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by dave5104 7y ago
I'm going to ignore your crazy theory that California might be subject to biblical catastrophe. > You probably believe in curtailing certain personal freedoms for other reasons and you are morally justified to do so. Again, nothing
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As a gay man, I don't think I'll ever be able to like that guy. He spent money to try and prevent me from getting married.
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Are you referring to the standalone $25/year iTunes Match subscription? As an alternate data point, I've subscribed to that service for years now (no Apple Music streaming) and have not had any major problems. Lots of custom music
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by dave5104 7y ago
It will be mandatory to be on the app store at some point, so that won't be a valid excuse for app developers.
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Yea, it sucks for the franchisees, but seems to be a good deal for the corporate franchiser.
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One reason might be that in the US, there are close to 14,000 McDonald's locations, but only close to 2,400 Chick-Fil-A locations. If you want McDonald's you have almost 6 different locations to consider for every 1 Chick-Fil-A. I
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The only thing that comes to mind is worrying about listening for boarding info and making sure I don't miss it. Once my butt is in a seat, I'm no longer worried about making sure I get onto a plane at the right time.
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I've typically had 20-25 extra minutes before they finally close the door. It's enough to get a head start on a podcast or watch a short TV episode.
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by dave5104 7y ago
Facebook was found responsible for lying. They were sued, and the courts did make a judgment--not sure if it was exactly proper or not. They simply paid a $40m fine. https://fortune.com/2019/10/07/facebook-law
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by dave5104 7y ago
As others have said, you'll need to stand in line. I recommend going in a warmer month if you can. When I was there, it was March 2013, and it snowed/sleeted the morning of. Luckily, at one point they handed out paper tickets desi
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by dave5104 7y ago
Oral arguments in front of SCOTUS are surprisingly quick and short. I was able to go and sit in the "audience" one day back in 2013, and it took only about an hour for each case (got to see 2 of them). The point of the oral argume
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by dave5104 7y ago
Perhaps this is extremely wrong and naive, but it feels like it's relatively "easy" to avoid Microsoft data mining. I don't use Bing, I don't use Outlook for personal stuff (only work emails), I don't use MS Of
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He was ousted from his own company. Might be as simple as him just wanting to move on.
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> Things like Google Reader had healthy user bases when Google came for them in the night. I wonder if anyone in Google management ever looks back and regrets that decision? It's still always being brought up, even 6.5 years later.
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> And those ads will frustrate you even more, because they aren't targeted to you. I would have thought that the frustrating part of an advertisement is the presentation of the ad itself--not necessarily its content.
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Then so be it? Seems better than having an entity so large that it's shutting power off to large chunks of the state.
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Having the state (or even local municipalities) buy them out and turning the utility into a publicly-owned utility is one popular opinion I keep hearing. They might have more money to start burying lines if they didn't need to answer t
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Probably as opposed to calling the CFO "the finance guy" in the same sentence as "the IT guy".
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by dave5104 7y ago
I've switched my default browser search engine to DDG, but I still find myself missing Google results. I miss those knowledge graph results (or whatever Google calls those sidebar boxes). Also, I've found that DDG cannot consisten
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by dave5104 7y ago
Try out Affinity Photo. If $600 a year is too high an expense for what you produce with Photoshop, then it's likely Affinity Photo will more than exceed what you need. It's a flat $50.
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I don't disagree, but I think we should still be able to get upset when a free service uses the data for something other than what they said it would be used for.
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In this case, Twitter was lying (or more generously, not being entirely truthful) with what they were using the data for. Some users may have chosen not to give up their phone number or email if they had known it would be used for adverti
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by dave5104 7y ago
One thing that helped my Facebook feed a lot was going through and unliking EVERY page/interest/book/movie/whatever (or most of them). My news feed is now only populated by actual friend posts and ads.
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DoorDash doesn't operate in the EU, so I don't think they need to care about GDPR.
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And cost of living in the Bay Area is quite high to go along with it. Unless you're single with no kids, it's probably not very feasible for most people.
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You make it sound like all regulation is bad. There's surely some unnecessary and bad individual regulations, but overall, I prefer a world where a startup can't have success dumping toxic chemicals into a river.
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I don't think they were going for an accurate number. I actually think the hyperbole helps make the point they're making in this case.
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Dumb question, as I've never used wireless charging before: why can't you just flip the phone over so it's sitting screen down when you have the metal card in a pouch on the back? Will it not charge in that position?
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> This is exactly the intended "use case" of the card. I'd say the intended use case of the Apple Card is have people using Apple Pay, not swiping/inserting the physical card. I'd bet putting it away in a filing
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> By my understanding, in the US, typical merchant fees to accept a card are a flat $0.20-$0.30 transaction fee, plus 2-3% of the total dollar amount. That's correct, generally. But those can always be negotiated. And Starbucks prob

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