abawany

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   by abawany 7y ago

   This is a link to a daily NYT newsletter (Dealbook), which is why I think you saw the strangeness. Here is the direct link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/business/airbnb-verify-li... .
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   by abawany 7y ago

   Would you provide some examples of where you think CBC is being left-wing partisan? Also, I wonder why you are so focused on left-wing partisan examples and apparently not at all on right-wing partisan examples?
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   by abawany 7y ago

   I agree about churnalism but do you really want your tax dollars to pay for "The Enquirer"? Cause you know they will get classified as a "newspaper".
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   by abawany 7y ago

   (Not trying to virtue signal) I pay for my news subscriptions and really think that is worth doing but I don't agree that news should be tax deductible for the following reasons: * We already have enough tax loopholes. * The definition
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   by abawany 7y ago

   You know, I disagree about CBC. I get its newsletters, the daily Alexa bcast, and see its YT videos. From my US-based perspective, it seems that they went well out of their way to be balanced in their coverage. They could have buried SNC La
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   by abawany 7y ago

   Plus it really sucks to wait for the lag on wrist-raise (or the false alarms) to be able to tell the time. With the Garmin, glance at it to get the time; no wrist movement foppery. Edit: BTW, some of the WearOS watches now have effectively
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   by abawany 7y ago

   This one worked well for me: https://github.com/Angristan/OpenVPN-install .
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   by abawany 7y ago

   Another vote for Garmin warranty: my strap catch broke (the little loop that holds the long end of the strap down). I chatted online with them and they shipped me the 50c catch in what appeared to be a large box that must have cost at least
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   by abawany 7y ago

   I won't blame you if you call me a Garmin shill but the fact that it is a European company subject to GDPR was a big factor in my picking it over Fitbit when I was making my decision about two years ago. Edit: also I read on HN that Ga
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    by abawany 7y ago

    I love my Garmin. The always-on display, week long battery life, the vast variety of well-designed watch faces, and the movement prompts (with thresholds for when one has moved adequately) are really golden. My only criticism for it is the
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    by abawany 7y ago

    This was a traumatic read for me but enlightening as well - this is a very strange planet.
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    by abawany 7y ago

    One thing they tend to do is when one tries to go to a site that does not exist, they instead serve up a 'search' page with their ad links and other unrelated junk. Perhaps they don't want to lose the ad revenue from hijackin
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    by abawany 7y ago

    OTOH, I updated a test MBP to Catalina yesterday and after the update completed, I looked at the desktop and thought: 'well hello iOS 13 on MBP.' I really wish the consumer fluff wouldn't keep leaking on my work equipment.
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    by abawany 7y ago

    I have an HP x2 Chromebook. The chromeos-imposed limitations are infuriating: no on-screen keyboard access for Linux apps, no side-loaded Android apps without a wipe+dev mode, etc. However, the form factor (tablet, magnetically attached key
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    by abawany 7y ago

    There are two aspects to the pickup tower: 1) Entering/scanning an order number causes the robot to fetch the packages (plural) in question and deliver to an area for the recipient to pickup. This has the effector/sensors that you
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    by abawany 7y ago

    I have met the Walmart order pickup robot (the so-called Pickup Tower [1]) - it has convinced me that well-designed robots are inevitable. In general, it has made package pickup a pleasure for me though I admit that in the early days, it re
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    by abawany 7y ago

    I suspect they mean buying a used EV such as the last generation Nissan Leaf, which can be had for reasonable prices; I've seen pre 2013 ones for less than 6k.
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    by abawany 7y ago

    I was there around the same time; I was also involved peripherally with Superdome - saw Carly's reign and left during Hurd's. IMO he was a breath of fresh air in contrast to Carly's whatever-that-was, you are right that he tu
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    by abawany 7y ago

    Citi is weird: the Citi Costco card does not support this functionality. Not sure why.
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    by abawany 7y ago

    I will never forget how Debian hijacked the real ffmpeg with their hobbled version until some point later [1]. Pretty disgusting. While I unfortunately use this distro fairly solely, I will move to other options at some point. Debian may be
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    by abawany 7y ago

    Or unfortunately when trying to build an iOS app: the ability to target an iOS version (sometimes minor, such as from 12.3? to 12.4?) depends on Xcode version and the latter is often hard-locked to a MacOS version.
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    by abawany 7y ago

    I agree. I wasted a lot of time and money on bagless vacuums before realizing that I spent more time cleaning and futzing with them than with the actual vacuuming. Got a Panasonic bagged upright and it is nice; cleans well and I don't
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    by abawany 7y ago

    I think this router+dd-wrt supports it though I haven't personally used vpn on it. Here is the link that implies it supports it: https://www.myopenrouter.com/articles/r6300r6300v2-guides-ho... . Some general infor
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    by abawany 7y ago

    Businesses too: there has been massive hatred directed at Dick's Sporting Goods when it changed its arms sales mix in response to a large shooting last year [1]. Gun makers such as Springfield took heat for trying for stepping even a s
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    by abawany 7y ago

    I bought a couple of Netgear AC1600 routers and installed DD-WRT/Kong firmware on them right away (clicked the PayPal contribution link and paid up - it is worth it). They work well and update quite frequently.
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    by abawany 7y ago

    I wonder if the GP meant 'kit' as in the UK-English sense, i.e. equipment and not the literal kit with no software.
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    by abawany 7y ago

    Regrettably, it is not just people in power - the HP newsgroups had plenty of individual contributors that favored things like poll taxes, voting for property owners only, etc.
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    by abawany 7y ago

    For H Pylori, there are 2 tests that are both pretty easy: one is a blood test and the other is a breathing test (they collect the exhalation in some bag.) The results are returned fairly quickly
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    by abawany 7y ago

    I happen to like RxBars quite a bit and was upset when they had to do that peanut-allergy-related recall a few months ago. My palette is probably unsophisticated but the taste of dates dominates the flavor and I don't mind that at all.
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    by abawany 7y ago

    This article from NYT implies that prices in Bulgaria are generally increasing: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/realestate/house-hunting-... .