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by larrik 9y ago
Huh? There's nothing in the article about a partnership (despite being called that in the headline). All I see is a police department that put out an Alexa app. I don't see anything wrong with, that. I'm a bit confused on how
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by larrik 9y ago
To expand on this, I feel like there's a lot of Privateer successors, but few-to-no WC successors.
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by larrik 9y ago
I'm pretty sure they'd have to become banks to pull that off, which is a business most of them don't want to be in (though I think Paypal is already).
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by larrik 9y ago
There's a ton of them. The "official" one was Freelancer, though.
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by larrik 9y ago
I got into Wing Commander very late (WC 4), after having spent probably thousands of hours in the X-Wing series. So when I failed a mission and the story kept going , I was blown away. It's THE feature I remember most fondly, looking
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by larrik 9y ago
"Part of the reason why university graduates earn more is because they are brighter and harder-working to begin with." Is that it, though? Or do they just get to reap the rolling snowball of opportunity from successful parents?
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by larrik 9y ago
It's a stupid and relatively unknown law.
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by larrik 9y ago
I was already pretty unhappy with both Newegg and Connecticut, and then I got this email from Newegg. It's very frustrating.
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by larrik 9y ago
I didn't realize Facebook did this. I feel like the spirit of the idea is from a good place, though, even its the implementation and messaging have flaws. The article has a bit of a "it's evil" slant that I'm not en
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by larrik 9y ago
Exactly, Disney goes to great lengths to keep their main DVDs at premium pricing, including putting them out of print every so often, then re-releasing them later with some newly remastered nonsense.
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by larrik 9y ago
I'm not convinced any of the replies to your question really answered it, so I'll add my own: Redbox rents out DVDs/Blurays from physical kiosks. Normally they buy the discs straight from the studios (or whoever the studios g
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by larrik 9y ago
Aren't most or all of those other companies Chinese? Apple still stands out there, especially given their "pro-privacy" slant.
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by larrik 9y ago
So that actual bad guys don't get it and use it for what could be incredibly sophisticated and damaging things.
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by larrik 9y ago
They also store extensive sensitive data and media about/from/with children with piss poor security. Is that not unambiguously bad?
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by larrik 9y ago
As far as I know it heavily depends on where you are. Obviously country by country, but also within the US it can be different per state or per city. Then there's the difference between a live camera and a recorded camera.
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by larrik 9y ago
I fell into an obscure technology stack out of college (AS/400...in 2005). It was comfortable, but technologically unsatisfying and completely useless for my resume. I kept my skills sharp after hours, and then took a pay cut to jump s
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by larrik 9y ago
Of course, ads with exploits and malware that inject into your computer can be invisible and hard to detect as "intrusive", which this doesn't seem to recognize or handle. I'll stick with ad-block.
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by larrik 9y ago
Well, a top-end PC from 5+ years ago can still easily outperform a lower end PC made today. This is true even if you don't have an SSD in either. A "top end" iPad will lose in performance to the "bottom end" of the
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by larrik 9y ago
Is WhatsApp more of a European thing? I don't believe I've ever seen anyone use it (in the northeast US). I usually don't even remember what it is when I see stories about it. I've certainly never considered signing up f
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by larrik 9y ago
What do you mean? I think it should offer you whatever navigation apps are installed on your phone that support it.
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by larrik 9y ago
It's hard to fairly compare someone like GRRM to Tolkien. Writing technique and fashion has changed a lot since back then, Tolkein didn't really have a previous Tolkein to inspire him, and their motivations were completely differe
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by larrik 9y ago
Wait, is this book not well known? My kid dressed up as one of the lab guys for his "literacy day" character (since we can't just have Halloween costumes...).
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by larrik 9y ago
Making either perfectly horizontal isn't even the hard part, but concrete steps take a LOT longer, if you can believe it. You have to build a wooden box to pour into, and you can only pour once (new concrete does NOT stick to dry concr
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by larrik 9y ago
He actually probably does. But he's a schmoozer, he's always working. Plus, the more he works, the more his net worth multiplies . It's not the same at all, even if it looks the same to him.
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by larrik 9y ago
I've actually built a few staircases, and it's a ton harder than it even sounds here. In fact, there's apparently carpentry competitions and building a stairway to code is the grand finale. The way he does it, with the angl
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by larrik 9y ago
Not as serious as the article, but I still don't understand why Find My Phone can almost tell me what room in the house each device is, but the (built-in) weather app tells me I'm 2 towns away...
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by larrik 9y ago
I'm under the impression that much of the country uses counties a lot. I know they are quite important in New York (my father owns property upstate). New England seems to be an anomaly there. Even Hawaii has county governments.
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by larrik 9y ago
Even in the US stuff like that happens. I recently refinanced, and the lender kept getting hung up on how they needed to "contact my county" for verification. Well, in Connecticut a "county" is nothing more than a name o
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by larrik 9y ago
I've been 100% remote for almost 6 years. I don't think I can go back. I have a family and a stay-at-home wife, though, so I'm really not looking for socialization through work. My work is very strict about keeping normal wor
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by larrik 9y ago
Alternative hypothesis: Brand new frameworks have zero docs and zero questions in Stack Overflow. Older frameworks have (hopefully) complete docs and a library of SO questions. In between you get a gradient. I'm just not convinced that

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