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by djrogers 5y ago
Reporting like this infuriates me - it's nothing more than gossip when presented this way: "He wore cargo shorts and a T-shirt to a meeting with Geodesic, a VC firm founded by John Roos, a former U.S. ambassador to Japan. An Itera
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by djrogers 5y ago
Yes, at the end of the day I always come back to Apple Notes. It has good diagramming capabilities, with snap-to-shape for people with crummy sketching skills (draw a circle/cloud/star/arrow/line/etc then hold for
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Coronavirus: India descended into Covid-19 chaos(bbc.com)
2 points by djrogers 5y ago|0 comments
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by djrogers 6y ago
There are a lot of comments here about how useless these protections are, because A or B already exist, or C works better for stalking. I think most of those comments are missing the real point here. If an Apple product were ever used to
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by djrogers 6y ago
It's likely because Apple doesn't want to be in the news when something like this happens. If that had been Apple, that would have been a bunch of news articles rather than an obscure blog post.
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by djrogers 6y ago
As somebody who has lived in a lot of places that aren't San Francisco, I can tell you that San Francisco is an outlier WRT how much illegal activity "law enforcement" puts up with.
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by djrogers 6y ago
I think you're greatly overestimating the prestige of working at Google, or the value of said prestige.
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by djrogers 6y ago
> - Sales of chicken noodle soup bowls ($4.95) in Harvard’s campus canteen increased 21.1% when costs were disclosed What sales decreased in relation to this? Would overall sales increase if all food items had costs listed? Or would pe
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by djrogers 6y ago
> efficiency did that? not price? You're looking at the wrong resources if you don't think lowest cost is analogous to most efficient. Time, labor, etc. all take a back seat to the bottom line when retail goods are in play.
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As Covid Outbreak Rages, India Orders Critical Social Media Posts Be Taken Down(nytimes.com)
3 points by djrogers 6y ago|1 comments
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by djrogers 6y ago
Depends on the weed and the ground cover the weeds are competing against. For many weeds, simply mowing them in the presence of decent ground cover is completely effective, as they’re optimized to grow tall quickly - defoliate them at the
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by djrogers 6y ago
Depends on the crop. Spacing is a trade off between output, health of individual plants, and workability. In some cases the tradeoff can simply be between the quantity vs quality of the crop, but it’s not always intuitive which strategy res
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by djrogers 6y ago
You want armed law enforcement officers to show up to a 14 year old's house because she posts "b*tch" on every IM from her nemesis? (and yes - that would be considered cyberbullying in many schools) That's a really bad i
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by djrogers 6y ago
I'm deeply confused by the way the author keep referencing race in this article, while describing traits and actions that reflect poor/horrible management and people skills. Are they using 'whiteness' as a shield because
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by djrogers 6y ago
This sounds like the user is in Youtube, then says 'Play some Beyonce'. In this scenario, I'd expect some Lemonade from my default music app, not Youtube...
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by djrogers 6y ago
> They should have done this a long time ago. Sharing photos in a non-attachment format with close friends is a feature I wish iMessage had Well, they built that into photos ages ago (shared photostreams - they’re awesome for weddings an
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by djrogers 6y ago
That's not dismissive, you just called them gods!
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by djrogers 6y ago
> since all it does is get you the user's contact list. It’s not even that - all it gets is the phone number associated with your personal contact card.
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by djrogers 6y ago
> The CBA gives owners 52% of football related money and players 48%. So, no, the majority of the money does not go to players. I think you're looking at this a bit too narrowly - every expense involved in running an NFL team comes
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by djrogers 6y ago
Your iPhone can do that on it's own if you connect it to a bluetooth or CarPlay headset when you're in the car... It will remember where you are when you disconnect from it and tag it on the map for you. [1] https://sup
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by djrogers 6y ago
Or $12 for the Belkin one, or $3 for the inevitable amazon knockoff....
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by djrogers 6y ago
Have you looked into this at all ? Apple doesn't know the location of any of these things - ever. It's all spelled out in their very detailed white papers, but in short the location data is e2e encrypted and only available to yo
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by djrogers 6y ago
> In the bay area, they won't for instance. Depends where in the Bay Area - it's a big place with a diverse grouping of cities. My local PD would definitely retrieve a stolen item if it were airtagged, but I imagine Oakland and
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by djrogers 6y ago
> All I want to know is if a LEA could subpoena Apple for the location of any/all of my AirTags No, they can't. Only your device can decrypt the beacon info, and Apple doesn't store location data.
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by djrogers 6y ago
Tile declined to participate...
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by djrogers 6y ago
States can be pretty large and diverse - the town I live in in California would have a couple of officers at my door in short order if this situation were called in...
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by djrogers 6y ago
Do you see those question marks? Those denote questions. Questions are not accusations.
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by djrogers 6y ago
If that’s how you feel, then curl away…
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The former. Apple is supportive of an open, non-apple platform for iOT / connected home stuff: CHOIP.
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by djrogers 6y ago
Owning a domain with a registrar like Hover (or if only for email, through your mail provider) is really not that complicated or difficult. You get an email once a year that it will be renewed, they charge your card, and it’s done. And 2FA?

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