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by nerdawson 4y ago
> It’s really a badly marketed product. I think the marketing is really smart. It's positioned as a new category of product. Oven on steroids won't sell because people already own ovens. It has to be a distinct appliance otherw
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by nerdawson 4y ago
I disagree. They both have the potential to cause serious harm in different ways. Candy is more destructive physically. It's everywhere. No one parent has the power to stop it, so it makes sense for the state to do so.
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by nerdawson 4y ago
Obesity is a problem too - no chocolate without ID /s The state can't be a substitute for good parenting.
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by nerdawson 4y ago
Semaglutide is available on the NHS but I wouldn't currently qualify. It'd only be prescribed if I met certain criteria such as having type 2 diabetes. It's a case of either paying for a private prescription now, or waiting u
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by nerdawson 4y ago
I did a little bit of research and for people in the UK it appears to be substantially less. I found a few health companies offering it for <$250/mo. I’ll probably wait until it’s readily available on the NHS but it is tempting.
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by nerdawson 4y ago
I wonder how widespread the phenomenon is. I'm based in the UK and those are my thoughts exactly.
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by nerdawson 4y ago
Convenience. I want to use the built in apps for Netflix, YouTube, etc. LG gave me the option of being tracked. I declined. That’s the only thing that should matter.
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by nerdawson 4y ago
Yeah, that'd be my guess too. Either that or an update. Regardless it's convenient that it forgets my tracking preferences, defaults to the most permissive options possible, and doesn't forget all my other settings.
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by nerdawson 4y ago
LG enabled tracking without my consent. I have an LG C8 OLED. I wanted the convenience of a smart TV without being tracked so I carefully went through every setting and turned it all off. I followed an article detailing what all the trackin
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by nerdawson 4y ago
40 hours of total work. Not 40h of your best work, 40h of output. If that lands you in the bottom 15%, I’d start looking for other opportunities. I’ve been in your shoes. We had time tracking and for me to consistently log 40h of actual wor
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by nerdawson 4y ago
That’s minimum wage in most countries. Tech salaries are lower in Europe than the US but that has to be exaggeration. Either that or you’re looking in the wrong places.
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by nerdawson 4y ago
That's not the way I read it. Like you said, they must have agreed a per unit price. The mistake had to have been purely in volume. When they recognised the mixup with cases / bags, they wouldn't have pushed to deliver the ac
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by nerdawson 4y ago
It’s hard for people to engage in pile-ons for their own amusement and maintain that they’re a good person if they spend too much time dwelling on the lives of the people they’re ruining.
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by nerdawson 4y ago
That trivialises the destruction of peoples’ lives. It’s that sort of thought pattern that allows the mob to justify its behaviour. Getting “cancelled” causes real world harm. Imagine losing your job, being too toxic to find work elsewhere,
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by nerdawson 4y ago
No, that’s highly unusual. Maybe people know a handful of greetings / numbers in other languages but I think you’re vastly overestimating the number of people capable of speaking more than one language.
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by nerdawson 4y ago
I think the other problem is that when people are thinking up “random” words on their own, they aren’t pulling from the English dictionary. Common vocabulary is a much smaller set.
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by nerdawson 4y ago
Regardless it’s inappropriate to republish that email address unless he displays it publicly himself
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by nerdawson 4y ago
Is that same risk present if you use the app? My understanding is the app decrypts the vault locally. I guess they could put out a malicious update but then you’d be impacted whether there was a cloud-free option or not.
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by nerdawson 4y ago
TSB’s parent company is Sabadell which is a massive Spanish corporation. I was a Solbank (one of their brands) customer and can safely say tech isn’t their strong point. Awful UX and a pain to deal with.
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by nerdawson 4y ago
Is that relevant though? Twitter is stable (enough) now. It's competing against present day Twitter, not the Twitter of years past.
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by nerdawson 4y ago
> The Fediverse will eventually establish a concrete way for handling that sort of matters. They've had years to get this right. This is their moment to shine and they're blowing it.
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by nerdawson 4y ago
What better way to prompt someone to establish themselves on an alternative than demonstrate just how fragile their presence on Twitter is.
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by nerdawson 4y ago
Photos taken on phones often contain GPS data. If someone publicly shares a photo they’ve taken and the data isn’t scrubbed, it’s trivial to find out where the photo was taken. Just because it’s easy to uncover doesn’t mean it’s fine to go
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by nerdawson 4y ago
If that’s true then it’s not doxxing at all and fair game. Ultimately planes are tracked and the information made public. If you’re concerned about privacy, travel by different means.
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by nerdawson 4y ago
I would have agreed and recently made the same argument on HN re the Twitter bans. What I’ve since learned however is that tracking his jet requires a combination of public and private information. He’s part of a privacy scheme which routin
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by nerdawson 4y ago
I don’t think the severity of the injury should dictate whether a corporation is at fault or not. Accidents happen in unexpected ways. If you drop a glass in a restaurant and cut yourself on a shard, is the restaurant to blame? After all, t
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by nerdawson 4y ago
I feel you’re presenting a straw man. I’m not suggesting we hold corporations blameless in all circumstances, merely that we can’t abdicate all personal responsibility for our own safety.
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by nerdawson 4y ago
Like many British people, I drink several cups of tea per day. A process that entails boiling water to 100C. Most people here make coffee at home in the same way. We trust children to have enough common sense to realise that boiling hot wat
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by nerdawson 4y ago
> I hear people saying the hot coffee lawsuit should have been thrown out , and to me that's just crazy that anyone would want to allow safety standards to go on ignored to that level. I think it's a matter of taking personal r
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by nerdawson 4y ago
Systems like that already exist. They’re known as Concentrated Solar Power: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power

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