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For me there was no procedure. It just ended and I got an email asking me to pay again.

This is better than what Google play music does. It just auto renews. Fuck 2 factor auth. At least Amazon gives you that chance.

> Does everyone state times an hour earlier than they want to correct for this rule?

Certainly seems like that to me. I've arrived at wedding functions at the exact time mentioned in the invite and even the hosts weren't present. I had to wait 30 min for them to show up.

In India we call it "Indian time'. Nobody is expected to arrive at a party venue before 1 hour past the announced time.

Considering that every android phone (literally billions of units) sends a location update every 5-10 minutes directly to Google, and nobody cares about the cost, why would airplanes transmitting continuous location updates be too costly?

It's pretty clear that the US government needs to make this a reality. Continuous high resolution live video (visible + Thermal). Entire classes of geopolitical problems will become non-issues. Later, the service can be offered to the general public, like GPS.

If US gov doesn't do it, China will.

I wonder if the HDD the author used to store those bits is also having read errors, which the drive is correcting on the fly.

That's a logo with a really strong idea behind it. Firefox doesn't seem to have that much meaning behind its name.

> But for actual new characters to be added they would first have to become popular enough to warrant inclusion.

How would a character become popular if people cannot type it?

I guess if a certain group fails the test they can just test each of those 5-6 people individually. Still saves time overall.

I dunno about TSA, but I'm am Indian male and I keep a beard and visited Sydney and Melbourne recently. I was singled out for "random" checks at every single airport. Even though the metal detector thing didn't go off at all. They were very nice and polite but I was a bit annoyed. After 9-11, it seems most western countries have become cautious to the extent of paranoia and cause inconvenience to normal people.

Irrelevant to the main point. Since you're being childish I'll explain again.

Not being able to read a particular article or articles is not duress. Duress is if nautilus would threaten to send killer ninjas to your house of you won't accept the cookies.

I never understood why a TLD is a big deal in any real sense. If ICANN wanted they could make the whole web address a single string. No need for a separate TLD. It's like the filename's extension.

Just signed up on mastodon social. First impressions:

- The web app is very well made, although the space utilization could be a bit better

- There doesn't seem to be any concept of friends, but there is something called "follows".

- Almost every post in my timeline was in a language I couldn't understand.

All in all, nice experience but looks identical to twitter. Not really sure of any benefits over twitter.

One time I smoked a lot of weed and I felt myself rising and falling with the music in my room. It was quite pleasurable.

What does this profound experience with drugs tell us about human consciousness/thought? Literally nothing.

> they ensure that consent can only be given under duress.

Not being able to read a random website is not "duress".

> Words are never that far from human cognition.

If true, I wonder how humans thought before language had evolved. Sounds like hell.

> I have a small apartment with a 70 inch screen in the living room.

Some of us have just a 14inch laptop screen at home. Just because you are able to fund your movie obsession doesn't mean casual viewers don't want a good experience.

> In Taiwan, everyone is permitted to bring food and drinks to the theater and that's pretty common. In the US I'm forced to pay an absurd amount of money for awful junk food.

I think this is the standard for the world. In India, we often joke about how the theaters make the real money on the popcorn.

> None of the movies is the US are subtitled.

Yeah, and they shouldn't be. It's highly annoying.

> but I suppose this isn't really a US specific problem.

None of what you said is a US specific problem.

Uber offers a real, irreplaceable service though. I can walk out of my apartment and be on the way to my office in an Uber pool in 5 minutes. The cost is basically 2x of the bus ticket I'd need to buy. As far as I know this service was being offered by absolutely nobody before Uber.

Sometimes the customer is wrong and it's not an issue with the service. And sometimes the customer is rude. I won't expect any human being to accept rude behavior from anybody.

My experience with Airtel has been that a well-written and firm email describing my intention for a complaint is very effective. Also a simple "I will not pay for your service if you don't resolve this" gets you very far with customer service.

I'm waiting for the rumored Jio fiber thing to fuck up Airtel's business, just like they did with the mobile services.

> Unlike Windows, there is no ungainly multi-level start menu from hell.

I wonder which version of Windows the author used last.

Those problems are pretty easy to solve. By your logic apple should not allow 3G sim cards in iphone either, but they do. And shitty wifi networks should be banned, but they aren't.

I think he meant linkable in the web sense, ie, hyperlinks.

> if QM randomness is psuedorandomness

Isn't that the same as the hidden variables theory which has been proved wrong experimentally?

> "You mustn’t misread it, we’re not asserting these particles make decisions, we’re not saying they have any consciousness. What happens is they act, they indubitably act, and which action the particle does is free in this sense, it is not a predetermined function of the past. And that’s not the same as randomness, oh dear me no!"

Why not? Couldn't seem to find a reason for this assertion. If the behavior of a particle is not predetermined, how is it not random?

> Really Bad Reasons to Use Global Variables > "I don't want to pass it around all the time."

This is not a bad reason at all. I think this is the best and most used reason. And no alternative is provided in TFA.

555 internals looks beautiful. I wish I had this when studying 555 for the first time.

> And anyways, what country has the budget to knock out twenty four satellites in quick succession?

China and USA. Any war that they don't participate in is anyway irrelevant on the global scene.