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by callalex 2y ago
If I’m understanding the concept correctly, in the USA we describe that kind of tax as “earmarked” which is a reference to folding the corner of a page in a book to mark your place.
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by callalex 2y ago
It’s a security/commodity, not a currency.
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by callalex 2y ago
How?
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by callalex 2y ago
Their parents are good friends of someone else’s parents.
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by callalex 2y ago
Let’s start with the Chamber of Commerce and the Better Business Bureau.
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by callalex 2y ago
Back in my day we cooperated to advance medicine and science with folding@home. How times change. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home
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by callalex 2y ago
iOS absolutely does not use Private Relay (iCloud branded VPN) by default. Even when it is included in a subscription, you must explicitly opt in.
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by callalex 2y ago
Increased edge compute has brought a lot of consumer features if you take a step back and think about it. On-device, responsive speech recognition that doesn’t suck is now possible on watches and phones without a server round trip, and a to
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by callalex 2y ago
How did you come to that conclusion? Did you look at any published statistics or just go with your gut feeling based on stereotypes? I suspect it’s the latter, because property crime in the city outnumbers violent crime by nearly an entire
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by callalex 2y ago
Computers can do this too! It’s called “foveated rendering”.
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by callalex 2y ago
I agree that sometimes things are either “a solution” or “not a solution”. EV chargers that do not charge more than half the time are still squarely in the “not a solution” category.
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by callalex 2y ago
Diesel fuel contains more energy per gallon/Liter so that’s not a useful comparison.
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by callalex 2y ago
Nobody wants to stand around for several minutes waiting for transactions to clear.
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by callalex 2y ago
It’s easier to pull this off when the number of states fits on one hand.
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by callalex 2y ago
This isn’t even long term though. Every GE bulb I have purchased (8 bulbs of different styles from different stores) has failed in less than a year. I will never buy another GE lighting product again for the rest of my life.
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by callalex 2y ago
That’s not what side loading is and that’s not how apple silicon’s secure boot works.
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by callalex 2y ago
Can you explain how your risk profile will change if you don’t use the feature?
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by callalex 2y ago
>surge protector" is what Americans call a passive device that splits one outlet into several, yeah? Not necessarily. There are “power strips” which turn one receptacle into several. Then there are sure protectors which are typicall
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by callalex 2y ago
If configuring a router into bridge mode is too burdensome of a step, then Comcast is actually providing that person a service by forcibly managing equipment for them at that point. If only the stalking component of it could be made illegal
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by callalex 2y ago
Almost 100% of scam calls are run out of India. There is no political will to hold India responsible because they are economically and geopolitically important to the USA.
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by callalex 2y ago
I learned very quickly as a university student that engaging in the political process is heavily punished by the exact people you thought you were trying to help. I have never donated or campaigned again and it took 10 years to get off of a
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by callalex 2y ago
That has absolutely nothing to do with net neutrality.
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by callalex 2y ago
What changed for me is that my home internet provider (Comcast) implemented an overly-burdensome impossible data cap that I can only get rid of if I agree to use their router with deep packet inspection, ad injection, and more.
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by callalex 2y ago
There’s a lot of nuance to the answer, but the easy way to understand is: They don’t host videos for fun, they host videos so you will watch ads. If they can’t sell ads for US$ then they won’t host videos either.
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by callalex 2y ago
In cyber trucks shifting to neutral requires a tap and a gesture on the touch screen. It’s a really great and safe idea.
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by callalex 2y ago
First of all, who cares? But that aside, this take reeks of sampling bias. Every amateur with a laptop uploads their music to SoundCloud/Youtube/whatever even while they are still learning. You probably don’t have much exposure to
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by callalex 3y ago
Yet another reason I wish FireWire had won. It always supported 2-way instead of a host-client model.
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by callalex 3y ago
For a few minutes at low demand time. These kinds of over-grand claims are seriously harmful to the cause of promoting renewables because it makes it seem like we’re almost there and can stop caring. Just look at the excellent, accurate, an
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by callalex 3y ago
I’m an independent statistic who don’t need no covariant!
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by callalex 3y ago
No.

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