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by krrrh 8y ago
Another example of this is how frequently ENTs will combine septoplasty to fix a deviated septum with turbinectomy. This has resulted in a lot of people suffering from Empty Nose Syndrome which is so distressing that some kill themselves ov
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by krrrh 8y ago
This misses two important points about interchange fees. First, is that fees already vary based on fraud potential, with higher fees charged for online transactions than in-person PIN and chip transactions. Second, a large portion of the in
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by krrrh 8y ago
True, though this decision had the dual-benefit of also reducing the complexity and costs of delivering the service.
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It’s pretty likely that Acton weighed what he could do with the money when it came to pursuing his values post-Facebook. His role in co-founding the Signal foundation and substantial donation to its existence is good evidence of this. A sma
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by krrrh 8y ago
An important point to add to these observations is that WhatsApp made massive inroads with carriers in developing countries to zero-rate their services (unlimited WhatsApp messages as part of a data plan). This is the underreported aspect o
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by krrrh 8y ago
This gets the timeline a bit wrong. WhatsApp’s user base was largely built up during a period of lax security, including unencrypted message databases on Android SD cards, and easily spoofable addresses. The introduction of end-to-end encry
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by krrrh 8y ago
The download-orientation is exactly what makes it popular for anyone without unlimited mobile data. That said, I don’t know of any current podcast app that doesn’t handle streaming if that’s what you want.
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by krrrh 8y ago
It’s worth knowing that krypton ( https://krypt.co ) can make your smartphone act as a U2F or Fido2 (as well as SSH and PGP) device. You can use this instead of a Yubikey, as a backup, or just to inexpensively play with the concep
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by krrrh 8y ago
There’s a lot of hatred for dealerships, because the sales process is not very enjoyable. But historically the franchise model allowed the manufacturers to extend their available credit to expand across the country. The local knowledge and
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by krrrh 8y ago
I don’t know if it’s true everywhere, but since firefighters work on call, they are usually on a days-on/days-off schedule. It’s not at all uncommon for them to have a side-hustle working as a tradesman on their days off, and there’s n
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by krrrh 8y ago
This 2016 Mother Jones article is a good treatment of this hypothesis: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposur...
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I'll add a few of my favourites: * Women only achieved the federal vote in Switzerland in 1971, and the for local votes the last hold-out was forced to acquiesce by the Supreme Court only in 1991. * There is no country in Europe with a
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by krrrh 8y ago
The point about Cuomo is definitely worth remembering, but USENET suffered its own decline. The vast majority of folks who got online from the mid-nineties on never learned how to use it or engaged with it in any fashion. Once the center o
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by krrrh 8y ago
Someone I know well wanted to sail around the world. Learned to sail, and she got to know people with boats who needed crew to take shifts on their sailboards, and were headed somewhere interesting. Then she would repeat the process at the
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by krrrh 8y ago
Tyler Cowen goes into this in his book The Conplacent Class . Some interesting data he works into the theory: home interiors have gotten better while exterior architecture has gotten worse and is valued less, fewer teenagers are getting dr
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by krrrh 8y ago
You’re correct on Linux’s (and I would argue SunOS’s) dominance as a web server being the major factor, but Apple helped the popularize slick Unix workstations for developers, allowing us to live in Unix at a time when it was rarely possibl
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by krrrh 8y ago
(sorry this post got long, I mostly wanted to stress how valuable it is for a community to equalize funding per student) In Alberta the conservative government in the 1990s controversially consolidated county school districts into much larg
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by krrrh 8y ago
I support your effort to make Moby-Dicks the football-field-like unit of measurement for text-focused data. It’s close enough to the 1.44 MB floppy disk to handle easy mental conversion of historical rants, and half of the people reading th
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by krrrh 8y ago
He's also been aggressively pursuing new partnerships focusing on the core problem of getting a person to where they are trying to get to, including public transit tickets, car rentals, e-bikes, and scooters. https://www.nyt
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by krrrh 8y ago
Apple Music seems to be the only service that handles uploaded music and syncing well, integrating uploads seamlessly into your library. I think it has an edge with anyone who downloads albums that are too obscure to get licensed to the str
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No service seems to handle this well. I mostly want the opposite: show only uncensored versions in searches and playlists, but it would also be nice to globally toggle to clean versions if I’m hanging out with a child. It’s frustrating and
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by krrrh 8y ago
For whatever it’s worth, I found Deezer extremely frustrating while using the free year of it I got with a Sonos purchase. I would run into inconsistencies and errors in their catalog several times a week, and despite submitting support req
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Can confirm, this works.
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To be transparent on this issue, I lean towards a more open platform that takes steps to stop algorithmically promoting hate "accidentally" while they are measuring engagement. A "first do no harm" approach would be a ni
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by krrrh 8y ago
There are mealy-mouthed refrains on all sides of this issue. For instance, I would be happy to see Tom Metzger and his White American Resistance group banned from Facebook, however the core of his white ethno-nationalist agenda isn’t too di
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by krrrh 8y ago
When I started using Krypton for ssh and code-signing last year, the first thing I did was ask the Krypton team on twitter if they were going to add U2F. Glad to hear it’s in beta! It’s rarer these days to subsume another device into our ph
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by krrrh 8y ago
He has two other comments in this thread, albeit with slightly more judicious use of exclamation marks, yet I’m still just as confused as you.
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The funny thing is that the mainstream media is often breathless over the possibilities of blockchain these days, but the nerd forums in the nineties for the most part understood and were excited about the impact of the internet and web. Dr
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You can also boot off a Thunderbolt 2 or USB SSD drive for better performance. I duct-taped one to the back of my screen a few years ago when I didn’t have time to get a repair done.
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by krrrh 8y ago
Super interesting. Thanks for taking the time to clarify.

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