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by pwg 2y ago
Name and shame. The large pharmacy chain is Walgreens. I've been very tempted to look up the email for their legal department and send them an explanation of how they are in violation of the CAN-SPAM law.
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by pwg 2y ago
> Combine the two, and the regulations will be written such that it excludes Tesla and includes Waymo. The solution seems easier, if only the regulators would pick up upon it. Under the current human driven auto regime, it is the human t
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by pwg 2y ago
Ublock Origin defaulting to blocking all the Javascript by default and the only "ad" is the "get this newsletter" ad near the bottom.
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by pwg 2y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21810-it-is-difficult-to-ge...
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by pwg 2y ago
One option: https://voip.ms/ You can use any VOIP client you want on your PC.
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by pwg 2y ago
> When I tried to buy a Honda Fit the dealer didn't have any new ones available -- supposedly the factory that made them washed out in a flood but they had 50+ SUVs sitting in a row made in the same factory that nobody wanted to buy
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by pwg 2y ago
Then switch to using "LISP like" math in Tcl: $ rlwrap tclsh % namespace path {::tcl::mathop} % + 2 4 6 % - 6 1 5 % - [+ 6 3] [+ 1 1] 7
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by pwg 2y ago
Expect is an automation framework. Automating tests is just one use for it.
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Tesla registrations – and public opinion – are in a free fall(theverge.com)
14 points by pwg 2y ago|7 comments
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by pwg 2y ago
By not having 'subscriptions'.
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by pwg 2y ago
Take a look a rclone ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rclone ). It supports numerous cloud providers. You'll have to build up the rest of your requirements yourself.
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by pwg 2y ago
While true, if that same orange now incurs a $0.50 tariff tax at the border (it will likely not be that high, just a "value" picked from thin air), then in order for all those greedy food distribution networks to maintain their sa
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by pwg 2y ago
At the same time? Then that does sound like your ISP may be de-prioritizing UDP data, or specifically throttling UDP flows to some level 10x smaller than your full bandwidth. Are you sure, however, that the other end of the VPN connection i
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by pwg 2y ago
> I don't understand the compulsion to spend all of what you make every month, and sometimes more, either. It's a faux 'status symbol' thing. The idiom is "Keeping up with the Joneses" ( https://e
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by pwg 2y ago
There are also tariffs being applied to goods from China, so "just source from China" may not allow you to avoid the tariffs.
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by pwg 2y ago
Paywalled.
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by pwg 2y ago
Ten times slower than what? A relative statement, without an indication of what you are measuring against, is of no value.
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by pwg 2y ago
If you have cable (i.e., Comcast/Cox) then your internet is shared with some number (how many depends upon exactly how the cable company set things up) of your neighbors, and if enough of them are using up the bandwidth, you will see y
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by pwg 2y ago
> How exactly is paper filing safer, I never said "safer". Your concern was MITM/electronic eavesdropping. Paper avoids all the "electronic eavesdropping" possibilities and the fact that TurboTax (substitute yo
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by pwg 2y ago
In any case, you will have to file by Apr. 15, unless you request an extension. And even with an extension, you will have to file (IIRC) no later than Oct 15. So all you can do is delay the inevitable. Avoidance of MITM/in flight f
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by pwg 2y ago
> Or is the rate based on the difference between inside and outside temperature? Both conductive heat loss and "air leak" heat loss is dependent upon the temperature difference between inside and outside temperature. For conduc
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by pwg 2y ago
For USAID, the fact that USAID was investigating him: https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating... His attack on USAID was not "rooting out waste", it was to settle a personal vendetta against t
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25YO Writing Backdoors in Treasury's $6T Payment System. What Could Go Wrong?(techdirt.com)
15 points by pwg 2y ago|0 comments
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by pwg 2y ago
The 'offload' might be "building an entire streaming infrastructure". This way, they get to ride Youtube's streaming system rather than have to build one out.
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by pwg 2y ago
The "retirement" timing here is interesting. OPM's own "apply for retirement" forms state to supply the filled out form to one's HR office at least 60 days before one's retirement date to give time for it
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by pwg 2y ago
UblockOrigin, on a phone, blocking the javascript, resulted in reading the whole article with zero ads.
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by pwg 2y ago
The subject line is identical to the subject line he used for the "leave or become hardcore" email to twitter just after the buyout.
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by pwg 2y ago
> The supplies of these goods have had occasional disruptions but are largely unchanged. Those "disruptions" you refer to create periods of "lack of supply" (i.e., less of the goods). That is what the "disruptio
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by pwg 2y ago
> "Shareholder" are not people who own a stock in robin hood. If you own even a fraction of a share of a business (say IBM), you are, by definition, a "shareholder" in that business. It does not matter if it is via t
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by pwg 2y ago
Stock dividends and stock price appreciation are two sides of the same coin. Both are "money returns to investors in the business". All that differs between them is the tax treatment each gets come tax time.

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