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by beloch 6y ago
I bought one of these TV's without realizing it would serve ads. It was a high end model that cost enough that I had no reasonable expectation that Samsung would try to make an additional 10 bucks off of me by showing me ads, but here
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by beloch 6y ago
"I was in a conference call last Friday where I’d adjusted the volume up to compensate for the client’s quiet microphone, only to be audibly shot in the ears by an auto-playing video on a website. There is a lot of problematic stuff to
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by beloch 6y ago
Anything connected to the Trump administration is going look pretty dumb by default to most, and the politics of the U.S.-China spat are certainly a mess. However, there are compelling economic reasons for manufacturers to move operations
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by beloch 6y ago
The new development appears to be that the province is allowing the test track to be built on crown land in a place where it could become a part of the full line, if actually built. Previously, the test track would need to be removed even i
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by beloch 6y ago
If they didn't pay off the hackers and are recovering on their own, it would be in Garmin's best interests to issue a public statement explicitly saying so. Failing to do so may make them a target for other hacker groups. Their
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by beloch 6y ago
The slight change in world oil prices is entirely due to the cost of burning fuel to transport oil around a continent. There is literally no upside here.
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by beloch 6y ago
Missing the forest for the trees is a very human thing to do. The real problem is that we stubbornly ignore the forest even when we know its there. e.g. Many environmentalists think that, if we can just stop building pipelines, fuel will b
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by beloch 6y ago
>“It’s one of the founding principles of Reddit to foster [political] discussion,” Huffman said in the call with reporters. Ironically, /r/The_Donald highlighted a key flaw in reddit's system: moderators. Moderators in red
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by beloch 6y ago
I love many of Werner's movies (and dislike a couple). He tends to root things in historical fact without going too far afield. His protagonists are usually realistically flawed and frequently outright unhinged (e.g. most of Kinski
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by beloch 6y ago
1. 99% of everything is crap. 2. Crap buildings get torn down before beautiful buildings. This article brings up many examples of modern crap, but ignores the fact that most of that crap will not be painstakingly conserved for centuries to
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by beloch 6y ago
We're used to the idea of this happening when companies sell printers, game consoles, etc. at the slimmest of margins and rely on the sale of associated consumables (e.g. ink) to make a profit. We're starting to see this kind of p
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by beloch 6y ago
In an ideal world, LRAD's are an improvement over rifles. Fewer people would die if police used them in the same situations where they would otherwise use guns. The trouble is that police use LRAD's in situations where they wou
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by beloch 6y ago
Possible explanation: (Note: I am not saying this is what happened in any specific case, merely that it is plausible.) Police are on a common radio channel and coordinate their actions. Protesters aren't. If one protester takes vi
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by beloch 6y ago
We should expect police to us less use violence and improve their crowd management and deescalation skills. The increasing militarization of police is a trend that must be reversed. However, we should not neglect the other side of the equ
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by beloch 6y ago
Vitamix blenders seem to be the real deal. I have one that's seen nearly daily use for about 15 years and is still going strong. I have tripped it's overheat sensor on some things (e.g. hummus), but it just shuts down and forces
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by beloch 6y ago
This classic toaster design was not without it's deficiencies. The raising mechanism was far too slow and the bimetallic strip had a tendency to get blocked with crumbs, etc., causing unexpectedly variable toasting. There is certainl
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by beloch 6y ago
I'm not an American, but there does seem to be some value in a contrarian opinion here. Namely, it isn't just police brutality that's the problem, but the whole cycle of violence. Yes, the officer who killed George Floyd nee
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by beloch 6y ago
They do allow digs. Turkey, as a nation, just isn't as enthusiastic about archaeology as one might hope. This might be due to some unfounded perception of themselves as "invaders". To this day, many Greeks, Russians, etc. (
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by beloch 6y ago
Goodbye Pinterest!
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by beloch 6y ago
"But changes to major web browsers to crack down on third-party data collection and new internet privacy rules are making that practice less viable." Notice that the NYT's new ad system has not been prompted by privacy-minded
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by beloch 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if freshly negotiated financial incentives for Tesla are announced by Texas shortly. Tesla relies pretty heavily on the public purse, and perhaps strings have been tightened too far in California.
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by beloch 7y ago
Given how much Bezos has added to his personal net worth during the pandemic ($24B [1]), perhaps its time for governments to expect better treatment for Amazon employees... or else. Charges of pandemic profiteering could be convincingly bro
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by beloch 7y ago
There is a factual link between COVID-19 and 5G, in some countries at least. Huawei is in danger of being locked out of 5G network infrastructure in some countries, such as Canada. Aside from pressure from allied countries to bar Huawei fro
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by beloch 7y ago
It's a little scary how some leaders are using this pandemic to grab power. Even Canada's PM tried to grant himself emergency powers that went a little too far. He had to back down because he controls a minority of seats and the o
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by beloch 7y ago
We don't use chemical weapons because they didn't even work that well in WWI. The first chemical weapon attacks in WWI were quite deadly. However, chlorine, phosgene, mustard gas, etc. didn't remain effective after troops on
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by beloch 7y ago
A MITM attack occurs when an eavesdropper inserts herself between two people trying to communicate securely. e.g. Alice and Bob may think they're talking to each other over an encrypted link, but they're both talking to Eve. Eve
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by beloch 7y ago
Closing the border to the U.S. and leaving it open to all other countries would probably have a larger impact on controlling the spread of coronavirus, simply because of the relative volume of traffic between Canada and the U.S. vs the rest
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by beloch 7y ago
“The Canadians have a system where they can only produce what they can sell,” she said. “If you produce more milk than you can sell profitably, they don’t pay as much for it.” One thing this article leaves out is the massive subsidies that
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by beloch 7y ago
Black market goods aren't going to be certified by anyone you can trust, nor can you trust black market goods to contain what they claim to contain. People harming themselves with unsafe illegal goods is one of the costs of making cert
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by beloch 7y ago
Given the source, I interpreted it as referring to how companies treat their employees (i.e. worker bees). The story suggests that, all other things being equal, consumers might gravitate towards companies with a reputation for treating th

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