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by sf_rob 9y ago
The alternative may have been "having no cake" since they would not be profitable without successfully fighting the 300% tariff.
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"Manna"[1] as well. While I don't like the writing style, I love the story. Especially since it shows AI gutting middle management in an interesting way before robotics is mature enough to do all the dextrous tasks. 1 http
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by sf_rob 9y ago
Payment obfuscation (which is not inherent in the protocol, but how you use it). International money transfers. I've personally met a few backpackers who use bitcoin ATMs in SE Asia in addition to the traditional banking system. FWIW
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by sf_rob 9y ago
Power users can use unsigned add-ons in Dev Edition. Regular users would be exploited by any middle ground solution in the main release. It's unfortunate the web is a dangerous place for the average user.
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by sf_rob 9y ago
From my experience, we're in the stone age when it comes to treating depression without drugs as well. I reached out to my PCP at my HMO, they made me talk to a specialist who cleared me for treatment and referred me back to my PCP.
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by sf_rob 9y ago
I've never had a pair of Bluetooth headsets that haven't had connection issues with my Pixel. This is especially true of the cheap Sony pair I tried, but also true of the nicer Macaws and Here Ones. Even my car's head unit
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Publishers are already treating adblock (not tracking protection) users far more aggressively than they have in the past. I imagine if the number of users that are hampering advertiser value went up by an order of magnitude that these publ
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More convenient to just disable auto-fill, which prevents the exploit.
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I think that it's likely because Apple has much more leverage and their major source of funding isn't their browser. I could imagine a world where ad-based services started blocking/paywalling Firefox user-agents. Hopefully
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Tree Style Tabs was a recent update, so OP may have missed that.
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I'd love an answer to this as well. Tangentially, this is a rare moment when I want a service to charge me money to assure myself that they are adequately incentivized to take my service/business seriously.
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Elio Motors is trying to avoid the car regulations by releasing an enclosed trike which is legally a motorcycle in most (all?) states. Unfortunately, they have had major delays and funding issues. Their vehicle is an 84MPG diesel not an EV
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Mozilla is experimenting with which default is preferred by fresh install users right now, so users on this thread may have different initial defaults. I don't think that there are plans to change the default for existing users.
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LastPass has announced that they will have their extension updated by the time 57 hits release. I'm not sure it's fair to expect them to have something for Beta even if their competitors do.
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It's not as fast as Focus, but if you want an alternative to Chrome Firefox for Android should work better with Google Apps that are (probably) broken due to Focus's anti-tracking features. It is based on the same rendering engin
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"Minerals" is a blanket category. That's like saying that you'll like flour water because you like sugar water because they're both fall into the category of carbs.
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You're likely experiencing the major performance improvements that come along with Firefox 57. In a few weeks the general release should feel that fast without some of the trade-offs that come with Nightly. The biggest downside to 57
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Reminds me of my Lisp professor's terrible joke, "Today we're going to learn about defining functions because that's where de fun's at"...
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My solution is to use the "Screen off and Lock" app[1]. It acts as a local Device Administrator to be able to force a password unlock. I added the widget to my home-screen where I can actually lock my phone if needed (leaving it
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by sf_rob 9y ago
Yes, they seem to be dropping keywords that overly restrict results which is ironic since those keywords are oftentimes the most important due to their specificity. I find myself preemptively using quotes more and more with Google. I kind
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by sf_rob 9y ago
T-Mobile has a promotion[1] where you get a $325 back over 24 months on a Pixel, but at this point I would wait for the next model to come out since as you point out it's not a true flagship. [1] https://www.t-mobile.com&#x2
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The problem is a "Reddit alternative" will naturally attract the groups that no longer feel at home on Reddit. It seems inevitable that any alternative will be more toxic and/or hyper-moderated.
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>why do people keep saying this? Because they're confusing theoretical transaction costs with reality. This isn't an insurmountable technical limitation; this is a political issue within the miner community.
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And in the same breath criticize Bitcoin for consolidation of mining power (which is a valid criticism).
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Everything you described in the last paragraph is a commodity market other than software. The margins will be in software or the overall car brands themselves (since vehicle manufacturers are large enough to throw their weight into lowerin
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Where are you getting these numbers? Their rates appear to go from ~4.8-7.2%[1] Also, it should be noted that Gold is a flat fee based on account value brackets and margin brackets not a percent fee of your margin like every other brokera
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Sure, compared the the Midwest or South it's not great, but compared to other west coast cities it's not bad. Portland is cheaper than the bay area, Seattle, LA, and San Diego. It has good culture, great nature, and a mid-sized
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I get the feeling that tech people no longer have reasonable understandings of cost of living. I live in the PNW and could keep my current nice standard of living on a $60k salary (as a single person). I cannot think of a scenario where
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I do love the (potentially untrue) story about Apple managers trying to track progress by lines of code written: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lin... Bit of a tangent but worth the short read
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Looking further, they don't support outgoing ACATS (what most brokerages do), but do support DTC which I'm not at all familiar with[1]. So hopefully you could do Betterment until the TLH stopped being worthwhile and do a direct s

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