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by magduf 7y ago
>It’s really funny to watch N. Americans buy BMWs with substantially larger engines than Germans, even though N.A. speed limits will top out at ~100 or ~110km/h. That's not why Americans like big engines. American driving styl
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by magduf 7y ago
>Worth pointing out that PIA is openvpn compatible so you don't need their client Are other VPN services not like this? How are you supposed to connect with Linux then? Any why would anyone who cares about privacy want to use a pr
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by magduf 7y ago
The ultra-high-end LG V10 and V20 phones have this too. However, the V30 and V40 went to non-replaceable batteries. Also, the Galaxy S5 had it too, but the S6 and latter did not.
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by magduf 7y ago
If police cars have the same data-collection systems as consumer cars, all phoning home to the GM/Ford mothership, then those police departments won't be able to "lose" data. A company the size of Ford isn't going
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by magduf 7y ago
My 2015 Mazda 3 doesn't have any of this stuff either. It does have the terrible XM radio, but that's optional and is receive-only.
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by magduf 7y ago
Interestingly, in Japan for my short stay there, I found that the Suica card I needed for public transport could only be purchased and recharged with cash.
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by magduf 7y ago
>and even European ones have letters that can't be capitalized (for example ß) In German, that character is never used at the beginning of a word or name, so it's really irrelevant. I think a better example of something that do
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by magduf 7y ago
>On seed stock it get's even worse, if you are next to a GM farm and get cross pollinated then your stock is tainted and you have to reseed again with clean seeds that will just get tainted in the next spawn. I see a simple solution
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by magduf 7y ago
The problem with that argument is that the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975 clearly gives consumers the right to repair their own devices, and prevents manufacturers from denying warranty claims unless they can prove that 3rd-party par
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by magduf 7y ago
Maybe this is news to you, but engineers typically have to go to college and get a degree before they can work as a software engineer. That typically takes 4 years, starting at age 18, which is when most people graduate high school. A 21-
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by magduf 7y ago
It's probably a lot like Apple: lots of people absolutely insist on buying from them, and then complain when they get abused. But if you suggest they look at alternatives, they either dismiss it out-of-hand as completely impossible,
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by magduf 7y ago
>They do this because they value the expertise and depth that the dealers can [sometimes] provide. You mean the expertise they claim to provide. Dealership mechanics are generally junior mechanics; the really good, highly-experienced me
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by magduf 7y ago
This isn't completely true: even within America, there's different accents. So people with a "standard American accent" (generally midwestern) listen to Southerners talk and say they have an accent. There's also n
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by magduf 7y ago
It depends on the industry and the company. In some types of government work, it's a very serious security violation.
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by magduf 7y ago
>The requirement for the code review for internal tools already seems awefully restrictive. How on earth is that restrictive? Having code review for any important code should be normal at any company. Just because the tool is internal
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by magduf 7y ago
Unions are a big, big reason stuff is SO expensive in NY. They have to have 4 times as many employees doing construction as in Europe, for instance. Europe doesn't have this problem because they have good unions. We can't have t
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by magduf 7y ago
>And I'm not sure why two people sign off changes instead of just one. Because more eyes catch more bugs. I work in a time like this where we have 2 or even 3 people review stuff; it's extremely common for one engineer to miss
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by magduf 7y ago
No, it really depends. It's easy to overlook stuff on a merge request. I'd interview both of the reviewers, and with them look at the actual MR and see what they were looking at, and ask them how they missed this and why they th
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by magduf 7y ago
I work in a lab where most people have mechanical keyboards (including myself). Yeah, it's a little noisy, but that's nothing compared to the volume at which people talk, and how they frequently have simultaneous unrelated loud c
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by magduf 7y ago
Those arguments don't work in the automotive market. Modern cars are just as complex, yet anyone is allowed to change their own oil or do anything they want really (though they can get frustrated by anything requiring a proprietary sc
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by magduf 7y ago
I'd just like to point out that Apple isn't anywhere near a monopoly in any way at all. Nothing is forcing you to use Apple devices or services: there are lots of alternatives. In fact, in the mobile phone market alone, Apple is
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by magduf 7y ago
I think, absolutely yes. Americans generally are opposed to regulation of corporations, especially conservative ones, and most especially ones that have a libertarian streak.
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by magduf 7y ago
I don't think "tragedy of the commons" is the appropriate term for what's going on here. These movies aren't a "commons", they're all privately owned by a bunch of different private entities. They u
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by magduf 7y ago
I'm surprised some foreign power hasn't done this just for the sole reason of messing with the US movie industry, which is one of America's more significant export industries, and thereby harming the American economy.
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by magduf 7y ago
Such movies would not be profitable in the US. Americans have no interest in those. Of course, with digital distribution, the cost of actually making them available in the US should be extremely low, so it should still be profitable given
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by magduf 7y ago
Well, the entire movie industry doesn't even exist any more, because it was killed by the videotape, according to the MPAA. Remember, Jack Valenti of the MPAA asserted before Congress in the 1980s that videotape recorders would destro
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by magduf 7y ago
Yep, I was there earlier this year and I never had anyone offer to help me with directions, but that was probably because I never had a map, and was using my cellphone to get around, and never looked lost. It's so easy with a SIM card
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by magduf 7y ago
I'm not sure what you're getting at. I'm just pointing out that this whole thing is entirely cultural, and that it's changed very, very recently (within the last century or so). There's no underlying biological re
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by magduf 7y ago
I'm very anti-Apple, but it's foolish to think that there isn't anything at all to be learned from how they do things. Same goes for Microsoft.
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by magduf 7y ago
You bring up a good point: it would be nice to be able to quickly see what options are different from defaults, whether in graphical or text form. I don't know of any UI (for a desktop environment) that does this, however, but I do li

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