t0ddbonzalez

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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
Reminds me of this story from a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21156637
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
>"... entirely free during the public beta..." What makes it different from (or better than) free versions of Zoom or Webex Teams?
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
Nope, sorry. He could have left the embassy any time he wanted. Any 'torture' is purely self-inflicted.
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
Australia's doubling down on coal production, with a new mine approved in the Galilee Basin. Go figure. https://www.channel4.com/news/how-coal-mining-threatens-aust...
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
A predictable call to arms - only criminals use encryption, right? The Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse: terrorists, pedophiles, drug dealers and money launderers https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/ar
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
Something like this perhaps? http://www.wssl.com/Car_Lot_Canopy.html
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
>"Two years ago he paid about $160,000 to insure $20 million worth of Cadillacs and Volvos on his lot, where about a third of the inventory is kept outside. This year he’s paying almost $600,000." Surely a dealer could install
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
I don’t speak for the EFF or ACLU so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Speaking of disproportionate...I think it’s disproportionate to surrender my phone to DHS/ICE for unwarranted inspection in order to enter the country.
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
It’s a solution if it allows you to get through border control without border guards inspecting your data or imaging your phone...
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
Solution: Go through border control with blank phone/laptop and restore from backup later.
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
"Evidence collected in breach of your constitutional rights" is probably a better way of describing the situation.
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
Are you serious? You do know why animals (including humans) produce milk, don't you?
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
Or "almond drink" as I saw in a store last week.
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
>" Mercosul is South American. Why would it join the EU..." Nobody's talking about joining the EU, but rather a free trade area. Regarding cars, the free trade area makes sense as many EU carmakers (Fiat, Renault, etc) are
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
>"EU regulations prohibit the turning angle of the wheel unlike the U.S. You simply can’t navigate on autopilot in the same way." I've never heard anyone complaining that their car is too safe. How many people have been ki
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
Meanwhile in the US, NASA has had to throw certain projects to certain states to keep senators voting for x, y and z...
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
QED. Once you're forced to spend more than x amount to secure talented workers, surely you might as well employ domestic programmers/DBAs/whatever?
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
Excuse me if I take that ToI article with a pinch of salt. Venture capitalists will throw money at anything they think they can make a buck on, e.g. WeWork.
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
Is it a bad take (or a sweeping generalization) to say that the quality of work done by IT service companies in that part of the word is consistently below-par?
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
The cost of a phone bundled with a contract bears no relation to the real-world cost. Depending on your monthly payment and length of contract, you could pay $100 or $500 for the same phone. In some markets, iPhones were bundled with a cont
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
Yes. Apple successfully marketed a product which was tested by Nokia engineers and deemed to be inferior. What part of 'consumers voted with their money' don't you understand?
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
And yet here we are...
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
I didn't say they created the smartphone. They created THE smartphone - the definitive item.
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
"...hilariously high cost..." In 2007, the Nokia N95 cost $795 while the iPhone cost $600. Sauce: https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/practical-gadgetry/two-wee...
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
"the iPhone, famously did not meet any of the internal tests at Nokia..." So, Nokia saw it as an inferior product? Perhaps this is a problem in engineer-led companies - thinking that the phone with the most megapixels in its camer
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
Meeting other humans? Enjoying the work? A regular job with regular income looks good on paper if you want a bank to lend you money, for example. Maybe less likely to appear on tax authority's radar for undisclosed income if people kno
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
Symbian was in trouble in 2008 - two years before Elop became CEO of Nokia. It wasn't user-friendly. Ditto for Blackberry. iOS and Android wiped the floor with Symbian and BB in terms of ease-of-use. "..the inscrutable difficulty
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
Docomo phones were(are?) a Japan-only irrelevance. Granted - Symbian was a thing back then, but can you buy a Symbian phone today? Consumers voted with their money, and they wanted iPhones, not Nokias. Fast forward to 2019, Nokia is nothing
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
And the iPhone is still around, whereas Symbian isn't. Possibly proving that iOS (and the hardware it runs on) was what consumers wanted in the mid-2000's and onward?
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by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
Sure, you could go back to 1996 and say the Nokia Communicator was the first smartphone. I think what he meant by "Apple created THE smartphone" is that Apple created the first mass-market smartphone which was desired by regular c

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