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by betaby 1y ago
Still, 'Why not create your own operating system'?
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by betaby 1y ago
> The average home today is larger than anything our grandparents had Gen Z is living in smaller apartments than their grandparents were living.
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by betaby 1y ago
There are not many them in Montreal, and they are disproportionately more expensive. Even 3 bedroom apartments are rare.
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by betaby 1y ago
> That makes an entire country a no-go zone. There are plenty of countries like that. > but it's in the UK? Or you have friends you want to visit? Or family, or whatever. Then yes, if on a individual level that affects you, you h
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by betaby 1y ago
libera.chat servers are hosted by volunteers. Most of the libera.chat infra are the the same servers which were switched from freenode in 2021. Existence of the non-profit in Sweden changes nothing, that entity can be closed without any adv
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by betaby 1y ago
Would washing toothbrush with soap just work?
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by betaby 1y ago
They surely are!
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by betaby 1y ago
Whatsapp used XMPP many years ago, not today though.
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by betaby 1y ago
Housing construction quality is generally poor in the USA and Canada. xUSSR countries (Russia, Estonia, etc ) have harsher climate and yet concrete building there are fine.
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by betaby 1y ago
> People can build houses with the same characteristics of the 1970s and would likely be able to afford them No? Bungalows built in 1970s are selling $500k CAD in Montreal's suburbs today. > But people want modern sizes with all
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by betaby 1y ago
"Consequences are worse in developing countries." Not necessary.
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by betaby 1y ago
> The condo market is hurting the most. Are you talking about specific areas of Toronto? Condo prices in Montreal are growing at about inflation rate.
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by betaby 1y ago
> House prices in Canada are dropping this year. Where exactly? For example, I live in Montreal, the stast for August: Single-family home median price increased by 7.3% year-over-year to $633k. Condo median price increased by 3.7% year-o
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by betaby 1y ago
https://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-threat-report-for-2024-q4/
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by betaby 1y ago
Some white-boxes on Broadcom chips I guess.
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by betaby 1y ago
So basically like EasyJet in EU?
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by betaby 1y ago
Not that far if we talk traffic volumes. Most of the traffic nowadays is Google/Meta -> mobile phones eyeballs. That's traffic is overwhelmingly IPv6.
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by betaby 1y ago
NO, bad analogy. A shop in Amsterdam sells shrums in Amsterdam, which is legal. User from UK buys shrums, transaction happens in Amsterdam, which is legal. User brings shrums to UK, that's illegal and the user is liable, not the shop
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by betaby 1y ago
HTTP GET is pull, not push. The user is pulling data, not the server is pushing data. Government doesn't care though. It intentionally have chosen not to understand that detail.
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by betaby 1y ago
Probably? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
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by betaby 1y ago
> Simple. Make a law saying their products cannot be different. Frame it as discrimination against europeans or something. Same can be said by the USA to EU car maker. Make BMW the same in EU and the USA, by adhering to the US law of cou
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by betaby 1y ago
> "or else?" "Or else" is already happening. MacOS and IOS have fewer features in EU than USA. IPhone screen mirroring is not available in EU for example. All regulations have cost and legal risks. At some point it ma
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by betaby 1y ago
> taste burnt It was the case since forever ( ~15 years+ ). Starbucks is not a speciality coffee shop. There is nothing wrong with that. One has to acknowledge that high volume coffee shops have to rely on basically burned beans in order
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by betaby 1y ago
> To be honest, the internet was worse without Cloudflare It was better. 'Wget' and 'links' worked with most of the sites.
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by betaby 1y ago
In the USA/Canada number of doctors minted is caped by the cartel of doctors. That costs non-trivial money and lives lost. Source: https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/how-congress-created-the... and many others
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by betaby 1y ago
Unlikely, younger generation doesn't care.
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by betaby 1y ago
Who is `we` in this context?
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by betaby 1y ago
Protests are forbidden too.
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by betaby 1y ago
IPv6 is not widely deployed in Spain. https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-...
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by betaby 1y ago
Indeed, gives old Gnome vibe.

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