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by wang_li 6y ago
They literally aren’t a monopoly. It’s two different companies with nearly equal penetration. If one decides not to do business with you, customers can just use their other card. If your business model involves a wink and a nod to overlook
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by wang_li 6y ago
Only because of multiple lawsuits and investigations. In 2013 the Obama DOJ kicked ofF Operation Choke Point to deny banking services to businesses that sold guns and ammo as well as a fair number of other types of business.
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by wang_li 6y ago
Card networks have the same rights to choose who they associate with as YouTube and Twitter do. The fact that both companies have chosen to not do business with a company profiting from human trafficking and pedophilia seems a lot less obje
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by wang_li 6y ago
If Facebook, Google, and Twitter decide you can’t use their platforms to reach your audience, you’re S.O.L. If you can’t take cards, you can at least take cash or check. And pornhub could set up a site selling bitcoin then add a pointer to
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by wang_li 6y ago
They have “lost” antibodies. Which is normal. Those types of cells don’t last long. B & T cells on the other hand last a very long time. In the case of MERs, a coronavirus from the same family, immunity is still present for more than a
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by wang_li 6y ago
If you're talking about the geriatrics in Florida, the video withsome geezers standing around with signs and others rolling by in golf carts, your description is woefully inadequate to convey the contents of the video. While someone do
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by wang_li 6y ago
Really? When I do a yum update on my rhel systems to get the latest updates from rhn, they never download the source code. Now that I think about it, I don't think RH has even sent me any kind of medium which is commonly used for inter
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by wang_li 6y ago
Can you help me understand why GPL v2 3(b) doesn't obligate Red Hat to provide source code for the kernel, as an example, to anyone who asks? >3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in ob
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by wang_li 6y ago
> They won't release sources for those packages unless you'll ask for those packages (you, as a paid client, not you as nobody in the Internet). If the code in question is licensed under the GPL and Red Hat isn't the owner
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by wang_li 6y ago
I’m quite certain that the earliest laptops largely relied on LCD screens in the ‘80s. I’ve no idea what that commenter means.
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by wang_li 6y ago
About once a year a story hits the news about people who’ve climbed up into the landing gear of planes and proceed to die from hypothermia and/or lack of oxygen. Though apparently about one-in-four survive.
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by wang_li 6y ago
Devices that don't use the DNS servers specified by the DHCP server I have configured on my network most certainly are broken. I'm not talking some kind of principle here, I mean they literally will not resolve addresses correctly
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by wang_li 6y ago
Why would they do that when they can force you to update your firmware by setting the expiration to a year or even less. This way you are guaranteed to be communicating with the mothership and the devices will incorporate any new malfeature
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by wang_li 6y ago
> Yes, support is supremely expensive. I agree. I have support costs too. Which is why every company that sells a product with a hard coded DNS server configured but doesn't advertise said aspect prominently in all advertising, so I
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by wang_li 6y ago
Metformin? Melatonin is otc.
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by wang_li 6y ago
There are places where they don’t use insurance, it’s cash only. The Surgery Center of Oklahoma does cash only and will tell you the cost before you even contact a surgeon or specialist. It’s on their website. You can also get mri images do
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by wang_li 6y ago
Your source combines access and quality in order to put the US at the bottom. If you go further down the page you’ll see that the US is sometimes better and sometimes worse. (Apparently Canadian doctors have trouble delivering babies.) If y
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by wang_li 6y ago
Since it's becoming harder and harder to implement transparent proxies and caches, someone should define a local cache protocol so that network administrators can configure explicit shared caches for the devices on their networks.
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by wang_li 6y ago
Software and hardware vendors need to start honoring the local configuration choices of the owner of the hardware and network. At a certain point ignoring my decisions about what can traverse my network becomes a crime and should be prosecu
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by wang_li 6y ago
Also, if we extended this idea of paying for all the software people use, the whole thing would fall over very quickly. I don't think most developers here have ever sent Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler any money for zlib/gzip? And
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by wang_li 6y ago
Not everyone is ok with you exfiltrating their data to your computer.
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by wang_li 6y ago
PoE seems off for the target audience of this device. In all likelihood the most prevalent mode of network access is going to be via wifi.
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by wang_li 6y ago
Pfizer is already mass producing their vaccine and are saying they’ll have 100 million doses available this year and are targeting 1.3 billion next year. The US has five million people who tested positive and have recovered. Likely also ano
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by wang_li 6y ago
A German court sets no precedent in US law.
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by wang_li 6y ago
Only if the employee is doing the upload as a function of their job can google have any liability. In any other circumstance google s protected by the safe harbor provisions of the law.
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by wang_li 6y ago
> “prohibits the use of our service to distribute content obtained without authorization” If this is their policy, they're going to have to get rid of a very large number of reaction gifs. The first instance of any particular one mi
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by wang_li 6y ago
The courts have ruled that @RealDonaldTrump's twitter feed constitutes official government communication. How does that square with Twitter having the right to restrict, block, limit distribution, or attach addendums to tweets? Given t
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by wang_li 6y ago
And depending on which at you remove you will expose yourself as either a D or R.
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by wang_li 6y ago
I’d guess it’s more about class aspirations than anything else. Probably too narrow of data source to be anything more than a curiosity.
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by wang_li 6y ago
In urgent circumstances where the demand for hospital services are high, a twenty percent improvement in recovery times is the same as increased capacity.

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