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by gergles 10y ago
> It's preposterous to think that election judges aren't actively verifying seals during election day and making sure nobody is tampering with them. I've been an election worker around the country and have never been in a
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by gergles 10y ago
Badges on Samsung devices are a TouchWiz thing, they aren't part of "regular" Android. You won't have them on your Pixel.
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by gergles 10y ago
I'm only going to address your first sentence -- I wasn't talking about being allowed to literally walk in anywhere and cast an immediate vote; if you were to go to a different precinct than where your registration is you'd s
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by gergles 10y ago
They can't vote in local or state elections but you should have been allowed to vote for President. Federal elections just require you to be registered in the state.
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by gergles 10y ago
It was indeed Verizon.
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by gergles 10y ago
As AT&T already did until right before the FCC started talking about this decision (and I'm sure they'll go right back to now that it's OK), charging $30 to opt out of their spying program, plus a bevy of one-time fees th
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by gergles 10y ago
Your phone is actually far more battery-efficient when it's able to only use LTE (i.e., if your carrier supports Voice over LTE). It's having to have both radios on (one for voice and one for data) that is hard on the battery.
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by gergles 10y ago
Revolut no longer wants American customers, so likely not much mention on HN. (It's impossible to reload a Revolut account from a US one now.)
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by gergles 10y ago
No, it is not optional. If you publish a valid AMP page and Google finds out about it, it will be cached. https://developers.google.com/amp/cache/faq > Can I stop content from being cached? > No. By using
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by gergles 10y ago
> Netflix was a big pusher for EME, as far as I know not because they wanted it, but because the studios they license from demand DRM. This is what they would like for you to think, but as you said yourself, their own content also has DR
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by gergles 10y ago
But they still did. The "Verizon" Galaxy Nexus was basically a completely different phone from the other Galaxy Nexus versions and didn't get the same support or updates.
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by gergles 10y ago
I have yet to find a restaurant where the ticket would be over ¥1500 per person that does not take cards. Acceptance signs are not everywhere, but nearly everywhere takes cards. Yes, tourist attractions do not, but in many cases you can u
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by gergles 10y ago
Copytrans now costs $20. There is no good tool for "just put some fucking music on my iPhone" that doesn't cost money that I've ever been able to find.
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by gergles 10y ago
Here are the full technical details: https://info.lookout.com/rs/051-ESQ-475/images/lookout-pegas...
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by gergles 10y ago
> https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/general/26000016 That "Option 1" optout is the darkest dark pattern I've ever seen. A secret hidden checkbox that only shows up if you tap "yes, I'd like
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by gergles 10y ago
Caller ID being played in-band for some reason? That's about the right amount of time and what it sounds like.
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by gergles 10y ago
Don't forget the 25% (!!) extra fee tacked on to the final price. Definitely not for the bargain hunter.
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by gergles 10y ago
> but hedge funds are measured absolutely (profit is good, loss is bad) and get paid peanuts if they don't make a profit. I wouldn't call a guaranteed 2% shave every year 'peanuts'. That's more than any index fun
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by gergles 10y ago
Kyle, you may want to edit the standalone license answer, because to me it currently implies that "automatic syncing" is being arbitrarily restricted/removed from the standalone version which already supports automatic syncin
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by gergles 10y ago
You may want to edit that to not link to jwz, since he referer detects and redirects HN to an NSFW image.
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by gergles 10y ago
Where the letters ARE in the word does have meaning and makes them a better guide to the pronunciation of English than you're letting on, in my opinion. The wikipedia article agrees: > However, linguists have pointed out that the lo
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by gergles 10y ago
I also very very very strongly do not want any hosted service requirement for using 1password. I am very proud user of 1P but a hosted requirement would kill it for me. No matter how much you (the generic 'you') tell me you'r
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by gergles 10y ago
On OS X, it is set in the system network preference pane. Click a connection, then Advanced..., then Proxies, and there's a service listed called "Automatic Proxy Discovery" that you can enable if you want it (it is disabled
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by gergles 10y ago
Only if you pay.
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by gergles 10y ago
You need to enable JavaScript.
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by gergles 10y ago
The content decryption modules (CDMs) do have limited access to the browser (basically: here is a stream of data, render into this viewport), but there is nothing in the spec that limits what the EME modules can do to the OS (and the Wi
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by gergles 10y ago
Apple has global proxy support but only over Wi-Fi. Cellular requires a VPN.
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by gergles 10y ago
Right, but you are warned forever* if you have a user-installed CA on your phone and you go to a site or use an app that uses that cert. At some point, it should recognize that you've continued using the cert XX times or for XX days or
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by gergles 10y ago
> At least now there is a clean interface to just the video decryption without requiring a whole bloated proprietary plugin. Um, you're aware that the video decryption modules EME downloads are bloated proprietary plugins, right? T
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by gergles 10y ago
That is already the requirement if you have a lock set up for your device, except for the last part about changing the lock code removing all the user-added certs.

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