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I wonder what the overlap is between Stadia's target market and people who watch YouTube without blocking ads. It's not zero, because Chromecast doesn't block ads and that's the natural fit for Stadia. But it's def
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Just for context if you've ever logged into a hosted multiplayer server it's almost guaranteed to not be the vanilla Minecraft server. The stock server falls down pretty quickly in multiplayer. Patched servers with various optim
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I'm not sure what GP is speculating about either but as for succession, AFAIK sovereign countries in the commonwealth have their own rules. The head of state of Canada was not the Queen of England, it was the Queen of Canada, and theo
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I have to imagine the greasy bank advisor who manages to sell one gets a free trip to Cancun.
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The last couple years have popularized a name for this: quiet quitting. Meaning, you start fulfilling the contractual obligations of your employment and not an ounce more. It recognizes that most employers want to have their cake and eat i
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It'd be interesting to follow up each of these entries with what actually superceded the original in terms of market share. "Original"/OSS/Current: Office/OpenOffice/Google Docs WinZip/7-zip/Wh
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Most people who use VPNs for privacy will readily admit that their use is based on relative trust. They know that ISPs are notorious for harvesting and granting access to browsing data, and they trust that their reputable VPN provider
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The biggest thing to remember after washing with detergent and water is the same thing to remember after just rinsing: dry it thoroughly. The easiest way to do that is to wipe it down with a towel and/or leave it on the heat for a bit
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> This is equivalent to raising the MSRP by $1500 and including 3 years of a free OnStar subscription with every purchase. Viewed in that light, what's so bad about this? For one, the latter is transparent about its pricing.
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Because if a statistically insufficient number of people are using that app, the data shouldn't be used for decision making.
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Canada has had a Bill of Rights enshrined in its constitution since 1982, it's just called the Charter of Rights and Freedoms: https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/Const/page-12.html The most controversial thi
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This is right on the money in identifying the continual battle with using a hypermedia API for system-to-system communication. There comes a time where you realize that what you're building is great for discoverability, but not for in
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>> Violators could face a misdemeanor, but only after being verbally warned and continuing to record anyway. > Exceptions were made for people at the center of an interaction with police... > They are working, you are not involv
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If you're questioning whether it's trivial to MitM a VPN connection, no it's not.
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Hosts/domains, not full URLs. The path part of a URL is encrypted and ISPs can't know it without acting as a MITM, and unless they have also installed malware/trusted certificates on your computer, there's very low like
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The only flaw in that line of thinking is that the US bears some responsibility in this. As long as the world's biggest powers are willing to exploit the situation, pretending it's a zero-sum game, the smaller powers can't d
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> Remember that neither Hobbit nor LotR originally was even in the Silmarillion universe it just sorta grew to be there. Fitting the Hobbit in actually is quite difficult. We're not talking about some abandoned setting of LotR, we&#
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> Anyway he wasn't trying to build english myths when he wrote the books he is famous for, that was more a young & ambitious college student's feverdream. If that feverish worldbuilding formed the ultimate setting of LoTR,
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I was quoting directly from my copy of the Silmarillion. But I don't agree that that later paragraph invalidates the premise that the lore of LoTR has its roots in an attempt to create English mythology. This letter was written after L
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Tolkien actually addressed Arthurian legend immediately after that quote I posted: > Of course there was and is all the Arthurian world, but powerful as it is, it is imperfectly naturalized, associated with the soil of Britain but not wi
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Interesting read. This caught my attention: > Middle Earth is framed, explicitly, as an account of the history of our world. That is, the world of the Lord of the Rings is one and the same as our world, just at a very different point in
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Identity and Supremacy, I think it's fair to say. Bourne has a certain vulnerability and both cat and mouse are sympathetic and compelling characters. By the time I got to Ultimatum and beyond it felt mostly like it was milking the f
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This is three years old. It's hard to see what posting it now is bringing to reasoned discourse.
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> They are welcome to change it going forward, they just have to agree and consolidate. That's not how innovation works. What motivation would they have to change it if all your competitors will change it step? This only hurts con
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Yeah that claim is absolutely not true. It might have made Tim Hortons known to OP, but the reason the skit worked was because Tim Hortons was already a ubiquitous part of the Canadian experience.
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Really fun! My strategy was to try to figure out the word, undo back to the beginning, then construct a backwards chain. Much easier to work backwards because you can be a lot less efficient about it.
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> I didn't get that at all. Author takes on company legally, and with little effort wins most of what they are after (~10% difference). Paying 20% of what is not your responsibility to pay is still losing. It's just losing les
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by peeters 4y ago
I'm in the same boat. I loathe having to deal with Bell, but they haven't tried to screw me in a while (they must have forgotten about me?) so I haven't had to deal with them for years. But the FTTH service they provide is
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I can't say it's not possible, but Broadcom (the corporation, not the semiconductor division within Broadcom) acts more like a holding company. I'd make a comparison to private equity but the goal there is typically to flip
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Browns (Cherry MX is the brand you might have heard referenced, but other switch manufacturers tend to align their colour coding for analogous offerings) are noticeably quieter but they're not going to sound like a mushy non-mechanical

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