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by nostromo 4y ago
The tech part of streaming no longer matters and Netflix is in serious trouble due to their lack of quality content. I'm no fan of Disney, but you have to give it to Bob Iger. He just paid out the nose to buy every piece of valuable I
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by nostromo 4y ago
I’m glad I’m not alone thinking this. 10 years ago it was the best of the best. Now it tries way to hard to be cute and “engaging.” I think media types decided everything needed to be like Vox Explainers, so now everything sounds like it’
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by nostromo 4y ago
The article concludes that there isn't evidence it's being done -- which is different. Apple should not be trusted without evidence. We should be able to verify what our devices are sending to Apple, Google and others.
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by nostromo 4y ago
That’s not the same. A complicated tax code is different than a complicated filing process. We can all hate Intuit for one but not the other.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Intuit does not "keep tax codes complex" -- your legislators do that all on their own. Intuit does try to prevent the IRS from making it easier to file electronically for free -- that much is true.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Street lights are way too common. Let's phase them out entirely on non-pedestrian streets. This is one of my favorite things about Palm Springs, which has almost no street lights. The darkness at night is truly beautiful. And it sav
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by nostromo 4y ago
This is actually a problem with your car. Some cars will issue a play audio command immediately upon connection. If no songs are in your iPhone's music queue, it will dutifully start from the top. Most newer cars won't do this,
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by nostromo 4y ago
The car is much too individualistic for 1984. The train is much more on-theme as it's very controllable by a central authority.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Compare 1940 to 1960, 1960 to 1980, 1980 to 2000 -- then compare 2000 to 2020. 2000 to 2020 is the least impressive 20 year period by a long shot.
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by nostromo 4y ago
The price was 1.5m pounds, as the ship was not built in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic
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by nostromo 4y ago
The Titanic was built a bit over 100 years ago for 1.5m pounds -- today that'd buy you a nice London two-bedroom apartment. I wonder if in 100 years from now, people will casually be talking about their nice (but modest) London two-bed
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by nostromo 4y ago
> Compare that to the Reddit video player This is worthy of it's own question. Why is Reddit's player so uniquely bad? It's worse than any other video player on the entire internet.
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by nostromo 4y ago
I really tried to like it -- but didn't. It wasn't a problem with the material, but the cast. Lyra and Will were just flat as could be. They both seemed bored, not as if they were involved with a multi-dimensional struggle of go
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by nostromo 4y ago
After reading about how Coca-Cola allegedly fought proposed restrictions on SNAP benefits from being spent on sugary drinks by calling legislators racist — and it worked — it wouldn’t surprise me if there’s some truth here. https:/&#x
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by nostromo 4y ago
It’s befuddling. Big Co: let’s acquire this beloved series for $X00 million. … Big Co: ok writers, feel free to completely ignore the content we just paid endless riches to acquire and change it however you’d like. … Big Co: strange, the fa
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by nostromo 4y ago
They will cut the cord eventually. Remember, iPods required a Mac at first. Then a Mac or a PC. Then neither.
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by nostromo 4y ago
> we’re here only to be productive The heat death of the universe will destroy anything you do with your life and will erase any possibility of it being recorded or remembered. So… enjoy life. All you have is the current moment. Produc
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by nostromo 4y ago
Good, people need to stop feeling bad about not always being productive.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Fun fact: most latinos are white. Several South American countries have more European ancestry than does the US.
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by nostromo 4y ago
In court it's better to not know since it's harder to prove intent.
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by nostromo 4y ago
No, the Civil Rights Act does not compel collection of this data. It's not an "automatic bad sign" if a company doesn't collect it. In fact, it can work against you in the case of a lawsuit. You are correct that the go
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by nostromo 4y ago
This is partly true. The other reason is because lawns are ornamental and food is utilitarian.
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by nostromo 4y ago
HomeBridge really is a game changer for making smart home devices work with HomeKit while supporting user privacy. Also: PiHole for ad and tracker blocking.
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by nostromo 4y ago
It’s a Silicon Valley pro-tip: spelling and grammatical mistakes are signs that you’re super busy or too rich to care. There’s a few famous VCs that are apparently too busy to ever capitalize a letter... Too busy to shift!
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by nostromo 4y ago
Yes, there are. It’s well known there is an opioid crisis happening in the US, and this is the impact.
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by nostromo 4y ago
> Including ideas that are probably-illegal Many locales don't require building permits for mobile structures (like cars and trailers). I've wondered if someone could buy some parking lots and just park nice mobile homes on the
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by nostromo 4y ago
If you talk to people that work with the homeless, rent doesn't seem to be a driving factor. Rent of any amount would be too much for folks in tents because they are dealing with larger issues -- often substance abuse and mental illne
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Twitter suffers major outage, leaving users unable to log on(aljazeera.com)
121 points by nostromo 4y ago|39 comments
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by nostromo 4y ago
The actual answer is buried at the end of a long article. > Unlike many rival airlines, Southwest’s planes generally hop from one city to another, rather than orbiting a major hub. That approach lets Southwest maximize use of its planes
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by nostromo 4y ago
Telcos are one of the most regulated industries in existence. And as I point out in my sibling comment, bad regulation is the reason this problem exists: because telcos are not legally able to block most spam calls. If not for this regulat

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