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by jeffchien 6y ago
The Silk Road also had Romans and other Mediterranean cultures exporting "sea silk" generated by Mediterranean mussels eastward, even to China [1]. The Greeks, Romans, and Arabs called it "sea wool", which may have cause
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by jeffchien 6y ago
>Why is it unethical to charge a fee to developers who want to distribute their software through an app store that Apple owns? This is only part of the complaint, right? The other parts is that: * Apple has the only keys to the hardware
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by jeffchien 6y ago
> They enforce that there shouldn't be tracking. Doesn't the 2009 ePrivacy directive exclude "strictly necessary" cookies [1], not "non-tracking" cookies? Like GDPR, I think no website wants to be the first
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by jeffchien 6y ago
You mean CA99, not I5 (unless you're thinking about the segment inside LA county).
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by jeffchien 7y ago
It's not simple as that, and that's a problem that people have been working on for a long time. Some crops need to be reengineered to be friendly to mechanical pickers: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/h
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by jeffchien 7y ago
Could be that some organizations disable browsers addons/extensions on their workers' browsers. Still, the option would be nice.
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by jeffchien 7y ago
> The crossover/SUV/Truck sales is the most interesting to me. I wonder if that will self-perpetuate, since the presence of larger vehicles seem to make other drivers feel less safe, which make them want larger vehicles, which
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by jeffchien 7y ago
I think some of the shortcomings you point out, such as listening history sync and export to other apps, are caused by lack of financial incentives. Sync is a feature a lot of users would pay for (see Pocket Casts and PlayerFM). Export list
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by jeffchien 7y ago
Isn't this thread talking about sideloading APKs, not installing custom ROMs? https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/knowledge-base-22218...
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by jeffchien 7y ago
Interesting. Not to entirely doubt what you're saying, but the source for that statement on Wikipedia doesn't have a primary source. Do you happen to have more reading? I would love to have the complete story between them. (Aside:
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by jeffchien 7y ago
I must admit I didn't know who Mr. Bushnell was, so I looked him up. Finding out about his dismissal from GNU Hurd back in 2003 was quite ironic to me: > RMS has now "dismissed" me as Hurd maintainer because I have publicl
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by jeffchien 7y ago
I found it a little unfortunate that one of the threads was so dismissive of NYT [1] due to a SCMP article [2]. I checked archive.org's original snapshot of NYT article [3] and Newsdiff [4] to try to make sure that NYT didn't edit
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by jeffchien 7y ago
I think you are currently right, but that's probably ending soon as Apple looks to fund their own exclusive podcasts too [1]. I hope podcasters and their cooperatives/companies can resist the siren call. [1] https://ven
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by jeffchien 7y ago
One part of the puzzle: anti-camping laws have been found unconstitutional when the homeless cannot find shelter [1]. Therefore, police are sometimes powerless against tent cities. [1] https://www.curbed.com/2019/4&#x2F
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by jeffchien 7y ago
I guess what I'm getting at is that it seems difficult to draw the line about what kind of business model you're trying to ban. How would you legislate the difference between water filters and inkjet printers? Even though yes, mos
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by jeffchien 7y ago
By extension, are you proposing a ban on water filters and filter cartridges? Keurigs and their cartridges? Or are you just concerned with printers, or base things that you consider fragile and wasteful? Where would you draw the line? I don
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by jeffchien 7y ago
I like some of the concepts, but in general this just seems to take more paper (and the side-by-side photo is mildly deceptive by not showing that).
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by jeffchien 7y ago
I would've liked to see some reflection or even just acknowledgment about the fact that they intentionally disabled the "xpinstall.signatures.required" setting on Windows and OSX. I hope it's at least in the formal postm
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by jeffchien 7y ago
Agreed. I can't help but think that some calls for more data is just intentionally delaying doing the right thing. Will any amount of data ever satisfy diehard fans and those who financially benefit from college football? Great talk ab
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by jeffchien 8y ago
I think this analysis is missing the main point of this kind of agreement, and that is that in the worst case scenario -- the graduate can't find employment, or income can't support the student loan payments -- this agreement shou
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by jeffchien 8y ago
Isn't that changing the goalpost a little bit? I don't think anyone ever called Safari the new IE because of market dominance. Personally, I compare it to IE because of how weird it can be. Does anyone else remember the time they
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by jeffchien 8y ago
Interesting. I've heard the argument that yoga is part of India's soft power [1], though it's a little hard to believe that's why Facebook classified it as political or important. [1] https://www.foreignaffair
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by jeffchien 8y ago
That's what a previous article from Bloomberg [1] claimed: "The company would collect these monthly fees, then divide up the revenue between developers based on how much time users spend playing their games, one of the people said
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by jeffchien 8y ago
I think you're both correct. I've seen a spectrum of "whales" that include: (1) very "casual" players who don't spend that much time, and just want to roll, or to use money as a substitute for game time; (
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by jeffchien 8y ago
2ch = 2channel (text board) 2chan = Futaba Channel (image board) 2ch != 2chan
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by jeffchien 8y ago
Sorry, how is this relevant to this article? Banning pure cashless stores for the benefit of low-income or young customers seems reasonable to me. I think my takeaway is, what can the cashless movement do for low-income or young populations
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by jeffchien 8y ago
Interesting that the written article didn't go into it, but the podcast episode definitely did talk about the corporations' role in this. Very good episode, highly encourage everyone to listen to it.
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by jeffchien 8y ago
What? I'm not sure how that connects to my comment. I'm saying that some games install to "My Documents" to avoid requiring administrator privilege for users who might not have that privilege.
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by jeffchien 8y ago
If it's the entire game, it might be to allow kids to install the game without administrator privilege (read: parental knowledge/consent), though I agree that letting people choose would be best.
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by jeffchien 8y ago
For my own edification, can you point me to where it exempts headlines?

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