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by mthoms 3y ago
Interesting. I'm from the same era and have the opposite opinion. To me the word "commit" implies legality, "death by suicide" seems factual and without judgement. The Centre for Suicide Prevention seems to agree. N
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by mthoms 3y ago
Upon closer inspection, it's an exact reprint of from an article from "National Review" which is a famously conservative organization. >This was a commentary piece which quoted (to comment on) other sources. Understood. I
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by mthoms 3y ago
The expression " committing suicide" has those connotations and is considered taboo by some. Maybe that's what you're thinking of? The alternative suggestion is "death by suicide" which is both technically cor
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by mthoms 3y ago
Not justify... explain .
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by mthoms 3y ago
While this case is indeed controversial and worthy of examining... I'm sceptical of "liveaction.org" as a source because it describes itself thusly: "Live Action News is pro-life news and commentary from a pro-life persp
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by mthoms 3y ago
I'm a staunch atheist and was also very cynical about this too. That is, until I attended several of these meetings in support of a friend. The intensity of the religious aspect probably varies depending on where you live but what I ob
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by mthoms 3y ago
>There are 36,974,015 registered developers Whoa. That seems like a heck of a lot. I wonder if this is active developers (those currently paying for an account as individuals or as part of a team).
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by mthoms 3y ago
Previously - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35599118 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12166585
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by mthoms 3y ago
Does anyone know how the Aerial View API would work with billing? That is, can you cache the URL of the generated video and embed that for your users? Or, would you need to make a new request for the same video on every page-view?
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by mthoms 3y ago
Looks like they already did this, more or less. >I wrote a letter twice, and sent in the mail via postage, with tracking, which was delivered, to cancel my Ad services and provide a refund. No response however.
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by mthoms 3y ago
It was written in 2011. Was that tag in regular use at that time? I have no idea.
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by mthoms 3y ago
Just a heads up to everyone complaining about the (valid) issues on mobile and elsewhere with this site. It doesn't appear to have been updated in 12 years. In 2011, the newest iPhone was the 4s. https://web.archive.org&#x2F
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by mthoms 3y ago
It's great IMO.
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by mthoms 3y ago
Ditto here. Fastmail is worth every penny. The product is better and they actually have support.
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by mthoms 3y ago
According to the site terms, the satellite imagery is available only for personal, non-commercial use and requires explicit permission otherwise. >This is one thing the US government does so much better than European governments. Their g
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by mthoms 3y ago
To be fair, Apple refunded and cancelled the subscription upon request in my instance too. But first you've got to notice the problem, and then jump through the hoops. There's no good reason I shouldn't be able to cancel an a
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by mthoms 3y ago
True, but you have no insight into subscriptions that a minor has made on your credit card as part of family sharing. One might expect them to appear there but they don't.
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by mthoms 3y ago
It's (IMO) intentionally crippled because it asks for every app install. Including free ones. Which is not only annoying, since kids play a lot of games, but also creates a time delay. For example, the child is in a special education p
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by mthoms 3y ago
Yep. It's a blatantly obvious dark pattern. It's your credit card. Your money. Yet Apple gives you no way to cancel (or even view!) a child's subscription online. Heck, they won't even tell you which child made the sub
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by mthoms 3y ago
Apple does this because the alternative would be devastatingly bad press. I mean, why do they permit 3 day trials that start billing at $9.99/week after that? For an app that creates ringtones? How many phone apps in the world are wort
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by mthoms 3y ago
Invite https://arc.net/gift/3536eabe
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by mthoms 3y ago
The article makes a direct reference to "price at checkout" though it's not quite clear to me if that wording was intentional. If they really mean "price at checkout" then we are talking about blatant price fixing t
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by mthoms 3y ago
In name only. Domains with those TLDs are available to anyone willing to pay.
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by mthoms 3y ago
This is very practical, I like it. I can’t stand listening to my own voice memos.
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by mthoms 3y ago
My 2010 Audi (bought used) has a 5 disc changer and an iPod connector. Very futuristic.
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by mthoms 3y ago
This drives me nuts. I get it, sometimes albums and songs have similar names. It seems like Siri should be able to deduce which I'm asking for given I've listened to one album over a hundred times and never listened to the random
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by mthoms 3y ago
It's useless beyond manipulating iDevices, navigation tasks and simple questions. Even then, if you don't ask in the exact right way it often doesn't work.
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by mthoms 3y ago
Here's an example, but it only applies to residents of B.C. https://app.bchydro.com/BCHCustomerPortal/createProfile.html >we can't accept generic addresses (e.g. sales@company.com). Please use an individua
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by mthoms 3y ago
I thought it unlikely too. But our local utility (BC Hydro) won't allow me to use hello@<firstname><lastname>.com because their system flags it as a generic corporate email address. According to them you must use the email
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by mthoms 3y ago
Even better, it’s a partial hash that gets sent.

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