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by krrrh 9y ago
Markets are wonderful things, and it doesn't always pay to be first. https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/10-battery-giga...
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by krrrh 9y ago
Is 2017 the year of widespread PGP adoption?
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> it's fair to say that Davis Simon is just a brilliant writer. Don't forget to check out Generation Kill , which was co-written with Ed Burns with whom he also worked on The Wire and The Corner .
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by krrrh 9y ago
I'm curious if that was postpaid. My prepaid Vodafone data started working EU-wide without extra charges just over a year ago. > Gut zu wissen: Du nutzt Deine Highspeed-MB mit Deinem CallYa-Tarif ohne Aufpreis in der ganzen EU. Fall
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by krrrh 9y ago
It's a question of liquidity, not of "market cap".
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by krrrh 9y ago
The article didn't say that he didn't have insurance. It sounds like he was a longstanding full-time employee who almost certainly had insurance through his employer.
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by krrrh 9y ago
What other options would you expect? Lots of folks don't have, or are between, primary-care physicians, especially one that can see you within a few days. Even in countries with single-payer health care like Canada, these would be the
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by krrrh 9y ago
Ironically, it's hard to reverse engineer iMessage because the encryption is so good.
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by krrrh 9y ago
This is a work of art. The ProgressQuest game loading screen is one of the funniest things I've seen in a while. Like all well-told jokes, it's in the timing.
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by krrrh 9y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/
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by krrrh 9y ago
Maybe buy a couple of used iPad 2s for $100 a pop and use them exclusively for FaceTime. It seems to work far better than anything else for video chats, even on 5-year-old hardware. The power of native apps is real.
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by krrrh 9y ago
The term usually says a lot more about the person who uses it than it does the person to whom it is applied. Much like "neoconservatism" it's often shorthand for people who I disagree with, and used sloppily without reference
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by krrrh 9y ago
> Snowden did everything right, and it still wasn't good enough. But Snowden's whole strategy was to be a public figure. He fled the country and had a documentary filmmaker record the handover of the documents. It looks like Wi
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by krrrh 9y ago
Additionally, on macOS you can use Fluid.app to create a Facebook-only browser with separate cookies, etc. Keeps it isolated from the general web. Do the same for google apps.
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by krrrh 9y ago
Even worse, purposely optimizing for engagement isn't too different from accidentally optimizing for outrage.
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by krrrh 9y ago
Not to quibble, but it usually refers to 1993, which was when AOL created a bridge from its proprietary network to USENET.
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by krrrh 9y ago
> Aldus Pagemaker? It was strange to use a desktop publishing tool to write papers, but I fell in love with its story editor[1], which looked like a plain text editor with a left column that indicated the applied style for that paragraph
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by krrrh 9y ago
I was at a conference last year where @patio11 performed a rap trying to persuade people to do all their writing in markdown. I wish I could simply link to it as an argument from authority, but consider the value of doing your writing in pl
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by krrrh 9y ago
I picked up a 2-pack of USB-A/USB-C adaptors on Amazon for $10. I keep them in my bag, it hasn't been a problem. If you're plugging in more than two things at a time then you'd probably benefit from a hub anyway.
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by krrrh 9y ago
Gabriel Wyner has some good strategies for speeding up flash card generation in his Fluent Forever book and website. The primary one for me being a simple AppleScript that took a word and opened up several safari tabs with google image sear
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by krrrh 9y ago
I also found it fun to learn a few basics on a recent month-long trip, but the US State Department has rankings of language difficulty based on hours of instructions required for foreign service employees, amd puts Japanese in the most diff
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by krrrh 9y ago
Measuring "regulation" isn't straightforward, but based on the Heritage Foundation's criteria, Norway has a relatively light load. It's basically on par with the US.[1] Its a very free economy by international stand
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by krrrh 9y ago
GP wasn't implying that every rider should start their own competitor. Juno is an example of a ride hailing company that corrected for low driver wages through market mechanisms.
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by krrrh 9y ago
I wonder how much Arabic translation suffers from a lack of available data to feed the ML. [1] > Nor are foreign books much translated: in the 1,000 years since the reign of the Caliph Mamoun, say the authors, the Arabs have translated a
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by krrrh 9y ago
My language could have been more clear. They state at the top of the page that you have to be "admitted for permanent residence" if you are not a citizen. However other visa situations also qualify [1]: > Certain other individu
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> The idea of a vacancy tax seems hard to apply while respecting people privacy. There is support growing in Vancouver for a surtax based on property value that would be offset by income taxes, and wouldn't apply to those who are re
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You don't even need permanent residence to get free healthcare. Just legal residence for 3 months does the trick.
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As far as I know you can deregister a number from iMessage by logging in to your appleID on the web. There's no simple way for hem know whether you've switched to android or just put your phone in a drawer unless you log in and te
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I'm pretty sure this will Baader-Meinhoff it into recognition for you. It's in the A1 level vocab, and I would see it on signs outside of Spätis and phone stores on a daily basis.
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Yeah there is a phone number. Usually it doesn't work for calls or SMS, or you can have that blocked for it. It's not worth using or thinking about. IMessage and Facetime work with email addresses, whatsapp and signal can be assoc

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