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11y ago
Last time I tried it, it seemed to be filtering out too much javascript. Like I would occasionally click on buttons on legit sites and they would do nothing.
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11y ago
Ticketmaster is essentially enterprise software-as-a-service: the people buying it (the venues) are not the people using it. From that perspective, complaints are not surprising at all.
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11y ago
Similar to a person going bankrupt: it's really hard to get loans in the future.
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11y ago
Did you read the linked comment from Joel Spolsky?
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11y ago
"Informal poll" == "possibly true facts"
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11y ago
See, I would have thought someone who has been discriminated against would have more sympathy, not less.
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11y ago
With the evidence being a survey done via Twitter.
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11y ago
I guess I was going more for "not legalized."
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11y ago
Nothing happens to them. Even today, Catholic clergy won't perform many opposite-sex marriages unless certain conditions are met, like having it in a Catholic church and requiring pre-marriage counseling.
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11y ago
Uber has been investing heavily themselves in self-driving cars. They know that Tesla won't have a product available to buy in 2020. And here's the source quote: "Jurvetson said Uber CEO Travis Kalanick told him that if Tesl
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11y ago
If you click through, the stats are basically junk. Self-selected survey distributed via Twitter.
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11y ago
...get permission from a tiny group of powerful people in order to get the government to recognize your marriage .
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11y ago
>the rest of the developed world. Some countries where gay marriage is illegal: Germany, Italy, Australia, Japan, Austria, Switzerland, Greece.
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11y ago
I'd argue the term "PC brigade" is not perfectly fine if you want people to listen to your arguments.
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11y ago
That unicode ligature would be an interesting surprise if you wanted plain text.
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Are the "major broadcast networks" even the big dogs to compare yourself to now? It seems like the top-rated programs now are all on cable. Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, etc.
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11y ago
Those are some poorly labelled flags.
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11y ago
OTOH, here in Connecticut they didn't have a lobbyist firm, and they almost got banned in the state (after already running for a few months), because the taxi companies were lobbying the politicians. So they hired a lobbyist, and got
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11y ago
RTC works like that. You can also set up rules so that you can't even check in without linking a ticket.
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11y ago
You do not have privacy from your roommate. They could easily set up a bug just like they could set up Echo.
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11y ago
And I personally found "Hey Siri" to be triggering enough false positives that I couldn't leave that feature on.
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No, I haven't. How do they work if you can't look at the screen? Siri tends to be bad about that. Like "how's the weather" gets a response of "Here's the forecast:" and shows it on the screen. One
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11y ago
I like that Echo NEVER ever talks without being talked to. I don't know how you could integrate Google Now without it being pretty annoying.
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11y ago
It's really not a big deal.
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11y ago
I agree it's terrible, but I use it very rarely so it doesn't really impact the product experience that much.
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11y ago
How we use ours: * "Alexa, what's the weather look like?" (every day) * "Alexa, set a timer for 10 minutes" * "Alexa, what time is it?" (we don't have any clocks in our living room.) * "Alexa, pl
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11y ago
Or just switch back to the Mach 3 blades I was using before. Which is what I did.
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11y ago
Harry's clog up for me and stop cutting well mid shave.
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11y ago
Here's the contract: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2015/06/17/fk-it-h... Subscription service stuff is at the end. I assume they will be changing this section: "Fees for Trials and
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11y ago
The letter was written in the first person, on her Tumblr blog.
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