ben1040

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by ben1040 11y ago
I've had a PH account for 7 or 8 months and have yet to be permitted to comment, so zero difference to me here.
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Case in point, this company that is supposedly the "poster child" for the St Louis startup community. http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/workers-play-and-play... >The employees, most of whom start
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EULA prohibits use in EU countries with large immigrant populations(treefinder.de)
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that's... the joke.
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How so? Technical reasons, or because people assume you've been steeped in a toxic culture long enough that you're radioactive yourself?
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Unlike Match, Apple Music will DRM-wrap the downloaded files, so it doesn't really get you free music.
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iTunes Match would acoustically match songs, and then if the match failed, would just upload the song to iCloud as-is. I imagine maybe this behavior is intended to replace uploading the song if the song doesn't match? It'd explai
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by ben1040 11y ago
There was a coffee shop I used to frequent that used a captive portal for wifi, and the only way to get past it was to enter a 90 minute passcode from the bottom of your purchase receipt. So if I came in there at night after work I consider
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by ben1040 11y ago
They said they would take a $2bn hit to annual revenue [1] when they originally announced this. But I imagine long-term the issue is that having acquired a pharmacy benefits management company, they maybe determined that a plan member who
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>The distribution model was the genius of shareware at the time. In the days before the Internet and websites, physical distribution of the bits was a significant challenge. Shareware got the users doing the distribution work for the cre
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by ben1040 11y ago
Backstory: St Louis is the one of the largest US markets in the country that doesn't have UberX. By state law, 4 of the 9 members sitting on the taxi commission must be taxi fleet owners, and at least one driver. The current sitting c
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Introducing UberLETTERS(newsroom.uber.com)
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Taxicab Commission Chair Says Uber Outrage Is ‘White Privilege’(stlouis.cbslocal.com)
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After selling parking meter collection rights, and trying to sell Midway, surely they still have some other public infrastructure cash flows left they can sell off and then squander the proceeds when the check clears.
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VA's original raison d'etre was that commodity systems manufacturers like Dell didn't make any effort to support Linux, and they often shipped machines that had hardware that wasn't workable under Linux. If you wanted a
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by ben1040 11y ago
Always funny how VA Research started out as a company that sold computers and had an absolutely bonkers 1990s IPO[1], only to wind up as a company that just sold T-shirts to people who use computers. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org&#
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St. Louis Federal Reserve Suffers DNS Breach(krebsonsecurity.com)
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I'm really curious what the second or third iteration of the MS Band looks like. I tried one on and the whole hw/software combination right now seems like a public beta. But it's showing they've got some really good ide
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by ben1040 12y ago
>The difference between plugging the phone and putting it in a special Qi dock seems minimal. Having bought a Tylt Vu easel-style wireless charger I disagree. It's far more convenient to have the charger on my nightstand. I don&#x2
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>. A most amazing moment for us was a study of people who were epileptics. They had the brain open, and every single time that they had an electrode stimulation to a very certain region of the cardiac nucleuses, which is part of this wan
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by ben1040 12y ago
Also, Uber now can automatically forward receipts to Concur for expense reporting if you set it up. For the honest people who don't follow the time-honored process of using taxi receipts to bury personal expenses, it's way easier
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See also, a 3D printer playing the Imperial March from Star Wars. https://youtu.be/pKsvXfUvCkQ?t=26
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>Or, a less high-tech solution: use the knife of your airline meal set to cut away the finger. Last time I had an airline meal, even in first class, the knife "blade" was hard rubber mounted on a blunt metal handle. It could ba
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by ben1040 12y ago
>I imagine it isn't actually legal for it to be marketed as a "craft beer," as that's a controlled term On that note, Boston Beer Co (the ones behind Sam Adams) had been pushing for changes to the definition of "
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>Most are just very normal people saying hi to strangers. When did that get creepy? Everyone is a stranger the first time they meet. I've met more than one girlfriend online without knowing anything about them, and our first contact
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>This was the basis for The Simpsons episode where Bart went to France as an exchange student and ended up being forced to work at a winery that was putting antifreeze in and making Bart drink it to see if they had put too much in. And t
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by ben1040 12y ago
Which inspired this funny photoshopped image on Reddit, poking fun at the border: http://i.imgur.com/PXMGX.jpg
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Missouri lawmaker proposes requiring ID for mobile payments(fox2now.com)
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I've taken UberX vehicles that had a logo card taped to the windshield.
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Verizon Enterprise is the service lineup that they inherited from acquiring MCI some years ago. MCI, of course, having been kind of a Big Deal as it relates to the internet way back when. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V

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