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by stewx 4y ago
> 10. The Canada Revenue Agency has taken all reasonable steps to ensure the security of this Web site. We have used sophisticated encryption technology and incorporated other procedures to protect your personal information at all times.
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by stewx 4y ago
This fact cannot be ignored, but we must also grapple with the question of whether betting your retirement on rising home prices is a decision that should be underwritten by the public at large. My answer is no. I want to live in a world wh
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by stewx 4y ago
Smart watches are perfect for this. You can activate the voice assistant and ask "What year did The Godfather come out?" without pulling out your phone and perhaps without breaking eye contact with your friends.
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by stewx 4y ago
And this is totally fine as long as the supply side of the market is allowed to react and build more supply in response.
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by stewx 4y ago
Photos please!
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by stewx 4y ago
Anyone remember Tap Tap Revenge? Another game that was delisted a long time ago after a period of great popularity (15 million downloads in that game series, per Wikipedia).
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by stewx 4y ago
No, these are not a requirement to go hiking. Let's not make people think they need to spend hundreds of dollars to go for a walk in the woods. No doubt, satellite communication devices are useful but people have been hiking and surviv
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by stewx 4y ago
And here I am with 1080 skeletons in my house.
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by stewx 4y ago
Interesting tidbit about the movie: Andrew Niccol, the director, wanted to make The Truman Show, but he couldn't get funding for it without enough of a track record. So instead, he made Gattaca which had a low budget. Its success allo
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by stewx 4y ago
What kind of PowerPC devices did you build?
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by stewx 4y ago
They have numbers but they also have descriptive names, like "An Act to amend the Customs Act and the Preclearance Act, 2016" and "An Act to amend the Criminal Code (disclosure of information by jurors)"
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by stewx 4y ago
Apple's legendary "amazing UX" is really bad a lot of the time.
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by stewx 4y ago
Buy used rather than new. This applies to cars, furniture, electronics, you name it. Not always practical or optimal but a lot of the time, it is. And when you're buying used, you can haggle.
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by stewx 4y ago
Can you be more explicit? Where are you putting the aloe vera?
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by stewx 4y ago
Sounds like a nightmare, coordinating repayment
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by stewx 4y ago
This is what I bought. It's a random Chinese brand but I haven't seen anything else like it. Works great. Almost too good to be true. https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B09NLY6XXG
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by stewx 4y ago
Cheap and awesome stuff: - Phone mount for my car - Silicone wall protector for where my fridge door hits the wall - Misting spray bottle for brushing my child's hair - Mold/mildew removal gel (lysosome-based) - Silicone cable hol
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by stewx 4y ago
Bring back Nuzzel. https://twitter.com/nuzzel
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by stewx 4y ago
I wish Netflix et al would deband their video streams. Yes, I know, the problem wouldn't exist in the first place if they hadn't over-compressed the videos.
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by stewx 4y ago
My parents' method: you have to earn screen time by doing something productive. In my case, practising a musical instrument. 30 mins of music practice = 60 mins of screen time earned for that day. I hated it but I quickly became one of
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by stewx 4y ago
Fixed: https://sega.fandom.com/wiki/Bleemcast%21
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by stewx 4y ago
Kudos to the Bezos-owned Post for openly criticizing Amazon.
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by stewx 4y ago
Funny. Our professor told us it was called that because a boiler plate is something you cook on, like a griddle or hot plate. You can't cook your food until that basic element is in place.
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by stewx 4y ago
I love Ben Nadel because: - I have ended up on his site numerous times after searching unrelated topics (amazing SEO?) and the content is generally very useful - He has all these happy photos on his site of meeting people at conferences
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by stewx 4y ago
Budgets are not needed if you pay yourself first (i.e., save towards your goals as soon as you are paid) and only spend the money you have left over. Then you can't go into debt and you are meeting all your goals.
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by stewx 4y ago
Re: the title of this post, $70k is the bounty paid to the researcher, and "accidental" refers to the fact he came across the bug during personal use of his Pixel phone, not during testing.
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by stewx 4y ago
What is Google doing to change the world right now?
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by stewx 4y ago
That's not the point, though. When people allow location permissions they would assume it's to help with ordering, not to track your position 24 hours a day. It's a violation of customers' trust.
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by stewx 4y ago
The Tim Hortons mobile app in Canada did this very thing: monitoring your GPS location 24/7, and logging special events when you entered a competitor's store, like Starbucks. https://www.reuters.com/technology&#x2F
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by stewx 4y ago
TLDR: PayPal's user agreement says you can't sue them and must use arbitration for any disputes. And PayPal will pay all the costs of arbitration up to $10k. This guy followed the process and they unfroze his account without any e

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