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by gst 8y ago
Those proprietary cards in most of the European countries have definitely advantages, but are also a big problem: In lots of European countries merchants often only accept the country's own proprietary debit card, but no debit/cre
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by gst 8y ago
Turns out that lots of dishwasher manufacturers provide a free warranty with the purchase of a dishwasher. And as a customer I have the choice to decide if I get a cheap dishwasher (from a cheap manufacturer) without warranty or a more expe
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by gst 8y ago
> True, but the problem is the final price doesn't include the cost of recycling and environmental impact (extremely hard to price it correctly). At least for recycling Apple charges a $5 (for 13") or $6 (for 15") recyclin
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by gst 8y ago
That's probably one of the reasons why the top spec 13" model (Touch Bar and Touch ID 2.3GHz Quad-Core Processor 512GB Storage) costs kr 22 190,00 = $2581 in Norway, while I get the same model for $1999 in the United States. I&#x2
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by gst 8y ago
They fixed the import in March or April. I tried importing earlier and just got the error message that the import functionality is not available yet. Here's a thread about that issue: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum&#x
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by gst 8y ago
That's a good point! Most of the data already known to the IRS is available in an electronic format anyway. I fire up TurboTax, electronically import my W-2, the tax statements from my bank, etc. and I'm 90% done. And the remainin
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by gst 8y ago
What are the better alternatives? Last year I tried out all the major offerings, and TurboTax was the only one that worked without any issues. TaxAct didn't even manage to fix their broken electronic import of broker data until some po
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by gst 8y ago
More personalized ads seem to be a win-win situation. If I'm already seeing credit card ads I'd like to at least see ones that are relevant for me.
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by gst 8y ago
After logging in to TurboTax (for the first time in a tax year) it asks you if it can share your data with its parent company (Intuit). Declining works and doesn't have any impact on TurboTax. However, based on how the UI for that look
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by gst 8y ago
Regular thermal throttling is fine. The Thinkpad issue that I mentioned is a software bug in the firmware that throttles the CPU way too early/often.
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by gst 8y ago
I've used Linux since the early 1.x kernel versions, but for my next laptop I'm thinking about switching to a MacBook. Not because of the software (I prefer Linux to macOS), but because of the hardware. Apple seems to be the only
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by gst 8y ago
That's one of the reasons why the makers of the Librem 5 phone decided to use an internal USB bus which isolates the baseband from the SoC: > To isolate the cellular modem from the SoC, we will be placing the modem on the (remarkabl
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by gst 8y ago
The operator knows your phone's IMEI which allows to determine the brand/model.
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by gst 8y ago
Kademlia is still in widespread use today. For example Bittorrent uses it to resolve magnet links.
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by gst 8y ago
Is hashcash still feasible today? With botnets it shouldn't be a major problem to generate a large number of hashcash stamps. In addition, the current hashcash approach uses SHA-1 which would be trivial to speed up with GPUs or FPGAs (
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by gst 8y ago
Last time I checked (more than a year ago) most of the websites didn't care about the counter value. (If you use a Ledger device for U2F and subsequently restore a new (or a reset) device from your private seed the counter will be rese
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by gst 8y ago
Most phones nowadays support NFC so this shouldn't be an issue. Just use your NFC key to log into the phone. Alternatively you can also use a Bluetooth U2F key instead of a NFC key. Both of those keys have a regular USB port in additio
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by gst 8y ago
10-15% sounds reasonable. For example currently Bitcoin trades at $6325 on Coinbase, while cash offers on LocalBitcoins are at around $7000 per BTC.
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by gst 8y ago
Given that most newer laptops (and phones) support charging via the same USB-PD standard (via USB-C) I don't see the reason for including yet another power adapter in the box when the average user probably already has enough of them at
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by gst 8y ago
The offer isn't available anymore (last day was Nov 1st IIRC).
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by gst 8y ago
> Lots of other phones do let you do it, usually in pro or manual setting. It requires a pre-requisite of good OIS (which paradoxically the Pixel 1 didn't have, claiming that it wasn't necessary -- because of some magic AI sauc
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by gst 8y ago
The Android One phones ( https://www.android.com/one/ ) are running stock Android and provide 2 years of Android OS updates and 3 year of security updates.
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by gst 8y ago
> All this action does is remove options for those of us who do wanna fix their own machines. I don't see how this removes any choices. It's still possible to buy other non-Apple hardware that doesn't have those restrictio
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by gst 8y ago
> Throttling video speeds may very well be a good thing for many (most?) users who have a fixed data cap. I would assume that most users with recent contracts are going to have an "unlimited" amount of included data, given that
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by gst 8y ago
I've used _lots_ of different Android devices since I purchased the original Android G1 device in 2009 and I never had a problem with chargers (although I don't use the original chargers most of the time).
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by gst 8y ago
How do consumer-level hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles solve this issue? Does this mean you can't store them in a garage, because the leaking hydrogen could cause an explosion?
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by gst 8y ago
> However, an iOS device is also the property of its owner and the owner should be allowed (morally) to install software outside the app store. Even if that comes with potential security problems. Android already permits this. The owner
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by gst 8y ago
For their N97 promo video Nokia faked the whole UI of the phone: https://youtu.be/vJpEuMidcSU
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by gst 8y ago
I'm citizen of Austria and resident of the United States. Austrian tax returns are much simpler because in the majority of cases they don't exist: Your employer and your banks automatically withhold the correct amount of taxes (ca
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by gst 8y ago
Several years ago someone tried to climb into our apartment window in Amsterdam (with another guy waiting with a motorbike as getaway vehicle on the street). He was standing on the windowsill and tried to break open the window (it was open

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