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by plink 8y ago
His heirs should take a hard look at themselves. Then again, maybe they did and all they found was need.
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by plink 8y ago
Yes, that is food for thought. Although the Amazon situation doesn't fit the fake-yelp-reviews-about-a-hotel scenario because one's Amazon competitors are nearly infinite and constantly changing, whereas there are only a geographi
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by plink 8y ago
I feel unaffected by such fake reviews as the only ones I ascribe much value to are the negative ones. Also, I've extremely curtailed any purchasing on Amazon as I've come to perceive the majority of their marketplace to be a dege
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by plink 8y ago
Audible has only two of his works: "Lenin's Kisses", and "The Four Books". Does anyone have recommendations on other audiobook sources for his works?
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by plink 8y ago
I would hazard that Japanese "scientists" must have vaults crammed with this stuff.
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by plink 8y ago
On a similar note, why did the Hacker News podcast perish?
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by plink 8y ago
Good to know. Does LastPass have such a feature?
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by plink 8y ago
Also, if you aren't rich and can't afford security work arounds, your paltry bank accounts can't be seriously injured by bad government actors who might be tempted to sell your info to identity thieves.
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by plink 8y ago
You're quite right. I had regrets after posting that knee-jerk comment. Oddly, my dissatisfaction is heightened by the ridiculous number of upvotes I received from that post. I shall strive to improve.
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by plink 8y ago
Privacy Commissioner John Edwards had some influence over the drafting of the legislation and said he was "pretty comfortable" with where the law stood... "You know when you come into the country that you can be asked to open
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by plink 8y ago
The anesthesiologist for a family member's out patient tonsillectomy was the sole out of network component in the procedure. When they remonstrated that we should have known, I responded that maybe we should have checked if the orderly
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by plink 8y ago
My objection is that Musically is a social network. Inherently, its Chinese ownership renders it government spyware, the only kind of chat app permitted under the regime.
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by plink 8y ago
Thanks to this article I'm now aware that Musically is Chinese. That's all the info I need to explain to my kid why it needs to be deleted from her phone. Thank you, Bloomberg!
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by plink 8y ago
Escape from samsara is an entirely ideological concept and a basic pillar of the Buddhist religion.
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by plink 8y ago
As a U.S. citizen myself, I was under the impression that accelerating wealth inequality was the no-longer-so-tacit woof and weave of our culture.
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by plink 8y ago
The site was so abominably overrun with cruft and vicious pop-ups that I never even got to the auto-run video. Maybe after some ad-hunters go in and decimate the place, I might consider revisiting.
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by plink 8y ago
Or consider Woody Allen's perspective on health science in his futuristic comedy "Sleeper".
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by plink 8y ago
Maintenance costs are not going to drive up costs for Uber/Lyft. It will just increase driver churn once they've been wrung out of their maintenance subsidy gift to these platforms.
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by plink 8y ago
Sounds like the prime situation for a counter suit.
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by plink 8y ago
If the patent on Palmer Eldritch's Can-D has expired, there may be an opportunity for someone to market a generic.
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by plink 8y ago
Turkish Delight as preposterously described by C.S.Lewis: "Each piece was sweet and light to the very center and Edmund had never tasted anything more delicious."
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by plink 8y ago
It's a surprise that giving one's username and password to these plugins abdicates one's privacy? What's more surprising is the ability to earn a living by pinning one-sentence opinions to synopses of other writers'
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by plink 8y ago
It's not a political rant to point out that the USPS operates on a different (and often insensible) plane because it is a government bureau. The poster's comment isn't off topic. Although her/his post is merely anecdotal
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by plink 8y ago
School's name and professor's name please, just so your comment has evidence. ;)
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by plink 8y ago
They're becoming the stale monolith that Jobs once derided in IBM.
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by plink 8y ago
>Bullshit. They have one of the hottest stock request IPOs out there. A year ago their estimated market cap was $50B. Now its estimated at $70B. Sure doesn't sound like a no-profit company. So, Uber has outperformed Bernard L. Madof
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by plink 8y ago
Your comments about intolerance and toxicity is sequitur to what? Am I missing a deleted post or a radical edit to the parent to yours?
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by plink 8y ago
Will Germany be applying the same enforcement to these standards that they applied to VW and emissions?
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by plink 9y ago
Everyone there too rich for jailtime?
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by plink 9y ago
Watching that is tantamount to reading Act II from The King in Yellow.

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