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by bydo 12y ago
Some ISPs are in the advertising business to some degree, with DNS redirection and even sometimes direct ad injection. One of the other things the VPN will do, semi-ironically, is prevent this. I suppose Google's philosophy on advertis
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by bydo 12y ago
From the screenshots, this seems more like something built into a future version of Android that might automatically engage when joining unsecured networks. It's hard not to see an offer of at least some form of security to be a net po
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by bydo 12y ago
The super-rich already do this in London[1]. Though there is legislation in the works to limit maximum depth as well as height[2]. 1 - http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/nov/09/billiona... 2 -
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by bydo 12y ago
Neither of these is true in the US; there are no chains with retail locations selling affordable frames, nor are there free vision prescriptions. Furthermore, Luxottica owns or is affiliated with the majority of locations writing vision pre
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by bydo 12y ago
It's the vertical integration. There may be obvious online sales channels, but optical prescriptions are only available in person, and Luxottica has done an excellent job at making sure the most convenient optometrist is also an affili
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by bydo 12y ago
There's a pretty large difference between ostracizing an individual for voicing an opinion and choosing not to financially support a multinational conglomerate for contributing to political causes contrary to one's beliefs. I do a
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by bydo 12y ago
Goose Island and (especially) Leffe were both extant brands before being acquired by InBev, which is a bit different from Coors creating the Blue Moon myth of whole cloth. InBev's most direct analogue is Shock Top, the packaging of whi
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by bydo 12y ago
That's all well and good, if you live in one airport and are traveling to another one. Realistically, it's going to take you another hour or two just getting from your point of departure to the first airport, and from the second t
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by bydo 12y ago
>congestion-free and at higher speeds Neither of these has any chance of being true. Highways near any sort of metropolitan area, or near a spur leading to a metropolitan area, or even often near a connector leading to another major high
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by bydo 12y ago
Than rail: Sometimes. Than single-passenger automobile (the point above): Only if the bus is empty.
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by bydo 12y ago
The highways didn't build themselves either, you know.
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by bydo 12y ago
I don't know what sort of serial adapter you're using, but I've used a number of the PL2303-based ones over the years (currently a Trendnet TU-S9), and have never had them cause any sort of instability. Weird.
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by bydo 12y ago
Schadenfreude?
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by bydo 12y ago
Because the more effort put into improving JavaScript performance, the more entrenched something terrible yet ubiquitous becomes, and the less chance we get of replacing it with something that is not a cyclopean horror?
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by bydo 13y ago
Your situation is an anomaly, or this specific incident? You _have_ actually tested restoring from your only backup solution at a service you've been evangelizing for years, right?
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by bydo 13y ago
You guys ever read 'Melancholy Elephants' by Spider Robinson? http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html