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by shortcake27 3y ago
IMHO the most fraudulent thing PayPal does is trick people into thinking they have a bank account by making it look, feel, and behave like a bank account. When in reality your PayPal balance is more akin to Nintendo Coins or Fortnite V-Buck
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by shortcake27 3y ago
> a single engineer personally adding a jet engine to his car while seemingly being very in touch with the dangers of operating it What if a non-engineer who doesn’t understand the dangers makes this type of modification? This is is why
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by shortcake27 3y ago
It’s important to understand most things happen for a reason, and as a Brit American living in the US you might be missing some context. In the area I grew up, it was expected that your first car would be a V8. Hooning was ingrained into th
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by shortcake27 3y ago
This is weird on so many levels. Sure, there’s a complete lack of contextual awareness. However, I take issue with the fact censoring is occurring at all in a product like Teams. Censoring comes from an extremely outdated world view that ch
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by shortcake27 3y ago
20 years ago in Australia my car got canaried because I had LPG and a pod filter, which was illegal because you were only allowed 1 modification to the intake system. I am 100% confident that if I strapped a jet to the car, it would be ille
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by shortcake27 3y ago
What made you decide to cut it out completely rather than just reducing intake? I don’t have a problem drinking a couple of days a week with mates, but at the moment I drink daily by myself which I’m not happy with, so I’m trying to cut dow
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by shortcake27 3y ago
Where’s the assumption that he won’t be on the job coming from? What work would he be doing at his desk in Germany that he wouldn’t be able to do remotely?
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by shortcake27 3y ago
Here’s hoping, but it’s going to get worse before it gets better. Ford is going to start forcing ads on you in your own car [0], and Samsung is planning to make all of its devices “smart”. I can’t wait for the day when my overpriced microwa
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by shortcake27 3y ago
Why is the principle stupid? He’s a climate scientist and flying is terrible for the environment. IMHO “stupid” is when people fly private jets to climate summits.
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by shortcake27 3y ago
That doesn’t really have anything to do with what we’re talking about, but many of those types of accidents can also be avoided. There’s a significant number of people who feel personally attacked by a car merging in front of them, despite
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by shortcake27 3y ago
Last time I visited NYC was 2015. Just checked my Airbnb history, $45 a night for a room in bed stuy. $250 a night is insanity. I guess I should be thankful I visited NYC when I did, because it looks like I’ll never be able to afford to go
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by shortcake27 3y ago
I haven’t been to America in quite a few years, but 10ish years ago a private room in an Airbnb was cheaper than a hostel in NYC. I’m currently in Poland and I’m renting an entire apartment on Airbnb for less than a bed in a hostel, let alo
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by shortcake27 3y ago
For me it’s the price of single occupancy. I’ve spent a lot of time nomadic freelancing in the past 10 years. In most cities around the world, a room on Airbnb is about the same price as a bed in a hostel. And a hotel is usually double the
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by shortcake27 3y ago
> E.g. a Tesla driving under a semi because it thought it was a billboard. People don’t like what they can’t understand. Most of the accidents caused by autonomous vehicles are weird and probably would have been avoided by human drivers.
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by shortcake27 3y ago
I’m genuinely surprised “human drivers can't comprehend or anticipate a driverless car hitting the brakes for no apparent reason” is an argument people can relate to. You absolutely should be expecting the driver in front to slam on th
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by shortcake27 3y ago
> Promoters claim self driving cars are safer than human drivers. And opposers always ignore or brush off the fact that humans have proved themselves to be terrible drivers. A human driver ran over this woman first yet you didn’t even re
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by shortcake27 3y ago
I’ve used these tools on all sorts of network configurations and there’s always lag. One thing I will say is that this was all within Australia. Surely the packets aren’t going overseas, but perhaps whatever servers they use in AU just aren
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by shortcake27 3y ago
Why is this getting downvoted? The parent asked for critique and they got critique. I worked for a company that did something similar to this, most of the day was spent “team building” and it was painful. The fun bit was going to the pub af
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by shortcake27 3y ago
If you’re more concerned with how long a software engineer sits in front of a computer, opposed to the work they actually get done, you’ve already lost. Edit: if you’re going to downvote me that’s fine, but please explain why “number of hou
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by shortcake27 3y ago
My issue with every piece of commercial software I’ve used is the lag. Slack, Google Meet, Zoom… All have noticeable delay which make conversation unnatural and painful. I’ve been using FaceTime Audio to communicate with family on the other
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by shortcake27 3y ago
Passkeys are often marketed as a replacement for password + MFA, but I don’t understand how users are protected from malicious passkey resets. Suppose I’m signed up to a service with a password and TOTP, and my email account gets compromise
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by shortcake27 3y ago
This argument is often brought up as “proof” that socialism doesn’t work, yet completely ignores the reality of late-stage capitalism. Of course boomers love capitalism when in the 60s a factory worker could easily pay off a huge house, two
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by shortcake27 3y ago
I don’t understand this comment. In a city like Amsterdam you certainly don’t need a car to go to the supermarket or college. I’ve lived in cities with far worse public transport and no car and had no issues.
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by shortcake27 3y ago
What do you mean by suffer? I’ve never had any problem driving at any speed in any car apart from crawling (1-2km/h) in a manual.
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by shortcake27 3y ago
I thought the parent was making a joke. Is this actually a thing in America? In Australia I have never seen this in any of my contracts.
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by shortcake27 3y ago
As soon as you mention childfree on HN, you get downvoted into oblivion. It’s happened to me quite a few times now. Perhaps people with children find it offensive whenever someone talks about a different lifestyle, regardless of their reaso
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by shortcake27 3y ago
Just because someone has a different opinion to you, it doesn’t mean they’re fanboying. Your anecdotal evidence is irrelevant; it’s well known that average Mac ownership costs are lower than the average PC. Straight from the horses mouth: “
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by shortcake27 3y ago
Consumer Freedom is a conspiracy theorist website with no qualifications and a strong agenda against veganism. The article attempts to instil fear by listing off chemicals with alternative uses and irrelevant “dangers”, and then hits you wi
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by shortcake27 3y ago
Is it really though, when you consider the realistic lifespan of the device? I literally got 10 years of use out of a 2011 MacBook pro, and I now run a second-hand 2018 Macbook Pro which is still going strong, despite being an Intel the per
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by shortcake27 3y ago
The author doesn’t mention whether iCloud Keychain is enabled or not. When iCloud Keychain is enabled, this is the expected behaviour - internet accounts get synced to keychain. Probably what happened is that iCloud Keychain became enabled

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