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by hcurtiss 3y ago
Honestly, I just want the ability to add and remove Android users from group chats without having to start an entirely new thread. If RCS fixes this, then I'll be thrilled.
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
Base load is decidedly not an obsolete concept. Renewables go to zero, and building sufficient peaking capacity to overcome a total loss of grid power would be preposterously expensive. Renewables spread over a large enough geography coul
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
Total aside, but I recently purchased a .us domain name for the first time. I was on my phone and signing up with the Namecheap app. I thought it odd that it didn't ask for privacy protection, but I figured I'd quickly turn it o
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
I get that everybody wants to ride this particular hobby horse, but in the wake of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, and the behavior of these platforms during the pandemic, I'm not sure I wouldn't rather live with lies I have to f
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
Suffering consequences for crime is, to most people, an element of justice. That form of justice also has the benefit of deterring other would-be criminals. There are those who believe there is no deterrent effect. They're idiots.
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
Zune too, it seems. These prices are hilarious: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p4432023.m...
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
Yes, we were a little apprehensive about putting them in our three bathrooms. You pay more for better moisture resistance. Eight years later and ours still look like new, notwithstanding our kids getting out of showers multiple times a da
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
Living with the laminates, I wouldn't say they look overtly plastic. Hardwoods are definitely shiny too. You can see a very similar grain in the second photo with the oak. You're right that some wear might change the finish, bu
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
I think you're right laminates probably cannot be refinished. But they are definitely much more expensive/premium than vinyl. I think we paid ~$3.50/square foot just in material cost. I think it's a kind of pressed fi
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
LOL - it did for me. It's also here, though it looks like it's 14mm now. https://www.floorcity.com/collections/calypso-laminate-floor...
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
We may be an anomaly, but we have 13.5mm laminates[1] which I'd say were relatively high grade when we put them in. The product we used didn't come with stair kits so we had to do the staircase with oak stained to match. We have
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
Fascinating. That is not a well-known fact as my neighbors were just complaining about this a couple weeks ago. I wonder whether our local pharmacy is setup to handle those requests.
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Oregon requires a prescription.
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
Yeah, Oregon still requires a prescription for pseudoephedrine. And it's infuriating.
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
I think you compare it to the average as that's who you are encountering when on the road. You have no way of selecting the other drivers to bias toward the doctor.
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
Yes, they have said explicitly they are working to improve the user experience. Likewise, they are working to assure their advertisers that the numbers they are showing them are real users. This has been a known issue since well before Mu
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
Elon is solving a revenue problem with $1/user/year? That will assuredly cost some real users too? Please. You have this exactly backwards.
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
Somebody with some actual experience/authority on the subject: https://x.com/troyhunt/status/1714529503823953990?s=46
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
You think they’re making money on $1 per account? Processing fees will eat most of that. It seems likely to me they’re doing it to improve the user experience, which if that recruits more users will be worth much more to them than the 10,00
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
It seems like they could also limit the number of accounts per credit card. 10,000 credit card numbers are not easy to come by. And all of this is creating a pathway for law enforcement. I’m skeptical it’s as easy as you say.
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
I'd way rather pay a dollar.
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
I'm not a programmer, but it seems like they could make it non-trivial to automate the payment process. If I have to click 30 times per account, with a captcha, and wait a minute for the payment to clear, 10,000 accounts suddenly star
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
Agreed. It might also increase confidence that the information you're seeing isn't just a product of a giant bot farm trying to shape public opinion. I, for one, would be willing to pay a little extra if the only "likes&quo
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
You could not be more misinformed about the space constraints.
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To the degree that’s true, there is no need for the regulatory intervention you desire.
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
I suspect you're right about the advantages of Iridium. All I can say is that we live in Oregon and I've been able to get out of canyons pretty well. I've used it on the John Day, Deschutes and Grande Ronde, mostly to coord
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
No, it's Inmarsat (IsatPhone 2).
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To the degree this magical technology is available today (or soon) because of the profit motive, I sincerely hope you’re wrong. I want the promise of fabulous reward to drive what was science fiction only a couple decades ago.
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
My wife and I and our two kids do a fair amount of back-country white water rafting. After arriving at a very remote take-out with no car and no cell service after a five day float (and running low on food and water), we went ahead and bou
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
I think the point is that we are not that civilized. If the stakes are as high as many claim, we would be waging war to stop climate emissions. Of course, we won't do that. And if we did, many more would wage war to continue emittin

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