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by navigatr 7y ago
Texas is about to execute a man who was convicted on DNA evidence[1]. His crime? Having an affair with a cop's wife. His DNA was found in the victim's body. There is sworn testimony that the husband confessed to the murder of his
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by navigatr 7y ago
I believe that constraints breed creative solutions.
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by navigatr 7y ago
Is the RPi4 mainlined in the kernel, or does the board require porting new kernel versions?
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by navigatr 7y ago
Gnome 3 is pretty great and so is Ubuntu 19.10. I have my parents on both and they seem to like it just fine.
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by navigatr 7y ago
I would pay $1/mo for a chronological feed of my friends' updates and posts. I found Twitter and Facebook to be frustratingly unusable after they removed their chronological feeds in favor of feeds that prioritize ads and engage
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by navigatr 7y ago
This is called a hostel or a flop house.
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by navigatr 7y ago
I commute in NJ and used ride hailing apps until it was just cheaper to use taxis. I wouldn't use any liaison service at an airport, they're going to charge an arm and a leg for the purported convenience. Edit: I'm not doxxin
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by navigatr 7y ago
These talking points died in 2016. Now that Uber isn't subsidizing rides with investor's money and raised their fares, Uber is actually more expensive than taxis in NJ. There's no reason ride hailing companies need to violate
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by navigatr 7y ago
You can blame some conspiracy theory involving politicians colluding to trick their constituents, or you can listen to the lived experiences of residents in Jersey City that have to live next to nuisance short-term rentals. Parties all nigh
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by navigatr 7y ago
I didn't know Craiglist determined your rates and claims to own the relationship between you and your clients.
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by navigatr 7y ago
They get bought out frequently. Juno is big in the NYC metro area that covers a lot of North Jersey. Curb, Via, and Gett also operate there.
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by navigatr 7y ago
The best part of Firefox for Android is that browser extensions work with it. That means you can have uBlock Origin on your phone.
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by navigatr 7y ago
There are plenty of competitors in NJ chomping at the bit to eat Uber and Lyft's lunch.
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by navigatr 7y ago
Yep, nearly 70% of voters voted against allowing short-term rentals. AirBnb spent over $4 million on that local election alone[1]. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/06/airbnb-suffers-setback-in-je...
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by navigatr 7y ago
They'd lose out on a huge market where there are already competitor apps to both Lyft and Uber.
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by navigatr 7y ago
Jersey City just had a public referendum on short-term rentals that AirBnB spent millions of dollars lobbying against. It's good to see that the both the public and its elected officials are coming up to speed on the realities companie
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by navigatr 7y ago
Red Hat has long support contracts for their server OSes that shipped with Python 2 when it was still kosher to do so. That means they'll patch Python 2 should vulnerabilities be found on their OS.
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by navigatr 7y ago
> Is Google just not able to compete with SEO tactics? Or are they over-excited about/reliant on ML/"AI" techniques that don't work well in practice? Those SEO'd pages are optimized for generating revenue, s
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by navigatr 7y ago
You get this with Snaps, Flatpak and AppImages
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by navigatr 7y ago
There are a dozen of cloud-based web apps that interface with IRC.