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by noizejoy 7y ago
Planned obsolescence when technological progress comes in large leaps seems more forgivable, than when the technology improvements are quite small. Also integrating parts that have widely different reasonable life spans into inseparable, no
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by noizejoy 7y ago
I can’t help but wonder how much it really matters, if you have cutting edge technology that nobody gets to use, because your economy can’t get it into enough hands.
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by noizejoy 7y ago
> Certbot and LetsEncrypt make this a trivial process these days. Not on all shared hosting plans. And migrating from a shared hosting plan can be quite a lot of work, depending on the website. Also: Getting a LetsEncrypt wildcard cert f
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by noizejoy 7y ago
This is coming along with a number of regulations, including making drivers adhere to the same regulations as taxi drivers [1]. [1] https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation/vehicle-sa...
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by noizejoy 7y ago
Actually the business model seems very much in question, judging by the fact that Share Now, formerly Car2Go, is leaving North America [1] [1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/18/21028517/sharenow-car2go.
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by noizejoy 7y ago
I’ve been following privacy issues and technology for a while, but haven’t come across a foundational discussion of (a) the merits of and (b) technical implementations of different approaches to avoid fingerprinting: “hiding” vs “blending i
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by noizejoy 7y ago
I really wish discussions would better distinguish between tracking, advertising, and camouflaged advertising. I actually like advertising as one avenue of finding stuff. I just hate when tracking is bundled with advertising. And I hate whe
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by noizejoy 7y ago
> To be honest, no one cares about your career but you. Not at every company and/or with every boss. As a young worker, I’ve had managers care for my career. And when I became a manager and later as entrepreneur, I’ve always felt li
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by noizejoy 7y ago
>> I wish there was a high-quality archive of these commercials online to relive some of those memories. Even original quality might disappoint, because video quality - especially resolution/ppi has improved so dramatically since