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by bleepblorp 6y ago
What happens if the SIM is damaged, lost, or stolen?
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
People who live outside of a system but are heavily exposed to it can often develop insights that those who are immersed will overlook. Case in point: see this video of foreign journalists expressing their views of American culture. https:
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
I've been using paid Zoho mail for about eight months and have very few complaints. I haven't had any problems with outbound deliverability. However, their inbound post-delivery spam controls are overzealous and categorize almost
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Good grief. Parts of Eastern Europe have had an industrial base since the 1800s. Indeed, the Czechs have been making cars since 1905. Of course Eastern Europe trains qualified construction workers.
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Point of order: the US is far from unique in having a written constitution. Most developed countries have a written constitution that, among other things, guarantees (on paper) basic rights to their citizens. The only exception is the UK, w
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
The Canadian constitution is not designed to grossly overweight the views of rural areas over those of populated areas. Canada doesn't have an institution like the US senate, where voters from the least populous state have over 80 time
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
It'd be interesting to see the what percentage of the labor billing rate trickles down to the actual workers in the US vs elsewhere. If the trickle down percentage is equal then the problem in the US is extractive labor unions; if US w
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Again, there's no evidence that paying for service results in better customer service. There are many, many stories of Google arbitrarily killing paid and/or B2B accounts, including Gsuite, Adsense, Play Store consumer (paid apps)
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Let me explain what happens when you buy a new smartphone (or use a new, cookie-less, browser profile) and connect it to Google because your old phone doesn't work anymore: - Google detects the new phone as a suspicious device and lock
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
This is somewhat disingenuous. I doubt very many Americans think Trump is a sleeper agent in the literal sense of that term. There is, however, considerable circumstantial evidence that he may be compromised by the Russians. The fact th
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
There is a ratcheting effect in US conservative politics whereby the social conservative voting bloc needs to be cultivated with ever more extreme positions just to keep them interested enough to vote for the Republican party. This has most
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Much the world is in the grips of multiple overlapping political crises, many of which have existential consequences for the communities they impact. Expecting people not to talk about these crises is like expecting Europeans living through
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
See also [0], for some reporting on how Facebook delivers disinformation to the largest, most gullible voting bloc: the elderly. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24932881 It's amazing how links I post to othe
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
North Korean state-sponsored criminal fraud activities: https://www.zdnet.com/article/north-korea-s-apt38-hacking-gr... https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/01/politics/north-korea-cyberatt..
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
North Korea is already under severe economic sanctions for its nuclear weapons program and other geopolitical issues[0]. Russia is also under economic sanctions for invading Ukraine. There's very little the rest of the world can do to
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
The concept of TLS certs validating the identity of a business entity--rather than just ownership of a domain name--has merit even though the implementation of EVs was poorly considered. A system that presented the end user with a business
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
A lot of phishing, and other online financial crime, is perpetrated by groups operating with the support of their home governments. There's no way to hold North Korean state-backed phishing/criminal hacking groups accountable with
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
I generally take the view that the SJW identity politics plague was born due to nominally left-leaning people striking it rich in SV and wanting some way to feel 'woke' without feeling guilty over all the money they've acquir
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Fundamentally, investments are a bet that the future will be richer than the present. If there aren't enough good investments now then that's an indication that the market believes there are major structural problems with the econ
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In addition to the weath-in-pixels visualization you linked, another very damning graph comes from the Fed's research arm: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=bOfK This is a plot of median household income in com
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Business owners pressuring their employees to take political stances should be illegal. Employees should not be put into a situation where they feel their livelihoods depend on agreeing with management's sociopolitical values.
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Social media radicalizes the elderly by spreading disinformation(huffingtonpost.com)
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
I just tried that but all I got was a lot of water on my head and shoulders. Maybe somebody could push a patch to turn down the average fall-winter-spring rainfall in my area?
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
I don't think fostering calm discussion is a necessary goal for large-scale social media platforms. Some percentage of conversations will get heated--both online and offline--but that's natural and is something society is able to
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We live in a world where almost half of Americans have so little empathy that they are enthralled by the idea of putting non-white children in cages and the American political system is completely indifferent to the policy preferences of th
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How many small retail businesses keep multiple bricks and mortar locations solely as a backup in case one location becomes unusable? How many retail businesses have two locations just in case the street outside their premises is permanent
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We're on the wrong side of the curve of history for something like that to happen in the US--or anywhere else where it isn't already in place. Social Darwinism has been the fashion for 40 years now, and it's not going anywher
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US courts have upheld arbitration clauses in shrinkwrap consumer contracts.
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Large businesses in America, including Amazon, require their customers and suppliers to waive their right to sue. Amazon et el cannot be held accountable through the legal system. These abuses will continue unless there is enough of a sea c
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The US (and Canada) have much weaker consumer protections for debit than credit. If a merchant posts a fraudulent transaction against a credit card, you'll most likely get your money back. If a merchant posts a fraudulent transaction a

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