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by m000 2y ago
"it'll plan out the charge stops", "depends on the network", "you'll probably just catch a tv show on your phone". All these combined are a far-cry from frictionless. And good luck if you venture ou
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by m000 2y ago
> We are so significant that nation-states target our equipment. Maybe if they didn't lobby so hard, they would have been spared and Huawei would have been targeted instead. /s > they risk the govt dragging them through the
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by m000 2y ago
> They’re propping up Russia against Ukraine for example. That's a funny argument, given that the same piece of legislation with the TikTok "ban" also includes a(nother) $60.8 billion package for Ukraine [1]. [1] https:&#
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by m000 2y ago
Does having the pipe that gets you cheap gas blown up by the US count as an adversarial relationship? /s
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by m000 2y ago
No they are not. Just today, it made news here in HN that the (US) airlines will have to compensate their customers for cancelations/delays. EU has that for something like 20 years [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by m000 2y ago
If you don't mean "make more money"/"squeeze out every penny possible", I doubt the reasons are the same. These are 3 totally different classes of products, with different development/support costs, and pr
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by m000 2y ago
Why can't we have a car that only has: (a) a standardized mechanism for attaching and powering your phone on its dashboard (think a "mini VESA mount" with options for USB/wireless charging) (b) bluetooth HID-compatible
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by m000 3y ago
I rember many years ago trying to run netcat [1] on Windows for some tests. AV: Blocked as "hacking tool". I asked a friend who happened to have Visual Studio installed to build it for me from source. AV: No problemo! [1] https:&
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by m000 3y ago
> You probably need it because your corporate IT department wrote a policy that says you must have it. I think the causes are deeper. At the end of the thread you will probably find some horribly outdated "best practices" and s
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by m000 3y ago
The for-life email address was typically a perk given to people who were affiliated with a university when internet was still fairly young (think late 80s and 90s). This was a nice perk, because web-mail was not as common and advanced as it
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by m000 3y ago
If I interpret TFA coorectly, the 72k difference would probably be counted as "charity care". Which is different than a loss, but still tax deductible. In the grand scheme of things, this causes multi-level market "malfunctio
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by m000 3y ago
You need to stave off greed and the feeling of invincibility to get there. Which she obviously failed.
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by m000 3y ago
> That the Saudis spend their money on stupid vanity projects? I guess over human rights transgressions. But the collective West is very selective on whose transgressions they are willing to overlook and whose not. And, indeed, at this p
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by m000 3y ago
> The devil is in the details, and nuanced. A broadly capitalistic structure in the right place and time for the right society and with the right regulation, can be good. Same can be said for a communist structure. No?
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by m000 3y ago
> European leaders need to spend less time bashing successful US tech companies and more time thinking why Europe has so few. Or maybe US leaders need to spend less time bashing at EU for the absence of local technolords and more time th
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by m000 3y ago
If there's any fallacy here, it is comparing "for exposure" between a gig at your local dive bar (this is where you typically hear the phrase), and uploading your material to Spotify. The first requires committing time and ef
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by m000 3y ago
> Or even indicate the frequency at which you’re able to consider contributions. Since most things are on GitHub these days, implementing some PR-related analytics for each repo would be nice. This would give you an rough estimate on wha
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by m000 3y ago
The question for the case of US is "why now?". Could this be tightening the screw to make Apple more cooperative with 3-letter agencies, after other methods have failed?
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by m000 3y ago
That is called a sponge! SPONGE(1) moreutils SPONGE(1) NAME sponge - soak up standard input and write to a file SYNOPSIS sed '...' file | grep '...&
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by m000 3y ago
Aren't you missing a "/s"? I hope you are.
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by m000 3y ago
> We can't expect politicians to stop playing the game Maybe not on their own accord. But if not at all, then how are we living in a democracy?
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by m000 3y ago
In USSR, Pravda always used the subtitle "Organ of the Central Committee of the CPSU" in its title header. So, you could probably rephrase this as "I wish modern day western press was as transparent as Soviet press", wit
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by m000 3y ago
> Came with a news blackout, and as it turns out you can stay more or less exactly the same amount of informed because people will happily burst that bubble every time the rage machine hits critical mass. Not mad about it, any more. So,
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by m000 3y ago
And it's not only sofas. People still conflate price with quality, and this is massively exploited. You can see that from the number of "small brand" insta-entrepreneurs. People will readily shell $80 for the latest trendy it
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by m000 3y ago
TL;DR: Capitalism breeds innovation. Just not the type of innovation the consumer would like.
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by m000 3y ago
Well, that escalated quickly.
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by m000 3y ago
> I also concluded that doing meaningless administrative/management work is addictive and those who engage in it will actively and constantly try not only to overemphasise their importance but also force themselves on top of those w
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by m000 3y ago
I kind of envy you for having access to Borland Turbo C++ and learning resources for it as a kid. The closest I could get to it was reading a review on my local computing press. Even assuming I could magically get a copy, I still wouldn&#
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by m000 3y ago
How about informing/educating people by promoting instead of undermining real journalism? I aspire to be able to tell apart A from B for myself, and not being told what is what from a nanny state and controlled media. Can't the &q
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by m000 3y ago
Coming up next: "The police may beat us up bad because we marched at a protest, but at least we're not thrown to the dogs as Kim's uncle."

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