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811.
by callalex 3y ago
They should also require the ISP to use a reasonable method to count the amount of data if there is a data cap. No matter how I count the data in and out of my gateway running OpenWRT, Comcast/Xfinity consistently counts and charges me
812.
by callalex 3y ago
What about weight-sensitive applications like aviation and shipping?
813.
by callalex 3y ago
Unless they fall apart internally by leaning too hard into religious facism.
814.
by callalex 3y ago
Even that happens. Consider for example the shit-show that is JIS vs Philips vs PoziDriv for plus-shaped screw heads.
815.
by callalex 3y ago
.42 is cheap for PG&E, it goes up to .6 at peak times. PG&E is completely corrupt and broken. Utilities do not belong in the private sector.
816.
by callalex 3y ago
Ok pretend I’m a bad guy. What bad things can I do with this information that you’re so worried about being leaked?
817.
by callalex 3y ago
Maybe the earth/environment collapsing around them while nobody does anything to fix it is also depressing.
818.
by callalex 3y ago
Which “standards” have been forced on the industry by Safari?
819.
by callalex 3y ago
They are doing a great job of proving what we already knew: Stanford as an institution is corrupt to its core, from the leadership to the professors, to the alumni. How they continue to have any semblance of a positive reputation is beyond
820.
by callalex 3y ago
Stanford is corrupt to its core, so none of this is all that unexpected.
821.
by callalex 3y ago
> Google is incentivized to give you useful results so that you continue coming back This is only true if they are not exploiting an unfair market position.
822.
by callalex 3y ago
You can already do that in a Tesla. Or pretty much any car in that price category. These days the understanding and responsiveness could be described as “pretty good”. But still nobody uses it because as long as you are able-bodied, voice c
823.
by callalex 3y ago
This is not Reddit. Unsubstantiated personal attacks are not welcome here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html A more constructive comment would be: “Actually, it’s not that expensive, here is evidence to back
824.
by callalex 3y ago
The page seems to forcibly refresh itself every few seconds, making it unreadable. (latest iOS)
825.
by callalex 3y ago
I can’t believe there isn’t a single mention of this thread of the “father” of heated yoga, Bikram Chowdry: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikram_Choudhury In summary, the guy was a scamming quack, and his most promin
826.
by callalex 3y ago
I would be hesitant to donate money to Mozilla, almost none of the money goes to software development.
827.
by callalex 3y ago
I encounter this all the time with App Store apps. Citizen will disable itself if you don’t grant live, high precision location data even though it would work fine with “when open” and an approximate location. The app for sketchy WiFi camer
828.
by callalex 3y ago
> they did all the usual battery of tests (Echo, TMT/EKG, cholesterol, blood markers etc) That doesn’t sound like they ignored your concerns at all. It’s odd that you present it as such.
829.
by callalex 3y ago
For the youngins, in the mid 2000s they branded a very similar service as “Google Web Accelerator” by saying their servers would deal with TCP slow-start for you faster than your home connection. The goal of course was to get you to tunnel
830.
by callalex 3y ago
Traction control systems also use accelerometers and gyroscopes, so the scenario you describe is not possible.
831.
by callalex 3y ago
There are risks from exposure to this substance that go beyond just immediately dropping dead. LD50 is only one aspect of exposure danger.
832.
by callalex 3y ago
This is currently being debated in the highest court of the USA, right now as we speak. It’s pretty dumb and absurd to us techies but apparently it’s not a settled matter in law. https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/supreme
833.
by callalex 3y ago
That does sound unbearable. May I ask what market segment you operate in? Do you make your own products or are you rebranding some kind of generics?
834.
by callalex 3y ago
The scale is a problem they created for themselves. If they didn’t take the time to build the legal/monitoring team you describe, they shouldn’t have taken on more customers than they could afford to support. Would you make the same de
835.
by callalex 3y ago
Never make the mistake of listening to Musk promising a timeline in any non-binding context. https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/
836.
by callalex 3y ago
Throw it all away and go single-payer like the rest of the world. This isn’t some unknown mystery to be discovered. It’s been implemented and proven over and over again.
837.
by callalex 3y ago
It’s funny how we like to pretend there isn’t an aristocracy and landed gentry here.
838.
by callalex 3y ago
And how do you distribute those to anonymous users?
839.
by callalex 3y ago
But you can’t sue the cops, they have immunity.
840.
by callalex 3y ago
That’s not true at all though, because there are stopping distance requirements to legally sell the vehicle.

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