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by perardi 6y ago
I am fully in support of Google using their monopoly power to bury Pinterest results. Really. Go ahead and stifle a company, because in this particular case, they make Google’s search results worse.
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Quibi may have to shut down if buyer not found(news.yahoo.com)
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Katzenberg Tried to Sell Quibi Content, Raising Questions About Service’s Future(theinformation.com)
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by perardi 6y ago
Bingo. In the past (and this was a while ago), you had to pay a cancellation surcharge, even if you were month to month, unless you found someone to take over your plan .
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by perardi 6y ago
Fair. And you’d think Google would care more there, as there’s a direct paying relationship.
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by perardi 6y ago
My ad-hoc monopoly test has always been customer service. And who exactly is Google’s customer? The Gmail user, or the ad buyer?
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by perardi 6y ago
Have you ever tried to cancel a gym membership? It’s a stretch to imagine any gym has a monopoly, and yet…
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by perardi 6y ago
I am getting up there in years , but when I was young, they were also teaching us reading in kindergarten. I can recall, with certainty, these folks… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Letter_People …and I am fairly sur
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by perardi 6y ago
Did you ever know that you’re my hero? (I had no idea. Thank you. That’s a nice shortcut.)
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by perardi 6y ago
but there's something about the way the UI is structured that always feels a bit disorienting to me I still cannot seem to hold a mental map in my head of where to get to DMs. (It’s under Home.)
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by perardi 6y ago
I assume credit card processors blocking transactions on, say, porn sites. Or maybe foreign money transfers?
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by perardi 6y ago
Canada has been going through a second wave. (Well, Ontario and Quebec are, with Winnipeg as a bubbling hot spot. But given most of the country lives in Ontario and Quebec…) https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/countr
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by perardi 6y ago
Uh-huh. So, uh, use those clients? Chrome will presumably even send ftp:// links to those clients.
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by perardi 6y ago
Was it Cyberdog? I know that’s extremely obscure, but… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberdog
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by perardi 6y ago
That’s a powerful set of scare quotes around “legacy”. FTP, by any reasonable definition, is legacy, and if you need FTP, you have FileZilla, or the terminal.
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by perardi 6y ago
Yeah, that’s my anecdotal take. Montreal has had relatively cheap rent, and it’s attracted the youths. (Assuming said youths work for an English company and can get transferred, or they speak French.) Not surprised to see Ottawa up a bit. S
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by perardi 6y ago
And just north of the border: Toronto rent prices are down 14.9% year-over-year. https://rentals.ca/national-rent-report (Detached home prices? Up 10.8%, to an average of $1.14 million CAD. Sigh.)
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by perardi 6y ago
Yes. “The Nazis were bad” is, generally, a pretty easy PR statement. Here, let’s spin up a really hard one. “Given the historical discrimination against Catholics, Facebook should delete all posts that discriminate against Amy Coney Barrett
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by perardi 6y ago
I get some wild forearm pain if I work too long on a laptop (coffee shop, on couch with dog) , or if I hold my phone too long (Pokémon Go, there are literally dozens of us.) In particular, it really seems to be in my brachioradialis musc
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by perardi 6y ago
Raw performance is great, and it’s easy to salivate over that. (Or be concerned that you're getting a 5% bump at the cost of no x86 virtualization.) But I think Apple is doing this for a different performance metric: battery life in th
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by perardi 6y ago
Yeah, in this particular case, they were just glaringly stupid. Just gaming out ideas in my head. I have friends from rather more repressive countries, namely China, where being gay is still a grey area in terms of legality and acceptance,
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by perardi 6y ago
Extremely anecdotally: it’s [person_name]@gmail.com I know of very few friends who go through the process of creating a burner email account to sign up for Grindr. Now, maybe that’s different in other countries, but at least in the States,
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by perardi 6y ago
OK, I know it’s easy to say “well of course it’s not safe, don’t send nudes and don’t go on sketchy hookups”. But, to paraphrase Drag Race: men are rotted gila monsters. (I’m a gay male, I can say that. Also I speak from experience. I&#x27
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by perardi 6y ago
(though WFH due to COVID has truly brought to bear the shitty upload speed my home connection has) What’s the old saw about “the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes”? Yeah, that. It would be faster (if obviously not economical) to
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by perardi 6y ago
Not a particularly useful comment, but, wow: melatonin is a prescription in Australia? I mean, there are potential complications to melatonin…but I think it’s hard to argue that it’s less safe than paracetamol or aspirin.
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by perardi 6y ago
Sounds like a commenter who knows what’s up. Is storage a problem because of hydrogen loss due to diffusion, container embrittlement, or just the sheer nastiness of compressing and chilling something that can done blow up on you?
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by perardi 6y ago
A non-press release summary: https://www.thedrive.com/news/36687/california-bans-the-sale... “Newsom's measure specifically targets the sale of new vehicles and is believed not to forbid the transfer of exis
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by perardi 6y ago
What would FirefoxOS have brought to the average consumer or phone manufacturer? If your selling points are “it’s all web apps and open source, isn’t that great!”, that is a…marketing challenge, to be sure.
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by perardi 6y ago
…did it not trip anyone’s early-warning sensors that they named their company Nikola, so that they could piggyback on Tesla’s name recognition?
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by perardi 6y ago
“Their business model would make money even if they started the fleet with gas powered trucks” Here, I have this nice bridge, would you like to buy it, perhaps via a SPAC? Their business model seemed to be centered around building out a h

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