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by techsupporter 3y ago
> That's how much better Spotify is. I think the situation here is that your sentence can be finished with "...for me." It's closer to an opinion or preference than a fact. I have been a Spotify user for a very long
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by techsupporter 3y ago
At each WorldCon, host committees of science fiction groups from cities put up bids to host the WorldCon to be held two years hence. In 2021, Chengdu and Manitoba had committees on the roster. WorldCon voters chose Chengdu. The problem is
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> Those who call for elimination of cars are privileged enough to live in Seattle and don't seem to recognize other's do not live in Seattle (or commute to Seattle from where most public transportation is not effective, viable,
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> You full well know public transportation isn’t a viable option. I do not know this. I have over a thousand taps of my ORCA card in 2023. My wife has more. We have been as far north as Bellingham and as far south as Portland on trans
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by techsupporter 3y ago
It is pretty straightforward. My wife and I live in a condominium unit just east of the University District. We take the bus or walk everywhere. I'm sad the Safeway has closed, but we have easy bus access to groceries at QFC, the ma
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by techsupporter 3y ago
Why is it condescending? I can't drive or at least I can't do it very well. But before that, my spouse and I had long since sold our car. To me, it is more condescending to insist that a car is a basic life necessity. It demean
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by techsupporter 3y ago
I live in one of the "any other states" (Washington) without a car quite comfortably. A lot of us can't or don't drive. It's nice to not have to put up with car insurance companies.
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by techsupporter 3y ago
I think this is apt commentary on the state of the commercial Internet as it exists today and I'm happy to vouch for yo--[See More]
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> to Barnes and noble, grab a coffee, and plant myself on the bench in the periodical section to pour through every page of the latest 2600, desperately trying to commit to my memory as much as possible I still go to my local Barnes &amp
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> So I built without code inspections. Building code and its associated inspections aren't, primarily, for you. They're for the people around you and the people who come after you. You might be the greatest builder on the plan
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by techsupporter 3y ago
Nobody wants to raise prices but everybody wants more money. In the past week, I've seen under the line mandatory fees from a pet grooming service ($5.99 required "materials fee"), a large apartment operator ("technology
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> And, as a particular thing which could help unlock that: if one cares a lot about the experience of people at the socioeconomic margins, one should perhaps spend less time fulminating about greedy capitalists and spend more time readin
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> policy makers need to be realistic and acknowledge that most people have no idea how to eat without branded processed foods, fast food convenience, etc. The cultural traditions that made simple foods practical have been lost from many
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by techsupporter 3y ago
Sometimes it is incompetence; someone flags a certain thing as the wrong classification and it comes out of the wrong bucket. But I think it's more than that, here. The settlement covers almost the height of when Uber and Lyft were de
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by techsupporter 3y ago
The underlying account still works so you could do an ACH transfer out to another account if you like.
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> You just have to go up to the counter and ask. You have to show ID, just like you do for liquor (and, because purchases of psuedoephedrine are rate-limited, they're going to log your purchase) Up to the counter and ask...when the
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by techsupporter 3y ago
And this means we're going to have an easier time buying the stuff that works...right? ...right?
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by techsupporter 3y ago
I agree that government records should be open and are good for transparency. The problem comes when people don't realize that something they're doing would put all of the personal information they've submitted into the publ
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> My team was forced to relocate some of the folks from CA, TX, NY, and UT to Seattle. Meanwhile, our genius of a Mayor is crowing about how "vibrant" downtown is without mentioning any of the consequences like housing getting
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by techsupporter 3y ago
They might make the gigantic too-big-to-fail banks want to turn away from lower-profit customers but credit unions are absolutely a thing. In my area, several credit unions offer payment accounts--with debit cards and without a monthly fee
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by techsupporter 3y ago
Today in niche requests: Does anyone have pointers to streaming electronic music (ideally trance / progressive trance, upbeat synthwave[0], or house) that has absolutely no vocals ? I listened to a lot of no-vocal electronica back in
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by techsupporter 3y ago
The person you're replying to is meaning how savings accounts work in the US. You put money in them and let it sit, earning interest. Changing savings account banks is quite easy. Checking (or "demand") accounts work like you
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by techsupporter 3y ago
And to add on a little, ASL is like any other language in that it has regional dialects. It's why many people introduce themselves with their name and where they learned to sign. One of the more common examples from teachers is the sig
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by techsupporter 3y ago
I'm not sure I understand; why would automatic interpretation reduce the incentive to learn ASL? I learned ASL, as a hearing person, to be able to communicate with deaf friends anywhere and with my (hearing) spouse and other friends in
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> the Sad Story of Henry My local PBS station showed Thomas the Tank Engine on almost infinite loop and so I came into the show in kind of the middle as a kid. I didn't know why Henry was so "bad" at his job and all of th
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> Our ISPs had metered traffic (traffic that went out to that external monopoly) I remember hitting FTP sites that would check to see if you were in Australia or New Zealand and would bounce you out if you weren't. Some of the earl
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> but also said that due to a high rate of identity theft they are refusing to do anything without the person there. This is the part of processes that annoys me the most. A company or agency will publish the rules they want people to f
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> Federal documents don't have authenticated addresses. I wonder why that matters. If I am provably who I say I am, why is the address important? Also, not specifically for you, but generally what about states that don't reiss
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by techsupporter 3y ago
The recent version of it is from Spider-Man 2, I believe. The snooty usher says to Peter, who's raced to get to a theatre show performed by Mary Jane, that "no one will be seated after the doors are closed; it helps maintain the
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by techsupporter 3y ago
The law itself is broadly available (there are other cases going on about "reported" law which is the compendium put together by private editors), but they reference technical standards that aren't. For example, a hypothetica

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