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by redler 7y ago
Firewall and VPN for all your devices, no limit to the number of devices, no need to re-join and re-enter your hotel info periodically, and my favorite: use a chromecast dongle on the hotel TV.
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by redler 7y ago
Even with the stock firmware, you just turn it on (USB-powered), connect to its WiFi network, connect to the hotel/captive network within its UI, and you’re done. Join all your devices to your own network. It even runs a VPN client you
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by redler 7y ago
Something like the GL.iNet (sic) AR750 does the trick.
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by redler 7y ago
If you keep the airpods, you might try one of the many silicone "skins" you can slip over them. They don't fit into the case with these things on, but they do stay in more securely (and sound better).
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by redler 7y ago
Perhaps dragging the overlaid app, by its header, straight off the edge of the screen (i.e., horizontally)?
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by redler 7y ago
Maybe this is a new angle for Google Voice or similar services. Protect vulnerable members of your family with a fail-safe auto-attendant system with approval rules.
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by redler 7y ago
Can you talk a bit about how you came to that choice?
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by redler 7y ago
Ah yes, the Idiocracy[1] effect. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
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by redler 7y ago
And yet, the US government decided that it was not Amazon but Apple, with an immaterial market share in the eBooks market, that deserved a $400M fine for price-fixing anti-trust violations.
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by redler 7y ago
Linux: Technology's Giving Tree.
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by redler 7y ago
Here’s a company pursuing that very idea. https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surpris...
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by redler 7y ago
Perhaps the stump helps the remaining trees in the area by suppressing competitive species growth.
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by redler 7y ago
"Be aware that the Reichstag could burn at any time."
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by redler 7y ago
There’s a big market for the services of analysts who hit close to the mark. The size of that market exceeds the size of the market for analysts who miss, intentionally or otherwise.
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by redler 7y ago
Their strategy looks like an attempt in the direction of becoming a sort of third-party Google Wave.
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by redler 7y ago
While that's all true, again as a practical matter, a massive multi-decade-old denizen like Apple in some ways has more cultural and institutional inertia than even the US government. Especially now. Life is short; Apple's "f
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by redler 7y ago
...the sad fact of which rears its head in American drinking establishments nationwide.
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by redler 7y ago
When teaching students about the effects of depth on cognition, one fun trick is to give them a couple of combination locks attached to a slate (with the combinations written on the slate). Time each of them opening the locks on the surface
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by redler 7y ago
You can get a fair amount of this with a Synology box. Granted, a tool for the reasonably technically savvy and probably not grandma.
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by redler 7y ago
We may see this question explored publicly in great detail in the coming months.
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by redler 7y ago
This is quite nice. It has a sort of Nomos vibe.
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by redler 7y ago
There really ought to be an option to instruct a card company to do a "hard termination". Seems like a rule that would be right in the wheelhouse of the CFPB (in the US).
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by redler 7y ago
It's happening. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mother-fights-for-lower-insulin... https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/01/6416158...
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by redler 7y ago
Obama said to Trump, during the transition, something to the effect of "I don't care what you call it -- make some tweaks and call it Trumpcare. Take me out of the equation; I don't care. But this is helping millions of peopl
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by redler 7y ago
After all, the insurance company has direct interest in not covering you Arguably their job is to not cover you. Paying actual medical expenses is referred to in the industry as "medical loss". To reiterate: paying for health
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by redler 7y ago
Enough class-action lawyers became aware of it.
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by redler 8y ago
It is. Students citywide match in SHSAT score order from the top down.
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by redler 8y ago
One might imagine a near future where some sort of automated deep learning system at Google makes these account termination decisions -- and not only can't they be appealed, but the reasoning behind the decision is unknowable, even to
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by redler 8y ago
Worse still: they’ll force your site into the bizarro world of ersatz IE9 or even IE8 “compatibility” through the auspices of “enterprise mode”. There’s nothing like the unique experience of trying to resolve a problem in your modern app, r
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by redler 8y ago
Finally the killer application for Google Duplex.

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