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by kbart 9y ago
"look at them, how cute, they're playing information society like the grown-ups!" Don't put words in my mouth, I've never said something like that. I just wanted to highlight the fact that most people still prefer
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by kbart 9y ago
You can always block JS from known sources that do this (use NoScript or similar), though I don't know any automatic way yet.
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by kbart 9y ago
"Mining in a browser is going to consume my battery and bandwidth" You mean just like ads do? Of course, in a perfect world we wouldn't have either, but I just don't see clear distinction between mining in browser or a
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by kbart 9y ago
This still doesn't clear things up (both "," and "." can be used as thousands and fractions separation symbol, depending on locale). A more international way is to use whitespace or nothing at all for thousands ($89
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by kbart 9y ago
Why do you think that minor cryptocurrencies mining operations are worse in regards of wasted fuel than playing computer games, watching mindless YouTube videos, scrolling Facebook, leaving devices on when not used, lighting places 24/
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by kbart 9y ago
That's what I meant by writing: "Russians also have copy-cat versions of many western sites/services that are more popular than original ones". vk == Facebook, Yandex == Google.
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by kbart 9y ago
Russia has had an unrestricted Internet access until recently. I still don't see booming tech sector (or actually, any) there or people revolting against authoritarian government. There's language and cultural barrier that must be
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by kbart 9y ago
This quote sounds childish imho. I know this feeling, I believe every teen feels this way, but I don't lose sleep over my decisions or "what if.." scenarios anymore. The most important truth and lesson learned during my life
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by kbart 9y ago
"And I would be fine if my partner saw someone else too." So why cheat then and not talk to your partner openly and come to an agreement? I know plenty of couples that let each other to have other partner(s), and that's t
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by kbart 9y ago
Same here. I haven't upgraded my home PC for almost 5 years now, even though I do some digging from time to time to see if there's something worth buying in a middle tier. So far, it was simply not worth upgrading, I hope things w
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by kbart 9y ago
I've been to Latvia many times in last few years, but haven't noticed YYYY-DD-MM format, maybe it's historical? It looks like DD.MM.YYYY was the most common format there (at least on posters).
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by kbart 9y ago
I have never seen YYYY-DD-MM format, on the other hand, both DD/MM/YY and MM/DD/YY are equally common, that's why I always prefer YYYY-MM-DD format as it is the least ambiguous and most useful (sorting files etc., a
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by kbart 9y ago
Last night, actually.
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by kbart 9y ago
Usually, even small towns have their own water extraction and purification facilities, so the size of a country doesn't have any influence (at least directly). Bar rare occasions with extreme climates, where no local water source is av
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by kbart 9y ago
Yes, I was talking only about my city and my personal experience, I agree that it's more of an exception than a rule (at least judging by many comments here, especially coming from USA).
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by kbart 9y ago
Most of local cab companies in my city also let you rate a driver now, so it's not a unique selling point of Uber anymore.
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by kbart 9y ago
"They do? You sure about that?" Yes, I pay with credit card 9/10 times and get a receipt. I doubt any of these companies are big enough to have offshore companies to route their income through. "Then why not just let
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by kbart 9y ago
From your description and my personal experience, only London falls under this category. What other cities do you have in mind?
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by kbart 9y ago
It might be due to the fact that in most parts of Europe there's a cheap and good public transport available, so cabs must compete with it too. In USA, there's not much to choose from, so cabs have local monopolies, hence higher p
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by kbart 9y ago
I'm not an original OP, but in my city there's a centralized call center and several apps -- you may choose to use whichever you prefer as most cab companies support all or at least many of them.
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by kbart 9y ago
That's why many people prefer small, local cab companies that pay license fees and taxes to a local budget.
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by kbart 9y ago
"Art will not vanish, but it will change the arts, probably in a major way. But what it will be like is up for discussion." I believe that current situation favors indie artists as anybody can form a band, record an album in the
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by kbart 9y ago
Define your security model. If you are talking about advertisers, then both can achieve about the same "security" level. But there's no point talking about security (as remotely inaccessible) while we don't have an open
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by kbart 9y ago
Show us then.
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by kbart 9y ago
By all means, yes! That's where I'm getting -- there's no "one size fits all" solution and there's no point of carrying easily cloned magstripe in places where it is not used.
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by kbart 9y ago
An interesting history fact I didn't know -- thank you. But I doubt one election, which results were immediately negated anyway, is enough to call Russia "a democracy". It looks like it was just a (failed) attempt of bolshevi
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by kbart 9y ago
"one wonders if you could ask your bank to disable it?" I've written in my other comment that I did ask. The answer was "it is not possible".
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by kbart 9y ago
There is, but if amount is higher than certain threshold or online PIN wasn't used for certain number of transactions, an online PIN is requested.
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by kbart 9y ago
You need a valid address for that too and it's not on a card.
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by kbart 9y ago
"Get rid of the magstripe and bad actors will steal your card info using cameras" Even if they see my PIN, they can't clone a chip, so what they are going to do with it?

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