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by illvm 8y ago
It doesn't. It's also been applied to media players, for example.
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by illvm 8y ago
There is also the environmental impact to consider. Air travel has a much larger emission profile compared to train travel, and train travel has a much larger capacity. Plus, rail station are often in the center of the city rather than on t
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by illvm 8y ago
> You legally cannot not have insurance, if you make over a threshold (in part due to Obamacare), which has made the issue worse. Huh?
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by illvm 8y ago
I'm also not so sure that it will go far in terms of easing housing costs. I just moved to the SF bay area from Boston and live outside of SF, but close to a CalTrain stop. Everything is walkable for me, but the cost of living is compa
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by illvm 8y ago
It could be done in a such a way that no device identifier or any other identifier is ever sent. Just (time, current lat/lng, previous lat/lng)
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by illvm 8y ago
I'm fairly certain it's baked into the chip or part of the firmware which is not easily writeable, which is why the wake words are static. One can check if a device is compromised or not behaving as expected fairly easily by monit
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by illvm 8y ago
That's not strictly necessary, is it? All matter should be able to effect gravity. It's a matter of having sensitive enough detectors for whatever is causing the disturbance, not necessarily having something which can produce enou
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by illvm 8y ago
There were other rails which ran between NYC and Boston which have since been shuttered, but were far more efficient. Problem is that there isn't a populated, straight line between NYC and Boston. So the curved rail road won out due to
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by illvm 8y ago
XBox Dashboard designers moved to Azure :)
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by illvm 8y ago
idk, the past few times I was in Russia I saw a plethora of adverts on TV for drugs.
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by illvm 8y ago
If you don't have multiple zones you can still effectively have zones by opening/close the registers/vents. This will prevent hot or cold air from entering the room. However, it will also increase duct pressure and that could
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by illvm 9y ago
Battle.net passwords are also not case sensitive and have a strange complexity requirement for similar reasons. Too many code bases implemented it this way and it's hard to fix it without breaking compatibility with older software.
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by illvm 9y ago
The only reason those people are able to contemplate such decisions is because of the thousands of workers supporting the enterprise.
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by illvm 9y ago
I've lost my dongle twice now, but only because of being in a hurry during travel or packing. Otherwise it's always attached to my headphones and I don't really have that problem. Although I've considered getting BT head
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by illvm 10y ago
Look, if the box office said "we're auctioning off all the tickets, there is no set price" then I would be inclined to agree with you. But that's not what happens here. Scalping with bots is someone profiting off of the
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by illvm 10y ago
What about the idea often proposed by Graham Hancock where consciousness is not generated in the brain but rather the brain is a sort receiver for it?
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by illvm 11y ago
No, but the bank notes can lose value and become worthless.
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by illvm 12y ago
Anyone on a W-2 does have their taxes taken out automatically. That's what the whole purpose of filling out a W-4 prior to starting employment. Many people overpay in taxes and end up getting a substantial refund at the beginning of ea
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by illvm 12y ago
I believe LevelUp does this. They don't allow retailers to use any credit card as things still need to go through the LevelUp system via QR code, but as far as I know they don't charge for processing.