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by chrisfinazzo 2y ago
Yet in functioning legislative bodies (think: parliamentary systems), employing something like Hastert doesn't require any enforcement at all. They don't typically require supermajorities to pass laws, and those in the minority do
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by chrisfinazzo 2y ago
Yet the Chevron decision empowers agencies to make rules independent of Congress in cases where the rules don't already exist or are unclear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_U.S.A.,_Inc._v._Natura... . Unsurp
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by chrisfinazzo 2y ago
Not for their Chinese users, that's for sure. Not because they don't want to -- although as an American, I don't see what kind of goodwill this produces -- rather because they can't , the government simply won't al
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by chrisfinazzo 2y ago
Not so much in China. Don't act like they had a choice to make here -- as much as I loathe intensely everything Apple does to appease the Chinese, refusing to act would likely prompt the government to ban them entirely.
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
A notable exception being the use of a VPN to access region-protected content. INAL, but while this use case might violate ToS, the case law suggests that courts deem this to be fair use provided you don't breech other laws in the pr
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
You can address native order by publishing in multiple languages. The NYT has editions for Canada and "International" (both of which presumably use British spelling along with local expressions as appropriate), Spanish, as well as
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
Last I looked, I think there may be language in the cardmember agreement that exempts gift certificates and the like. E.g, this explicitly doesn't count and may get flagged for extra scrutiny. I'm well aware of 5/24 -- I migh
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
How does this account for people who live paycheck to paycheck and don't have cars? This is literally how they get around - asking those who can pay the fare to subsidize them doesn't seem like that much to ask.
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
This is the part of the conversation where I'll point out that Eastern name order is - in a sense - incorrect, because The Guardian is a UK publication. I know why they do it, because Romanization[1] and transliteration[2] exist, but
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
As an American, this concept still makes no sense to me. It's public infrastructure of a sort, don't real estate taxes in the surrounding area pay for upkeep and repairs? See also, subway stations in Japan, which IIRC operate unde
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
I'd be wary of this approach - either from issuers suspecting you are gaming the system, or the effect on your FICO score as the average age of your accounts decreases. I might be totally off base, but this seems like it can't end
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
Consider the following... If you conceptualize it as "Annual fee minus reward credits" it's far more reasonable than that. For example, Amex Platinum is $695/year, but the Walmart+ and Digital Entertainment credits are
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
If, by that you mean: 1. The EU passed a law that was too complicated for its own good and... 2. Is a law that isn't practically enforceable 3. Lastly, is largely incompatible with how US public companies operate - welcome to Capitalis
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
To play devil’s advocate for a moment… Wouldn’t this break Deep/Universal links which send a user directly to a specific location within an app? I get that there are potential security/privacy concerns, but if you are in full cont
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
See also: Steve Jobs' announcement that FaceTime would be an open protocol. To a large extent, both Engineering and Legal didn't think it was something they would need to do, and as such, didn't plan for it. Let's just s
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
Gruber had Jason as his guest on the last episode of The Talk Show, just to give some context to both of their arguments. At the very least, they seem to agree that issues with the DMA - and the US DOJ case - stem from the idea that these l
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
Ethernet. Do that thing. With regard to software, I've long since accepted that HP, Brother, Canon et al can't write drivers to save their lives - and shouldn't have to - in a world where AirPrint, Chrome OS Printing, Windows
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
I eventually landed on pipx as fighting with Pyenv and Anaconda - via Miniconda - was an exercise in frustration. There's some mucking about in `$HOME/.local`, but this is mostly self-contained and not a huge chore to keep running
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
At least for my uses, it's entirely free. I think you can pay for more complicated services, but I didn't need to go that far. It was more about generating a PDF from HTML without manually invoking File > Save as PDF each tim
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
I’d sure like to know this , as we’re on Optimum 100, which isn’t sold to new customers anymore. Also of note, some uploads might actually go up substantially - a bunch of people on 100 down plans have seen uploads cut to almost nothing, e
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
Is there a reason you didn't consider something like Weasyprint? https://weasyprint.org Going all the way down to raw HTML is a bit verbose, but with almost anything I've thrown at it - CV's, business cards, you
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
The last straw for me was a couple years ago, when my health insurance turned over to the new (calendar) year...and I got double billed. OODLES OF FUN LET ME TELL YOU At the very least it proved to me that ACH payments through my bank wer
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
Caveat: The first time autopay screws up, you will feel an overwhelming urge to murder the party responsible for processing said transaction. Ask me how I know...
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
> You can't make up a rule that doesn't exist. Either your CSS will work or it won't. And if it works it's not wrong. So much this. Over the course of years, I've gone from writing my CV in Word, TeX, and (finall
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
https://web.mit.edu/ghostscript/www/Ps2pdf.htm Or, if you prefer to do more tweaking yourself, dive into the Ghostscript deep end :) https://www.ghostscript.com
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
Prior art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_editions#Regional_v... Safari N/KN anyone??
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
> Personally, I don't see why this is the hill Apple's dying on. They seem to have put in a fair amount of effort into creating a problem and APIs to allow for other browser engines to exist as peers to Safari (allowing JIT, mu
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
Extra security is welcome, but I'm simultaneously terrified that I'll somehow get locked out of my Apple ID or main Gmail account. Everything I read about Passkeys says this scenario is 100% impossible , as it's based on bio
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
This is the point in the discussion where I'll point out that .NET started out as ".NET Passport", e.g, what people now think of as a Microsoft Account. See also Apple, who, after a relatively brief dalliance with the name iT
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by chrisfinazzo 3y ago
> Adobe just didn't manage the pivot to web design very well. I'd argue they didn't manage it at all . Almost all of the web focused apps that people think of were acquired as opposed to being developed in-house. Adobe (c

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