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by dwild 7y ago
> [citation needed] I can't really give financial, but believe me, after having to spend 30k$ more because of some problems, we only had about 6k$ to pay for 5k$ a month of expense. After a year, in a location surrounded by restaura
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by dwild 7y ago
> You might end up having to actually pay a little bit for it, though. How old are you? I'm from the 90's, I'm from the generation that was on MSN all the time. My parent would have never let me pay for anything online, wi
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by dwild 7y ago
Anything that is free on the internet? My SO escape room wouldn't exist without advertising either... I'm pretty sure that's true for PLENTY of business.
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by dwild 7y ago
> I work at an organization that does almost no marketing; we mostly spread by word of mouth. We have no shortage of customers or work, and growth would be harmful to the quality of our product, so we're pretty content with our plac
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by dwild 7y ago
I would have agreed in the past but now that my SO has started an escape room, if your ideal world existed, she would be bankrupt right now. Most ads isn't about manipulation, it's just about getting your attention and reminding y
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by dwild 7y ago
> Consider if you upload a book to Amazon to sell they are taking anywhere from 30% to 65% of the sale. What about Barnes & Nobles? What about your local library? The difference is competition/choice. I'm not even arguing a
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by dwild 7y ago
> There is zero chance that I would send personal info or payment data to some no-name app and even most of the other well known apps. Then don't... It never stopped me from giving my credit card number to Amazon. I gained quite a b
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by dwild 7y ago
> Look at what happened with Zoom — unrestricted access to your entire user account on MacOS, for them to do whatever they want. Are you saying that if they were applying the same walled market as what they do with iOS, the Zoom issue wo
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by dwild 7y ago
> I think it helps prevent fraud and insecure transactions I got an amazing service to offer you, it's a debit card with 30% fees that will prevent fraud and insecure transactions!
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by dwild 7y ago
> Besides video games you could add movie rentals and sales, tv show rental and sales, music sales, PPV events, book sales, Steam... Can you be more specific? I know plenty of places to rent 'A' movie for example. I also know p
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by dwild 7y ago
> None of them allow you to make 'A' rated games for example. The sad difference is that we don't care much about 'A' rated game, but we do care about useless 30% surcharge and more trouble on how to pay. If you
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by dwild 7y ago
> being a minority near a border, that's already abhorrent. That's abhorrent because they are targeted which force them to carry it. Isn't driver license a government identification anyway? Sure no one is forced to have it
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by dwild 7y ago
> "You exist first and foremost through the lens of the government. You are not permitted to live outside the bureaucratic abstraction of you." Aren't we already at that point?
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by dwild 7y ago
For them, it's not a simpler feature phone, as the article mentions they gather around to watch movies at night on it. They offer 14 GB for 1.50$ a month.
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by dwild 7y ago
> Reflecting on it, it is completely crazy that these devices are available for 25$. They are most probably subsidized, though not sure how much of it is considering they offer 14 GB for 1.50$ a month.
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by dwild 7y ago
> With only the name, how would you know how many decimal places I'm not saying the name is wrong because of the comment, I'm saying it's wrong because of the usage of the acronym. > The comment isn't wrong/ou
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by dwild 7y ago
> TS is a very common abbreviation of timestamp. Common != universal. It's known up until someone doesn't know it. We have pretty powerful autocompletes, let use them instead, or just lose 3 seconds writing the 10 letters, it w
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by dwild 7y ago
That comment is exactly what I mean by when needed. That does confirm that they are making pretty amazing code. I would have much prefered to get that file instead of the other one :P. They do have a redundant comment at someplace but it&#x
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by dwild 7y ago
> Postgres codebase is what got me out of the "good code is self documenting" nonsense. I'm a fervent believer in "good code is self-documenting", so I was curious to be proven wrong, clicked randomly until I fou
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by dwild 7y ago
> it's okay to force people to pay bank fees If it forces you to pay bank fees than that's the issue that needs to be fixed. I agree though that until this is fixed, that bill is wrong. > give up their privacy I have person
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by dwild 7y ago
> It seems like a net loss to me, because ads are used to make people consume more than they need; My SO opened an escape room a year ago. I though similarly as you before that (not that it make people consume more, but that they'll
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by dwild 7y ago
> the ads are making thousands of requests downloading hundreds of mbs of who knows what quite often simply crashing the tabs Where are you going for that to happen? Not only does a tab crashing is extremely rare for me, even on my low 8
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by dwild 7y ago
> Certainly, with that attitude. Personally, I fight that mentality when I can. The reason to lean on technology that is used in multiple disciplines is to increase the pool of viable programmers. If it's the wrong tool, then it&#x2
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by dwild 7y ago
> Are you interested in my response personally? I'm actually not interested in your response, I'm interested in how you justify your previous comment while still not being able to apply it yourself. Your appearance is important
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by dwild 7y ago
> built on a very common protocol (HTTP) and being used in industries beyond just IoT. For use case beyond IoT, sure use everything else, but MQTT is great specifically for IoT. It's like saying x86 is better than others 32 bits arc
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by dwild 7y ago
Sure an HTTP client can be done, but you won't get the functionalities of MQTT and you'll have to support it yourself. MQTT is always on and it's bidirectional. The client can both listen to the server and talk to it. You sur
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by dwild 7y ago
MQTT is interesting for IoT devices. Theses devices are low power, low memory, low speed, may have intermittent connections. The alternative to MQTT wouldn't be HTTP or WebSockets, but actual sockets. MQTT is simple to implements and d
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by dwild 7y ago
> So? Why is the aesthetics important to you? If it's functional and useful but looks ugly, then I consider it a mature and developed response to choose that nonetheless. Then why don't you shave? Actually, why do you take care
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by dwild 7y ago
> I get an email regularly telling me my score changed. I have to go log in and find out I went up 2 points because of an algorithm change In the Canadian version of Equifax you can set how much of a score change send an email.
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by dwild 7y ago
In Quebec we recently had a massive information leak from Desjardins, a credit union used by most of the population. It didn't take long for people to receive phishing SMS trying to get information from people. It's not exactly th

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