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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
I don't know why I care about this - it's a service offered to business and if business wants to take it up that's their call. But if I were your kids school I would be looking at the far simpler solution of having one outgoi
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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
Non paywalled article: https://www.wired.com/story/jack-dorsey-twitter-hacked/
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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
Agreed. Trump's Twitter account is a bad example of things that people read that might have real world consequences.
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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
> a great use case where a school nurse called the speaker about their child, and she was very lucky to pick up and not let it go to voicemail. a) if you're a sloppy enough parent that you don't even have your kids' school
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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
> 70% of consumers don’t answer a call if the caller’s number is anonymous. While that might cut down the number of unwanted robocalls, it also potentially prevents consumers from receiving vital communications—calls from the doctor, ba
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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
The article was updated and the headline changed to "Uber proposes policy that would pay drivers a minimum wage of $21 per hour while on a trip" to clarify the misconception that drivers would actually receive $21/hr. I think
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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
That's weird. YouTube always makes awesome recommendations for me. Just kidding. YT's a dumpster fire, but it serves to point at when somebody starts telling you that Skynet is just around the corner. We may have nailed the A but
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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
Not to mention the many things that can be ethical but legally questionable.
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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
I've had a pretty good run of calling the MS support line and getting them to reactivate if Win10 deactivates due to a hardware change. Takes 5 minutes, maybe. Occasionally if you're on an upgraded-from-win7 or 8.1 OEM license the
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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
Sorry - I should have been more general in my snobbery. I think that hardcore solitaire players are unlikely to want to learn an entirely new OS regardless of who made it
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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
Does Australia qualify as a small non English speaking country? Because that's where I am
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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
Australia. Which you think would be a big enough market to make toggling a setting worthwhile
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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
> Charging for something like that is a good way to make unhappy customers. I don't mean to sound snobby but I have the feeling that people who are emotionally invested in playing solitaire on a PC are the ones who are least likely
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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
This is true, but in my experience you won't receive updates (and can't force them) on an unactivated version on Win10
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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
Or right click the item in search results, open file location, right click on .exe or shortcut, Send to > Desktop (create shortcut)
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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
I've installed Win10 on dozens of machines and I've never seen ads on the lock screen, in the taskbar, and in notifications like the article talks about. Maybe because I always say "no" to all those creepy tracking/
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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
I think imminent airlifting merits a phone call, even these days.
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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
That's how alcohol breathalysers work here - if it looks like you're over the legal limit you get a second, more sophisticated test. If you're way over whatever limit they decide for THC then it shouldn't matter if you h
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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
I had no idea this was such a polemic topic. Police have been doing roadside saliva-swab tests for cannabis, ecstasy and meth where I live for years now https://adf.org.au/insights/roadside-drug-testing/ Is it bec
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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
Wasn't that the thing that powered the DeLorean in Back to the Future?
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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
Those text captcha images make me kind of nostalgic. I spend most of my time clicking on crosswalks and traffic lights these days. Even if text captchas were prevalent, what is the good that this service would be providing?
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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
Agreed, that is a better article, but even so - every time I read about this space I get more confused. I get that very smart people are throwing large sums of money at it, so there's obviously some logic that I'm not getting. Fo
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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
the other thing that makes Australia an outlier on these kinds of lists is that it enforces compulsory voting, which tends to counter-effect attempts at voter suppression
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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
> They are not called “dropped domains”, the term used more often is “expired domains”. Well they obviously are if they're called something else more frequently. But I've heard them called both, interchangeably with equal freq
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by cookie_monsta 7y ago
> If you don't want bots loading your website and scraping it, make an API so that they can easily access the information they want. Precisely. While scraping competitor sites for pricing info etc is exactly as sleazy as it sounds,
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Ask HN: What's it like to develop surveillance tech?
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