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by jrmg 3y ago
That’s not a claimed benefit. The article says it only tracks how many people you know are around you, not who they are. Apple’s usually pretty on top of this kind of thing. For example, there was the privacy-preserving Covid proximity thin
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by jrmg 3y ago
But a bunch of people I know had to leave the city because they literally couldn't afford to live here. Haven’t people always done that though? America’a history is one of constant migration. Searching for general stats on labor mobi
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by jrmg 3y ago
The article doesn’t actually explain why ‘You Might Want It Off’ beyond: If you don’t want your device to be included in that tally of nearby contacts for others, you can toggle it off. Just remember that leaving it on won’t tell your fr
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by jrmg 3y ago
Did it correctly answer all of these?
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by jrmg 3y ago
I balked at this too - more because the idea of returning something I bought that arrived in perfect condition, after I’ve given it a fair amount of use, just because I decide I don’t like it never occurs to me. It feels vaguely entitled an
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by jrmg 3y ago
I remember reading in The Signal and The Noise * that people _think_ that forecasts are bad if it rains, but the chance of rain was reported as below 50%. Getting rain when the forecast told you there would probably not be rain is annoying
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by jrmg 3y ago
It also sounds like they’re already removed though: "The FDA's announcement marks the completion of a voluntary phase-out of the materials by U.S. food packaging manufacturers."
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by jrmg 3y ago
There’s a ton of these still available - e.g. https://www.amazon.com/CAPUP-Ethernet-Splitter-Shielded-Inte... The reviews of them are full of negative comments from people who don’t understand what they are, and think they’
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by jrmg 3y ago
I love the grass backdrop, but that folded over tip near the center-top always jumps out at me.
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by jrmg 3y ago
The USA is a _big_ country. You’ll find both these style of shopping, each more common in some areas than others.
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by jrmg 3y ago
Yes, as a red/green color blind person this is mostly useless to me because the scale goes from red/green, through greenish yellow, back to red/green. Expensive and cheap look the same.
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by jrmg 3y ago
FWIW our car (2014 RAV4 EV) was totaled in California in 2018, and the insurance payout pretty much exactly covered replacing it with a near-identical new model (actually a bit lower mileage!) from a local used car dealer. I think we actual
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by jrmg 3y ago
The whole Ask HN post that’s in response to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39203916
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by jrmg 3y ago
So, I bought this and haven’t actually read it yet, so take my suggestion with a grain of salt, but I’ve _heard_ that this, from 2017, is good: https://www.amazon.com/Peopling-Silicon-Valley-1940-Present/... I read thi
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by jrmg 3y ago
Are you _in_ Silicon Valley? I ask because I remember that when I was in Bells Books on Emerson in Palo Alto a month or two ago they had a display of Silicon Valley themed books that I think had a few different coffee table books. I had a c
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by jrmg 3y ago
I was going to post the same thing. At the organization I worked at, so much got decided and invented in informal settings, and so much design done in (productive!) meetings around a whiteboard or smaller prototyping in a shared space. Ever
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by jrmg 3y ago
With open source software, a lot of innovation (not all, certainly, but a lot) comes from companies or teams at academic institutions that are traditionally colocated. Lots of real innovation - or, at least, agreement on direction - has occ
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by jrmg 3y ago
The Griffin brand is still around: https://incipio.com/pages/griffintechnology Owned by the same company that owns Incase and Survivior. I can’t quite tell if the company and/or brand were bought, or if the compan
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by jrmg 3y ago
Huh. In 2006? I also moved around then, and always just crossed out the address and wrote in my new address and no-one ever batted an eyelid. I think I was still doing that until 2014 when I ran out of old chscks! I guess I was doing it to
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by jrmg 3y ago
I don’t really understand why it’s so much more controversial that agencies are buying commercially available data than that the data is being collected and made available to anyone that will pay in the first place.
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by jrmg 3y ago
How do we know this?
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by jrmg 3y ago
You can generally still use if the unit is otherwise undamaged. Plug it in, then lift/prise the remaining ‘thumb press’ part of the plug up.
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by jrmg 3y ago
When researching washing machines recently, I was surprised to see that probably the most innovative mass-market systems available right now are from GE. They’ve brought out a heat-pump based low-energy use combined washer/dryer* that
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by jrmg 3y ago
This appears to be an exaggeration that’s making its way around less scrupulous news sources. From https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/12/30/was-oslo-paral... : a spokesperson called the allegations
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by jrmg 3y ago
How old is the data?
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by jrmg 3y ago
You also need to affirmatively press the button obviously titled ‘share’ before it sends the contact info.
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by jrmg 3y ago
What’s the difference between this and e.g. GBTC?
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by jrmg 3y ago
You're using a different definition of what ‘equal opportunity’ means than the vast majority of people then. If you don’t change what you think it means (or, if you want to be intransigent, at least what you think others mean by it) yo
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by jrmg 3y ago
It seems kind of obvious that CGI can’t be ‘slow’ in modern terms. We were serving hundreds of hits per second on 200MHz web servers in the late 90s. Everything is _so much faster_ now that surely the performance must be acceptable nowadays
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by jrmg 3y ago
Rail network too. We should have high speed rail all over the country - instead, witness e.g. the molasses-speed design and construction of the California High Speed Rail project.

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