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CarriersSuckon Employees Start to Feel the Squeeze of High-Deductible Health Plans

I've lived in the US all my life, so quite a few.

CarriersSuckon Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Build WeChat for the West

Exactly. There should not be a reason I can see that they can't incorporate it like they've done with SMS.

CarriersSuckon Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Build WeChat for the West

If RCS is a standard what's stopping someone from writing an app that encrypts your plaintext? Sure, it'll leak meta data, but at least the actual plaintext is encrypted.

CarriersSuckon Employees Start to Feel the Squeeze of High-Deductible Health Plans

Americans think the poor are slackers and they don't deserve anything. Even poor Americans think the "other" poor are slackers and don't deserve anything. Nothing will change until you change this mindset.

CarriersSuckon Apple's Business Beyond the iPhone

Interestingly, I don't know a single person who uses FB Messenger. Plenty who use FB, just not messenger. It's SMS, iMessage or WhatsApp.

CarriersSuckon Apple's Business Beyond the iPhone

This would have to be the case. You can't trust an Android device to not have anything between the keyboard app and the messaging app.

CarriersSuckon Apple's Business Beyond the iPhone

I dislike having anything on my wrist (or fingers, to the chagrin of my wife...). I don't mind having a wallet and phone in my pocket, however.

CarriersSuckon Period-Tracking Apps Are Monetizing Women’s Extremely Personal Data

Some people do... Open source is a great example.

CarriersSuckon Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry

That's awesome. Anything more than about a half diopter and you'll probably not get away with that in glasses. Contacts can go a little higher. I'm personally astigmatism sensitive, so I have to be spot on for degree and diopter.

CarriersSuckon Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry

You don't technically need an Rx. You can go to Zenni and just start plugging in numbers if you want. I'm not sure what that gains you, though.

CarriersSuckon Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry

Your PD is not actually part of your Rx. That's why it's normally not included. Your Rx consists of a OS Rx and OD Rx.

CarriersSuckon Nuclear – Popcorn Time for music

That's fair, but the argument about Electron is how wasteful it is. Devs should just know better than to be that blatantly wasteful of resources. I know, we live in a world of abundance, but that just isn't any excuse.

CarriersSuckon Nuclear – Popcorn Time for music

Not true. Those companies are focusing more on developer productivity than they are on the end user.

Picking Electron is ALL about developers. Nothing more or less.

CarriersSuckon Potential Employer Cancels Return Flight

Then contact the TSA, but don't cancel the ticket.

CarriersSuckon Despite promises, cell carriers are still selling your real-time location data

Of course they are. They have to show growth quarter after quarter. Until investors stop punishing companies for not increasing growth every quarter, this will continue. Everything is money driven. There's no thought to the consumer any more. There doesn't have to be as there isn't any accountability to the consumer; they have nowhere else to go.