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by lurk2 10mo ago
I don’t think any of them are breaking even when you consider the maintenance costs, I just thought it was kind of funny considering the nature of the line of work they are in. This was a different group of people but when some of the old L
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I remember trying to use music I had bought in a slideshow that year and finding out that I couldn’t load tracks with DRM into the editor I was using; it was very frustrating.
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> Infra isn’t free. There is a certain irony in people providing copyrighted works for free justifying profiting from these copyrights on the basis that providing the works to others isn’t free.
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Your only two comments on this site are: “Chat are we cooked?” and “Genuinely a serious problem.” Look inward.
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As other users mentioned, these screenshots are almost certainly not being transmitted as screenshots as the bandwidth costs would be enormous. The screenshots are converted to a hash on the user’s device before being sent to a server where
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This is why a lot of series uploaded to YouTube will be sped up, slowed down, or have their audio’s pitch changed; if the uploader doesn’t do this, it gets recognized by YouTube as infringing content.
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> in the runescape documentary The RuneScape Documentary - 15 Years of Adventure https://youtu.be/7RNK0YBdwko?si=sei69KmyL4hb_hj-&t=2944 Discussion begins at 49:04
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> This was the reason why free trade was removed from RuneScape back in the day and it wasn't even a Jagex issue. People would go to 3rd party gold selling websites and then pay for gold with stolen credit cards. They could easily k
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What’s the story on the TOS change? This is the first I’m hearing about it.
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> About one-third of Firefox users have installed an add-on before https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/extensions-addons/heres-...
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A few years ago. Crashed constantly and didn’t support tagging bookmarks.
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Can I make the window opaque or do I have to also browse whatever is behind the menu bar?
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> So we seem to have agreed that, yes, in areas where there's a significant influx of tourists (whether short or long-term), there are likely to be sigificant economic factors that might explain the locals' antipathy? Are you s
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In places where the economy is not based on tourism, the percentage of short term rentals rarely exceeds 3% of housing stock.
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Lottery system solves this issue but then people start thinking of reasons that they deserve to visit more than someone else and try to implement quotas affording priority access to their group (e.g. local residents, ethnic minority, etc.)
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> Sydney “Sydney has 18,000 Airbnb listings, of which 80% are whole homes. This equates to around 3.2 Airbnb listings per 1,000 residents or 0.9% of Sydney’s private homes.” [0] This is about half of the usual 2% figure I mentioned elsew
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> There’s been tons of studies Such as? > You also saw it through covid when all those units flooded the rental market when international borders closed. Toronto had an average of 12,270 daily active listings in 2019 [0]. Toronto had
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The expat-immigrant distinction is a simple one; an expat lives abroad, an immigrant intends to gain citizenship and stay. This isn’t actually necessarily reflective of how illegals view the country anymore; a lot of them intend to leave af
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> It's not all a resort town Tourism comprises 45% of the economy, which is what I was characterizing as a resort town. If you look at cities that have anything else going on for them, you’re looking at figures of less than 2% of ho
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> A core problem is that an influx of tourists hits the housing supply. This is the explanation these activists rely on and it’s cribbed directly from posts I was reading on /pol/ ten years ago. While it sounds plausible, I’ve
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> Have you not heard of any popular protests against tourism? I mentioned in another comment that I know of vandalism that has occurred in Barcelona, some demonstrations in Medellín, and a long history of nativist sentiment in Hawaii, bu
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In my experience the majority of xenophobia is driven by a fear that one is not being afforded proper respect. Sometimes this fear is well-founded; half of the countries with citizens wealthy enough to engage in mass market travel (e.g. Ger
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Hawaii, Barcelona, and some cities in Latin America like Medellín have had a few incidents to suggest that people are unhappy with tourists there. A city I have stayed in banned AirBnBs to address an affordability crisis. Tons of locals wen
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> The people in control of the flow of tourists are a tiny minority The people ultimately in control of this policy are usually elected officials, so I’d (idealistically) say they have at least some incentive to make decisions that the g
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> He played a significant role in popularizing a now-familiar posture among affluent Americans: the earnest declaration that "travel is my passion", followed by carefully curated excursions to economically disadvantaged countri
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Another user deleted their comment: > The purpose of English class was to provide a field for interdisciplinary subjects. We learned how to write the standard five paragraph essay. We learned how to detect dishonest and manipulative mess
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> Why can't people test against that? Most school districts do allow students to test out of classes and get placed at higher grade levels. The majority of people would never have tested above grade level. Your presence here means
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One of the comments on the video read: “Congratulations, you hit the jackpot!”
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Innocent Man Gets Arrested at Peppermill Casino After AI Says He's Someone Else [video](youtube.com)
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Bodycam footage shows the Sept. 17, 2023 arrest of UPS driver Jason Killinger at the Peppermill Casino in Reno, Nevada. Killinger was handcuffed by casino staff who believed Killinger to be another man whom had been barred from the casino p

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