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by krrrh 9y ago
It’s worth noting that iOS has randomized MAC addresses in WiFi probes since iOS 8.[1] As far as I know your real MAC address is exposed upon connection. I’m curious to what extent other vendors have implemented this strategy. [1] https:&#
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by krrrh 9y ago
Right, the existing reporting law doesn’t pertain to assets stored decentralized “institutions” only foreign ones. Presumably that is why they are talking about changing the law.
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by krrrh 9y ago
I guess the implication is that you have to report foreign assets specifically because it’s not easy for the IRS to obtain records from foreign financial institutions. Since it’s also not easy for them to obtain records from a decentralized
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by krrrh 9y ago
This one always irks me. If I know that my phone needs a repair, I’ll always back it up and do a fresh install before bringing it in. It’s a huge hassle and I get the impression that not many people even think about it.
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by krrrh 9y ago
For years Deutsche Bank and other European banks have relied on TAN, which typically is a printed sheet of 100 numbers that are required at random [1]. There are also various electronic TANs that have been introduced over the years. The lis
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by krrrh 9y ago
> we'll likely see numerous other competitors emerge to compete on price I've been beating this drum for years. One interesting point is that competitors aren't only competing on price, and there are a lot of ways to cut i
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by krrrh 9y ago
> Majority of economists also prefer a fully private healthcare market over single-payer government-paid healthcare. How is that working out for the U.S. right now? It’s tough to say; there hasn’t been anything close to a fully private h
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by krrrh 9y ago
Sure it’s true, but it’s a tautology to say it when something is at an all-time high.
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by krrrh 9y ago
Let’s see how everyone feels after the next correction. The headlines today seem to change every time I load google news. Up 10%, down 20%. There’s no way to know where it will go from here.
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by krrrh 9y ago
Apple doesn’t backup TouchID or FaceID data to the cloud (just as they don’t backup your iOS device passcode). You need to set up each device independently. https://images.apple.com/ca/fr/business-docs/FaceID_
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by krrrh 9y ago
The Koch brothers are not Trump supporters.
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by krrrh 9y ago
Dropbox/boxcryptor + MS Office. It’s of course necessary to use google drive for collaborative editing from time to time because it is so ubiquitous, but excel is still miles ahead of google sheets in terms of usability. Pages and Numb
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by krrrh 9y ago
Fastmail does the email migration in the cloud. It’s relatively quick and painless, and you can trial things for a period by setting up your gmail account as an alias (send from the fastmail web interface through gmail’s smtp servers etc) s
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by krrrh 9y ago
It’s important that this gets brought up every time Australians complain about high prices. When it comes to MacBooks, it is essentially mandated AppleCare.
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by krrrh 9y ago
Seeing a Mondo 2000 article posted in 2017 is surprising, but the fact that jwz posted a comment correcting a factual error makes it seem somehow normal.
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by krrrh 9y ago
I’m not disagreeing with the trust of your comment, but despite popular belief, McDonalds does use real eggs.[1,2] Though there’s no doubt that an egg from a chicken who has walked around, eating bits of grass and bugs, will taste better an
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by krrrh 9y ago
It was apparently part of a pre-existing plan, but to your point Facebook is way ahead on taking advantage of whatever we are calling the opposite of net-neutrality. Their zero-rating deals with mobile operators in India are a prime example
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by krrrh 9y ago
Thanks for providing the counterpoint. I would like to see Pai back his claims up in a more detailed manner, because I found them pretty surprising.
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by krrrh 9y ago
How do you figure? Government officials make arbitrary decisions all the time. Border agents for instance have wide latitude, lots of regulations are unevenly applied, and DAs often spend their resources based on public perception and press
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by krrrh 9y ago
You can hear Pai defend his position here: http://reason.com/blog/2017/11/21/ajit-pai-net-neutrality-po... He claims that 80% of smaller ISPs have said that they delayed investment in infrastructure due
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by krrrh 9y ago
If on iOS, the app Drafts[1] is a good option for your bottom row. It doesn't take care of typing speed, but it is optimized for time-to-cursor. That combined with the Siri phrase "Remind me to/about ___________ [at [time]|wh
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by krrrh 9y ago
Flixbus bought MeinFernBus a couple of years ago, followed by the Postbus passenger service, which was a major consolidation of the market. I'm not sure if the prices have gone up much in the last year despite the drop in bus competiti
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by krrrh 9y ago
Many jurisdictions offer deferred property tax payments for the retired, or disabled. Aside from that, someone who owns valuable fixed property free and clear should be able to find a lender who can open a small mortgage against the propert
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by krrrh 9y ago
Double this, and you’ve got Canadians.
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by krrrh 9y ago
The book “Wreak this Journal” is designed to help people get over the reverence they have for blank journals, and it’s fun for kids. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428862.Wreck_This_Journa...
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by krrrh 9y ago
That’s the first I’ve heard of sliceplanner which looks interesting. Are you using an official sliceplanner journal so you can benefit from the cloud ‘sync’, or just copying the radial calendar idea into a regular paper journal? The one way
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by krrrh 9y ago
> I'd give them credit… I’m guessing they would prefer cash.
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by krrrh 9y ago
An AFK analogue that I’m fond of is taking a photo of the box with the price visible. Unfailingly I see the photo days later and have the same puzzled thought.
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by krrrh 9y ago
Looks like the con purged it from util-linux in 2002. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=149321
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by krrrh 9y ago
One of the little pleasures I had building a Linux From Scratch install was discovering that the GNU ddate [1] program was installed on most Linux distributions as a standard utility. Not sure if this is still the case, but it was funny to

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