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by ubernostrum 8y ago
How does Apple get a 30% cut out of me using Netflix? If I want Netflix, I go to netflix.com, sign up and give them payment information, and then use my browser, or Netflix apps on phones, TVs, etc. The Netflix iOS app is listed as free to
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
Metrication in the US and UK are very similar. The US has an actual federal law on the books declaring metric to be the official system of weights and measures nationwide. And... we still use a mix of systems, including in "official&qu
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
Sending them in town has no close equivalent in the US, maybe threatening someone to be in Contempt of the Supreme Court. The US House of Representatives and the US Senate also have Sergeants at Arms: https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
And we wish you'd learn that not every Latin-derived word with a long "e" spelled it "oe" or "ae". And that you'd stop insisting on "dual carriageway" as a term for roads that have only ever
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
Acela carries (per Wikipedia's cited source) around 3.5M passengers per year. From Washington Dulles airport, approximately 265k passengers per year fly to Boston. Another 715k fly DCA-BOS. DCA-LGA accounts for 318k. DCA-JFK, IAD-LGA a
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
You posted this comment using a network whose fundamental tech was developed in a government project. You posted it using a device descended from an original which was built as part of a government project, based on theories developed with
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
You probably want to watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPF4fBGNK0U
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
A lot of what's been happening with safety features is a steady trickle down from the high-end to the average consumer car of things like automatic emergency braking, lane-keeping systems and so on.
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
And you can deliberately or accidentally leave something out, yes, or go to other lengths to hide information. The point was to be an illustrative example of why it can be useful for health-care providers to share information. HN, predictab
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
If you were already carrying a 15" laptop plus full-size external keyboard plus mouse plus power brick for the laptop, a dongle is not much of a burden to add on. And many people who did that with USB-A machines tended to carry other a
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
Relevant to your question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
A patient sees two doctors for different conditions. The doctors prescribe different medications. The patient goes to two different pharmacists to pick them up. In a victory for privacy, the patient dies from a fatal interaction of the pre
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
Since when did insurance companies become doctor advisors? That's very alarming. If you want to, you can make this sound sinister. But it's pretty common, and the reason behind it is simple. Many people who need medical care do
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
The problem is that while it may be personally true for you in the country where you live over a short window of time, it's not generally true for the world. Internet outages are more common than demonetizations.
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
Are you suggesting that demonetization of existing coins and notes is a more common occurrence than internet outages?
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
Possible I'm unusual, but I actually like writing documentation as a way to learn a new codebase. When I started a new job earlier this year I actually jumped at the chance to grab some documentation tickets, because it meant I had to
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
I guarantee there's something you spend money on that someone else would make this same comment about.
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
The price of a new, unlocked iPhone XR in the US right now appears to match the price of a new, unlocked iPhone 8 at this time last year. It is generally the case that the standard current-year iPhone model takes over roughly the previous m
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
iPhones without headphone jacks still come with a pair of earbuds; they just have a Lightning connector on the end of the cable instead of a 3.5mm audio plug.
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
If you know of something which is easy to set up, easy to administer, easy to use and provides better handling of multi-way threaded discussion, I'd be interested to hear about it. (I know Python is experimenting with a forum-based sol
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
Not a fan of your word choice there. But it's worth noting Instagram has been a generous corporate sponsor of the DSF, and hired a Django committer several years ago. I just don't know of any company that currently has employees p
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
I'm extremely skeptical of any "just use platform/service/tool X " type of suggestion, largely because I've been doing this long enough to know that "just" needs to be in scare quotes and that often
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
I think the point is that while you can find your pet example of an over-budget project, other people can find examples of projects that didn't have those problems. Rushing to post "but what about the Second Avenue Subway" in
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
I have some ideas about how to improve that. But will probably be a little while before I can do anything with those ideas, since right now all my Django-related time is going into the governance proposal.
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
The process was pretty relaxed when I did it. But, again, this was 2011, so probably things have changed. Felt like it was a lot more about fit and trying to figure out which team/project I'd best slot into than it was about makin
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
Do you mean the process of applying and interviewing to work there, or what it's like being on one of the engineering teams there? (though anything I know about it is probably out of date either day; I started there in 2011, and haven&
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
/r/chess on reddit has been good at finding and linking useful commentary. For example, here's a good move-by-move analysis of game 6, including (around the 33-minute mark) an explanation of the "missed" win: https
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
The process of proposing and adding an emoji to Unicode is slower and less easy than you seem to think it is.
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
Google's reputation with their paid services which paying customers pay them payments to use isn't stellar, either. Basically it's them and PayPal in the finals of the candidates tournament to see who takes on US cable compan
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
Considering that the youth unemployment rates there correlate with policies that didn't just involve "tightening" the belt but arguably cutting off all circulation, you might want to re-think that. (much of Europe has been vi

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