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by morepork 4y ago
And in India they have UPI which is similar in the use of QR codes, but facilitates interbank p2p payments
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by morepork 4y ago
I wouldn't say that's a huge downside as in theory prices should be that little bit lower
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by morepork 4y ago
One of the problem's with MDM software is that corps want you to login and use your personal phone, I guess to save costs, and to make it easy for you to do work out of your regular business hours. If a company asked me to use MDM soft
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by morepork 4y ago
We're all different, I remember waking up early to run a marathon (something like 5am), being exhausted for the rest of the day, but still struggling to sleep at night around 11pm or so
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by morepork 4y ago
Given OP's 10 hour range, UTC+0 to UTC+10 is almost certainly going to be the 10 hour range that includes the most people. It includes all of Asia, Europe and Africa, and excludes both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
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by morepork 4y ago
Given India is UTC+5.5 and China is UTC+8, plus many other large countries are outside that range (Indonesia, Japan, Bangladesh, Mexico, Phillipines) I think you need to stretch it a bit
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by morepork 4y ago
Hybrids (so presumably Prius' too) are the most likely type of vehicle to catch on fire: https://www.autoinsuranceez.com/gas-vs-electric-car-fires/
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by morepork 4y ago
ICE cars are also not immune, for example: On April 25, 1996, Ford Motor Company announced it would conduct one of the largest recalls for a safety-related defect in the history of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The recall covered a
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by morepork 4y ago
Would it be much worse than a car with a full tank of gas in the garage or a few cans of diesel for a generator? A lot more potential energy in those than this battery even if fully charged.
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by morepork 4y ago
The silly thing is it would be easy to fix this from Apple's side. They know if a phone has connected to the messaging backend in X days, they could easily fall back to SMS if the recipient hasn't connected in say a week, and then
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by morepork 4y ago
/sigh
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by morepork 4y ago
Messages, Voice, Allo (rip) even Google docs: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/hotte...
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by morepork 4y ago
Push notifications are useful in browsers in all the same places they are useful in mobile apps. Note that browser push notifications also work on mobile, so you don't need to install an app to get real time alerts. For example: - Site
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by morepork 4y ago
High frequency traders would look into this, but I don't think it would be a big revenue stream for SpaceX. I used to work for a company doing microwave backhaul and they liked us as the speed of light through air is faster than fiber,
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by morepork 4y ago
I went to a Monster Jam show in ~2018, looks like they're still going: https://www.monsterjam.com/en-US/tickets
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by morepork 5y ago
Based on this, by the time you're 30, around 2% of your male high school peers have passed away, but only 1% of your female ones. Puts an interesting perspective on things.
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by morepork 5y ago
I don't think this will ever end, according to the cube rule: Pizza is toast A stack of pancakes is toast as syrup/butter is on top Nigiri sushi is not sushi, but is toast? Steamed pork buns are calzone Pita pockets are soup/
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by morepork 5y ago
Apple and Google (and others) also allow loading credit using physical cards that you purchase at retail stores. I believe the stores get around a 5-10% margin on these, i.e. you buy a $100 gift card, and the store only pays Apple/Goog
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by morepork 5y ago
£100,000 in 1969 is nearly £2 million today, so while little compared to the billion dollar adaptations in the 2000s, still a tidy sum
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by morepork 5y ago
6% seems a pretty good bump to me. Enough to get people interested, not so high that the company left heaps of cash on the table.
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by morepork 5y ago
US West coast is only 3-5 hours difference depending on daylight savings, but the day before. That's plenty of crossover for me. Australia is also 3-5 hours difference, NZ's not really close to anywhere
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by morepork 5y ago
I had a former coworker who suggested me, not sure how I'd go about it otherwise. We're remote first and are hiring for all sorts of roles if you're interested: https://www.tetrate.io/careers/ (scroll do
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by morepork 5y ago
Already working remotely for a US company :)
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by morepork 5y ago
They're mostly New Zealand staff, so cheap. Source: I'm an engineer in NZ.