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by ginko 3y ago
Coupon programs are arguably a form of price discrimination[1]. It allows you to sell at a lower price to people who a willing to put in the effort while still being able to sell for more to people who are fine with sticker price. [1] http
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by ginko 3y ago
>I am not sure why extensions are needed in desktop. They aren't. Why do you claim things that aren't true?
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by ginko 3y ago
This take is unnecessarily negative. OP could be very aware of the limitations of their chosen approach and use the feeder accordingly.
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by ginko 3y ago
You could disable the Fischer Price skin in XP. Many people did.
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by ginko 3y ago
No it's not understandable. The iphone is a Turing complete computer. I should be allowed to install whatever I want on it. If I want to install a reskin of firefox then I should be able to do that. It's certainly not up to Apple
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by ginko 3y ago
There was a pretty good CCC talk on this a couple years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFWV6XAXyx0
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by ginko 3y ago
Yes, definitely
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by ginko 3y ago
My mail provider locked my account after I used the satellite internet on an intercontinental flight (my IP location must have bounced all over). Got a serious scare later at my hotel since pretty much all of my itinerary plans and details
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by ginko 3y ago
It's more work for me. With NFC card payment I just hold my card to the terminal and that's it.
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by ginko 3y ago
Why not have the waiter come over with the card reader? That's usually how it's done here.
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by ginko 3y ago
Yeah, can't have people have access to stuff like this. Governments and corpos only.
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by ginko 3y ago
It is. They mentioned in the live stream.
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by ginko 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(fallacy)
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by ginko 3y ago
Sütterlin was introduced in schools at the beginning of the 20th century. Kurrent was still widely used by adults well into the century.
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by ginko 3y ago
Does it look like Kurrentschrift? https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Kurrentschrift
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by ginko 3y ago
For 100 year old German handwriting the historian I'd consult would by my grandmother. :)
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by ginko 3y ago
>Such a nerd that I am, the week containing Wednesday 29 March 1995, which I remember because of which episode of TNG my dad recorded for me to watch later. But TNG ended in 1994..
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by ginko 3y ago
not a fan
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by ginko 3y ago
If Google gave a legally binding guarantee that they won't reintroduce advertising to paid tiers later-on.
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by ginko 3y ago
>Have you actually watched Jodorowskys movies? Because if you go and watch one, you know that his Dune would be have been an absolutely incomprehensible nightmare. Yeah, it would've been great. El Topo is awesome. Holy Mountain is p
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by ginko 3y ago
Reading the wikipedia page on that one is horrific.
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by ginko 3y ago
Much of the original planning and ideas of Jodorowsky's Dune was eventually used in Jodorowsky and Mœbius' "The Incal" series[1]. Two years or so ago Taika Waititi and Jodorowsky announced they're working on a movi
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by ginko 3y ago
> What does python offer you? The main offering of python is bindings and easy glue to pretty much any data source/sink imaginable.
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by ginko 3y ago
>Ever since around 2011, once or twice a year the insurance companies mail me postcards that I have to sign and return in order to prove that I am still alive so that I can keep receiving the payments. Isn't a signature just a stamp
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by ginko 3y ago
I have this in my .bashrc beep() { if [ $? -eq 0 ] then file=/usr/share/sounds/purple/receive.wav ret='true' else file=/usr/share/sounds/purple/al
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by ginko 3y ago
How much data can 25h of voice and instrument recordings be? Even with multiple channels and uncompressed it can barely be more than a couple gigabytes.
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by ginko 3y ago
There was a bit of a dark age but by now there's way better keyboards than the MS ergonomic. One discontinued MS peripheral that is still quite sought after but not in that list would be the Trackball Explorer[1]. There's sadly ve
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by ginko 3y ago
I hate how Microsoft thinks they have the authority to dictate keyboard layouts. They're a software company and should keep out of hardware. Bad enough that it's hard to find a keyboard without a windows key.
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by ginko 3y ago
Yeah, the whole presentation feels like an Adam Curtis documentary where random bits of information and imagery are thrown together to create the impression of a common thread.
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by ginko 3y ago
I was thinking of building a touch-operated clock for that. Some sort of dongle with a single button that would vibrate the hour and quarter-hours like a church bell. You could keep it under your blanket so you wouldn't need to move al

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