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Minetest is like a platform, and for anyone wanting a Minecraft-clone based on it:

https://content.minetest.net/packages/kay27/mineclone5/

Not sure how this is would be so different from how we treat forms of speech such as pergury, libel, and treason.

In the CDMA days your non-carrier locked phone had trouble handling travel across the US, and forget about service in another country.

Carriers (Verizon and Sprint?) tried to improve it, but never really worked and the expense was high.

Starlink's sats are 30-60x closer to earth than other satellite providers (500-1000km vs 35,000km), so their coverage area is lower as well. In that sense they are competing more with mobile telecom (Verizon, T-Mobile, etc).

As Starlink's speed lowers they stop being as competitive with mobile data service, which can have fairly low latency (5G is in the 20ms realm, Starlink in 40-100ms?).

But it always depends on where you are to pick the most performant service.

They were correct. They're saying your phone service identity (I am X number on Y network plan). Not your personal identity (pictures of your kids and passwords).

Today if your phone fails, you can pop a sim in another phone and regain your phone service identity within minutes. No SIM, it could take days or even weeks.

It would depend on which "long-term effects" you examine, they range from simple inflammation to brain damage[1]. Could be the virus causing damage or your own immune response.

[1] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...

That road is so well suited to self-driving it almost feels like a paid advertisement. Here is a typical urban stress test of FSD 10.6 beta in San Jose: https://youtu.be/2ub2F-UnXIU

If you're shopping for a Macbook Pro, gaming is the extremely narrow use-case, no?

Edit: various benchmarks seem to show the M1 Max games at about the FPS of a RTX 3060L (though with lower power). It's around the same price as a similarly spec'd 3060L gaming laptop.

Am I forgetting anything from the Sonos saga?

2019: Growth problems. Sonos states 92% of their sold products are still in active use. Creates “Recycle Mode” which bricks the device if you upgrade through them, and asks you recycle your now useless speaker. If you don’t upgrade, they discontinue software support anyway.

2020: Backlash problems. Sonos discontinues Recycle Mode device bricking, CEO apologizes.

2021: Global supply problems. Sonos sees canceled orders due to stock shortages, announces they will make future Sonos devices more repairable.

I’ve purchased (and sold off in 2020) a half dozen Sonoses (Soni?) but can’t get another as they’ve proven to be so user-hostile by policy and the poorly designed, buggy apps. Good sound, though.

This link states in 2018 Apple (1st place on reliability with 665 pts) was 2-3x more reliable than Samsung (2nd place 270 pts). Then in 2019 Apple suddenly became half as reliable (now 130pts) as Samsung? Seems suspect at best.

They seem to rank based on all service calls to their third party IT firm. Apple's top service calls were printer and email help (40% between them) and hardware was 0.53%.[1]

[1] https://www.rescuecom.com/news-press-releases/apple-mac-2021...

Alternative take: USPS is really quite a remarkable business and worth learning about as a case study - from their fleet, to eating 90s darling FedEx alive, to overcoming artificially created political pressures (eg PECA), to becoming Amazon's chief US delivery partner, and much more.

Was curious: "marketing" mail was 18% of USPS revenue[1] (2020) and dropping. Low share of total earnings compared to Meta, Google, and soon Amazon's ad revenue.

[1] https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2020/1113-...

OP needs to cite sources, can't find anything corroborating their hazy claims. Only know one arrest, plus two suspects mentioned in the posted article:

- 36 y/o (possibly homeless) Kathleen Panek arrested for 2 church burnings

- Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church, Kehewin, AB. "An under-aged individual was arrested and charged with arson following the incident."

- Central Heights Church, Abbotsford, BC. "A suspect described as 30-40 years old, male, dark-skinned and wearing a bright yellow rain jacket with a grey baseball hat is being sought by authorities."

Canadian churches were already being burned at a higher rate in recent years relating to sex abuse scandals, so there may be concurrent overlapping motives.

This is verifiably a real thing (see last 2 paragraphs). You will need to disable microphone access wherever you do not require it, even on your TV.

Windows: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/turn-on-app-perm...

macOS: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/control-access-to-t...

iPhone: https://www.knowyourmobile.com/user-guides/how-to-stop-your-...

Android: https://www.lifewire.com/turn-off-microphone-on-android-5184...

TV: tape over the microphones and disable wifi (as some will connect to any open wifi nearby without informing you)

Assistants: not possible, simply don't use Alexa, Hey Google, Cortana, etc.

Browsers: Go into "Privacy" settings of your browers, generally you can select "always deny" with exceptions where you need them.

Other: security cameras (e.g. Nest), doorbells, etc. there is little you can do as you have opted-in to being recorded.

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Microphone use in advertising has been openly marketed by adtech companies for over 10 years. For example, beginning in 2012 Shazam listens for commercials around you and then faciliates concurrently displaying the same advert on your personal device to make sure you saw it. Disabling "always listen" in Shazam might mitigate this. https://www.marketingweek.com/shazam-that-ad/

Listening services can make elite money, so they're common now in places you don't suspect. One big earner is linking a commercial heard (TV, Spotify, movie theater, etc.) to a purchase made, so listeners keep a record that you heard something. For example, they can confirm a "convertion" (payout) if your phone's bluetooth/wifi/etc IDs show's up at Gap store after seeing a Gap ad on TV -- even better if it's linked to your Mastercard/VISA data showing a purchase. That data could be the difference between an adtech company (e.g. Google, AT&T, Adobe, Meta, Amazon) getting paid $0.001 vs $10 for placing an ad in front of you.

