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by ben1040 8y ago
There’s no need to request a refund on Android after trying out a paid app, however; simply delete a paid app within two hours of purchase and it’s refunded.
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by ben1040 8y ago
The one thing to keep in mind about running a VPN on AWS is that some services just block whole AWS net blocks to stop scrapers. For instance I used to run a VPN on a free tier micro instance, and I remember not being able to hit Yelp or S
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by ben1040 8y ago
Yes, I’ve recently seen ads that say things along the line of “Create your Facebook account and connect with your friends.”
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by ben1040 8y ago
Similarly (or more importantly, even) is they've now built out a proprietary fulfillment and last mile delivery infrastructure that runs parallel to USPS/UPS/etc. Any new entrant is going to have to compete with Amazon on shi
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by ben1040 8y ago
>If Sears had a lumber yard In a way, they did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Catalog_Home
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by ben1040 8y ago
And by the early 90s Sears had a century of experience as a catalog fulfillment company and had pretty much become synonymous with the concept.
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by ben1040 8y ago
My first online shopping experience was with Sears over Prodigy in 1991. You could browse online, or order from the paper catalog (which is more likely what you'd do because NAPLPS graphics didn't lend themselves well, or at all,
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by ben1040 8y ago
Sometimes I go to a fast food restaurant and discover that while I don't want fries, it's cheaper to buy the whole combo meal than it is to just buy a burger and drink a la carte. If I buy the combo and throw away the fries, nob
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by ben1040 8y ago
This reminds me of how in the '90s my university gave out smartcard student IDs that had a little cash account on them for vending machines and dorm laundry rooms. They installed readers into the soda machines, and they put a central p
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by ben1040 8y ago
Yeah, I got a call from SiriusXM about 60 days after I bought my Accord; Honda gave my contact information and VIN over to them. The person on the phone asked if I liked the 90 day trial and how I'd feel about subscribing. I told her
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by ben1040 8y ago
The Verizon "supercookie" is an HTTP header they add to your traffic. They do it via deep packet inspection, not anything on the device, and it affects iOS as well. After they got caught doing this they added the option to opt o
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by ben1040 8y ago
There's already a fairly quiet family-owned company that's been aggregating coffee chains and coffee roasters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAB_Holding_Company They've got Peets, Mighty Leaf, Intelligen
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by ben1040 8y ago
Any amount forgiven at the end of an IBR term is considered taxable income, so at some point you're going to just trade your student loan servicer's payment plan for an installment plan with the IRS. And if your IBR payment isn&#x
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by ben1040 8y ago
I've seen this line on their billboards around town, "the power and dignity of work." http://www.goodwill.org/blog/advocate/the-power-of-work/
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by ben1040 8y ago
I'm wondering if what they're saying is that there was a large enough quantity of to-be-reworked assemblies from a prior week that reworking them and calling them done gave them enough "completed" vehicles to put them ov
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by ben1040 8y ago
When Costco reduced the electronics return period to 90 days, they also started extending the manufacturer warranty to 2 years, so they still have your back more than most retailers do. They just cracked down on people returning computers a
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by ben1040 8y ago
They're not wrong on the poor UX. I have the Feitan BLE key, along with about three Yubico U2F keys (I'm paranoid about losing them). You'd think you could wirelessly use the Bluetooth key with a laptop, but you can't. Y
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by ben1040 8y ago
>Google's entry and dominance in the security key industry could be detrimental overtime by limiting the actual implementation of FIDO U2F My hope is that this is the sort of thing that just becomes a standard built-in feature in co
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by ben1040 8y ago
This looks similar to the Feitan Bluetooth LE-compatible key they also recommend that you purchase if you enable their Advanced Protection feature on your Google account: https://www.amazon.com/Feitian-MultiPass-FIDO-Securit
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by ben1040 8y ago
>The cleaning supplies cannot even go above $20, like you have got to be kidding me. A cab or uber driver could well lose more than $20 while the car is out of commission due to vomit, as it's not just about a car wash or cleaning s
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by ben1040 8y ago
Ah, I know WhatsApp warns you about setting up backups that it's not subject to encryption, but I guess I took that to be the entirety and not just media. Which is still a big gap, since in 2018 we share lots of media in chats. In any
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by ben1040 8y ago
Encryption in transit doesn't imply encryption at rest. For instance, WhatsApp on Android will happily back up to Google Drive, if you allow it, and it does so in cleartext.
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by ben1040 8y ago
It's even worse than that, really. You get an optical network terminal that converts the fiber to gigabit ethernet (the closest thing to a "modem"), but then you still have to use their router to plug into the ONT, because
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by ben1040 8y ago
I wonder if the real estate issue was the thing. The DZ locations, at least where I lived, were in prime spots, and it was a time when they couldn't build strip malls fast enough to keep up with demand. Now you've got an oversuppl
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by ben1040 8y ago
>Meanwhile indoor playgrounds/play centers are a huge and growing business. They are happy for parents to unleash their children while they make their money from entry charges, selling cups of coffee to the parents and snacks for th
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by ben1040 8y ago
When the kids are small, where do you find an Uber with one or more suitable car seats? It seems there's spotty availability in a few cities, but the standard from Uber is you get a single car seat appropriate for a child >12 months
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by ben1040 8y ago
TIL it was originally hosted at WashU, my alma mater. I guess it was probably in the same server room as wuarchive, which at its peak in the 90s was rumored to represent 10% of the traffic on the internet. Was cool to look through the glass
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by ben1040 8y ago
They've brought the 9.95 "unlimited" plan back, and the cheaper 7.95 plan now only offers 3 tickets per month.
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by ben1040 8y ago
The AT&T gateway doesn't offer a bridge mode. The best you get is a "passthrough" mode where a router behind it will get assigned the public-facing IP so it doesn't ultimately behave like double-NAT, but the gateway
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by ben1040 8y ago
I don't know if Trello still works this way after the spinoff from Fog Creek and subsequent Atlassian acquisition, but I visited Trello's NYC office and they had a similar setup to Fog Creek's. Trello also has a significant

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