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by callalex 3y ago
An example or two would really help your case here. Right now your comment just comes across as “I’m rubber and you’re glue”.
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by callalex 3y ago
With no interest, and they typically take months to give the money back. They get to invest the money for that time, and you don’t. It’s an outright scam, but you have to have a credit score so whatcha gonna do about it?
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by callalex 3y ago
Why don’t you choose to live somewhere like Somalia or Haiti?
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by callalex 3y ago
Snapchat’s founding principle and only differentiator from day one has been untrusted client security. There were way too many years where the general public believed that a Snapchat could not be saved. I give huge credit to Snapchat for ac
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by callalex 3y ago
As a westerner I can only speak for others a little bit, but this is a very western perspective. Even Kazakhstan has been caught doing sketchy stuff with their CA.
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by callalex 3y ago
The important step is to filter downdetector from your consciousness. It only exists as rage/cable news bait and nothing more. It is not a useful tool, it’s just a clever way to serve AdWords iFrames.
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by callalex 3y ago
Wow, that was a blast from the past, I had completely forgotten that's why the name seemed familiar.
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by callalex 3y ago
Stable employment generally requires a stable location, stable schedule, and a mailing address.
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by callalex 3y ago
That is a generic rate limiter that is independent of system load. As far as I can tell if you make more than one request per every 5 seconds, you will always be served the rate limit page.
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by callalex 3y ago
It does offer an offline mode. It does NOT work with most games, because the publishers literally can't help themselves but add more layers of DRM on top of steam DRM and most of those these days require always online connections.
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by callalex 3y ago
I can guarantee you with 100% confidence from experience that the call centers for AT&T, T-Mobile, Comcast, etc. are all blowing up right now because of users who assume that if the Instagram app isn’t loading it means the “wifi” is bro
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by callalex 3y ago
Downdetector has successfully detected 150 of the last 20 outages. Its mention should honestly be banned from this site.
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by callalex 3y ago
Whatever you do, get one of the all-in-ones that doesn’t require setting up tracking beacons. They are universally a pain and will cause you to never bother playing.
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by callalex 3y ago
Do you have an ad blocker stopping the requests and causing retries?
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by callalex 3y ago
In the transition from pre-internet to modern times, I have found my experience with both California department of motor vehicles and the tax board has improved significantly. So much less traveling to crappy offices and waiting in hours-lo
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by callalex 3y ago
The leadership/ownership of nginx has changed, so the nature of the project may or may not change with it. In its day Apache seemed unstoppable as well. Only time will tell.
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by callalex 3y ago
How is packaging that weighs hundreds of times as much, requiring burning hundreds of times as much fuel to transport, more sustainable?
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by callalex 3y ago
Boxed wine comes in a plastic container. Beer goes off rather quickly without excellent storage, which is why cheap beer has settled on aluminum cans which preserve well while being cheaper and lighter than glass.
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by callalex 3y ago
>Reply to those comments instead then? Not every reply to a comment you make is a personal attack, and it would behoove you to recognize that. Sometimes people just want to enhance a discussion with relevant and topical information, and
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by callalex 3y ago
The carbon impact of that vs cans is enormous.
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by callalex 3y ago
Remember that these days “waxed” paper is actually PFAS.
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by callalex 3y ago
Netlify is not paying anywhere near the sticker price for AWS traffic.
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by callalex 3y ago
For me it’s interesting because in the general case, nobody is perfect at opsec and eventually slips up. Satoshi is a super prominent counter-example.
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by callalex 3y ago
>I am offended by the implication that someone will forcefully take away I have heard this sentiment many times and I still find it baffling. Who has actually threatened to take anything away? Some senators I don’t know about? Some direc
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by callalex 3y ago
India is also a huge diverse country with many cultures. Hundreds of millions of Indians have no qualms eating cow.
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by callalex 3y ago
I wonder what it will take to convince people to separate their core identity from meat consumption. At this point pretty much everyone knows what’s going on in these horrible farms, and knows the climate impact. At this point there are als
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by callalex 3y ago
The insane cost of housing, mostly.
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by callalex 3y ago
This seems like a false comparison because you are bringing up entirely different parts of the body. Most dangerous misunderstandings start from a grain of plausible truth. For example, many people will choose a category of food/ingred
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by callalex 3y ago
However public toilets have multiple objectives. The more accessible they are, the less likely you are to smell or step in excrement, which also makes being in a city a nicer experience.
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by callalex 3y ago
I'd love to know if you and the parent poster bought these units from a real store or Amazon?

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