intellirogue

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by intellirogue 6y ago
Yeah. This doesn't seem like something that users would actually want, so there has to be a financial incentive for Google to do it. Perhaps they start off as "not ads" in order to minimise complaints about the feature, but i
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by intellirogue 6y ago
New Zealand doesn't.
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by intellirogue 6y ago
Yes, it will be turned off at the end of the year.
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by intellirogue 6y ago
You can create a throwaway Apple account that has no connection to the rest of your life. You can't do that with Facebook.
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by intellirogue 6y ago
Ellison is a large donor to the Trump campaign, so they're probably willing to move the goalposts for him.
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by intellirogue 6y ago
Uber operates in other countries which require them to use employees and not contractors (e.g. Germany), and it works fine. So it certainly isn't impossible.
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by intellirogue 6y ago
They tried pretty damn hard to prevent it, filing two injunctions and calling the police on the election meeting...
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by intellirogue 6y ago
As the physical buildings are closed for Covid-19, the US Consulates in Germany are renewing passports by mail, with cheque as the only accepted payment method. Germany doesn't have cheques.
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by intellirogue 6y ago
.de tends to be the "catch-all" Amazon for EU, and I suspect would be used for Ireland, as it is available in English (which .it, .fr etc aren't).
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by intellirogue 6y ago
One thing I've found fascinating since moving to Germany is that you'll be judged here if you say "I don't drink beer", but drinking non-alcoholic beer is perfectly acceptable. It's not the alcohol that people
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by intellirogue 6y ago
Yep, in NZ everyone would assume you were being sarcastic.
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by intellirogue 6y ago
It wasn't sold or shared, the emails came from them. But they were pure marketing, not transactional, and I certainly didn't agree to it or want it.
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by intellirogue 6y ago
Worth noting that AnyList automatically subscribed me to a marketing list without double opt-in or any kind of consent, which is exactly the kind of behaviour that makes me not want apps to have my real email address.
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by intellirogue 6y ago
There's also a big problem with accuracy in GMaps. From what I can tell they put some effort in within the US, but in the two countries I've lived in, GMaps is sufficiently inaccurate that I have to use other maps. For example: Ab
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by intellirogue 6y ago
In my NZ accent I definitely say "men-shin" not "men-chin", though those two sounds are very close.
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by intellirogue 6y ago
Genuinely surprised by this, because I have circles in WhatsApp, FB Messenger, Snapchat, Signal and iMessage, but I don't know a single person who uses Duo. Perhaps a geographical thing and it's only popular in a couple of countri