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by culturestate 1y ago
It’s not a project per se , but one that I support and don’t see here yet is Public Knowledge[1]. They have a similar mission to EFF, but they do more hands-on lobbying in DC. 1. https://publicknowledge.org/about-us/
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by culturestate 2y ago
> The way "Smart Diagnosis" in the app works with the WM3400CW is that the washing machine sends the data to the app acoustically. My LG microwave has this too; it wasn't a selling point for me, but I thought it was a ni
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by culturestate 2y ago
The idea of a manufacturer updating my appliance to be "more efficient" is fine, but updates should only be applied at my discretion and we already have several mechanisms for this that don't involve an always-on internet c
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by culturestate 2y ago
As far as I know Samsung isn't a Korean family name, it's just a brand. That said, are you sure it wasn't the + that caused the problem? I've run into that a few times, presumably when someone tried to roll their own ema
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by culturestate 2y ago
> It is like mandating a minimum number of days people must not work This is exactly how it works in many European countries. By law, you can transfer a few vacation days to the next year (or have them paid out in some scenarios) but
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by culturestate 2y ago
I mean this is a 20-month notice, that's already fairly generous by modern standards.
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Somebody moved UK's oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why(bbc.com)
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Peeron Lego Set Inventories(peeron.com)
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by culturestate 2y ago
DB is still a 100% state-owned enterprise; it’s “private” in name only. Sort of like Singapore Airlines, which is listed but majority-owned by one of Singapore’s sovereign wealth funds.
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by culturestate 2y ago
Driving without a rear window isn’t a big deal - see, for example, nearly every cargo delivery van on Earth. I have to imagine the stubborn refusal to add standard physical controls back to the cockpit has more potential for trouble than an
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by culturestate 3y ago
It's not really a "problem" because you can usually get them the same day, but I can assure you that it's a thing, especially if you take controlled medications like Methylphenidate. An even more fun quirk is that beca
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by culturestate 3y ago
> But in …Germany…etc... nobody would be refused their medicine because the payment system didn't work. Even if the computers didn't work. If the computers didn’t work, it would be incredibly painful in Germany because most
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by culturestate 3y ago
> This is precisely the issue with UX-led processes. When you're dealing with very hard engineering problems, you really don't yet know enough to be designing a product. I suppose we can get into the weeds on how you define &
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by culturestate 3y ago
Using the name rather than the symbol is just the Reuters house style for non-USD currencies in headlines.
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by culturestate 3y ago
It’s interesting how context can change the perception of a system. Technologically, the Shed isn’t anything special - it’s more or less the same as a typical retractable roof at a sports stadium - but it feels novel because it’s on the gro
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by culturestate 3y ago
As far as I know Zelle prefers RTP[1] for settlements and falls back to ACH only when necessary, but I'm sure there's a Zelle employee on here who can confirm one way or the other. There's also FedNow[2] but I don't know
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by culturestate 3y ago
I'm using "settled" in the colloquial "the money has been debited from the sender's account and has been credited to the receiver's account" sense, which for the purposes of this discussion is the definiti
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by culturestate 3y ago
I was under the impression that immediately-settled electronic transfers were Zelle’s raison d'être. I understand that it’s not universally available, but still.
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by culturestate 3y ago
> Checks also let you do fairly complex multiparty commerce without needing to spend millions of dollars engineering it, like an apartment broker requiring you to give them a check for deposit/first month’s rent and signed lease pr
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by culturestate 3y ago
> I feel sorry for any artists on Universal. Not having their songs on TikTok is a death sentence for their career. This is a little hyperbolic, mate. I don’t think the Rolling Stones or Taylor Swift are sweating TikTok.
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by culturestate 3y ago
> Ahh, it's an Associated Press article reposted. That explains the clickbait headline. The AP is the furthest thing from clickbait I can possibly imagine, and their original headline[1] is completely different. 1. https:/&#
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by culturestate 3y ago
> can you imagine a car company controlling the fuel you put in your car, the tires you buy, the repair shops you use Assuming a slightly generous definition of "the fuel you put in your car," you've just described a lea
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by culturestate 3y ago
I suppose that depends on your perspective. The nearest charging point to my flat is ~10 minutes on foot, which I wouldn't consider convenient in any way.
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by culturestate 3y ago
> If by "majority" you mean, a small minority, then you're spot on! ... It's always important to look at numbers before you get trapped in your bubble. Speaking of bubbles, I wrote "majority of the western wor
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by culturestate 3y ago
> EVs are far easier and more convenient than gas cars. EVs certainly have some advantages, but for most of the world's population "convenience" isn't one of them. If you live in a house with a garage where you can
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by culturestate 3y ago
> No consumer vehicle has a driverless system that tolerates inattention... Mercedes's Drive Pilot (L3), which you can buy in a production car today, is explicitly advertised as allowing drivers to take their attention off the r
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by culturestate 3y ago
> yes, there is a difference, but it's not something I notice Anecdotally, I use the last gen pre-120hz iPad Pro as my daily driver and I notice the difference immediately when I switch from my phone to the iPad. It’s not annoyi
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by culturestate 3y ago
Ted Turner (of CNN/Turner Broadcasting/blood feud with George Steinbrenner fame) has also been doing this for decades[1], with bringing back bison as a primary focus. He’s one of the largest private landowners in America with a co
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by culturestate 3y ago
> Founder run companies care and even hand picked successors to founders who are “company men”. The Google CEO is just a suit. Sundar has been at Google since 2004 and Larry Page hand-picked him.
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by culturestate 3y ago
> Von Braun was a Nazi spy He came to the US after the war in Europe was over. Pretty difficult to spy on behalf of a political regime that no longer exists. If he was spying for anyone - which I don’t think has ever been seriously a

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