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by rtsil 6y ago
I'm on Google Play Music and won't move to Youtube music because it's awful, and Shopify was my preferred destination until today. But seeing how hard they make it for users to move out, I'm not interested anymore. At le
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by rtsil 6y ago
Amazon may be awful elsewhere, but it's miles better than our local French online retailers. I've got a lost mouse (the package was delivered empty), Amazon immediately refunded. I had other packages not delivered at all with othe
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by rtsil 6y ago
That regression is the only reason I'm sticking with WSL1 for the time beng.
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by rtsil 6y ago
I have 2 Youtube accounts on which I watch completely diffent types of videos. One is on Chrome, the other inside a Firefox Container. When I do a google search or just browse something in Chrome, the YT account inside FF will recommend me
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by rtsil 6y ago
Sonos packages practicality, ease of use and WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor). They're not the best in pure sound quality, flexibility or, it appears, privacy.
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by rtsil 6y ago
You don't need to be wealthy to get an internet access. You can get it at a school, a public library, a friend's home...
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by rtsil 6y ago
Depends on the orbit. Elon's roadster on its heliocentric orbit has a predicted half-life of 15 million years (1) The moon has been on orbit around the earth for billions of year and will probably remain on orbit forever (whatever &quo
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by rtsil 6y ago
You can certainly understand them if you're talking with a Canadian, because you can always ask for clarifications. But my point is not about accent, it's about taking a Canadian translation on an online translation service and mi
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by rtsil 6y ago
Linguee is not a reference either for English to French, simply because most of the side-by-side translations it uses are bad translations; and also because it mixes French and Canadian sources, which are sometimes completely unrelated to t
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by rtsil 6y ago
Such observation supposes that our timeline matches theirs (taking into account the delay due to lightspeed). We weren't capable of such observation until about a few decades ago, other civilization could have existed and vanished bill
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by rtsil 6y ago
Yes. You can open a Mercury account only if your company is registered in the US, so for Stripe's purposes you are just a US company like all the others.
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by rtsil 6y ago
Yeah. Incorporating abroad is easy, but remotely opening a bank account for the business is something that seems possible in the US only, AFAIK.
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by rtsil 6y ago
> And even in remote areas, building out VDSL2 networks with relatively decent speeds (200Mbps down and 100Mbps up[1]) would be better, honestly. I live in the suburbs of Paris and the length of the phone line is still too long for VDSL2
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by rtsil 6y ago
New rocket, new engines, new targets. If Falcon 9 (the current rocket) was a motorboat capable of going from one port to a neighboring one on the same sea coast, this is the early prototype for a transatlantic liner. It's designed to b
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by rtsil 6y ago
They can add any sort of captcha challenge or publish fake juicy shopping orders as honeypot, since the bots will instantly grab them. Of course, the next step will be to pay a sweatshop in a poor country to contantly monitor and grab the o
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by rtsil 6y ago
Purgecss is a godsend when you use a third-party CSS library.
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by rtsil 6y ago
There are other ways to track them than the trail of their BTCs. For instance, did they apply a proper opsec hygiene? Did they brag about it, to friends online or offline?
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by rtsil 6y ago
I used to hate the very idea of Tailwind until I tried it.
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by rtsil 6y ago
I believe you're trying to apply the US model to the rest of the West. For instance, I'm not sure there is a conflict between ecologically sound and innovation in most other western countries, or the same perception of "commu
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by rtsil 6y ago
> for example SpaceX - which cannot hire non-citizens They can, actually. It's just tons of paperwork and red tape so they won't.
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by rtsil 6y ago
I treat HN as a link-discovery site first and foremost, and its extraordinary for that. There is no need to get worked up about what someone says on the Internet, life is too short for that. I just avoid some threads based on their titles.
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Andean condor can fly for 100 miles without flapping wings(theguardian.com)
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by rtsil 6y ago
There is. It's called a redemption period, and lasts 30 days. Many registrars also offer a grace period of a similar length before that.
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by rtsil 6y ago
> This is a very hidden fact Burn-in risks crop up in every online conversation about OLEDs, at least since LG's 2006 line was released.
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by rtsil 6y ago
The pattern is dangerous because it trains the user to dissociate URL and legitimate content, and the best tool at our disposal against phishing is still the ability to use the URL to ascertain the legitimacy of a content.
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by rtsil 6y ago
> whether to camp under trees (and get killed by a falling branch) or by camping in a clear field (and get struck by lightening) Camping under trees also increases your likelihood of being struck by lightning when there's a thunders
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by rtsil 6y ago
It's not an echo chamber for "for hate speech and mis-information".
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by rtsil 6y ago
> who, exactly, deems subreddits not worthy of existence. That would be the company which owns reddit, through the admins. Is it fair? No, it isn't, but reddit has no requirement to be fair (although it would be nice if it was).
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by rtsil 6y ago
> It is not free https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/b/windows Most people either upgraded for free to a new version (the same operation was paid before), or get Windows through a subsidized OEM version.
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by rtsil 6y ago
> Paying customers may be product too. That was implied ever since Microsoft decided to make Windows 10 free or at a very low cost to a majority of users. And, why not, as long as their fee is not outrageous for application developers an

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