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by Youden 8y ago
> In the US at least, the 21 yo drinking age is mostly a wholly pragmatic law [EDIT: laws. It's state by state but there was a big federal stick attached to highway funding.] to reduce teenage drunk driving (which affects more than
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by Youden 8y ago
The code is open source but "Android" is trademarked. You can't call it an "Android" phone unless Google lets you.
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> and it's unfortunate you screwed this agent out of that. This makes absolutely no sense to me. Why on earth would I be obligated to pay the buyer's agent? What has the agent done for me? When did I establish a relationship wi
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by Youden 8y ago
Not true. See the record $2.7b fine Google got for promoting Google Shopping results in its search results. Also see why: For leveraging a dominant position in one market (search) to intrude on another market (shopping). This looks suspicio
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by Youden 8y ago
Or go to any store when you happen to be in Europe. My local department store has an extensive range of bakeware and there are ~50% cheaper brands using borosilicate glass that have performed well for me. They're easily identifiable as
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by Youden 8y ago
> That's 50 cents per hour to colocate dozens of servers, and there's 324TB of data thrown in for free. That deal actually only includes 15A of power, which isn't enough to fill the cabinet if your machines aren't idl
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> In fact I wish we could make it mandatory for everyone to have to live a year in a foreign country. I get where you're coming from and agree that would be great for America but I really don't want mass migration of Americans
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by Youden 8y ago
Did the title or article change since this was posted? As of writing: - The title of the article is "US citizens will need to register to visit parts of Europe starting in 2021" - The article includes the quote "The [US State
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by Youden 8y ago
At least last I checked, performance was unfortunately pretty crippled through ZFS. The loss was on the order of 75% of sequential read/write. Has anyone tried it out more recently? Any difference?
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A bit of a tangent but it never occurred to me before I went caving: The helmet keeps you safe from getting your head stuck. It's slightly bigger than your head so if anything attached to your neck is going to get stuck, it'll be
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by Youden 8y ago
I don't think "extremely restrictive" is the right word. If you're an EU citizen you have the right to live there no questions asked. If you're not EU, you can live there to pursue gainful employment so long as your
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> Throughout my time abroad, a common trend is that expats (note: first use of that word) don’t bother to learn local language and are typically unhappy. In Switzerland, that's no longer going to be an option. They recently implemen
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by Youden 8y ago
I'll add since it isn't clear that this term is usually exclusive to Forex. I'll also add that the commercial market for them is about as scummy as it comes. You want to know how to game backtest metrics? Have a look at what
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by Youden 8y ago
My words were "Bandwidth Alliance members who give free egress to CloudFlare". DO is a member but they do not give free egress to CloudFlare (or anyone else).
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by Youden 8y ago
Maybe in an IBM megacorp but Facebook and Google at least are totally cool with people working 9 to 5 and taking sick days (outside a few bad managers).
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> If we decide to not extend it, users will incur .01/GB in all DO regions which is one of the most competitive bw fees in the industry. Hardly. Maybe if you're comparing yourself to the ridiculous prices of AWS, GCP or Azure b
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by Youden 8y ago
I don't think there's really any irony here, these are just two different concerns: - I want Apple to do the job we pay them for and ensure that their store doesn't distribute malware. - If I buy a device I want to be able to
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by Youden 8y ago
Where the victim can't be made whole due to irreversible harm, salvage what remains of the situation and rehabilitate the offender. That may require imprisonment but the imprisonment should be focused on rehabilitating the imprisoned s
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by Youden 8y ago
I concur with the other reply regarding privacy but I'll add that according to SmokePing, until 5 days ago, CloudFlare took 6ms total to resolve a query, compared to Google at 900 us and Init7 itself at 106 us. Init7 is covered by Swit
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by Youden 8y ago
You've probably heard this before but there are a lot of people who'd be interested in a cross-platform (NAS/Linux/BSD/Raspberry Pi) version with a command-line or web interface. As is it's really best for work
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by Youden 8y ago
That seems like typical media hysteria to get views. Per a much more reasonable article ( https://www.xda-developers.com/sony-xperia-xz4-compact-cance... ), the entirety of available evidence is this statement given during an
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by Youden 8y ago
To add more specifics to the other comments: If you're required to pay taxes in the US for any reason, you have to give just about any bank in the world that will accept you either an IRS form W9 (citizen or "US person") or W
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by Youden 8y ago
I'm curious, would Australian "trucks" (we call them "utes") satisfy your needs if they were sold in the US? Examples: - Holden (GM) Colorado: https://www.holden.com.au/cars/colorado/ls-sin
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To give an idea about how great support is, I as a customer emailed them asking for them to peer with a particular network I was heavily using and within about a day they actually did it. On another occasion I was having problems with my ow
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I ran MicroG recently and for many cases it works but there are still places where it's lacking. For example it doesn't play nice with taxi apps. Notifications and such work just fine though, as does Google's own Play Store.
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> There is no standard way to do pagination. RFC5005 is the standard and covers both Atom and RSS: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5005 No idea how many apps support it but Podcast Addict does at the very least: htt
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by Youden 8y ago
It's a public ledger but it's anonymous in that you don't have a name attached to any of your addresses. You can obtain Bitcoin offline with something like LocalBitcoins and they'll have no identity attached to them. You
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OP was actually somewhat inaccurate when he said "Google's". Intra is actually by Jigsaw, a separate Alphabet subsidiary. The difference is significant as Alphabet companies, though closely tied to Google (e.g. Jigsaw's
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If you're looking for a more "pro" version of sharpies, the marker most used by artists seems to be Copic. They're refillable, last quite a while and you can change their nibs.
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I'm using this, but packaged for Arch Linux: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs-auto-snapshot

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