Edit: legibility, typo

It's quickly becoming their go-to offense and defense with Apple. https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/17/22180102/facebook-new-ne...

25 years ago one of the groups was caught, from NYT article: https://archive.md/5Qv1e

"More than 400 Silicon Valley businesses had been robbed by chip thieves in the last 18 months. The businesses range from giants like Sun Microsystems to small companies of 100 employees. The apparent record for a heist was $9.9 million worth of computer parts stolen from Centon Electronics in Irvine, Calif., in May."

Would think "educated" implies this, as intelligence is a raw faculty.

This is wonderful news, 13,000 sightings in one location is 6x more than ALL western US locations last year.

Western US populations have collapsed: 4.5m in 80s, 1.2m in 1997, to 100k in 2002, to 2k in 2020.[1][2]

One issue is Monarch larva can only eat two plants: both milkweeds, toxic to their predators. Birds will vomit and then avoid them.[3] However, in recent years not one milkweed plant could be identified without heavy insecticide contamination. Even when no pesticides were used by the landowners or nearby.[4]

The Xerces Society is an excellent starting place to learn and get involved. https://xerces.org/monarchs

[1] https://www.fws.gov/news/ShowNews.cfm?_ID=36817 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_butterfly#/media/File:... [3] https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/the-case-of-the-barfi... [4] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2020.00162...

Honest answer - maybe. Amazon is so rampant with fraud parts[1] and shoes it's hard to know there as well. Best to buy "nice" things elsewhere than Amazon.

For me 100% no-go on Amazon is anything that goes in or on your body, like lotion and vitamins. Coin-flip you get a fake since almost anyone has the means to produce fraud.

[1] https://www.bikeforums.net/general-cycling-discussion/120619...

State University: typical higher-learning university that requires application and awards degrees. Funded in part by its US state via taxes.

Community College: no application, no traditional degrees, no prior learning required. Often vocation in focus. Adult classes. Anyone can attend (dropouts, elderly, anyone). You even just sign up for individual classes. You, 8589934591, could likely sign up for an online class next semester/quarter. Some are highly regarded, Foothill College in SV for example.

Check out the ingredients of Cheerios, which says a bit about the process of making them and the attempt to restore some nutrition: https://www.wdbqschools.org/Downloads/Cereal-Cheerios.pdf

Probably Wonder Bread would look similar, but homemade bread quite different. All are processed foods of some level due to flour.

SYAC summary: Street vendors thinly slice "tree trunks" to order, and tell similar impossible stories of where they source it. In the end, one confirms from photos it is a type of Agave plant and they paint it red.

Sceptre brand TVs in the US have no smarts and are widely available.

Bureaucratic cynicism aside, if recalling correctly the 1GB symmetrical fiber in Oakland is largely courtesy of a CA gov bid that Sonic won. As is the case widely across CA fiber installations, micro-trenching and otherwise.

They are incredibly ear-wormy, aren't they? My internal name for them was "this and that" phrasing, but if I recall from Uni the sterile academic term is a "paired construction".

Can think of so many examples of threes. But for the sake of confirmation bias...

  Rise and shine
  Rinse and repeat
  Lock and load
  Wax on, wax off
  Netflix and chill

Can't find any decent sized study for their use or supporting "done wonders". Have any?

Well said. CA immigrants paid ~$50bn in taxes in 2018, ~50% naturalize, a million are business owners.[1] Almost 40% of Silicon Valley is immigrants. Half of all immigrants that come to the US land in California. Most from Asia and Europe.

On paper this is an exceedingly productive population, and represents 25% of California.

[1] https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/immigran...

It's the opposite, California is the new brain-drainer like US post WWII. https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-brain-gain-continues/

A "back of the napkin" calculation seems to indicate there is no mass exodus. On mobile, but here is the typical annual CA pop change stats for the past decade, give or take:

  --Incoming--
  - 400K domestic immigrants[1]
  - 180-200K international immigrants[2]
  - 450K births[4]
  Subtotal: ~1.1M

  --Outgoing--
  - 600K domestic emigrants[1]
  - 250K deaths[4]
  - ?? intl emigrants (anyone know?)
  Subtotal: ~850K

  Typical annual net change: +250K (California grew 2.4M from 2010-2020[3])

California shrank in 2020 for the first time in decades seemingly because:

  - 50-80K excess deaths
  - 180-200K less intl immigration
  - 50K fewer births

That's already a loss of 300K people as a one-time event, and the state is down 450K from a typical year. It's easy to come up with another 150K, it's a trivial not "mass exodus" number.

But possibly a lot of those who left were missed in statistics.

[1] https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/265 [2] https://www.ppic.org/publication/immigrants-in-california/ [3] https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-population/ [4] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/state-and-territorial-data....

Edit: learning to format...

Yes. Oversimplified: Apple iOS is a closed system, Google Android is an open(-ish) system. These "abuses" mentioned in the article are not something Apple would need to do:

Google was accused in the complaint of paying Samsung Electronics Co., the largest Android manufacturer, to ensure that the Korean company didn’t develop its own competing app store. Additionally, after Fortnite maker Epic Games Inc. began distributing its app outside of Google’s store, Google “bought off” developers to dissuade them from doing the same, according to the complaint.