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asdfaoeu··on Signal TLS Proxy
They are saying American law prohibits it.
asdfaoeu··on Eu.org, free domain names since 1996
Sure but don't pay your property tax and let me know what happens there.
asdfaoeu··on California grid set record of 97% renewable power on April 3
That's true but no one is suggesting they stop now right? This is just a milestone.
asdfaoeu··on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
> Musk will either make a lot of money, or own Twitter.

I mean maybe he still acquires Twitter but that could be in 20 years after it's been run into the ground.

asdfaoeu··on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
He only needs a majority of the shareholders to agree.
asdfaoeu··on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
Isn't the premise that he's selling them?
asdfaoeu··on Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing
The fee is much higher than would be for just "processing the bill"
asdfaoeu··on Vimeo: “We are a B2B solution, not the indie version of YouTube.”
For something thats $200/yr no one would be offering that.
asdfaoeu··on Why is it hard to buy things that work well?
An Aeron is nice but plenty of other chairs last way longer than a year and are maybe a fifth of the price of an Aeron. You also have to consider for a lot of people there are other products that will give them a much better pay off.
asdfaoeu··on Why is it hard to buy things that work well?
I think that just shows that these things take time but the process does work.
asdfaoeu··on Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act
Blocking roads without permission is generally illegal. A protest doesn't allow you to inconvenience others without repercussion.
asdfaoeu··on Texas power crisis revealed flaw in market’s design
For 1 doesn't ERCOT also have a maximum price or do you mean at a retail level?

I'd imagine our relatively milder climate also has a lot to do with it.

asdfaoeu··on High degree of overlap between r/poor and crypto subreddits
Interesting that r/waltdisneyworld is also there.
asdfaoeu··on Electric vehicles could fully recharge in 5 minutes with new cable design
True but that's because of limits applied to the charging speed.
asdfaoeu··on Backblaze S-1 IPO
The figures above are with GAAP standards but as a private company do they actually have to use that?
asdfaoeu··on Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its cloud features
That date could be yesterday assuming it's DD.MM.YY.
asdfaoeu··on Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns
> yet I can do anything and everything with high values of cash and credit from a Linux machine running any web browser I wish, as root.

Don't give them any ideas. They'll just ban Linux browsers now.

asdfaoeu··on Some sketchy behavior coming out of the SEC recently
> Ostensibly the SEC's goal is to protect investors and create fair markets. So who are they protecting here and where is the harm? People seem pretty happy to be earning yield on these various products, across lots of other crypto companies.

People were probably quite happy earning yields with Bernie Madoff as well.

asdfaoeu··on That $56,000 Drug? Blame Medicare
Of course drug companies consider the buyers of their product when setting prices. I also don't think the article is suggesting abolishing Medicare just changing it's process to buying drugs.
asdfaoeu··on T-Mobile investigating claims of 100M customer data breach
A relevant quote from there "What if this doesn't happen because our security is amazingly good?"
asdfaoeu··on Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular network access in December
If you need a lot of data it probably makes sense to get a local sim but if you are travelling through a few countries and really just need it for getting directions every now and then it makes much more sense.
asdfaoeu··on Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/18/trump-says-he-takes-hydroxyc...
asdfaoeu··on Autonomy founder Mike Lynch can be extradited to US
That says nothing about whether what they did was also illegal in the US which I think was his distinction.
asdfaoeu··on Tesla’s $16k Quote for a $700 Fix Is Why Right to Repair Matters
They didn't have comprehensive insurance but Tesla didn't verify it's mentioned in the video.
asdfaoeu··on What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?
> On the contrary, approval voting gets better results than IRV with any measure of strategic or honest voters. See extensive computer simulation results by Harvard stats PhD and voting methods expert Jameson Quinn. Brown (50/50) is probably the most realistic setting.

If you look at the graph with the honest strategy you get better results with IRV which is basically his point.

asdfaoeu··on Freenode commits suicide, is no longer a serious IRC network
I mean freenode was already in a slow death before. This just seems to have speed it up.
asdfaoeu··on A New Future for Icanhazip
Doesn't seem to work right...

    {"ip": "127.0.0.1", ...}
But seriously, of course you can but 99% of people would rather just use a simple site rather than hosting their own server.
asdfaoeu··on HTML Sanitizer API
You would sanitize it on the receiving end
asdfaoeu··on 1 in 5 EV owners in California switched back to gas because charging is a hassle
The study seems to be here[1]. Notably Tesla has the lowest discontinuation rate (9.6%) except for Cadilac which only three had vehicles in the survey.

[1]: https://escholarship.org/content/qt11n6f4hs/qt11n6f4hs_noSpl...

asdfaoeu··on Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting competition and consumers
NSW (Australian state) actually has mandatory contract tracing[1] though you can use a web or physical form.

[1]: https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/covid-safe-check

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