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by dingo_bat 8y ago
I just don't like the loss of control. At least in this case, my approach seems to be beneficial. I didn't have to deal with the hassle mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17651882
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
You can't blame the users though. If I have a bad delivery experience, I'm going to leave a bad review. It's Amazon's problem that they don't let you differentiate between product issues and delivery issues.
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
It's good that android doesn't allow this. And it doesn't give a way for the app to find out if I actually rated also. So I just click yes i want to rate. Then come back and continue as usual.
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
For me there was no procedure. It just ended and I got an email asking me to pay again.
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
This is better than what Google play music does. It just auto renews. Fuck 2 factor auth. At least Amazon gives you that chance.
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
> Does everyone state times an hour earlier than they want to correct for this rule? Certainly seems like that to me. I've arrived at wedding functions at the exact time mentioned in the invite and even the hosts weren't presen
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
In India we call it "Indian time'. Nobody is expected to arrive at a party venue before 1 hour past the announced time.
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
Considering that every android phone (literally billions of units) sends a location update every 5-10 minutes directly to Google, and nobody cares about the cost, why would airplanes transmitting continuous location updates be too costly?
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
It's pretty clear that the US government needs to make this a reality. Continuous high resolution live video (visible + Thermal). Entire classes of geopolitical problems will become non-issues. Later, the service can be offered to the
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
I wonder if the HDD the author used to store those bits is also having read errors, which the drive is correcting on the fly.
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
That's a logo with a really strong idea behind it. Firefox doesn't seem to have that much meaning behind its name.
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
> But for actual new characters to be added they would first have to become popular enough to warrant inclusion. How would a character become popular if people cannot type it?
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
I guess if a certain group fails the test they can just test each of those 5-6 people individually. Still saves time overall.
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
I dunno about TSA, but I'm am Indian male and I keep a beard and visited Sydney and Melbourne recently. I was singled out for "random" checks at every single airport. Even though the metal detector thing didn't go off at
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
Irrelevant to the main point. Since you're being childish I'll explain again. Not being able to read a particular article or articles is not duress. Duress is if nautilus would threaten to send killer ninjas to your house of you w
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
I never understood why a TLD is a big deal in any real sense. If ICANN wanted they could make the whole web address a single string. No need for a separate TLD. It's like the filename's extension.
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
Just signed up on mastodon social. First impressions: - The web app is very well made, although the space utilization could be a bit better - There doesn't seem to be any concept of friends, but there is something called "follows&
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
One time I smoked a lot of weed and I felt myself rising and falling with the music in my room. It was quite pleasurable. What does this profound experience with drugs tell us about human consciousness/thought? Literally nothing.
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
> they ensure that consent can only be given under duress. Not being able to read a random website is not "duress".
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
> Words are never that far from human cognition. If true, I wonder how humans thought before language had evolved. Sounds like hell.
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
> I have a small apartment with a 70 inch screen in the living room. Some of us have just a 14inch laptop screen at home. Just because you are able to fund your movie obsession doesn't mean casual viewers don't want a good expe
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
> In Taiwan, everyone is permitted to bring food and drinks to the theater and that's pretty common. In the US I'm forced to pay an absurd amount of money for awful junk food. I think this is the standard for the world. In Indi
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
Uber offers a real, irreplaceable service though. I can walk out of my apartment and be on the way to my office in an Uber pool in 5 minutes. The cost is basically 2x of the bus ticket I'd need to buy. As far as I know this service was
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
Sometimes the customer is wrong and it's not an issue with the service. And sometimes the customer is rude. I won't expect any human being to accept rude behavior from anybody.
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
My experience with Airtel has been that a well-written and firm email describing my intention for a complaint is very effective. Also a simple "I will not pay for your service if you don't resolve this" gets you very far with
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
> Unlike Windows, there is no ungainly multi-level start menu from hell. I wonder which version of Windows the author used last.
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
Those problems are pretty easy to solve. By your logic apple should not allow 3G sim cards in iphone either, but they do. And shitty wifi networks should be banned, but they aren't.
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
I think he meant linkable in the web sense, ie, hyperlinks.
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
> if QM randomness is psuedorandomness Isn't that the same as the hidden variables theory which has been proved wrong experimentally?
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by dingo_bat 8y ago
> "You mustn’t misread it, we’re not asserting these particles make decisions, we’re not saying they have any consciousness. What happens is they act, they indubitably act, and which action the particle does is free in this sense, i

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