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by pnw 3y ago
Because Norway heavily subsidized EV with exemption from the 25% VAT tax as well as perks like free parking. Which is ironic given they are basically the Nordic Saudi Arabia.
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by pnw 3y ago
Agreed, that was one of the few recent SF films that didn’t seem formulaic.
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by pnw 3y ago
Lifeforce was pretty bonkers, especially for my teenage self who couldn’t get enough of the female lead. Hard to believe it’s the same director as Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist - although Spielberg allegedly directed most of Polte
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by pnw 3y ago
Some great movies on this list, I own most of them on physical media. Rollerball was just released in 4k and it looks glorious. I disagree with the commentary though, I think Rollerball still stands up and is quite prophetic in some ways es
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by pnw 3y ago
I’m in the EU this week and I had no idea that the cookie banners were so obnoxious, every site has a huge page blocking banner, and plenty of US news sites seem to block EU traffic entirely. I had to use a VPN to access some sites.
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by pnw 3y ago
It was a great read btw, thanks for sharing it.
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by pnw 3y ago
I knew immediately on reading the article that it was about Audiogon.
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by pnw 3y ago
Before Apple bought them and discontinued the product last year, the Beddit sleep monitor was the best option for me. I’ve had mine for years and use it religiously. It’s a small sensor that goes on your mattress. You may be able to find on
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by pnw 3y ago
The page you are thinking of is probably https://www.wendycarlos.com/pruri.html I agree, Wendy is a pioneer and has an incredible body of work. It’s a shame her music is mostly out of print and not available to stream. I re
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by pnw 3y ago
More accurately, you can’t alter or remove the VIN. I don’t believe it has to be visible at all times. Some car owners obscure their VIN because of public sourced databases like Vinwiki. https://www.justice.gov/archives&#x2F
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by pnw 3y ago
Maybe it’s just me, but the further the prompts get from a concrete descriptions of instruments and compositions to abstract ideas and emotions, the more random and unpleasant the result.
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by pnw 3y ago
Nothing killed my creative instinct quicker than having to mess with a PC based DAW and sequencer, and all of the attendant software complexity. Even worse, it’s online so distractions are just a click away.
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by pnw 3y ago
There’s a study that proposes AMBER is mostly crime control theater. It’s also fairly redundant given widespread ALPR. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249772258_Child_abd...
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by pnw 3y ago
I remember Sergey skydiving onto the roof of Moscone in 2012, and everyone getting one of those cool Nexus Q media players which they never actually released so they all ended up as landfill. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by pnw 3y ago
Interesting that the OP doesn’t consistently get the “stalker” warning. I see it consistently within 30-45 mins when I’m with a dog whose tag is registered to someone else and they leave my vicinity. It’s a shame Apple had to kill the theft
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by pnw 3y ago
They will also notify an Android phone if they have installed the app which Apple created for this purpose. I have to imagine thieves would know about this.
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by pnw 3y ago
This is a terrible suggestion because Apple has effectively removed the anti-theft features of Airtags in favor of protection against stalking. The thief will be notified of the tag in less than an hour usually. I see the alert anytime I mi
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by pnw 3y ago
I agree with you on the tactile angle, but the Tesla touch screen offers larger font sizes for people with presbyopia which is something that physical controls cannot offer.
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by pnw 3y ago
Thanks, interesting read. I guess the decision to sell all of those 100,00 shares at the Apple IPO was a pretty expensive blunder.
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by pnw 3y ago
Japan already has a lot of semi-abandoned older properties that you can buy comparatively cheaply but the cost of bringing them up to modern standards is prohibitive due to regulation as I understand it. https://www.nytimes.com&#
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by pnw 3y ago
Xerox received Apple stock for those meetings which they sold in the IPO. I’ve never seen anyone do a calculation of the present value of that stock but it’s probably a significant fraction of Xerox’s market cap today.
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by pnw 3y ago
Well, they certainly did that. But how many billions of dollars in mobile revenue did they lose once Apple and Google dropped their game from the app stores? Pretty expensive PR exercise.
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by pnw 3y ago
There's a group of individuals who sued the federal government in the 1970s and won the legal right to use cannabis for medical purposes under the Investigational New Drug program. The first case was United States v. Randall. I believe
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by pnw 4y ago
I’d be happy to switch to T Mobile if they could stop leaking their customers data.
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by pnw 4y ago
Same here, just reading the catalog was eye opening. I still remember the disclaimer in the Loompanics books.”Not for sale to prisoners or Canadians”.
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by pnw 4y ago
Roon: a very promising service, but one geared more towards the audiophile audience and with hardware requirements I'm not interested in investing in at this point. If you've spent all of the time and effort to put your audio co
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by pnw 4y ago
Articles like this and reading about the FDA forcing drug manufacturers to replace pseudoephedrine (effective cold medicine) with phenylephrine (basically a placebo) really make me wonder about the intelligence level of the federal agencies
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by pnw 4y ago
You heard right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by pnw 4y ago
Tesla have reduced their palette to just five colors, presumably to cut costs. Porsche is the leader in paint color choice, no doubt about that, with 14 basic colors plus custom options. And to your point, consumers are willing to wait for
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by pnw 4y ago
Pretty hard to get NET30 invoicing on a transaction which is less than $450, especially if you've chosen the monthly plan. It's just not worth the labor chasing an unpaid $450 invoice every damn month.

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