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by rhplus 6y ago
The difference here is that an ISP is common carrier (or whatever the equivalent term is in telecoms) and Facebook/Twitter are publication platforms.
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by rhplus 6y ago
There's been repeated claims that Trump has - up until recently - used personal Android and iPhone devices to make calls and tweet. Not clear if that's true or not. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05&
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by rhplus 6y ago
Tried some sites like https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-http-headers-is-... and User-Agent is “axios/0.19.2”.
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by rhplus 6y ago
The author missing another huge benefit: it will also help improve recall/precision when searching conversation history, especially if that search is 'smart'.
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by rhplus 6y ago
> Nobody is being hurt by these practices. Price obfuscation makes it nearly impossible to do a like-for-like price comparison between two manufacturers. If the consumer isn't being hurt by these practices, then why do car dealers
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by rhplus 6y ago
.NET Core is a ground-up rewrite of the frameworks and tools. It's completely decoupled from Visual Studio. This would get you started on a toy project (one source file, one project file) now: dotnet new console --output sample1
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by rhplus 6y ago
Single-file, platform-specific executables, framework independence and dependency trimming are all available in .NET Core 3.0: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/MakingATinyNETCore30EntirelyS... https://docs.mic
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by rhplus 6y ago
Reports of stingray flight patterns go back to at least 2015: https://komonews.com/archive/fbi-behind-mysterious-spy-aircr... https://bgr.com/2015/06/03/fbi-dirtbox-stingray-spy-plane-pr.
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by rhplus 6y ago
The only reason real estate works as an investment vehicle for people is because it's a slow market. Don't forget the tax incentives (at least from a US centric view). There aren't many investments where you can depreciate
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by rhplus 6y ago
I like throw an alias and date stamp in their too: <alias>/<yyyyMMdd>_some_short_description <alias>/<yyyyMMdd>_<task-id>_some_short_description as it makes cleaning up old branches (both
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by rhplus 6y ago
From Wikipedia, these markets use the “clock” variant, with the first bidder winning: “Most commonly, it means an auction in which the auctioneer begins with a high asking price in the case of selling, and lowers it until some participant
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by rhplus 6y ago
I find leaving a call to be difficult. In the real world, someone just “dropping in” to a meeting room can nod, wave, or gesture to say hi, find the right moment to enter the conversation, make a point and then leave with the same nod, wa
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by rhplus 7y ago
Local testing would become meaningless as “features” are not being tested in isolation. It’ll lead to the classic “but the tests work on my machine” because half the changed code isn’t in the published changeset.
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by rhplus 7y ago
For any non-Brits looking for a glimpse into the (multi-million pound) challenges of converting London buildings into modern homes, check out Grand Designs: https://www.netflix.com/title/80160755 The Kennington water-t
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by rhplus 7y ago
One property of these charts is that the data is normalized so that the 'winner' takes up 100% of the width for any given time-sample. This is useful if you're trying to imply that the data is zero-sum, but not useful if you&
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by rhplus 7y ago
> The scrollbar is under attack. Scrolljacking hijacks the default scrolling behavior, breaking the implied contract between document length and scrollbar height. … ...so here's how we hijacked system-provided scrollbars to fit ou
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by rhplus 7y ago
almost everyone hates ads especially in their email This may surprise you, but there really are people who like getting "circulars" from their favorite stores by email. I know (older) relatives that intentionally stay subscribed
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by rhplus 7y ago
The minimum requirements for Windows 98 (released June 1998) was 16MB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_98#System_requirements
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by rhplus 8y ago
And integratig GDPR? IN CORE? I was puzzled by this comment. From what I can tell, the GDPR stuff is an optional templating feature in the ASP.NET Core, not a feature of .NET Core. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/asp
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by rhplus 8y ago
The real question here is how the heck does Amazon have a deal with the National Archives that prevents that public body from distributing public domain content that it now holds in its archive? Is this typical for digitally archived conten
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by rhplus 8y ago
View-Master was launched in 1939. A friend has a stash of the disks from the early 1940s depicting National Parks and everyday life across the US. You can imagine how amazing a ‘journey’ across the country would have been to someone of that
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by rhplus 8y ago
"duck" is also used often in the context of not giving an answer (e.g. "duck the issue"), which is an unfortunate connotation for a search engine.
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by rhplus 8y ago
shameless advertising on products where products that contain obscene amounts of corn syrup are advertised as "fat free" Ah, yes. In the US, Twizzlers are a "Low fat snack": https://www.hersheys.com/twi
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by rhplus 8y ago
There's an active subreddit dedicated to manual colorization: https://www.reddit.com/r/Colorization/
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by rhplus 8y ago
The Banksy art incubator just came up with a novel strategy for maximizing exposure of a startup artwork. MAU metric through the roof before IPO. Early investors very happy.
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by rhplus 8y ago
Definitely intentional. The owner purchased a piece of performance art, one that involved Banksy, his entourage, a (probably complicit) Sotheby's and millions of comments and reactions on the internet. The half-shredded painting is int
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by rhplus 8y ago
That's not a OneDrive URL (" https://onedrivepreinhabitat.**blob.core.windows.net**" ) - it's Azure Blob Storage (equiv to Amazon S3). Microsoft could absolutely disable that account.
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by rhplus 8y ago
Perhaps "ASCAP for Open Source" might be a closer analogy? https://www.ascap.com/music-users/licensefinder
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by rhplus 8y ago
1. It's not Apple, it was Workflows that wrote the tool... I doubt Apple knows about it. The app is "developed by Apple". They bought Workflow last year. Nothing in the gallery view suggests that this shortcut is provided b
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by rhplus 8y ago
Is there a company that buys information about bugs ahead of time so they can protect their clients? Companies like Zerodium act as brokers for 0-day exploits, but they tend to sell only to government agencies and the like. https:/&

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