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by gergles 9y ago
> Plus, I miss the instantaneity of cartridge-based games. I'm glad you said this in present tense, because yeah, there are still loading times from Switch cartridges, in some cases pretty bad ones. (Zelda shrine entrances, anyone?)
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by gergles 9y ago
I love the statement of fact here, as if your opinion alone determines what "went well" means. The outcome that people threw giant hissy fits about not being able to Trump-bash or insist that Silicon Valley is the most sexist inst
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by gergles 9y ago
The value of vouching, like everything else on HN, is secretly manipulated behind the scenes depending on how much you agree with the hivemind. If you vouch for things that then get flagged again (because the hivemind doesn't want to r
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by gergles 9y ago
Thank you for this! I had no idea, but about half the apps on my phone were randomly set as "do not show in search". I definitely never had seen these settings before, so am boggled as to why Apple just randomly decided to ship an
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by gergles 9y ago
I just hope they can make Spotlight work. I can drag down from the home menu, type the full name of an app on the phone, and only get random other results (or the App Store link to the app.) e.g.: https://imgur.com/a/jY
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by gergles 9y ago
> Even iPhone X shows they can still bet big with their flagship. Does it? The iPhone X (which is a great phone and one that I own) is a Galaxy S8 with a Face ID scanner. They didn't "bet big" on it, it was the only logica
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by gergles 9y ago
I don't believe Apple is forcing anyone at gunpoint to upgrade their OS. If you want to keep running the software that you bought, you can keep running the OS you bought. If you want to upgrade your OS, then you need to accept that it
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by gergles 9y ago
That may be, but it's still incredibly common. Look up the concept of LTV. I have personal experience in customer service scenarios where people classed by 'the computer' with an LTV score below a certain value were not to be
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by gergles 9y ago
Because statistically nobody transits through the US. Almost everyone ending up in the US is staying. A lengthy flight across the Atlantic/Pacific to then take another lengthy flight across the other ocean is just not something many pe
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by gergles 9y ago
I find that my Synology router has been rock-solid and extremely performant. I have the RT2600ac and have been quite happy with it, and it has a nice web interface that you can configure automatic updates on, so it can even be distributed t
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by gergles 9y ago
State and local property taxes, which I don't believe were ever in question. I'm fairly confident SALT, in this context, referred to the deductibility of state and local income taxes.
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by gergles 9y ago
Selection bias.
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by gergles 9y ago
Sure, but PLUS loans (for undergraduates) are obligations of the parent , not the student. The parent must agree to take out the loan and the parent signs the MPN. The parent can, of course, take out unlimited amounts of money if their
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by gergles 9y ago
The limits I mentioned include both subsidized and unsubsidized federal loan programs. Any further amount you receive is either a private loan or PLUS. PLUS loans are made to the parent on behalf of the student, and actually were dischargea
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by gergles 9y ago
> A potential fix would be to limit the amount of government-backed student loans to something people can reasonably pay off. They DO limit the amount of government-backed loans you can take for an undergraduate degree to $31,000 (or $57
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by gergles 9y ago
Me too. The conversations political posts foster on this platform are the lowest-quality I've ever seen here, and nearly all of the headlines and articles are some variant of "Look at what horrible thing the GOP/rich people a
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by gergles 9y ago
He would pay more with the AMT being repealed, as the higher marginal tax rate would apply rather than the AMT rate. This trend of going "whaa, but Trump!!!!!!" every time anything happens in government makes for lazy debating.
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by gergles 9y ago
The point of sale system shown in the tweetstorm is this one, and is highly recommended if you're even in an occasion where you need to sell stuff. http://keyhut.com/pos.htm
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by gergles 9y ago
Only for AT&T, and there's a response to that response that suggests that the opt-out is ineffective. I noticed some weasel words in a bank's ToS back in January that should have been a harbinger of this kind of 'service&
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by gergles 9y ago
Calling your postmaster about the USPS will get the problem fixed. I had a similar problem where my carrier refused to do Sunday deliveries – they'd always use the disposition of "nobody available to accept package". I called
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by gergles 9y ago
The thing I found most hilarious about this is that the author of this post previously worked at Grooveshark, a company that was only remotely successful because they flaunted copyright the entire time they operated. That he's now usin
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by gergles 9y ago
"Pay what you want^" ^As long as it's at least $15. It bothers me that Humble Bundle has so heavily embraced this type of marketing.
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by gergles 9y ago
I have a different color set and it is still gray for me, so I'm not sure why you're missing this one.
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by gergles 9y ago
Yeah, this is some sort of horrible error on some sort of aggregator, I'd guess. MSFT did not gain 79% today, but that's what Google says. Yahoo! on the other hand, says it lost 57.74%. If you go to schwab.com and get a quote ther
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by gergles 9y ago
You can absolutely get a B-1 or B-2 visa. Only VWP-eligible country citizens are even eligible to get an ESTA in the first place. https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/visit/visitor.html You fill out
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by gergles 9y ago
5000 words later and the question isn't really answered directly as in "Who owns it today?," so to save you the trouble: Mars, the same people who own M&M's and tons of other foodstuffs. The article is a meandering w
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by gergles 9y ago
I would like to echo this a million times over. Flags are the community's way of saying that things aren't appropriate for HN, and the moderators removing flags to editorialize the front page, then in other threads throwing up the
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by gergles 9y ago
Not that I can see. The NFC chip in the iPhone 6S is the NXP 66V10, and in the iPhone 6 it's the 65V10. These appear to just be different packages of the underlying PN544 part from NXP. It supports reading NDEF tags (as I imagine every
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by gergles 9y ago
> Reading NFC NDEF tags is supported on iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. There is no reason to limit this functionality to the 7. Very disappointing.
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by gergles 9y ago
Really? I get tons of "files.wordpress.com/obviousspamblog/exact-search-term-you-entered.pdf" garbage PDFs that are just 80 pages of the same text with "CLICK HERE FOR MANUAL ----->>> totallynotmalware.biz.

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