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by dqv 2y ago
> Volkswagen and BMW and Mercedes-Benz are happy to continue selling ICE cars and they are not protesting them They don't? Or are you just unaware that they do? https://www.thecanary.co/global/2023/10/
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Whoa, you did not have to do that! Thank you so much :)
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Aw dang, looks like I can't subscribe to it in my feed reader. Still, this is a great collection. Thanks for sharing
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by dqv 2y ago
An undersold (but not really related to security) feature of eschewing SMS is that you aren't subject to the availability of the mobile network and SMS API that the authenticating service uses. It actually makes the auth procedure more
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by dqv 2y ago
... the concerns about price fixing aren't about the velocity at which the prices change, they are about the magnitude of the prices. From the paper you linked: > We also find that average rents are higher and average occupancies ar
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by dqv 2y ago
False dichotomy. It doesn't need to favor anyone else's mandate. We are observing a lack of favor to any one mandate. The US mandate is to suppress "anti-US views" (in quotations because what the American populace thinks
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by dqv 2y ago
Right on, it's only a free exchange of ideas if US alphabet agencies can exclusively put their thumb on the scale. The CCP's "influence" here is just letting content exist that would normally be suppressed on other platf
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by dqv 2y ago
It is a failure of regulation, but that regulation was promulgated by the regulated through lobbying. They come out and say "no, we want to fix healthcare too, we get your frustration and anger!" (only after a CEO was shot and kil
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by dqv 2y ago
> The real enemy here is the regulatory capture of the health industry preventing competition. Yeah, the enemy is the industry players, who we are talking about. The industry players are the ones who institute the regulations that have c
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by dqv 2y ago
Any luxury service (consensus determines what a luxury is in this case, not the individual) that is personalized, intimate, and requires spending a lot of time with you would carry the expectation that you tip. HVAC is seen as a necessity i
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by dqv 2y ago
> I think expecting "textual" correctness is unreasonable. Of course you think that, you don't have to rely solely on closed captions! It's usually not even posed as an expectation, but as a request to correct caption
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> > While not all of the women she interviewed cited religious reasons or motivations for their choice to defy the birth dearth, most did. So faith, while not a prerequisite for the choice to have more children, is at least a catalyst
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> Some sort of study has been conducted indicating cash from strangers contributes to problems more than it helps and there are better solutions that the city itself, along with whatever charitable organizations are addressing this, are
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by dqv 2y ago
Oh, I guess I'm in the wrong crowd. My immediate assumption was not inheritance, but tax/debt sales and a housing glut pushing the prices down.
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Ah yeah that makes sense. I just wanted to confirm it because I couldn't really find anything when I was searching.
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by dqv 2y ago
Can you link to the issue?
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> People are drinking less alcohol It's a general downard trend of alcohol intake mostly brought on by younger generations. I joke about how alcohol companies should have invested in urban development and walkability to keep people
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by dqv 2y ago
I think for a lot of us that directs us to actively think about sleep instead of actually directing our attention toward sleep. My strategy is to try to jumpstart the memory reconciliation process, which is kind of a passive way of directin
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by dqv 2y ago
> Articles like this leave me in a position of — ok, but who is this point of view helping . To me, this point of view is helping a younger me and a younger you: future generations. It is prescribing a sociological solution to this pr
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Then I'm completely lost on how it is relevant to an article that specifically mentions the care of orphans as its central example for how care does not scale.
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What? What does this have to do with orphaned children?
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> You can be arrested for even owning the iPhone 16, and are encouraged to report people owning it - this is some real authoritarian loser energy. Dramatic comments require dramatic sources. This is WILD conjecture and I'm almost ce
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by dqv 2y ago
That's what it was for me. I'm really fuzzy on the details because this was years ago. When I first heard about Guix, I wanted to try it (even though I didn't understand the benefits) but there was some unfree part I needed t
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by dqv 2y ago
For the same reason that people get used to quirks on Debian (or any other distro really) that then eventually get fixed. Nobody's perfect, you live and you learn it. I use Hannah Montanix btw https://youtube.com/watch?
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by dqv 2y ago
Yeah. I had been wanting what Nix does for years, but didn't know what Nix was until 2020? I always had this desire to create a shell script that would allow me to install a clean version of my system, but always got stuck at the part
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by dqv 2y ago
Idk, in terms of installation difficulty NixOS is about the same as any other distro I've installed. The process is roughly: boot the LiveCD, verify disk config, run nixos-generate-config, add some basic packages to configuration.nix,
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by dqv 2y ago
> I'm not so sure this is the reason. If you look at houses, current trends are black and white or a combination of the two. > I think it's more just current tastes than anything. I guess I was wrong about what I thought a t
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Whenever I read the first sentence of this page it makes me think that it's talking about, for example, the collapsing of "acronym" to also include initialisms. I have a recent example that had some Charli XCX listeners disma
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For future reference, if any company does still require this sort of byzantine process and you want a quick resolution, the magic words "Certified Mail" strike fear into 99% of companies and will get them to act in days upon rec
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(Even later reply) Ah I see. I wasn’t familiar with the CTIA. It’s good to know that there are best practices that go beyond the FCC.

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