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by crote 3mo ago
Most of it seems to be first-party streams of content which is also available as unencrypted over-the-air broadcasts. It is paid for via ads or subsidies, so there's no reason to block access to the stream, so they just don't bo
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by crote 3mo ago
The problem is that Amazon, Walmart & friends have said the "we are a platform , not a retailer" magic incantation, which means that through the power of friendship and unicorns they are now suddenly no longer responsible for
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by crote 3mo ago
> Just being realistic here; many of these are of Chinese make so how exactly would you stop it other than blocking them from being sold. You already answered it: block it from being sold. 1) Make Amazon responsible for the products they
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by crote 3mo ago
LG televisions and monitors spy on their users and install unwanted software. Half of all smart tvs are running "residential proxy" malware. Google is banning sideloading but happily hosting apps using the Bright SDK. Sorry, but
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by crote 3mo ago
It's about the same for an EU grid: 10ish kV to a step-down transformer for the mall, then three-phase at 400V phase-to-phase / 230V phase-to-neutral all the way to the range. It is quite common to see 125A CeeForm around large
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by crote 3mo ago
> The future might wonder why we accepted the danger of 5,000v power lines running through food courts just to avoid using gas burners. ... but this was already the case before induction cooking? There's no getting around Ohm&#x27
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by crote 3mo ago
Even that is doubtful. Heat pumps are so much more efficient than combustion that it is basically a no-brainer. You're looking at "winter at McMurdo Station" weather before furnaces become a must.
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by crote 3mo ago
> Says what court of law? Only every movie piracy lawsuit ever. Nobody shares the original files after all, so every torrent is re-encoded in the way described.
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by crote 3mo ago
No, the handful of billionaires would just let the now-unemployed people starve, or employ them as quasi slave labor. We know because that's what is already happening right now . The billionaire are not going to magically develop a se
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by crote 3mo ago
How do you know those people aren't staring at you because you started staring at them in an unpleasant way in response to them randomly glancing a look vaguely in your direction? I don't stare at people. They don't stare at
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by crote 3mo ago
> Honestly avoiding people on the street improves my mental and physical health by reducing chronic cortisol. These fuckers stare at you and worse. ... you do realize that you are also "these fuckers", right? It's like c
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by crote 3mo ago
Practical fact: Schiphol is built literally on top of one of the busiest train stations in the country. Virtually all major cities have a direct rail connection to it, with frequencies from 2x / hour all the way up to 10x / hour
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by crote 3mo ago
What about a unicorn shitting a rainbow onto your head? The problem with "but sometimes..." arguments is that the "sometimes" rarely happens. For example, at www.hetregentbijnanooit.nl someone tracked how often it rained
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by crote 3mo ago
> Advertising through trackers is a massive portion of how sites get revenue Sure, but magazines get a massive portion of their revenue through advertising without trackers. Same with television, or radio, or billboards. And the ad spa
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by crote 3mo ago
> Yes, there are still some dark patterns employed by cookie banners, trying to trick you into accepting tracking. But they are not too hard to make out. And they can be fixed by tuning the regulation a bit: Require the opt-out to be th
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by crote 3mo ago
That's why the usual phrasing is some variation of "Are we allowed to track you? We use cookies for that". It was never about the cookies themselves. That just happened to be the most common form of tracking in use when the G
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by crote 3mo ago
The effectiveness of ads is highly doubtful in general - especially when you're looking at impressions rather than clicks. And that's before we consider advertising mostly being mostly a zero-sum game. Advertisers are willing to
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by crote 3mo ago
> But no ads isn't an option. Why? Plenty of websites operate just fine with no or near-zero ads. Just look at the one you are currently on! And what's with confusing "relevant ads" with "privacy-invading targete
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by crote 3mo ago
Some countries already have provisions for this. For example, in The Netherlands there is a legally mandated three-day period after signing the contract for purchasing a home during which the buyer can still call off the deal. The reasoni
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by crote 3mo ago
I think the legal term is a "heart attack".
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by crote 3mo ago
> Bland, boring & repetitive designs - what else can one expect from a technocracy. The first two generations of Euro bills, for example. Not bland, not especially boring, not repetitive.
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by crote 3mo ago
What do you mean? The various denominations intentionally have different sizes so that blind people can tell them apart by touch. Surely you're not suggesting that they should all be the same size?
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by crote 3mo ago
You know, that actually isn't the worst idea! Putting tangible results of the EU on the Euro would constantly remember people that the EU isn't just some nameless and faceless bureaucrats doing busy-work in an office building in
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by crote 3mo ago
Coins don't fold, though. Carrying a few bills around in a money clip is trivial, coins quickly devolve into carrying a giant pile of loose change with near-zero value. The main reason I don't use more cash is that it is so incon
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by crote 3mo ago
The main benefit of Brexit is that the EU is now able to use English as a neutral universal language which is both commonly-known and doesn't favor any individual member state. Clearly the best choice would've been to extend this
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by crote 3mo ago
Tell that to a victim of French colonialism, or to the Germans.
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by crote 3mo ago
The average European does not view those buildings as symbols of European cooperation. They are just another generic office building some nameless and faceless bureaucrats work in. They lack the symbolism and recognizability of some US buil
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by crote 3mo ago
They are Euro bank notes. They are supposed to represent all of the EU. If there's even the possibility of someone getting upset over a specific portrayal you have failed at your one task. I can't exactly get upset over "th
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by crote 3mo ago
> nobody is expecting a specific bird to meet some arbitrary ideal People will still find ways to get upset about none or too few of the birds being present in their country, or "their bird" being depicted on the "cheap&qu
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by crote 3mo ago
> same for J, but that one should be more monochrome The color is actually the main reason I dislike that design the least! All the monochrome blobs do have a more traditional bank note feeling, but the complete lack of contrast makes th

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