angott

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by angott 7y ago
Maybe yes. But also way more expensive shipping :-)
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by angott 7y ago
Based on my experience in Italy, Lufthansa offices still offer free copies at the ticketing counter. I’m not too sure how many people buy tickets at the airport nowadays, let alone do so with a paper timetable, but they are still there! :-)
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by angott 7y ago
There is an exploit that can be used, but it only works on old devices (iPhone X and older).
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by angott 7y ago
Out of curiosity, can you elaborate on that?
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by angott 7y ago
I love the Amazon X-Ray feature. I wonder if they patented it, because I’m surprised other players like Netflix or cable providers are not offering something similar. I personally find it adds a lot to my viewing experience without being to
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by angott 7y ago
iCloud mail in iOS uses plain IMAP. The synchronization stack for iCloud is surprisingly based on open standards: IMAP, CalDAV and CardDAV.
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by angott 7y ago
Satellite is also relatively easy to jam, like GPS.
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by angott 7y ago
Oh yes, it surely is, and I didn’t mean to hit at Gmail or any particular player. Additionally, I think it also speaks a lot about how industry did a very good job in constructing easy-to-use abstractions on top of tech that used to be hard
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by angott 7y ago
I have an interesting story to tell closely related to this. I used to work as a teaching assistant for an undergraduate computer networking course at UBC. As part of the course, we would usually ask the students to write a simple POP email
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by angott 7y ago
It’s not a bad idea. A randomized IP address at each connection would break many things on quite a few networks (IP-MAC static assignments, for instance).
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by angott 7y ago
While your points make total sense and I agree with what you say, I personally believe that letting Chinese firms acquire control of US social media companies is a way greater threat to Western freedom of speech than what we would lose by b
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by angott 7y ago
It would take them very little to pivot from music skits to a wider variety of videos including news like Facebook does, for instance.
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by angott 7y ago
If that non-US culture advocates that democracy is a threat to society, or that political re-education camps are not an issue, I would say that yes, we need to keep that out.
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by angott 7y ago
No, this feature used to be there in iOS 4 I believe, but was removed in subsequent iOS versions. To be honest, there is a private API for it. It is the one the AirPort Utility app uses for its built-in Wi-Fi Scan feature. In iOS 13 you can
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by angott 7y ago
Based on my experience, uBlock Origin has priority over the built-in blocker.
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by angott 7y ago
Instead of trade barriers exclusively based on place of origin, you could have food safety rules that enforce animal welfare standards before the product can be sold in Canada. The U.S. also produces higher quality hormone-free milk just a
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by angott 7y ago
You need to be part of the supply management scheme, that is, you need to be producing and supplying milk in Canada. So an import-only business wouldn't be able to do it. I am not too sure on the details, but you can read more about it
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by angott 7y ago
Around 2013, the Canadian government considered allowing Verizon to enter the Canadian market by buying WIND Mobile, a small budget carrier which was looking for foreign investors. They were faced with a huge fearmongering campaign orchestr
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by angott 7y ago
It's not just telecommunications and air transport. Everywhere you look, you'll find sectors where foreign competition is prohibited or strictly managed in a way that keeps prices artificially high. An example? Cheese. Under CETA
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by angott 7y ago
Some Canadian carriers are indeed still selling plans with local calls only. In 2019. It's depressing.
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by angott 7y ago
In my opinion, it really depends on the language. I find that VSCode is better than Sublime for web development, but I really prefer Sublime for write and compile workflows (e.g. C/C++ or Go development) which do not rely too much on e
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by angott 7y ago
It’s not written in JavaScript. Seriously, using native C++ gives it a real performance boost over the other two editors.
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by angott 7y ago
Yes, at work we added swiftlint as part of our build pipeline, and we have it reject any usage of force unwraps.
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by angott 7y ago
For many Americans, they are not.
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by angott 7y ago
Download schedulers, you brought up so many memories of my dial-up days...
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by angott 7y ago
This looks a lot like Transit (transitapp.com), which also has a similar crowdsourcing feature. And I believe other apps like Citymapper and Moovit also rely on users’ reports. Does this app have anything new in particular?
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by angott 7y ago
Not just that. Say they have a security breach... if there is no data, no data gets leaked.
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by angott 7y ago
Yes, that’s something we can do as HN readers, but good luck explaining that to the average lawyer or paralegal.
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Facebook accused of blocking wider efforts to study its ad platform(techcrunch.com)
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by angott 7y ago
Source?

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