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by plushpuffin 5y ago
My experience with the NHS is that it's a way for a community to get free labor out of already overworked students in exchange for an extra line item on their college application. I don't think most of the students involved were g
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
It reminds me of the ISIS puzzle orb, an expensive 3D puzzle that seemed to exist just to collect the personal information of people willing to spend lots of money on luxury goods. http://blog.rongarret.info/2009/12&#x2
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
If you've got old people who want to talk, can't you connect them with each other and not have to pay people to talk to them? Then you can charge a lower price since it's merely a matchmaking service. Or is the payment an inc
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
I found a way to stop the ads on Roku without having to use a PiHole or other DNS filtering. Not sure if I should share it in case Roku engineers are browsing and fix my method.
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
It's hard to overstate just how bad the Windows 10 UI is compared to 7. Just look at this example of how Windows 7 visually shows you the differences between the various desktop stretching/fitting options, and Windows 10 leaves yo
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
Block the account whose tweet is being promoted, and/or the account promoting it (sometimes there will be tiny text saying "promoted by"). You'll never see tweets from that brand again, whether promoted or unpromoted. Af
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
In the novel Permutation City by Greg Egan, people deal with this by editing their memory every once in a while so that every experience feels fresh. One guy even edits his personality so he becomes obsessed with something for a random amou
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
This is the setting for a sci-fi novel by Frederik Pool called The World at the End of Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_at_the_End_of_Time
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
You can get a much better deal than that. Sign up for Curiosity Stream using a promoted bundle link and you get Nebula free with it. It's only $12/year this way. Here's one from the LegalEagle guy: https://curiosit
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by plushpuffin 6y ago
Oh, apparently this was also on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26466435
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by plushpuffin 6y ago
I read an article recently arguing that his reputation is overblown: The mind of God? The problem with deifying Stephen Hawking - Prospect Magazine - https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/stephen-hawking-...
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by plushpuffin 6y ago
Do you mean as of right now, or at the time you posted?
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by plushpuffin 6y ago
A few years ago, they wouldn't have. Now they would, and should. The GOP has escalated and the Democrats need to respond in kind by expanding the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary, to undo the damage caused by years of Republican
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by plushpuffin 6y ago
The Senate has traditionally accepted the president's nominee assuming s/he was qualified. Garland had previously been out forward by the GOP as an example of a qualified and respected judge. And let's not forget that had Cli
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by plushpuffin 6y ago
It's funny that you lament the suppression of class-action lawsuits without considering why they are in decline. They are in decline because corporations want them to go away. The scenario you advocate is: 1. Unions are outlawed. 2. Cl
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by plushpuffin 6y ago
I'm sorry but that is just insane. What about the company employing the workers? What about the owner/CEO/board members of that company? Will they be similarly restricted? The whole point of the union is collective bargaining
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by plushpuffin 6y ago
You should read the Beggars trilogy by Nancy Kress. It's about a world that gradually devolves into just that.
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by plushpuffin 6y ago
I think one of the big problems with trying to predict and constrain corporations is that they all basically have OCD. They are obsessed with whatever it is they do and they task all their agents with figuring out how to optimize and achiev
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by plushpuffin 6y ago
I read that the T2 chip really messed with some audio hardware by saturating the USB 2.0 hub. That might be one thing? https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/02/19/pro-audio-glitch-...
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by plushpuffin 6y ago
OK, let's nail this down. Who are the insurgents, and what is their goal?
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by plushpuffin 7y ago
A great example involves marsupials. I read once that marsupial evolution is restricted by their need to be able to crawl/climb into their mother's pouch. So, it's highly unlikely that there will ever be a hoofed marsupial.
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by plushpuffin 7y ago
You just write REFUSED on the unopened letter. It's best to scribble out your address to prevent their automated system from simply re-delivering it to you. I do this on postcards as well (which cannot be opened by definition) and they
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by plushpuffin 7y ago
I spent 5 years trying to get AT&T Time Warner to stop sending monthly ads for their cable internet. I finally got someone to admit that they don't maintain a "do not mail" list and that every other CSR I spoke to had lie
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by plushpuffin 7y ago
You are incorrect, but only technically. You can opt out of EDDM at the DMA website, but the whole chain of custody for handling the opt-out is so convoluted that it's effectively pointless. What happens is that the DMA maintains an op
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by plushpuffin 7y ago
That was in the April 2004 issue of Scientific American: Evolution Encoded. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26047680?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co... https://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/1233
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by plushpuffin 7y ago
Also, Best Buy used to have an internal website at their stores with higher prices so they could claim their in-store prices were the same as their website prices https://consumerist.com/2007/02/best-buys-secret-em
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by plushpuffin 7y ago
It absolutely does mention this, in language almost identical to yours. From the article: > In theory, e-commerce is good for the environment... Instead of a neighborhood worth of people driving to stores in their personal cars to shop,
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by plushpuffin 7y ago
They allow your workplace to remotely administer your work account without giving them full control over your whole device.
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by plushpuffin 7y ago
Personally, I think even without Internet Explorer ruining Do-Not-Track (which I also think Microsoft torpedoed on purpose by making it the default), the tracking companies wouldn't have respected it. They were looking for an excuse no
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by plushpuffin 8y ago
You can install a different home app. I use Nova Launcher, which lets you customize the search bar or remove it entirely.

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