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by crusty 2y ago
To be a little pedantic, your solution is a solution to your problem, but only a fraction of the problem you're responding to. Your VPN won't help access the UK apps that require a UK phone localization if those same services are
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by crusty 2y ago
"I use an ad-blocker, don't have a paid account, and have 0 followers. What benefit do you think Elon Musk is getting here?" This is basically my interaction from the beginning - a lurker account if you will, with occasional
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by crusty 2y ago
How many phone numbers fit in a jumbo jet?
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by crusty 2y ago
Oh, i wonder which company would win that contract. Conflicts of interest will be determined by the person with the conflicts of interest.
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by crusty 2y ago
I've lived in places like that and had similar thoughts. I remember riding a subway and hearing conversations and squabbles all around me and understanding none of it. I know if I could understand the language, my brain would have been
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by crusty 2y ago
Oh, this content makes me want to revive my dict-heads website idea, but unfortunately it's a total known unknown.
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by crusty 2y ago
Prior to 2014, it was thought that ebola outbreaks were naturally self limiting to an extent. Woops.
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by crusty 2y ago
I think the question is, how does the 41st object to be discovered in 2018 get that name in 2025? Clearly there's a missing link to this, as in some guy in a field "finds" an object, submits it, it gets added, it gets identi
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by crusty 2y ago
This sends like a great idea... for 2019. Unfortunately it's not 2019 and X isn't Twitter. Where's section that tells you what percentage of your feed is Elon spouting contemptible nonsense, non-Elons raging at Elon's co
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by crusty 2y ago
TLDR: The charging infrastructure and charging capacity of vehicles is getting pretty good, but the logistics of the charging stations are awful and either have never been considered or were set down when charging was going to be a multiple
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by crusty 2y ago
Add campaign finance.
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by crusty 2y ago
Considering I hadn't heard of Belle Delphine until she came up in an LTT video, I'd venture a guess that her bath water was also for nerds.
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by crusty 2y ago
Did you decide the vendors do the scanning so you could enable customers who aren't using connected smartphones? On the surface it sends like the digital version of here's my wallet, take what I owe you if I'm just presenting
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by crusty 2y ago
With this much interest, maybe I should start taking donations for the R.F. Kennedy and Justin Peters Encyclopedia of Upstairs Medicine and Uppity Females. Looks like a cash machine. There's still no accounting for...
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by crusty 2y ago
I didn't get that vibe. Making the GDPR request is like exercising a muscle - use it, or lose it, so to speak. If organizations aren't challenged to be compliant, they won't ever be. So this read to me more of an opportunity
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by crusty 2y ago
I've been reading HN more this past week to avoid rehashing now unavoidable horrors in the news. And here I am, "hearing" this guy telling me that society is having a macrocosmic psychotic break - that the downstairs had been
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by crusty 2y ago
Our political system is dominated by a group of voters who are basically Sideshow Bobs wandering around yards strewn with rakes. https://giphy.com/gifs/season-5-the-simpsons-5x2-3o6Mbtdd7dh...
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by crusty 2y ago
You seem to have a very fixed view of the world, including either an inability or strong reluctance to accept the validity of incentivizing interests that differ from your own. What you find easily acceptable may not be for another. And as
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by crusty 2y ago
Doesn't Japan also have a different cultural attitude towards houses? IIRC, a property sells mostly for the value of the land with the expectation that the house will be a tear down and that there isn't much restoration and rehab
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by crusty 2y ago
Buying a car and paying for maintenance is not analogous. You buy the car - it works. Paying for maintenance is just meant to keep it working for longer. You could buy a car, not pay for maintenance and drive it until it breaks. That's
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by crusty 2y ago
Now? nothing. I think this thinking is a relic of Google's status as seemingly the last remaining email provider to automatically create a Gmail account when signing up for a Google account. So using Google SSO meant using your Gmail
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by crusty 3y ago
Money == Class Solidarity == Money Gambling that human inertia leads to a platform with most of its original users but a much more scalable means to monetize them.
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by crusty 3y ago
I mean that's fine, but you are the registered owner 》renter of that domain, so you are linked to it in a database somewhere, even if your info is behind whoisguard-style obfuscation. Even if unlikely, should a dataset get exposed or t
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by crusty 3y ago
It's not proof of anything, including not proof that it works. The catalytic converter was stolen off of my father's car, was replaced, and then was stolen again. When it was replaced the second time, he very seriously considere
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by crusty 4y ago
I wish I had confidence that there were Fediverse players ready to capitalize on this poo-show.
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by crusty 4y ago
(TRIGGER WARNING: I write long sentences.) "Making Twitter safe will not make you safe. It would absolutely be great if Twitter could do more, but the true issue lies elsewhere." Along with the rest of the reply, this is some 100%
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by crusty 4y ago
Without passing judgement on the value of the approach, I'd caution against taking to much away from those method, considering the sample bias of the forum here. I can't help but think the relevant distinction between leading path
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by crusty 4y ago
You are clearly not wrong.
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by crusty 4y ago
Cynical question: does TrackerDetect also participate in AirTag tracking and location reporting? By installing their app in an effort to protect myself from bad actors on their system, am I extending their system into a previously inaccessi
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by crusty 4y ago
Perhaps the first nearly disposable device. Can a stalker rig a GPS device to your car to follow you, FBI-style? Sure, but setting that up is pretty involved and maintaining the service adds a cost for the wannabe-stalker. Using Apple'

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