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by kn0where 7y ago
The Frys.com search is still terrible.
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by kn0where 7y ago
On the other hand, they spent $0.5 billion on R&D in a year , and lost $5 billion in a quarter , so I don’t think the R&D is nearly as significant an issue as subsidizing rides.
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by kn0where 7y ago
No, other than some apartment complexes now have their own automated lockers.
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by kn0where 7y ago
T mobile has 600 MHz now (band 71) which has really helped in rural areas as long as you have a new phone.
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by kn0where 7y ago
If CBP can’t, why can TSA?
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by kn0where 7y ago
In the US, regulations on Uber are mostly at a state or city level, so in many cities you don’t need that special license, etc (although your regular insurance company won’t be happy if they catch on)
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by kn0where 7y ago
I think that was a large factor, but I think constantly showing ads for Chrome to anyone who views google.com in a different browser and telling them their browser is bad was a bigger factor.
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by kn0where 7y ago
Closest actual current song is probably “Love It If We Made It” https://youtube.com/watch?v=1Wl1B7DPegc
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by kn0where 7y ago
Maybe I’m just young, but I hate chalkboards. In college they were always way less legible than a whiteboard with a fresh marker—too little contrast.
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by kn0where 7y ago
On the other hand, actually trying to use MacPorts when one is accustomed to package managers like apt is an exercise in extreme patience.
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by kn0where 7y ago
USA has no (local) competition for internet, it’s almost all regional monopolies or duopolies where one (cable TV company) is expensive and ok and the other (copper wire phone company) is slow and unreliable.
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by kn0where 7y ago
Yes, right now unemployment is quite low. The unemployment rate doesn’t show you the quality of the jobs. A person working two part time minimum wage jobs (so the employers don’t pay any benefits) is probably worse off than they’d be with o
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by kn0where 7y ago
If anything the problem is they rushed this plane so they could compete with Airbus
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by kn0where 7y ago
That said, the VA is a poorly managed and IIRC poorly funded agency. Lots of dysfunction in how we provide healthcare to veterans. That’s not to say we shouldn’t try—we need to try harder.
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by kn0where 7y ago
Because most people do a terrible job washing and so they’d cover the roller towel in germs they didn’t actually clean off
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by kn0where 8y ago
I don’t have an aeronautical background at all, but a hunch I heard from some aviation forum is that the plane must be certified to be safe when flown by merely an “average” pilot, and if the Max was more difficult because it had this tende
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by kn0where 8y ago
brew install f3
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by kn0where 8y ago
Some Nintendo games like Super Mario 3D Land have that
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by kn0where 8y ago
(sound of capacitor popping)
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by kn0where 8y ago
They've advertised Juul and similar pretty heavily in convenience stores like Circle K.
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by kn0where 8y ago
Link for the lazy: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2018/04/book-review-losing-...
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by kn0where 8y ago
I use Wells Fargo for one purpose: obtaining foreign currency. I keep my actual money in savings and checking accounts with Ally, and the minimum $300 in my Wells Fargo 0.01% APY (lol) savings account (so they don't charge me $5/m
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by kn0where 9y ago
I haven't used rclone, but `rsync --link-dest` lets you create an incremental snapshot using hard links so that you don't have duplicate files between snapshots. Wrap it in a shell script, and you have something surprisingly usefu
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by kn0where 9y ago
It's not Electron, but it is Chromium.
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by kn0where 9y ago
Is it really? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-usa/uber-boss-says-u...
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by kn0where 9y ago
Subsidies baked into the cell plan are mostly gone in the US too, replaced with monthly installments that superficially are the same but in practice allow you to pay up front and then only pay for cell service on a monthly basis.
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by kn0where 9y ago
Count me as a single data point for the example of a teenager switching to paid Spotify as a college student (albeit discounted to half-price). When I graduate I'll probably keep paying, at the full $10/month. Apple Music is tempt
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by kn0where 9y ago
Many highways could have fewer lanes if there weren't so many commuters taking space away from trucks, etc.
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by kn0where 9y ago
Leave it to Ubuntu to invent their own Transport Layer Security standard
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by kn0where 9y ago
Yes

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