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by OGWhales 3y ago
> There is no obligation to sell on Amazon While true, this ignores the important point that Amazon is only able to do this anti-competitive practice due to their market dominance that effectively forces many sellers to sell on Amazon. &
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by OGWhales 3y ago
While voting should be done, it is not always effective/possible. An obvious example to bring up is the suffragist, since they were not allowed to vote. The point of protesting in a manner that is truly disruptive is to force the probl
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by OGWhales 3y ago
/r/whatCarShouldIBuy is a pretty decent sub. Comparing answers there to /r/askCarSales is pretty funny, such different advice.
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by OGWhales 3y ago
Not COBOL itself, but Mainframes/Z systems are known for their high availability/reliability. Mainframes have many hardware redundancies that help contribute to their fantastic uptimes, despite being a single unit. One might ask w
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by OGWhales 3y ago
Breaking into someone's home and taking food they paid for doesn't seem equivalent to copying someone's idea. If we were talking about someone breaking into an office and stealing whatever they were working on then your comme
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by OGWhales 3y ago
You can choose what shows up in that context menu or choose to show nothing at all, you can also choose to have it cascade (which I believe is the default).
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by OGWhales 3y ago
*Ad-supported Netflix account. Ad-free Netflix is more expensive.
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by OGWhales 3y ago
This was brought up in an old thread about windy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15095654
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by OGWhales 3y ago
I feel as though accessibility is not a spot most people would think to check for that.
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by OGWhales 3y ago
> There are so many cars modified to have explosive sounding exhausts it's unreal > There is no reason other than you want to look like a complete wanker In case anyone doesn’t know, the pop sound can serve a real purpose. The so
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by OGWhales 3y ago
> > Would a redistribution of that wealth imply better living standards for everyone? > No. Why not? > The fabulously wealthy aren't spending their billions on consumption. Naturally not, that would be impractical. However,
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by OGWhales 3y ago
JBIG2 is what the NSO group exploited as part of their zero-click iMessage exploit. Google zero has a good write up if anyone hasn’t heard about it yet—it’s super cool: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12&#x2
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by OGWhales 3y ago
I noticed on Windows that if I have the window in focus and scroll, each notch of my scroll wheel scrolls 4 rows. However, if I have another window in focus and hover over the Modern CSV window and scroll it will scroll ~90 rows (not always
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by OGWhales 3y ago
Unfortunately it does not have live traffic data like the app it is forked from, maps.me. Hopefully they add it, but there aren’t many good open traffic projects that exist, so they’d need to rely on crowd sourced data like Magic Earth is d
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by OGWhales 3y ago
An open-source alternative is Organic Maps: https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps
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by OGWhales 3y ago
I emailed them last week to ask about that and they said it’s currently only available in Europe, but they’d hope to have it released in the Americas this week if all goes well. This is on iOS.
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by OGWhales 3y ago
> but there isn't really a viable option for renting a pickup for a few hours. Really? I did exactly that this weekend and it was easy and didn't cost that much. I figure with how rarely I need one, renting a truck when needed
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by OGWhales 3y ago
The IIHS has stats on this and it does seem that larger vehicles have lower average death rates[1]. In a world of only smaller sized cars, having a larger car would likely be less safe for the reasons you listed. However, with large cars be
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by OGWhales 3y ago
This should help you understand the problem of higher vehicles limiting visibility of what's in front of them: https://imgur.com/a/aYbCbyg
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by OGWhales 3y ago
> In general, the reason Costco sells electronics with different model numbers is so that you can't price match them to/from other retailers. Costco doesn’t offer price matching.
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by OGWhales 3y ago
It can be frustrating finding it in reasonable doses. I remember reading somewhere that the original formula was quite a small dose and other manufacturers simply increased the dose to get around the patent. Naturally, people showed a prefe
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by OGWhales 3y ago
My understanding is that melatonin is useful for adjusting one’s internal clock. As an example, if you were to change time zones you could use it to more quickly adjust to a new bed time. That’s how I try to use it now, only when I want to
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by OGWhales 3y ago
> The reality is that the "assholes" get the hottest women. I put that in quotes because that's the superficial impression, not a nuanced statement. It's valid though. There are women who get married to murderers on d
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by OGWhales 3y ago
I can see it on my paystub, it has a nice breakdown of where everything goes. I’d argue you could do the same with anything, in the case of restaurants just show the actual total on the menu and include a breakdown on the receipt so people
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by OGWhales 3y ago
He has article versions of his videos which you can find linked in the description of his YouTube videos. The videos on his website are just linked to YouTube however.
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by OGWhales 3y ago
Americans themselves benefited greatly from it as our government felt it needed to do more to compete against socialism. Granted, much of that was undone/tapered off after the threat was gone, but it’s an interesting piece of history.
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by OGWhales 3y ago
I was gonna say the Prius, but that has its own douchey reputation. I guess maybe a Camry? That’s a boring practical car that doesn’t carry much stigma.
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by OGWhales 3y ago
In a similar vein, F1 racing has an enormous amount of engineering effort put into it in the name of winning a race and those efforts can have positive impacts outside of F1. It does sadden me that these days their designs are much more res
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by OGWhales 3y ago
Frankly speaking, it’s impossible for me to take the claim that this is the result of SJWs seriously. It’s just too ridiculous. I think the growing discontent against cops due to their being filmed is a much more reasonable explanation for
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by OGWhales 3y ago
FYI, this depends on where you live. In some states a threat of violence can count as assault while in others that’s not true. Some states don’t even have a battery charge, they only have assault.

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