverw

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Vermont’s DMV has been selling personal data to private companies since 2004(vtdigger.org)
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by Keverw 7y ago
I’ve always wondered how those people finder sites get all this info. Do they just send a bunch of FOIAs to court houses and cities? I kinda figured maybe they paid to be wired in with the DMV and police computers maybe... I guess backgroun
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I’m on my phone and site won’t load... but I do know there’s some attack where ads served by a ad network can redirect a page... A popular blog about Apple news and rumors did that once for me, emailed their ad sales guy but never heard any
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by Keverw 7y ago
Be interesting if Apple released their own cloud product, since many people buy Mac's just because you have to use it for XCode to build and release iOS apps. However there is companies that will rent a remote Mac desktop. So seems lik
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I wish we had more cities with tech. Seems like Silicon Valley is still the #1 place for tech despite the cost of living and other issues. There's probably a lot of intelligent and smart people but disadvantaged due to poor location an
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Yeah, seen a story that rising sea levels are threatening Miami but they are going on like normal and still building new condos and skyscrapers. Looks like a nice city though to visit or move too, I'd love to not have to wear my jacket
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Sounds like a Chromebook. However there is Linux App support now inside of a container... So you could run VSCode, Node and Yarn on a Chromebook now or install GIMP.
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I seen an ad in my feed on Facebook where you could finance a toothbrush. Like the company was offering their own loan. However I think putting a toothbrush on a credit card you already use and pay off would be normal since more people are
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Wow, sounds like not a hot tourist spot probably then. Not sure why people would want to live there when safer and cheaper places in the US.
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Yep, I've heard that too. However, the states are much worse. Someone was telling me about how he made an error, and New York was much more aggressive. He decided to take his family and company to Texas instead, so in the long term, Ne
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Interesting about PDFs. I think they still have some uses though, like scanned documents (like court records), downloadable books... I know some software with invoicing for say hosting might offer a downloadable version created with some sc
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I think this is a overreaction. Even Google has had Christmas Doodles. I see Christmas more of the commercialized thing, Santa, Trees, Snowman, Presents, Candy canes, Getting the family together... I'm not the most religious person, bu
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> entire geographic areas will be cancelled from internet services just because of the risk. Hmm. Like if a city or neighborhood is low income, they might pirate more? So don't give them internet access at all? Kinda like how insura
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Was talking in general about allowing dumping, but clarified my post.
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I guess this is related to fracking? I seen something before that Pennsylvania doesn't allow certain waste, so the companies put it in trucks and pay to put it in injection wells in Ohio by the barrel. Pretty sad Ohio accepts money to
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Interesting, didn't know press releases were vetted. I always figured they are just copied and pasted since there's sites where you can pay to syndicate them but not sure how legit that stuff is since never issued a press release,
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Yeah. I guess this person thinks sitting at a computer all day isn't real work. Real work would be working in a factory all your life breaking your back. Then I also think some people think making websites and coding is the same as usi
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Reminds me of a issue Spotify had too with unicodes and usernames. https://labs.spotify.com/2013/06/18/creative-usernames/ I had someone tell me that programming isn't real work before, and this is
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Yeah wouldn't surprise me if people learned to code in SL and then moved on to real world projects, since learning one language is always similar to others. If you could do LSL, you could probably handle Javascript. Hmm interesting on
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Yeah griefers. Particle spam it sounds. Wasn't someone being interviewed for a media report who made a bunch on virtual real estate? Back in the early days too. SL got a bunch of media buzz back in 2006 and 2007. CSI did a tie in too.
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That would be annoy me. I wish there wasn't a monopoly on new car sales. But I wonder if places like CarMax are better even though they can only sell used cars. Never been to one but see their commercials. Kinda like a mall for cars in
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Sounds like an interesting formula. Ready Player One is popular too, but I guess since there is a movie that's already been done... but I guess you can have a series and also movies... The Purge has a TV series now even though original
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Interesting, didn't know HBO was going to be doing online only shows now like Netflix, Apple and Amazon. Snowcrash is the book that inspired Philip to create Second Life. Then he moved on to create High Fidelity, but they are now pivot
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Yeah figured they need an SSN, but remember last time I was looking it up someone claimed there's some way to run credit with a driver license... Which they make a copy of before a test drive. Not sure how true but I know there's
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> Automakers, for example, can now expect to see bigger profits from the loans they make on selling cars than from selling the actual cars I've heard of that. Then I heard dealers will give you a hard time if you want to buy a car r
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Pretty amazing you can go from being a little tiny online bookstore to owning your own fleet of planes, trucks and vans. Very inspiring story. Also like when they are close to you, it tells you how many stops away they are in the app. So us
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Yeah. There's some professionals that do this lifestyle. There's some guy who's a web developer from Tennessee who works remotely and his wife home schools the kids... But trying to balance both work and play sounds like a ch
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I heard both Nashville, TN and Key West, FL does this too. Homeless people aren't good for tourism, so have to hide it from view. There's a little mini documentary on YouTube I seen before discussing this. Then if you accept the b
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I wonder if this will effect van life. In some cities sleeping in your car is illegal even if in a valid parking spot minding your own business. Some places even illegal to take a break and sit on the ground. I think living in a van would b
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Neat, I might check out Slack. Kinda annoys me how every workspace has its own login and just find chat apps somewhat distracting to run but I know a lot of projects use Slack. I'm more of a Node and Typescript person though, but I kno

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