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by alborzb 4y ago
For anyone who wants the source to this -- https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/virgin-media-and-three-... Three is named (joint) worst network in the UK by the official telecoms regulator (part of the UK governme
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by alborzb 4y ago
You can just self host your own Mozzila Sync server too! There's documentation on self-hosting, just not sure how easy or difficult it is...
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by alborzb 4y ago
>> curiously missing in Telegram Telegram has had emoji reactions since 2021 -- https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/now-y...
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by alborzb 4y ago
> it's not clear to me how the $143 cleaning fee works. Is it only applied if you make a huge mess? The cleaning fee is added on to your bill on the checkout page when you make the booking. It is charged no matter what. Even if you
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by alborzb 4y ago
>> A July study from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School estimated that municipalities and other public entities in Texas paid between $303 million and $532 million more in interest on the $32 billion they borrowed du
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by alborzb 4y ago
It's possibly that the commenter is reffering to OP's link not being HTTPS?
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by alborzb 4y ago
Sorry I'm not familiar, I've been following this coinbase story for a while, but didn't know that Twitter user was in on it. Do you have any link or info to share?
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by alborzb 4y ago
Just to backup the source the other commentor provided, here's 3 more "prominent conservatives" as you wanted - The Republican attorneys general of Texas, Arkansas, and Nebraska want for the federal repeal of net neutrality
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by alborzb 5y ago
Just a heads up, there's a pretty good documentary about the early start period of that company called "Rise of the Centaur" if you ever get bored and want to reminisce on those days of Via/Centaur/alternative CPUs
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by alborzb 5y ago
They're not wrong though. 18% of the worldwide mining capacity of Bitcoin is in Kazakhstan, plenty of other sources without spelling mistakes, such as CNN [1] have cited this. [1] https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01&#x
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by alborzb 5y ago
Heads up for anyone else that reads this comment and tries the site in their job searches, first one is a typo for weworkremotely.com :)
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by alborzb 5y ago
I'm not OP, but the NFL's streaming service is called 'NFL Sunday Ticket' ( https://nflst.directv.com/ ) and costs $99 per month. For that price, you get all the NFL games except Monday night and Thursda
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by alborzb 5y ago
Amazon openly admits it is because of licensing terms. From https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/mac/#Pricing : "Billing for EC2 Mac instances is per second with a 24-hour minimum allocation period t
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by alborzb 5y ago
For anyone interested in the Fast App discussion from this article, I highly recommend this video from Defunct Land -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yjZpBq1XBE The video not only does a deep dive into fast pass, but also
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by alborzb 5y ago
You can just purchase a 5 year or 10 year warranty when you purchase directly from EVGA. Here's their pricing and info -- https://eu.evga.com/warranty/extended/
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by alborzb 5y ago
Thank you for explaining this in an easy to understand way, my understanding all this time up until now (I'm also in the UK) was that until allegations get proven in court, they are only allegations! I guess there are different standar
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by alborzb 5y ago
It doesn't matter how strongly you believe in your work. The law (at least in the United States) is "innocent until proven guilty". Until it goes to court, they are presummed innocent. The phrase "alleged" is put in
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by alborzb 5y ago
For those keeping tabs: * Ozy executives have impersonated a YouTube executive during a phone call with potential investors [1] * Ozy executives lied about who their investors are [2] * Ozy then said it is shutting down [3] * Ozy then said
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Allegedly Ozy's 26M email list was bought, stolen, or unable to unsubscribe(forbes.com)
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by alborzb 5y ago
Also discussed / previously discussed here -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28640964
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by alborzb 5y ago
Also interesting previous comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21376286
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by alborzb 5y ago
Amazon is having a lot of network issues today, with product pages down for several hours and Amazon Video Streaming down for even longer... https://www.shacknews.com/article/125545/amazon-down-for-som... This mig
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by alborzb 5y ago
I'm not OP, but for me, on YouTube I literally mean 'darken'. Similar to a dark mode on desktop. Whereby the comments area and backgrounds get dark, but without the video going to fullscreen.
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by alborzb 5y ago
And yet I wonder how much $ Jeff Bezos has given out ever since this tweet [1] 4 years ago, when he was seeking ideas publicly on how to expand his "philanthropic strategy" ?? [1] https://twitter.com/JeffBezos&#x2F
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by alborzb 5y ago
TCM was available (alongside all of Warner Bros. Media, Turner Media and DC Comics)... It's getting absorbed by Discovery [1], I imagine that a competitive bidding process must have taken place, presumably Netflix didn't see the b
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by alborzb 5y ago
It's a family office, not a public investment fund, so I don't think the "other's people's money" phrase is valid here. It's kind of fuzzy just how much of it was leveraged, but there's more clarity i
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by alborzb 5y ago
This is great! I normally quickly jot notes from meetings and calls in .txt files, this seems a great way for me to visualise them after. Useful for my usecase
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by alborzb 6y ago
The catch is that their slogan is just falsehood. > No discounts, no debt, no dilution. It is debt, because it is a loan. Just financed in a different way. and the no discounts part is just untrue, their own screenshots and examples sh
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by alborzb 6y ago
> Our European visitors are important to us. This site is currently unavailable to visitors from Europe ... Does anybody have an alt mirror for this please? Genuinely interested, but can't view the news update from Europe.
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by alborzb 6y ago
It always fascinates me how sometimes people defend things just because they're a fan, even if the particular aspect they're defending doesn't make sense! I've seen this happen with some other games which are not the bes

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