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by Prickle 3y ago
> The lawsuit said that under substantial pressure from the FTC, Amazon changed its cancellation process in April but that "violations are ongoing" and that it still "requires five clicks on desktop and six on mobile for c
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by Prickle 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dka29FSZac Here is a quick and dirty analysis from a US Submariner of 20 years. It is supposedly, incredibly hard to find defects or damage on carbon fiber. SpaceX did cite this as a reason
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by Prickle 3y ago
Unfortunately, the cables on their newer headphones are made of the crappiest rubber possible. That part annihilated itself incredibly quickly.
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by Prickle 3y ago
https://gist.github.com/christianselig/449b0bd374167ff7335fa... https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14dkqrw/i_want_t... I honestly can't be bothered to answer any of yo
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by Prickle 3y ago
Governments have to give them tax breaks / tax write-offs in order to convince them to part with a small amount of their wealth. So no. And especially so for the corporations they own.
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by Prickle 3y ago
Military submarines also have a towed communications buoy that they can use to communicate with satellites. But that thing is connected to the submersible via a cable.
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by Prickle 3y ago
This "why don't you do it?" type of argument is probably the most common straw-man response to this topic. The whole point, is to point out that some people have enough money to uplift hundreds of thousands out of poverty. So
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by Prickle 3y ago
Wait, really? I still use the basic -websitename to exclude websites when I search.
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by Prickle 3y ago
This is an incredibly disingenuous take. First, no it is not 3$. Apple takes a 30% cut, and requires a yearly fee to keep the app on the store. There is also a separate server cost, and a cost associated with paying an engineer. The actual
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by Prickle 3y ago
Reddit hired like crazy during covid. They went from 700 globally (600 in the USA) to 2000 employees. There are likely costs associated with this.
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by Prickle 3y ago
If I remember correctly, Pushshift was actually banned by Reddit. Last I read, they were renegotiating API usage terms. I remember seeing one of the devs asking when it would be reapproved.
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by Prickle 3y ago
I tend to ignore that when the ebook is the same price as the paperback edition.
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by Prickle 3y ago
There need to be new laws that explicitly hands over all permissions relating to a device, to the purchaser. Make it illegal to require apps or accounts for purchased devices, and make it a requirement that they can be rooted. There is no
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by Prickle 3y ago
Batteries are excluded for good reason. The device and battery can be a fire hazard. It needs to be capable of surviving high temperatures and pressures. The risk of any kind of electrical fault inside the recorder also needs to be exactly
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by Prickle 3y ago
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/07/tech/twitter-earnings-q4/... Thing is, Twitter was profitable in 2019. Then the venture capitalists decided "Now is the time to increase your workforce by a f
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by Prickle 3y ago
I only saw it on twitter, not here.
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by Prickle 3y ago
Thankfully the mynumber card is supposed to not be compulsory. (I do have one) What is awful is just the ridiculous number of errors I find when going through the process. My card in theory has the wrong expiration date, (checked in, they s
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by Prickle 3y ago
I would not say we are super reliant on paper/fax anymore. But, it is still quite common. I did receive a Fax at the office last week on Thursday. Oh, and some of our stuff uses Dialup, usually in relation to that older infrastructure.
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by Prickle 3y ago
Man I really wish I had access to this functionality ~ 5 years ago. Thankyou for open sourcing this! Always nice to see stuff like this. I will definitely pass this onto some underclassmen.
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by Prickle 3y ago
Your reply has given me brain worms for pretty much the entire day today. Some ancient gear was rotating in the back of my head. Finally found out why! https://web.archive.org/web/20220128113620/https://w
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by Prickle 3y ago
Actually, a separate comment reminded me about excommunication statistics within the LDS. Divorced members of my local LDS church usually left the church soon after. So you would likely end up with some level of bias based on whether the qu
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by Prickle 3y ago
Why do they do that? It is legitimately awful and makes me hate ever having to access Microsoft resources.
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by Prickle 3y ago
Turn out I am just blind and had the wrong hue of yellow in mind. But yes, it's quite interesting to watch some of the flag pages. Vexillologists constantly fighting over the correct flag. One of the recent ones fixed was the Imperial
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by Prickle 3y ago
Naturally, these are personal anecdotes. But I'm fairly certain the divorce rate is severely affected by scripture. I have seen a decent number of unhappy Mormon marriages in my admittedly short time. The individuals that divorced were
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by Prickle 3y ago
edit: For whatever reason, my computer is rendering the wrong shade of yellow. You can see the previous edit/revert war that was happening on the image itself here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_t
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by Prickle 3y ago
Well no. That depends on whether our future AI overlords need to eat us or not. The issue, at least for eating animals or humans is a need for sustenance.
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by Prickle 3y ago
You can say that the local community water well has "unlimited uses", then complain when Nestle comes over and takes all the water. No difference here.
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by Prickle 3y ago
There is no moral imperative, outside of general moral prohibitions that guide you to do your best to avoid killing the same species. Medically, there is the risk of Prion disease. This is a major threat to yourself, and in a few cases it
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by Prickle 3y ago
Ah, that makes sense. I sort of assumed it would be similar in distinction to something like a "Local Doctor". The doctor would still have local biases (sometimes pseudo-scientific) towards specific treatments or methodology.
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by Prickle 3y ago
> refer widely, if not exclusively, usually means 1. is usually exclusive 2. if not exclusive, then is the case in the majority of cases The proposed case that "Book Bans" refer almost exclusively to school libraries is obviou

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