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Real estate agents caught on camera steering buyers from low-commission homes(cbc.ca)
2 points by stewx 5y ago|5 comments
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by stewx 5y ago
We should be treating Social Security Numbers as usernames, not passwords, since SSNs can't be revoked when exposed in a leak.
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by stewx 5y ago
The main issue is certain US states, such as Delaware, allow you to set up anonymous shell companies. Anonymous shell companies are a bit like BitTorrent. Sure, there are legal uses, but there are a lot more illegal ones. Planet Money did a
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by stewx 5y ago
Yes
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by stewx 5y ago
A&W has the best fast-food burger in Canada, IMO, with the Teen Burger.
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by stewx 5y ago
Stainless steel cookware typically contains aluminum for the part that retains heat, whether that be a disc on the bottom of the pan or sandwiched in the walls of the vessel. Steel doesn't retain heat well but is prettier and more dura
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by stewx 5y ago
https://archive.md/b96Kx
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by stewx 5y ago
Side project idea: for "art", build a bot targeting specific Twitter accounts, auto-generating deepfake videos of the tweet author reading the text of their tweet, and sending it as a reply to the original tweet. Why? No real reas
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by stewx 5y ago
Some other company or individual could have bought their IP portfolio and now own the rights. They have no obligation to publicize this, as far as I know.
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by stewx 5y ago
Big hard drive locally, plus Backblaze online backup. It's not that expensive.
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by stewx 5y ago
My online backup recommendation: Backblaze. No fuss, no muss. No limits.
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by stewx 5y ago
I picked up a new DSLR and found out my copy of Lightroom 3 didn't support the new RAW format. Not willing to pay $125USD/year for the "latest and greatest" version of Lightroom, I found out I could use Adobe's free
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by stewx 5y ago
The one that scares me is gamil.com. I have made that typo numerous types, and the domain is owned by some guy in Florida who runs a small business.
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by stewx 5y ago
Related: "The incredibly frustrating reason there’s no Lyme disease vaccine" https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/7/17314716/lym...
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by stewx 5y ago
On a visit to Seattle, I went waaaaay out of my way to find this machine and use it. It just ate my change and didn't give me a drink. I was furious. On the plus side, I ended up popping into a local convenience store afterward and the
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by stewx 5y ago
The fact it's written in Perl is cause for concern...
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by stewx 5y ago
For anyone trying to transfer MiniDV tapes on Windows, I recommend the super-lightweight freeware WinDV: http://windv.mourek.cz/ For some reason it worked a lot better for me than the commercial video capture software I tri
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by stewx 5y ago
The rapper YB has a song called "Fire Emoji" https://open.spotify.com/track/5GAo1lngd23rtBxvyIJSca?si=2fe...
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by stewx 5y ago
To clarify for anyone wondering, this is just a web dev experiment to create a clone of the Netflix UI. It doesn't let you watch movies, nor does it provide any kind of back end for serving video.
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by stewx 5y ago
To the extent that the symbol is used for regaining health and being treated for injuries in games, I don't think it detracts at all from the Red Cross mission. That being said, if the symbol was being used as the emblem of an evil arm
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by stewx 5y ago
Link doesn't work. This one does: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/haiti-president-jovenal-moise-...
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by stewx 5y ago
Praying that Google turns me into a serial killer so I never have to work again. Settlement deal will be epic.
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by stewx 5y ago
The Xbox app is terrible, performance-wise. It feels like a poorly implemented Electron app.
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by stewx 5y ago
The lion's share of Costa Rica's power is hydroelectric. This can't easily be replicated by a lot of other countries, since it's highly dependent on local geography.
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by stewx 5y ago
This is oversimplified nonsense and borders on irresponsible, particularly the line saying that if your car suffers $3,000 of damage you should pay for it out of pocket, simply because you have $10k in savings. The right amount of insurance
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by stewx 5y ago
How does cutting off Internet access across the board not dramatically hamper daily life and business? They must rely a lot less on it than we do in highly developed countries.
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by stewx 5y ago
Valid points: - The four-hour work week is a fantasy - Comfortable lifestyles are generally only possible when other people are doing the hard work on your behalf, particularly service industry workers Dubious points: - The US dollar is str
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by stewx 5y ago
The government should make it a criminal offence to pay a ransom to hackers. Just as with kidnappings, when you pay ransoms, you reward the criminals.
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by stewx 5y ago
A habit I've noticed among English-speaking Indians is ending chat sentences with "...!!!" For example: "Good morning, Bob...!!!" I would really like to know where it comes from. In my experience, they don't re
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by stewx 5y ago
TLDR: it used to be illegal under US law to distribute high-resolution images of Israel and Gaza. Now it's not. High-resolution images are available for purchase from satellite imaging companies but they haven't made it into Googl

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