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by mthoms 5y ago
>I got a refund and I know my friends who got theır refunds when they forget to cancel subscriptions in time. It's also well known policy of Apple to refund you right away. That doesn't excuse deceptive tricks used to premature
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by mthoms 5y ago
Well you don't get the refund at all if you try to cancel less than 24 hours out. As technical users, you and I both know there is no technical reason for this. None. It's designed to catch users off guard, plain and simple. The
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by mthoms 5y ago
>That's one of the things that's great about Apple's iAP and Apple being the handler of transactions. There's no tricks If you don't cancel a three day trial before the end of the second day, you are automaticall
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by mthoms 5y ago
I agree, generally. And as mentioned, I think it’s a fair thing to call out. It doesn’t make the statement that the parent said about the CBC “literally claiming” the Russians are behind it any more true.
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by mthoms 5y ago
I see an article saying BC is investigating having Covid positive health care workers return to work in a limited capacity. Your claim was that “Canada” is already allowing Covid positive doctors to “immediately” work directly with patient
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by mthoms 5y ago
One reporter asked a question about the possibility . Which, sure, is a valid thing for convoy supporters to be offended about (and/or to make you suspicious about her intentions). That's fine. I get it. But that is decidedly
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by mthoms 5y ago
>I mean, Canada has already approved Covid positive doctors going back to work immediately including treating patients. Source?
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by mthoms 5y ago
Are you in a position to know what intelligence Ottawa Police and the RCMP have on emergent threats?
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by mthoms 5y ago
>Clearview claims that they have stopped selling to Canadian clients but they don't know where the people in the images are from. Probably true if they're just scraping images, but their argument seems to be "innocence by
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by mthoms 5y ago
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is almost certainly a customer (though no-one will ever admit it). They could be the ones pushing Clearview to fight this in Canadian court.
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by mthoms 5y ago
The FAQ claims "Deskreen works faster and smoother than VNC based solutions" but I'm sceptical. I'd love to hear from anyone who can vouch for this.
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by mthoms 5y ago
Ditto on Safari desktop.
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by mthoms 5y ago
AFAIK There's nothing wrong with doing so. The comment was on topic, and the project is interesting. One of the most discussed projects on HN in the past year or so has been GPT-3 which is (was?) pretty hard to get access to.
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by mthoms 5y ago
Where does it explain/prove that "most of what you are doing" is being recorded. That's a really bold claim. I understand that launching apps pings an apple server to check certificates (for example) but I've neve
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by mthoms 5y ago
Congrats for publishing your first blog post. It's a big step. >The other thing I really dislike about Apple is their stance on privacy. They're bad, like really bad on privacy. Despite the advertising hypocrisy, which since th
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by mthoms 5y ago
I've not yet heard this allegation, do you have a relevant link? Edit: found it, never mind. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/chamath-palihapitiya...
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by mthoms 5y ago
How does one find such a fund?
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by mthoms 5y ago
Well, Alameda and FTX were founded by the same person. Up until very recently Sam was CEO of both companies at once. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bankman-Fried Edit: I suspect Alameda uses data from FTX but mi
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by mthoms 5y ago
Excellent book. I’d buy a typescript version in a heartbeat.
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by mthoms 5y ago
I suspect it’s because they want to verify they can withdraw from the account, not just deposit. Maybe they have deposit-only account links but IIRC the default is two-way. That’s because, for example, you can subscribe to various services
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by mthoms 5y ago
I'm embarrassed to say I think you're right. I'll try to be better.
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by mthoms 5y ago
I really think you're conflating the (subjective) expression about an entity being a "major/minor player" with the factual claim of a company having a majority or minority marketshare . They're different, but you&#
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by mthoms 5y ago
Just because they don’t have a majority share of global sales doesn’t make them a “minority player”. That’s not really what that term means. The term “minority player” means they have less influence/importance than the “major players”
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by mthoms 5y ago
> people in authoritarian regimes don't necessarily suffer. What!? By definition , they suffer. It's right in the definition of the word: favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government,
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by mthoms 5y ago
>nothing else. Come on. There are people in this very thread who are using it to evade draconian currency controls their governments have imposed. Are they lying? Whether the positives outweigh the negatives in Crypto is subject to debat
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by mthoms 5y ago
>So. "All things considered", what's your opposition to what I wrote and not to what you imagine I wrote? OK. Lets' start here. Do you have citation for any of these gems? > the vast majority of people in this worl
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by mthoms 5y ago
The title doesn’t seem to match the tone or tenor of the article very well. It could just as easily say “US Covid deaths are 3x that of Canada’s - despite its hospital bed shortages. The difference? A more collectivist ethos.”
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by mthoms 5y ago
>There are very few such governments on earth, all things considered I'm not going to wade into any of the crypto arguments here but your repeated downplaying of dysfunctional/authoritarian/corrupt/failing governments
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by mthoms 5y ago
I agree with the general point (I think) you're making but I think there is some nuance here. It's not just ego, at least not for everybody. There is extra enjoyment to be had knowing that you came into ownership of something ac
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by mthoms 5y ago
GiroCard sounds neat. Will have to look into it. >But no one cares about useful traditional financial products, as you can't create a ponzi scheme fueled by money laundering with useful traditional products. You can't create a

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