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by jboles 8y ago
Everything’s way more expensive in Aus, and not always with a good explanation why. It’s gotten better the past few years but Aus as always gotten reamed with a surcharge on anything tech related. Adobe was most famous, charging about 2x fo
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“Killing it” all the while !
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by jboles 8y ago
I think where the connection to gambling falls down is the “pay to play” aspect. That you are never forced to pay is a defining aspect of “freemium”. You are always given the choice to wait out the timer/watch an ad for your next upgra
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by jboles 8y ago
Riding Giants
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by jboles 8y ago
The issue is not the app getting the fingerprint data, but rather literally baiting your finger onto the reader and then switching to a Touch ID subscription prompt under your finger?
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by jboles 8y ago
No; you are never forced to visit foreign countries. It's more along the lines of: you want to visit, you play by our rules .
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by jboles 8y ago
The loss may be unrealized, but it would still be reflected in the market value of the company's assets, just not in the book value. The book value will still reflect the purchase price, but a massive deviation between book and market
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by jboles 8y ago
Exactly, the structure and subdivision of local government is quite different. The ‘City of Sydney’ has only about 200,000 people in it [1] despite the population in the entire metropolitan areas being similar to that of Seattle’s. [1] htt
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by jboles 8y ago
In many cases I think it goes beyond a lack of ability, to wilful obtuseness.
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by jboles 8y ago
If they are going to replace words that some people consider loaded, they could simply replace “slave” with “servant”. Then the previous technical meaning of “master”/“slave” (e.g. Parrallel ATA interface) is preserved, but the meaning
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by jboles 8y ago
Dollar cost averaging!
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by jboles 8y ago
Can't anymore. Blue TravelTens are gone, it's now all about Opal running. https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/opal-runners-keep-swipin...
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by jboles 8y ago
Site is broken. Shows a cookie warning, then when dismissing it, the page refreshes and images will no longer load.
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by jboles 8y ago
Not at all. Someone has to write all the software, and they're not going to be writing it on an iPad. Even with an external mouse and keyboard.
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by jboles 8y ago
Yes. The chiller unit consumes 1kW to move 1.7kW of heat off the CPU. It then has to dissipate 2.7kW.
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by jboles 8y ago
Citation. People throw around fantastical, ever-increasing numbers (250k, 400k, 500k, now a million) in these threads, but never any hard data. How many is “plenty”? I argue that it would be exceptionally few, if any.
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by jboles 8y ago
Not exactly just a phone call away though
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by jboles 8y ago
> What could the US learn from Canada on asset forfeiture? Canada does it too! How to do it better? So does the UK, Australia, NZ, and many other countries. But somehow only the US has wannabe-military police rambo types doing it, to sto
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by jboles 8y ago
I'll gladly take that, and a government that generally tries to look after its citizens, over one that is downright hostile to and steals from citizens.
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by jboles 8y ago
Killing it would be short-sighted. If it gets killed, there would probably never be the opportunity to build it ever again. California is flush with tech money, put some of it to good use.
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That’s a fair point, I had not considered the micro transaction aspect.
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From my interactions with them in some traffic stops, it does seem like there's a bit of power-tripping going on sometimes.
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by jboles 8y ago
> Credit cards are our primary form of digital money and their fees are excessive. The basic design was ACH money into the wallet, transfer money between balances for ultra low cost (1%), ACH money out of the wallet. 2% (credit card fee)
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by jboles 8y ago
This article positively correlates with a phenomenon I’ve observed that use of the word “guru” negatively correlates with useful information.
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by jboles 8y ago
Here’s the best explanation I’ve found: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?s=0a4ad0b9...
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by jboles 8y ago
This is the case in Australia too, cheques come with “|Not Negotiable|” pre-printed on them, meaning they cannot be cashed, only deposited to the recipient’s account. The words mean something completely different in the US, and writing them
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by jboles 8y ago
CNG buses don’t seem to do as well as diesel with hot weather and lots of hills, two things Sydney has an abundance of. A few have also caught fire. That said, Sydney’s CNG buses are pretty old now so maybe the tech is updated.
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by jboles 8y ago
ICOs in a nutshell: http://southpark.cc.com/clips/410872/erics-jewelry-calvacade
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by jboles 8y ago
This is pretty much what my room looked like, except the speaker boxes and hi-fi equipment were instead stacks of Pentium 2/3 mini towers, monitors, motherboards, hard disks, etc. I used to go around the loca streets on council hard ju
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by jboles 8y ago
Could this be related to the recent rise in tribalism and identity politics in American culture? In the sense that, without genuine connections to other people, some people focus on superficial characteristics as a way of belonging?

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