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by knz 10y ago
Chromebooks have a similar experience is you want an even cheaper alternative. Applications beyond the browser are more limited (photo management is awful on Chromebooks) but it's hard to beat the price and functionality for most users
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by knz 10y ago
My wife is also a subscriber so I would still have access to support behind a login. Support staff are also quite active on the reddit site for Fi.
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by knz 10y ago
What is the advantage of the Inbox App over just using the archive button and maintaining only a few important emails in the regular inbox? I did briefly try the Inbox app when it first came out but found the automatic sorting meant I occas
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by knz 10y ago
Unfortunately that was a management decision rather than technical decision!
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by knz 10y ago
Do you have an email address that may be similar to others? My work recently implemented a login process for customers and it was surprising how many user errors we had related to names/emails that were similar (so bob@gmail.com vs nob
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by knz 10y ago
Google's Project Fi has great customer support. You can get someone via IM almost instantly and they also offer phone/email support. As a Fi customer, that would be my first stop if I was locked out. Good luck if you aren't a
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by knz 10y ago
GP made the comment that the risk of child services getting involved was comparable to the risk of being in a plane crash. When you send a child outside you are ultimately accountable for that decision if something happens to them (did you
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by knz 10y ago
I understand that - I don't disagree that the risk of serious issues is overestimated. My point was more that sending your child outside to play is a routine decision with many more possible outcomes than a plane crash. Sending them ou
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by knz 10y ago
The difference is that a plane crash is largely out of your hands. Sending your child out to play unsupervised is a conscious decision. Parents are also not entirely rational. Don't underestimate the personal experiences of the parents
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by knz 10y ago
Great post. People seem to lose track of the fact that political views exist on a spectrum and that our individual views can be quite different than the "team" ideology (conservatives who support gay marriage and liberals who supp
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by knz 10y ago
> So it's ok supporting Hillary even though she is largely responsible for huge parts of US foreign policy having sacrificed hundreds of thousands of innocent people as collateral damage for a bigger political goal. I'm 99% cer
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by knz 10y ago
Wasn't that the Nexus 4 and 5?
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by knz 10y ago
The price was always one of the most compelling factors in the Nexus line (at least around Nexus 4/5).
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by knz 10y ago
There are OECD countries that have varying degrees of public healthcare supplemented with private insurance that have excellent quality of care. I'm not sure the US model for primary care is that great either - there have been many art
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by knz 10y ago
> and you have to pay large health insurance premiums This part still bothers me after 10 years in the US. Health insurance might as well be a tax if you have a family or any ongoing health issues. Hearing people say "I don't s
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by knz 10y ago
I grew up in New Zealand and have visited Australia many times (and still have many friends and family living in Australia). I now live in Minnesota. Is it really any better there? Australia has it's own history of crime related violen
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by knz 10y ago
> Australia is actually a very stable place, nothing much really happens (no civil war, no prime ministers assassinated, little violence etc.) Of course, the media looks for something sensationalist, and now a massive number of people th
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by knz 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor "The bus factor is a measurement of the risk resulting from information and capabilities not being shared among team members. It is also known as the lottery factor, truck
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by knz 10y ago
> There's a special web licence for website, which doesn't use CALS. Special licenses for various uses cases is another big plus for FOSS/PostgreSQL. Life is easier when adding database nodes or spinning up a dev/qa d
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by knz 10y ago
Business Intelligence - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence
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by knz 10y ago
This is also common in the US (at least in Minnesota).
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by knz 10y ago
Yes, but base 10 is the common language we use today. And mm to m, is a lot easier than in to ft...
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by knz 10y ago
> I'm not saying the units make more sense now. I am saying that failing to recognise the logic by which the units were derived misses some highly salient points. I can recognise the logic in historical units of measurements, but I
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by knz 10y ago
Isn't one of the main benefits of metric the ability to quick convert between the various scales? Converting between say 1.4m to mm is a lot easier than 4.5ft to inches. Or answering questions like how many square metres are in 5.2 hec
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by knz 10y ago
It's a sad reflection upon our country if the motives are so transparent.
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by knz 10y ago
I'm curious what approach you used after giving up on angular-leaflet? I've had a similar experience moving apps to Angular and working with Angular leaflet. Thankfully I work with a great consultant so didn't lose weeks but
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by knz 10y ago
The vectors for a loss of information are already out there - it wouldn't even have to be the big online gun shops. A list of ammunition/gun accessories/hunting supplies etc is probably sufficient to make a good guess for whe
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by knz 10y ago
> The U.S. really has become a police state. Seeing heavily armed police (with actual assault rifles not AR-15's) and paramilitary members (the Carabinieri and Gendarmerie etc) is much more common in Europe than the US and been the
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by knz 10y ago
Do we still trust that these types of rules are being followed (particularly in the context of mass surveillance)? If I recall correctly, the public has been told on many occasions that the NSA/FBI/local police were not doing some
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by knz 10y ago
> .. energy obtained was from Hydroelectric power, which is a great energy source because it is reliable. Is that assumption always true in the age of climate change? New Zealand gets about 50 to 60% of its energy from hydro and there ha

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