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by james_pm 10y ago
It's not really a secret that some AirBnB hosts discriminate on the basis of race, sexual orientation and other factors when deciding on which guests they allow to live in their homes. It's also no surprise that neighbours of thos
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by james_pm 10y ago
CIRA, who run the .ca (Canada) registry operates as a non-profit, with open books. You can read their annual report to see what they spend to run the .ca registry. Their registration fees are roughly comparable to what Verisign charges regi
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by james_pm 10y ago
There are a few different places where the money goes in a domain registration transaction. ICANN gets $0.18 per gTLD registration. The registry (Verisign, Neustar, Donuts, Radix, etc.) sets a wholesale price that the registrar pays the reg
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by james_pm 10y ago
Pretty much the equivalent of being cc'ed whenever someone emails a email address. There's a reason I filter out .@ in Tweetbot. I don't want to see all the "open complaining" like people looking to shame company X
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by james_pm 10y ago
This is already happening at McDonald's in Canada. It's a far superior system with larger touchscreens allowing for multiple ordering stations. Staff concentrates on filling orders instead of struggling to take orders where langua
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by james_pm 10y ago
Crumple zones are all good, but why would you put that kind of power in the hands of an inexperienced and risk-happy 18-year-old driver? Looks like this was a P model (red calipers) which also means it has Ludicrous mode. Perhaps Tesla coul
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by james_pm 10y ago
There's a Toronto version as well on May 28: http://stupidhacktoronto.com
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by james_pm 11y ago
Agreed on the title being bad. "The Advanced Guide to Online Publicity Campaigns" is far better. Maybe it's an unintentional lesson in click-bait headline writing...
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by james_pm 11y ago
To give some sense of the scale of the disaster that would follow a failure, the US considered bombing that dam and releasing all that water in response to a potential chemical attack on US troops during Gulf War I, according to Colin Powel
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by james_pm 11y ago
I can't stress how important this is for people like my daughter who at age 13 reads at a Grade 3 level thanks to a genetic disorder that affects her learning. She's a great verbal communicator, but the reading/writing is an
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by james_pm 11y ago
Those statuses (what Cloudflare calls registrar locks) are more aimed at giving registrars a way to prevent the registrant (or anyone else) from making changes to a domain. It's commonly used during disputes over domain ownership, for
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by james_pm 11y ago
And Toronto's bus and streetcar network...not quite as fancy, but Toronto's Open Data system makes this possible. Live tracking: http://totransit.ca Open Data: http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal&#x2
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by james_pm 11y ago
So did record stores. They had rent, signage, advertising, staff salaries and electricity bills to pay. You can't say because we have costs to sell your music, that we should be able to take those costs and pass them to the music artis
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by james_pm 11y ago
Another, similar petition: http://www.savedomainprivacy.org A very long list of domain registrars have come together on this one: 1 & 1 Internet Blacknight Domain.com DomainIt Domains By Proxy DomainCocoon Inc. Endurance Int
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by james_pm 12y ago
It's your Starbucks Card balance, not a credit card. Still, not great, but not as bad as it seems.
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by james_pm 12y ago
Really nice and thanks for including Hover in the results. Since you know the domain is available, you can skip the search on our site and take the user right to the cart if you want. https://www.hover.com/shop/domain.c
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by james_pm 12y ago
Couple of tips for domain owners: 1. Don't turn off the reminder emails from your registrar. I know they can be annoying and you probably get too many of them, but turning them off means that you won't know when your credit card e