mikestew

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by mikestew 9mo ago
Then don’t believe it and go on with your day. No one owes you a link to anything, especially if you simply don’t pay attention to Amazon’s widely-reported business practices.
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by mikestew 9mo ago
Fair enough, thanks for the clarification.
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by mikestew 9mo ago
I'm sure Apple appreciates the advice, especially considering how few people buy their pricey phones and accessories. C'mon, this is the same company that sells a $230 sock for your phone. And they sold out of the first batch. App
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by mikestew 9mo ago
This was addressed in the post, I'm sure you just missed it when you read it: "But a few days ago they removed ALL search functions for any books with previews, which are disproportionately modern books ." <emphasis mine&
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by mikestew 9mo ago
Not that it originated with me, but I was using that metaphor long before Google showed up.
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by mikestew 9mo ago
If it weren't for the opening sentence, I'd swear this comment was meant to be sarcastic. So now I'm left with the question of how the hell someone could post this with a straight face.
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by mikestew 9mo ago
What do you think is inside their heat exchangers but metal and water? It's a bad idea to drink hot water from the tap because of the concentration of metals that accumulate in the water heater. Don't assume that a little metal
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by mikestew 9mo ago
It’s gray water, and just as how I can’t dump gray water from my RV camper into the river, neither can a data center. After running through a heat exchanger there can be all kinds of crap in that water.
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by mikestew 9mo ago
Could America engineer an aquaduct from the great lakes to california? Good luck with that: “we mismanaged our water supply, and now we are coming for yours.” That, and the number of agreements and treaties with Canada concerning the Grea
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by mikestew 9mo ago
Late? When did Apple originally announce that it would be released?
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by mikestew 9mo ago
Nothing in the TV show takes place in the 20th century, either. The aesthetic in Fallout is what people in the 50s might have thought the year 2073 would be like, but it is not the 50s.
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by mikestew 9mo ago
I just don’t get hesitation to get vaccinated among older people. I know it happens, but I’ve never known anyone to suffer ill effects from a vaccine. I’m old enough, however, to have known multiple people suffering life-long effects from
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by mikestew 9mo ago
Of the $250 of a water bill on Seattle’s Eastside, about $50 of it is something I can do anything about (use less water). The rest is fixed costs even if I never use a drop. It isn’t hard to imagine that California isn’t much different.
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by mikestew 9mo ago
This is really cool but please don't attribute this to the success or failure of any politician. Remind us who it is you think is doing this? No one in the HN comments as of this writing. And what is a politician going to do about we
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by mikestew 9mo ago
No, it’s because Cloudflare and archive.ph have some pissing content going. I forget the details, but it has nothing to do with malware on anyone’s machine. Somewhere on HN someone has given a better explanation, but I’m not spelunking for
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by mikestew 9mo ago
Yeah, if you actually want to heat the house with fire you’ll want an insert or a wood stove. Otherwise most fireplaces in most houses are decorative, and one pays for that decoration with heat loss.
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by mikestew 9mo ago
Because ICE has been known to drag away U. S. citizens? C’mon, man, pick up a newspaper.
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by mikestew 10mo ago
My comment says nothing about being mad, nor that data go unused every month. But you do you and read it however you want, I guess.
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by mikestew 10mo ago
Mmm, this is nothing like communism, by any definition I’m aware of. Now, “$ADJECTIVE capitalism”, such as “late-stage capitalism”, that I can go along with.
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by mikestew 10mo ago
Thanks for this. I now withdraw my previous objections to the change. If we blow past the 100Gb, just upgrade, then remember to downgrade before the next month.
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by mikestew 10mo ago
It's unlikely that we will exceed 100Gb/month in the camper. But if we do, it's either slow speeds, or pay $165/month for unlimited roam every single month we use it , versus paying a little extra for the few times we g
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by mikestew 10mo ago
That's the thing, we don't regularly go over 50Gb. Probably won't go over 100Gb, either. But if we do, it's either slow speeds, or pay $165/month for unlimited roam every single month we use it , versus paying a li
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by mikestew 10mo ago
I want the old plan back. If we went over the 50Gb/month, there was the option of continuing on at $1/Gb, which is the same price per Gb as the base plan. IOW, they didn't punish you for going over. Now if we go over, it&#x27
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by mikestew 10mo ago
No, not nice. Previously, if we exceeded the 50Gb cap, there was the option to continue on at high-speed for $1/Gb. And that's the same price per Gb as the base plan of 50Gb/month for $50. Now, it's either upgrade to u
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by mikestew 10mo ago
It may come as shock to you ("Video/audio producer") It’s one thing to ignore parent’s point entry, but no reason to be an ass about it.
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by mikestew 10mo ago
Nor would it have much impact. Retail investors are a tiny part of the market. Sure, we all have 401Ks and IRAs, but are we collectively trading GOOG and MSFT? No. The people managing funds that go into those 401Ks are trading those stocks,
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by mikestew 10mo ago
Or one could just, you know, not connect it to the Internet rather than ripping apart your new TV.
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by mikestew 10mo ago
Umm, as a frequent bike commuter for a lot of my career, hell yes I complained. Every time going across Seattle’s I-90 bridge to Mercer Island, for starters. Where ever did you get the idea that cyclists aren’t complaining about headlights
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by mikestew 10mo ago
You’re probably thinking of Beats. But even then, it turns out that the original story was wrong because they were knock-off Beats. https://www.core77.com/posts/38311/Teardown-Reveals-Beats-He...
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by mikestew 10mo ago
Meh, there are probably a few valid nuggets in there, but a lot of it came across to me as “this doesn’t work the way I think it should”, whether the service works reliably or not. That, or a misguided obligation to say something negative a

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