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by stewx 3y ago
Wow, a truly rare instance of literally eating your words!
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by stewx 3y ago
You would probably regret that if you lived in an area with poor cell signal. SMS and phone calls work when data doesn't.
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by stewx 3y ago
My impression is that poker has been professionalized to a degree other forms of gambling have not.
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by stewx 3y ago
Who is benefiting from the "entertainment" in the OP's scenario?
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by stewx 3y ago
No one has to steal, and it's insulting to honorable low-income people to claim otherwise.
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by stewx 3y ago
> The "Defund The Police" movement has very specific and very well documented goals: Use police only for law-enforcement, and use specialized responders for non-law enforcement interactions. It's not well-defined at all. T
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by stewx 3y ago
Intelligence and knowledge are two different things. An uneducated person may be highly intelligent but have little knowledge.
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by stewx 3y ago
Kiwifarms was down for like 2 days. Side note: the Blocked and Reported podcast looked deeply into the allegations that led to that that site being initially shut down and they concluded they were bogus.
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by stewx 3y ago
Isopropyl alcohol and an old toothbrush.
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by stewx 3y ago
Do those protocols have dispute resolution mechanisms? If not, they are not directly comparable to PayPal.
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by stewx 3y ago
Use CamelCamelCamel
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by stewx 3y ago
What did you use the PogoPlug for?
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by stewx 3y ago
I would love to have a web tool that lets you replace the "N" with a different letter so you can make your own avatar with the first letter of your name.
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by stewx 3y ago
Buttercup > butternut
45.
by stewx 3y ago
You're thinking of Calibre (or lowercase "calibre" as they write it)
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by stewx 3y ago
> These advertising companies extract the excess wealth created by the labour of the news-reporting media without compensation. I can't tell if this is serious or sarcasm. If it is serious, can you explain how Facebook and Google ar
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by stewx 3y ago
No, the entire complaint about Facebook and Google is the links themselves. It's not anything about embedding articles (which I don't think either company does). They just show the headline and article metadata provided by the n
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by stewx 3y ago
The TLDR of this issue: Canadian govt: When someone posts a link to a news article on Facebook, that is like stealing from that news publisher. Facebook: Your logic makes no sense, but okay, we will stop doing that. Govt: No, we don't
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by stewx 3y ago
Not mowing your lawn and stopping cooking on an outdoor grill are non-starters for most people.
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by stewx 3y ago
Probably not.
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by stewx 3y ago
This guy's experience reporting a bug to Google reminds me of mine: Me: Here's a bug in Google Sheets that exposes deleted content to third parties. Google: Not a bug. Working as expected, closing issue. Me: Really? I was personal
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by stewx 3y ago
Unfortunate that the bird looks angry now.
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by stewx 3y ago
Indeed, but "game-changing" would be something like a 50% or 90% efficiency increase. The game has not changed with a 10% change.
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by stewx 3y ago
This is delightful. The attention to detail is astounding.
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by stewx 3y ago
Meaning you just stop showing up to job A?
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by stewx 4y ago
TLDR: Windows now pushes all kinds of unsolicited content on you and your family: news articles; social media apps like TikTok, Instagram, and Whatsapp; in-app purchases for Solitaire; ads for Microsoft 365.
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by stewx 4y ago
Because GUIs are a thing that a lot of people find useful
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by stewx 4y ago
Please point out where the author claimed to be surprised by this. We'll wait.
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by stewx 4y ago
You can file electronically without ever touching My Account. All you need is some info from your previous year's Notice of Assessment. Src: https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/e-services&#x2
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by stewx 4y ago
Using the My Account web site is not required to do your taxes. You can file by mail AND electronically with Netfile without using it at all. Src: https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/e-services&#x

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