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7 years ago
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on: The strength of a monopoly can be guessed at by calling customer support
I’ve called the IRS recently due to them losing my filings, hard to get a person on the phone, even their advocates told me everyone struggles with it, the robot hangs up on you, when you do get someone they have no idea what to do an transfer you around, some agents just make things up, contradict policies they just told you. I ended up physically going to their office to drop off the paper work to get an official receipt they received my filing for when they lose it again. Next step is contacting my local congresswomen’s office for help. My experience at least with something very simple.
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7 years ago
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on: China is angered by Apple's iPhone event mentioning Taiwan
I doubt many in the Chinese government could explain rationals for the One China policy any more.
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7 years ago
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on: Why Are Newspaper Websites So Horrible?
Agreed on news being nearly worthless, 99% of articles are filler and could just be summarized in a couple of sentences if not the title. In fact the title of most articles tells you everything.
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7 years ago
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on: New Roomba Has Persistent Maps, Selective Room Cleaning, Automatic Dirt Disposal
Likewise, I’ve dropped mine pretty hard a half dozen times by picking it up from the dust bin which subsequently detaches.
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7 years ago
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on: Bernie Sanders Intros ‘Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (BEZOS)’ Bill
No society has collapsed due to their sociopaths feeling un-incentivized, but they have when there are huge disparities in income that cause suffering. So I can’t see how dividing the revenue of companies up so that you don’t cause your entire society to collapse and no one has anything should be rocket science is my point. Obviously their leaders should have but they didn’t.
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7 years ago
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on: Bernie Sanders Intros ‘Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (BEZOS)’ Bill
It’s dumbfounding how something so obviously fair about how we treat people as a society becomes controversial... a trillion dollar company’s employees shouldn’t have a hard time getting food and need government assistance. Period.
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7 years ago
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on: Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack
Tesla was founded in 2003, that’s a long time for all these companies to have been sitting on the side line. Subaru is still in no rush.
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7 years ago
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on: Stellarium Web: Online Planetarium
Was just using it to find where Sgr A* was in the sky a few minutes ago, I love how big the database is. Thank you!
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7 years ago
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on: Governments 'not on track' to cap temperatures at below 2 degrees: U.N
DW also has a good documentary exploring how past societies collapsed due to climate changes, and how only Japan was able to change course when they realized they had broken their environment.
https://youtu.be/z2r9PxN3Hwg
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7 years ago
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on: Stop future-proofing software
Agreed 100%, this is all that matters I’d go as far to say. It’s also is a key lesson in the disposable code shift that serverless is enabling as well.
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7 years ago
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on: Volunteers scour drone footage in search for woman who went missing on hike
Right there’s a limit, there’s also heat exhaustion and dehydration which affect ones ability to think. It looks like the terrain where Sam is a fall would immediately fatal due to the lack of trees and jagged rocks, your pack would increase your roll even.
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7 years ago
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on: Volunteers scour drone footage in search for woman who went missing on hike
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7 years ago
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on: India Pushes Back Against Tech ‘Colonization’ by Internet Giants
I know Russia and Indonesia have laws for this reason you mention too.
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7 years ago
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on: Why JWTs Suck as Session Tokens (2017)
For signout we use token and user revocation lists represented as bloomfilters that services can poll or query directly if they need more consistency. This actually does work well in practice at very large scales efficiently we found.
