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by jdeibele 6y ago
Facebook would like to see money from WhatsApp but it was far more important to them to block off a potential competitor. WhatsApp could have provided services like Facebook or Instagram but cost a small amount of money each year. Maybe it
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I switched to DuckDuckGo and FireFox because I disapprove of Google's footprint and the way that they're trying to watch everything I do. When I switched, about 2 years ago, DuckDuckGo was clearly worse. Now I feel like DuckDuck
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by jdeibele 6y ago
The issue with this was using multiple Google identities. The Google Container Extension would want to open any other Google sites in the same container. I wanted to keep the soccer club administrator, school website, etc. Google identitie
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by jdeibele 6y ago
My aunt and my mom both died in the same year. When selling their houses for their estates the realtors both said "you can skip the disclosure part" because I didn't own the house myself. I did happen to know that my mom ha
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by jdeibele 6y ago
My dad left me his tools. One day the garage door was left open too long and somebody stole some drills. They only took the cordless ones, leaving the two with cords. It gave me some idea of what things were worth at the pawn shop.
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I had noticeable distortion on mine. Used chat to talk to Apple tech support and they had me reset them and that made the distortion go away. I do get a squeal when pushing them into my ear canals which is a known problem with having nois
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Not original poster but I recommend Adguard for your DNS: https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html I changed the router settings for the house six months ago and have had no complaints. We've got 3
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by jdeibele 6y ago
I maintain a Yahoo.com email account but I'm not sure why. I have Gmail pick up the mail using POP and that's where at least 90% of the emails in my spam folder come from. I guess I worry about there being something out there th
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by jdeibele 6y ago
You're probably looking into heat pumps. We added one when we moved in and we got another 10 years out of the furnace. What killed the furnace was 27 years of moving air. And parts were no longer available to replace the "squir
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by jdeibele 6y ago
You would (typically) have a dumb terminal experience. You'd use your computer and modem to log into a remote system. You would use a newsreader to browse newsgroups. If there was something that you wanted, like binaries, they woul
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No, but they keep trying to do things with accessibility on my Mac to give them access that Apple doesn't think they should have. Their price on 2TB for $9.99/month is competitive with Apple but we have 4 Macs, 5 iPads, and 5 iPho
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Not the parent but my daughters have refused to upgrade from their original iPhone SEs because all the newer phones are so much bigger and more slippery. Personally, I went from an 8+ to an 11 because the 11 fits better in my pants pocket.
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by jdeibele 6y ago
This is cool but doesn't use my most frequent use of Google Maps or Apple Maps: checking to see where traffic accidents are before leaving. Portland has freeways running north/south (more or less) on the West side (I5) and East si
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by jdeibele 6y ago
If India, France, Tunisia, Zimbabwe and many others all have their own home-grown version of Facebook, is that a bad thing? It would reflect the local culture and keep the advertising revenue in the same country. There have been few, if a
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by jdeibele 6y ago
It used to be that airlines (and hotels and rental car agencies) paid enough in commissions that travel agencies made good money booking flights. Southwest Airlines, for example, has never paid commissions. As sites like Expedia grew, many
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by jdeibele 6y ago
I used to rinse my nose with tap water. Then this story came to my attention abut 2 years ago and I've never done it since. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/rare-brain-...
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Back in the dark ages, there were hobbyists who would order alarm circuits ($6/month) and pay for the DSL equipment on each side. This let them connect to the internet back as it was in 1992 or so. The problem with this was that you h
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by jdeibele 6y ago
There's not an easy solution to this. Landlords are typically highly leveraged. If you buy a $4 million property with 5% down, you only had to put down $200,000. But you told the bank that you would get $x/square foot. If you
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by jdeibele 6y ago
We were about to leave for vacation in August. The night before we left, the power went off, then came back on. This happened 1, 2, 3, 20 times. I switched off the main breaker and then went outside to see if I could find out what was g
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by jdeibele 6y ago
As a family of two adults and 3 children we've very much appreciated being able to stay in places where we can cook for ourselves, be able to do laundry, and have space to spread out a bit. In the US, there are chains like Embassy Suit
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Why <is> Snowden in Russia? It seems clear that the release of the material was endorsed by Russia, whether they knew about it or not. Trump is not demanding his return. And Russia is not going to send him back because it would show
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Wow. They clearly stated why they were generally tracking the messages, so that they could show that somebody read the message about all your files being deleted. You could argue that they should go out-of-band (phone call, registered lette
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by jdeibele 6y ago
One aspect of the car industry that's regulated is headlights. https://www.carid.com/articles/brief-history-of-sealed-beam-... talks about the history of headlights allowed on autos in the US. There was a perio
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Never worked as a lifeguard but have 3 kids who like to swim and who have survived to be teenagers. The lifeguards at our local pools rotate about every 10 minutes. It seems like changing position and also that you have some interaction w
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by jdeibele 6y ago
I find it more convenient to use checks for some purchases but the thing that makes them bad for small businesses is banks charging insufficient fund fees to both the depositor and the person who wrote the check. We bought some salsa from a
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by jdeibele 6y ago
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/france/ shows about 8000 cases per day in France (pop: 65M) I can't find a breakdown by region but the news reports say that there's a lot of cases
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Portland Public Schools and Tri-Met (local authority that runs the buses) let high school students travel for free. That's because PPS doesn't provide yellow bus service for students in high school. One of my daughters did Tri-Me
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by jdeibele 6y ago
I had a phone number in an email that I wanted to cut-and-paste into the phone app. When I switched from the email app to the phone app I didn't find a way to paste - there's just the numeric keypad. No box or other indicator o
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How to Paste a Phone Number into the iPhone’s Phone App(howtogeek.com)
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One thing not addressed is physical security. As pointed out by @adrianmonk it would take many of these tiny reactors to generate the same amount as a typical older reactor. Older reactors are designed like fortresses, supposedly able to t

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