alistairSH

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by alistairSH 1mo ago
In the past year, I've flown for vacation twice, with delays on one leg of each. First one, United flight from IAD to SJU, 4-5 hour delay, mechanical issue, with updates from the gate agent every 45 minutes or so, basically keeping us
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
Like the sibling said, you have to look at large monitors or commercial displays. But both tend to cost a lot more for similar features (due to not having ad revenue attached, I assume) or have other compromises. The best options seems to
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
I'm confused, the article claims the TVs are uploading data when offline? That's is literally impossible. Are they using a different definition of offline from normal people?
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
IIRC, BT does this in the UK (via the EE Wifi program).
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
Lack of access to the public doesn't necessarily mean there's an expectation of privacy. Criminals in jail typically have far less expectation of privacy in the US. That's been upheld by SCOTUS. Guards are (mostly) free to en
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
What liberty am I trading? The government already knows who I am.
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
Whatever society needs... this is why we have elections and stuff. Really, the broader point is I'm tired of giving away massive chunks of my PII (SSN, DL copies, etc) instead of just having something from the government that will say
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
Not just that, but they go as far as claiming that single-use Solo cups are more environmentally than using a mug. Literally anything made cheap and quick and with little energy is better by their calculus. Doesn't pass the sniff test
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
Not sure how you jump from "ID with chip" to "AI-based drone and camera network". We can do one without the other.
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
Which is insane. The federal government already knows who we are, via SSN, tax returns, and whatever else. The state already knows via tax returns, driver's license, and whatever else. If we, collectively, don't want a true natio
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
Huh, glad I grabbed my Neo two weeks ago. It's the "top" spec version, but still a good bit less than a MBA - seemed like a pretty reasonable replacement for the M1 iPadPro it replaced (wanted to go back to a normal laptop v
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
Fair enough ;)
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
And I'll admit I watch his shows. The first two seasons of Clarkson's Farm were good TV. And with May and Hammond, he provided years of entertainment for car enthusiasts. None of which should excuse his boorish behavior off-scree
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
He might be a treasure, but's he's also a prick. He has a long history of letting his on-screen persona leak into meatspace (or maybe it's the other way around) and that's not a good thing. Edit - since people seem to no
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
Where do you draw the line between money and speech? IE, would you "simply" ban all political advertising completely - one can scream from a soapbox and that's it?
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
Corporations are just groups of people. That's the logic. The problem isn't "corporations can do the same thing as people." The problem is anybody (solo or as a group) can legally run an unrestricted indirect campaign.
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
creep I think the word you're looking for is "sociopath."
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
"Nobody" puts down 20%. That hasn't been a requirement for decades (in the US). And there are plenty of places in the US where you can buy a house for $150-$200k. Maybe not places you want to live for one reason or another, b
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
Detroit, Cleveland, etc. Basically huge swaths of the rust belt. Plus a smattering of small towns in the south.
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
Sounds broken, somehow. The M1 iPad Pro I just traded in worked fine. Traded it for a Neo and the Neo does some stuff faster, but for day-to-day casual use, it's not notably different.
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
That appeared to be the norm in Italy when we visited earlier this summer. Most of the main towns in Puglia seemed to have at least one pay-per-use toilet.
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
That's not the norm across the US (thought it might have been for urban areas). I went to public high school in the same era in the northern VA suburbs and we had bathrooms available. With doors even. In our 3-building campus, there w
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
By US standards? No, probably not. But, a quick search indicates you can get similar broadband in Glasgow, Scotland for ~15 GBP/month. And Rome, Italy looks like ~25EUR/month.
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
I had a similar thought... starting a business is risky. And health insurance (among other things) is expensive. Once the VC class starts pushing for health care reform (among other things), maybe I'll take what they want seriously.
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
Yes, there's even a new-ish word this... enshitification.
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by alistairSH 1mo ago
That might explain internet pricing in North Dakota, but it doesn't explain it in NYC or DC or LA.
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Yeah, feels like two things contributing there... 1 - Trump fired many of the good prosecutors. Or made life miserable enough those prosecutors left the job for better paying private sector gigs. 2 - Trump has propensity to sue or charge an
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Because that's how you get a felony criminal case started in Ohio (and most, if not all, states and any federal felony cases).
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Several of our English and History classes were paired on purpose for just this reason. We'd be reading Dickens while study that era, or Catch-22 when studying WWII and the immediate post-War era, etc. That said, I'm also frequen
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Cops can still be prosecuted for behavior that is a constitutional violation IANAL, but that's not quite my understanding... The victim has to prove that the police violated a clearly established right via a previous case, which put

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