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by krrrh 10y ago
There is definitely not a rigorous process in place to prevent copyrighted material being uploaded to archive.org, often with obviously inaccurate metadata and political commentary [1]. [1] See this 2013 upload for instance: https:/
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by krrrh 10y ago
But you are allowed to say what the price is, which is what GP was surprised by. It's $99 a year FYI.
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Or on the tablet side, just replacements for televisions.
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by krrrh 10y ago
It is significant: https://pagefair.com/blog/2017/adblockreport/
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The USDA does define a legal definition of "organic". When they started doing this in the 90s it was very controversial in the health food community, because up until then there were various private certifications. The worry was t
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Another example is Ronald Reagan. I can't remember who said it, but one of the people around him was asked how he managed to become president and known as the great communicator, and the reply was along the lines of, "he made the
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by krrrh 10y ago
I remember audiogalaxy being the first web interface I saw that made use of ajax--clicking on the download buttons next to songs, not having the page refresh, and immediately viewing source to try to discover what wizardry this was.
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> And why does this trust cost so much? Take payment cards like VISA. Max, they cost 1-1.5%. There's not much to save there. Sure, it would be cheaper if I paid 0.01%, but the cost is already low enough that it's not really pre
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They don't report their global income. There's a term in the Chinese investor immigrant community: "astronaut dads". Kids get Canadian citizenship and a good education, dad might keep working in asia, or may have made en
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Or a land value surtax which you don't have to pay if you are already paying income taxes or retired. http://www.macleans.ca/economy/economicanalysis/a-roadmap-fo...
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Check out this proposal for a surtax which more targets the issue from a different direction, with a more simple implementation than foreign buyer or vacancy taxes. > One example is the Immigrant Investor program, where those wishing to
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One of the things that caught my attention watching the credits for Louie was that Louie CK himself was listed as editor in addition to his other roles.
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> Another important point is that Windows is the most keyboard friendly OS out of the three. Maybe keyboard shortcuts in windows have improved since Win7 which is the last time I used it semi-regularly, but I've always found the opp
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It definitely would be great if you could use your preferred tools and build from the commandline, or if Apple could ease the process of self-signing for local deployment. However, the tension between developer and user friendliness as note
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I haven't listened to this episode yet, but it's worth noting that Milton Friedman was advocating for this very position in the 1960s. Here's the relevant clip from Free to Choose: https://youtu.be/82SG_EpCsVs
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I agree, and it's also amazing to me to see how well he's maintained the site in the ten years since I first saw it, including a tongue-in-cheek, clickbait-style granny knot celebs page[1], that produced a laugh-out-loud moment fo
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by krrrh 10y ago
Germany passed legislation covering Mitfahrgelegenheit ("opportunity to share a ride") early on. It limits the amount you can charge for a ride to covering costs and makes it illegal to make a profit. Even when Uber was attempti
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I hope you're taking into consideration that over roughly the last 3 years the Canadian dollar depreciation has added around $1000CAD to the same levels of upgrades by itself.
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by krrrh 10y ago
I agree. What it comes down to I think, is how easy it is to contribute information on Yelp. Even when the posted hours are wrong or not present, I'll happily fix or add them. It's a huge competitive advantage for Yelp that they h
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by krrrh 10y ago
I feel like your comment is from 3 or 4 years ago. It's been at least a few versions of iOS since you can respond directly to notifications, replace the keyboard, add widgets to the 'today' screen. Background processing works
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They could hardly be more different. See: https://www.apple.com/privacy/
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Denmark?
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A subtle point here for me was that I found the vibration of the Pebble v.1 to still be rather loud and to draw the attention of anyone near me to my wrist. It's rarely mentioned, but I think the biggest feature upgrade when I moved on
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by krrrh 10y ago
The iPhone 7 does take advantage of the saved space. I was envisioning very thin, by today's standards, devices, or eventually full AR, where maintaining a wired connection to the main device would be impossible or extremely cumbersome
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by krrrh 10y ago
Your analysis is basically correct, but it should also include a time dimension. Apple likely has a version of the iPhone in development 1-3 generations out that absolutely will not have space for a wired headphone jack. They probably have
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It referred to a real and serious phenomena, but now the phrase has been muddied by political rhetoric. It's still a problem, and it's different enough from the old clickbait sensationalism and conspiracy theory chain emails that
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Recently I got into this relatively new iOS app called Really Bad Chess that is a lot of fun along these lines. My partner was never taught Chess but wanted to learn, and this made it entertaining to get started for both of us. http:/
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by krrrh 10y ago
In Canada there are no voting machines for federal elections. You just get a clear ballot and a pencil. The counting is done by several people from different parties simultaneously. The drawback is that sometimes it can take hours to coun
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I'm curious if you have some real insight on this, because my understanding is that Facetime video calls are end-to-end encrypted, and the battery drain seems to be pretty minimal even on older devices.
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But it doesn't do end to end encryption by default and has a confusing interface for it which combines ephemerality and encryption into 'secret' chats. Most of the people I know who use Telegram are engineers and almost all o

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