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by ballenf 6y ago
Every release since trials were implemented seem to have made cancellations easier and subscription status review more prominent. It's now to the point of almost being annoying in how many different places take you to subscriptions. Bu
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by ballenf 6y ago
If I shoot you to prevent you from falling over the edge of a cliff, is that a fall-related death? Causation is difficult. Obviously the answer is somewhere in the middle. I just hope that in the coming years, researchers are permitted and
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by ballenf 6y ago
Not to mention tax assessments reductions will lag, especially with cities themselves being close to bankruptcy.
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by ballenf 6y ago
Loss of concessions could easily make it financially infeasible. Parking fees also lost. I end up out of pocket easily double the ticket price when all is done. But the real killer is everyone will want the equivalent ticket of the cheap se
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by ballenf 6y ago
I think the real issue today is the unpredictability of delays even though computers are overall much faster. When the same action can have such variable response times depending unknowable variables, your brain begins to believe that you&#
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by ballenf 6y ago
They agreed to stop a few years ago. Redbox used to break the "buy only" window of DVD releases. Meaning you could rent a movie from Redbox before it was available to rent on any streaming service. They buckled from pressure from
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by ballenf 6y ago
I really wish YT would drop the 10 minute cutoff for mid-roll ads. It's a destructive incentive to the platform. Let creators put ads wherever they want on whatever length video they want (within reason and with abuse checks). Then you
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by ballenf 6y ago
The Good Parts by Crockford will always be on my list. It's dated in terms of language expansions, but it really will lay the foundation for many of the patterns that are now commonly used. Kyle Simpson's volumes are excellent. El
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by ballenf 6y ago
The free preview of your citation seems to propose legal liability for drivers of vehicles that cause outsize risk to others. Safety equipment inside cars does the same -- people who feel more safe in their car drive more dangerously and ta
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by ballenf 6y ago
Unfortunately, we will also have to start taking into account pathogen transmission risk on public transport. If you have a larger family and a limited budget, suburbs are the best of both worlds. Also cars are quite reasonable unless you w
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by ballenf 6y ago
Germany is still way more cash-based and you see less consolidation of businesses into large chains than in the US. I'm not sure I buy "drowning in the same costs". I think there's something more akin to a prisoner'
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by ballenf 6y ago
Their willingness to suspend advertising is also an indictment of the practically nonexistent competitive landscape in mobile providers in the US. There just aren't good alternatives to Verizon for many people where T-Mobile/Sprin
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by ballenf 6y ago
One day we'll reminisce about the time when it wasn't illegal to let your machine be on the internet without a mask.
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by ballenf 6y ago
I worry about what immortality would do to our legal system, moral judgments and overall progress. If a life is immortal then life preservation actually becomes priceless in a non-hyperbolic way. And that means it really does outweigh every
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by ballenf 6y ago
This is another miracle of the Youtube algorithm. I was recommended this video 2 days ago after having never watched a single bee-anything related video. And I watched every second of that video with rapt attention. Only problem is now I&#x
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by ballenf 6y ago
> Because, as it turns out, a Libertarian free-for-all doesn’t work. It requires rational people to have an educated understanding of the risks they face. Millions of people installed dodgy apps, saw the one-time prompt, and lost control
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by ballenf 6y ago
Discord and other apps will paste in one-time codes from the clipboard. Copy code from an authenticator app and switch back to the app. The code gets auto-pasted into the box. It's pretty handy since paste itself is a somewhat cumberso
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by ballenf 6y ago
I believe we'll see a return to more single use devices. They won't supplant smartphones. For one, I've thought a lot about having two separate computers: one for writing code and a second for googling when I need help /
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by ballenf 6y ago
If apple would just insist on taking it's cut from ads and indirect revenue from surveillance and spyware, so many of these problems would go away. Apple currently effectively subsidizes the surveillance of its users with adware and sp
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by ballenf 6y ago
I'd argue capitalism has handled these issues in other realms successfully in the past. Before it was railroad monopolies. It took a decade or two, but Washington brought antitrust action against them. I'd argue the delay is a goo
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by ballenf 6y ago
Yes. No. Youtube Premium is one high profile example of this. They charge more on iOS but can't tell you that you're overpaying for convenience of using IAP. A breakdown or mention of Apple's cut is prohibited.
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by ballenf 6y ago
No idea if it’s heretical in the fountain pen world, but I’m a fan of Pilot Varsity disposable fountain pens. They come in both fine and medium points and a variety of colors. One upside is I always know which pen is mine since I’ve never r
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by ballenf 6y ago
To me that sounds like an orthogonal statement from the article. The article is talking about objective performance and efficiency of the two and you're talking about how they make you feel. Feeling efficient and being efficient are bo
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by ballenf 6y ago
Even more interesting would be the news coverage it received.
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by ballenf 6y ago
Because it's about as helpful as saying "you shouldn't have moved to Los Santos if you value safety" to someone who's bleeding on the street having just been mugged. The same message could also be worded more like &
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by ballenf 6y ago
I thought there was discussion of base stations. Couldn't they do 1 per apartment building or block without the density issues?
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by ballenf 6y ago
Which also explains why they keep trying to classify encryption as prohibited munitions, making users of it automatically criminal.
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by ballenf 6y ago
I think it would feel pretty good to have a database of potentially incriminating evidence against a wide swath of the population that could be used if a person became a high-profile target. For example, if you're in one of those video
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by ballenf 6y ago
They have locations at larger US airports. I've used them a few times and never had a bad experience.
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Apple Making It Harder to Avoid Nagging macOS Update Notifications(forums.macrumors.com)
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