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>, just add the cable company to your contacts No, people don't want to pollute their contacts listing by adding every company they have a billing relationship as a new entry to "manage spam". It's visual pollutio
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>I want emails, phone calls, and texts sent to me to cost the sender some fixed amount of money… which is refunded only if I send a return token confirming it was not spam. I've thought about that type of spam refund scheme many t
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>Not sure what the bank wasting its efforts trying to combat this would accomplish. It would prevent me from losing my money! I filed a fraud claim form that also required an affidavit with notarized signature and Bank of America st
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>Not sure what good that would do. I keep a few checks in a travel folder and have a couple pads of checks in different places around my house. I don't necessarily write checks in sequential order. Yes, I understand that scenario
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>[...] and security. Disagree about the security. I just found out last month how unsecure the use of paper checks actually are because they expose your bank account & routing number. I had an old checking account that was dorma
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>some python and tad bit of SQL [...] so I’m entering unemployed with about 6-12 months of living expenses in the bank [...] enroll in a coding bootcamp? [...] despite costing $10k+ With limited funds as a constraint, it isn't a g
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>It would be logical step for Apple to set up its own Financial Services company that would issue CCs itself Why would that be a "logical" step? Goldman Sachs has already lost billions partially because Apple insisted on
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>I think this is wrong as well. The gp's wording is a little confusing but he's just trying to explain the transitive logic of non-public information transferring from a "true insider" to an outsider is also &quo
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>Is it actually a key difference? Because another commenter[0] also wondered the same thing, I will answer "Yes" and "No" because it depends on what type of discussion is happening. - If it's a "big pictur
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A key difference is that Apple is making the new install fee "optional" in the sense that you can stay with existing Developer TOS (no install fee) -- or -- switch to the newer EU TOS (with install fees)[0]. Unity didn't ha
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>I don’t see why smartphones inherently have to be a special case of computer where the manufacturer or OS developer gets to keep their finger in the pie after the sale. In a pure technical sense, you're right, a mobile phone&#x27
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>I can think of one: https://www.hdtracks.com/ Platforms like HDtracks and Qobuz are not a "Bandcamp alternative" when considering the business reasons that artists use Bandcamp. Bandcamp lets small indepen
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>1x1.gif let you push elements all around the page effortlessly. To this day it is the only way to vertically center elements. HN was launched February 2007 and uses <TABLE> and 1x1 gif to set the indentation level of comments.
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>ARIN recently handed out a /16 allocation to Capital One. That is one 65,025th of all of IPv6. A reasonable sized /32 allocation [...] The more one digs, the more egregious it seems. If the NETIFY webpage is accurate, it s
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>My guess would be this is an overzealous AI-generated content detector. Maybe not. If you go by the screenshot of the email from Amazon in the Mastodon link, the book was removed for violating "Community Guidelines" inst
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>You're better off listening to music however you please and buying albums on Bandcamp to support the artists; Often, the "listening to music however you please" will contradict "buying albums on Bandcamp to sup
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>What I would give for a preemptive green-thread scheduler in Rust. They tried this in early versions of Rust and ended up removing it. Rust has lower-level constraints than Go that they didn't want to compromise on. E.g. perfor
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>Gmail wasn't a 20%, I don't know why anyone thinks it is. It's because some media stories used GMail as an example of a 20% project -- and -- those stories also end up being cited in places like Wikipedia: - >Googl
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>I wonder if there's a way to prevent the growth at all costs that is demanded by the financial markets. >>SAS Institute (well-known maker of statistical and other software) did, for many years, last I checked. Don't k
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> I'm not sure why they feel so emboldened to add a 27% tax on web purchases as well. Because the judge's ruling still left the option open for Apple to continue to charge a commission fee for external payment processors . O
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>Epstein's book is called "Range: _Why_ Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World", not "Range: How It looks like the blog author remembered the older title that had the word "How" but linked the url
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>, there is nothing that stops Apple from throwing up a ton of warnings for apps that didn't come from their App Store. [...] Pop a warning every single time it accesses contacts or location, don't allow third party apps outsi
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>Well that’s a completely false statement. C++ is a first class language, I understand your clarification but gp (jb1991) is just using a different meaning of "first class" than you and gp (bluetomcat). For some people , a
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>The rules are different for official product names though. Your argument about "official product names" seems inconsistently applied. In your first paragraph, Nintendo® and Lego® are registered trademarks with the governme
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>Discoverability: Reminding ourselves how to perform what we know (or assume) can be done isn’t the same as guiding us towards the full gamut of what’s possible. I started with text mode CLIs on old 40-column computers like IBM PC DOS
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>It's the heading of the article on that page, but the actual title, Yes, I understand that but 99% in this thread talking about "title" is the article's headline(title) that has the word "for" in it
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>The title on the submitted webpage is "ChatGPT Team", singular. Your reply is adding more confusion. The "ChatGPT Team" is the title of the webpage from a user comment: https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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>We shouldn't assume a basic sentence capitalised word refers to a product. What's happening is that lowercase "sentence case" titles have become more popular and normalized so repeated exposure to that style can
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>Why people think it can be related to Rails Probably because there have been more high-profile stories of companies migrating off of Ruby on Rails to something else (e.g. Java, Go, etc) rather than vice-versa of migrating into it. E
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> People at large simply cannot be bothered to care about anything, including torque specs for freakin' AIRLINERS It may have not been operator error with the torque wrench. Maybe the torque wrench itself was miscalibrated. Mayb

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