posguy

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by posguy 6y ago
What are you on about? UPS and FedEx will happily charge you more to deliver to high cost locations, whereas getting a 50lb parcel overnighted from one low cost location to another is usually around $30 if you have a volume rate. There is h
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by posguy 6y ago
Buying up all the land that contains a particular resource then guarding it, thus permanently locking said resource away is one way to monopolize a market vertical.
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by posguy 6y ago
How much does it cost to provide accurate pricing? Often the cost of metering can drastically outweigh the economic value of a simple, easy to understand/predict shipping service. This is why flat rate packaging is so popular across Fe
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by posguy 6y ago
Spotify, Qwant, Here Maps, Minecraft, etc
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by posguy 6y ago
Independent Print and Copy shops are pretty common still, meanwhile every shipping store (eg: UPS Store, FedEx Office, local independent mail shops) and library offers inexpensive printer use. Hard to build a business when there is ubiquito
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by posguy 6y ago
OP is complaining in part about the instance blocks (eg: most instances block FreeSpeechExtremist.com and instances that carry child porn) and users blocking other users across instances. If these tools were not available, most instances wo
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by posguy 6y ago
Check out Dwolla and KeyBank KeyNavigator.
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by posguy 6y ago
Google has no support, and when you do not pay they will brick every Google account you have. Start a Google Takeout immediately if you have any personal data, and if you use Gmail then update all accounts to a non-Google email address. Goo
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by posguy 6y ago
None of the cities I listed charge that little in head tax: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-businesses... This measure is progressive taxation on earnings over $150k a year, if anything its a boon for
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by posguy 6y ago
Mountlake Terrace (10.5% sales tax), Edmonds (10.4% sales tax), Lynnwood (head tax[1]), Bellevue and other cities that are on the periphery of Seattle have equal or higher taxes. Seattle had a head tax up until 2008, if a minor increase in
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by posguy 6y ago
Most of the OrangePi lineup has full mainline kernel support now, thanks to projects like Linux-SUNXI and Armbian. Here is the status matrix: https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort#Status_Matri...
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by posguy 6y ago
The Allwinner A64 has nearly complete mainline kernel support at this point, hence the release of the PinePhone: https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort#Status_Matri...
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by posguy 6y ago
TSMC is literally Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, and I doubt the other leading edge fab clients like Nvidia & AMD would appreciate Apple owning TSMC. If anything, this business is too capital intensive for Apple to want to hold
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by posguy 6y ago
The fediverse has proven quite resilient to trolls, bots and numerous other challenges as users and instance operators can block other users and instances, (or mute/content warn media) among numerous other moderation tools to prevent b
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by posguy 6y ago
Please provide evidence of this "deep integration" with mobile networks. Moxie has cited this previously with no proof, despite protocols like xmpp performing similarly on mobile networks.
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by posguy 6y ago
No, T-Mobile forces everything through Inteliquent (aka Onvoy/Vitelity) as of a few years ago. They all likely share the same STIR/SHAKEN vendor, and Comcast is affected too (Comcast has working STIR/SHAKEN that interacts pro
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by posguy 6y ago
Where was the order to disperse in Seattle? It definitely was not announced on Saturday before the Seattle Police Department started attacking protestors. Mayor Jenny Durkan didn't even send the emergency curfew alert much before 5pm.
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by posguy 6y ago
Get a new card ASAP, and start migrating away from Google. Google has worked hard to earn a reputation as an untrustworthy platform that will delete your data at whim. Don't be that person that knew they should have used Google Takeout
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by posguy 6y ago
Look at the state of our communications infrastructure today. These "modern" coax networks have no redundancy and so so reliability (eg: Comcast's Node+0 nodes occasionally have their IP stack fall over, requiring a reboot).
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by posguy 6y ago
Seems way more responsive than Ubports in those videos! I'm going to go try this on my Pinephone, am excited :P
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by posguy 6y ago
The Linspire app store was great, it made Linux easier than Windows for my family back in the mid-2000s. The experience on modern app stores still feels clunky comparatively.
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by posguy 6y ago
Is there any virtue in these third party services, or is concealing their fees allowing them to extract significantly more value than they would otherwise be able to in an honest marketplace?
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by posguy 6y ago
Hrm, it looks like its a documented endpoint: https://apidocs.teleapi.net/api/my-phone-numbers/block-inbou...
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by posguy 6y ago
Teli has treated us well for years, they use some small cell provider in the midwest for SMS/MMS enablement. Signalwire is essentially Bandwidth.com without the sales funnel.
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by posguy 6y ago
Your carrier should not be charging you for inbound SMS, changing SMS enablement providers can usually be done in a few minutes. I would encourage you to look at Teli, Telnyx & Signalwire, iirc they all support blocking texts from a par
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by posguy 9y ago
Sounds like it could be great, terrible, or somewhere in between in the future you describe. I'm a socialist by upbringing, hopefully we would be smart enough to organize our society such that we take care of those most vulnerable amon
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by posguy 9y ago
There are massive economic upheavals occurring right now, and we as a society have decided that most people get to live a hardscrabble existence where an unexpected $500 expense will ruin a person or family financially. This economic system
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by posguy 9y ago
UBI is a bad attempt to patch a broken capitalist system that has no regard for the humans within it. It may delay riots, but people's basic needs still won't be met.
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by posguy 9y ago
So Zello is a battery flattener? Perhaps a few Signal groups with a bot would have been better, as the other cited issues with it were around rescue request tracking and a breakdown in communication when Zello channels were too busy.
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by posguy 9y ago
Total PITA to use, didn't work well on even decently spec'ed machines at the time, and required extra hardware that was of varying quality.

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