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Doesn't look so secret to me. The ad shows the address as apple.com.

In other words, true Scotsmen.

Rewards/points are not free. You're paying more upfront to get something "free" later on.

All the while not understanding that projecting a video of unknown resolution onto a large screen in the courtroom could have the same effect as zooming the image.

The story comes from the Associated Press who wrote the article following the announcement that the metallurgist plead guilty in a court the previous day. The BBC has stories from all corners of the globe, unlike our major media who only print foreign stories if it has an American angle to it.

If there were canvassers knocking on doors and offering bribes for ballots you would hear about it here in Washington state. People here take their voting rights seriously.

Seattle has a phone app called "Find it, Fix it" as well as a dedicated phone number for reporting potholes and other problems. You take a picture of a pothole, maybe a description and send it off. The city promises most potholes get fixed within 3 days of receiving a report. They even have a website map showing all requests and the potholes that have been filled within the last 90 days.

https://seattlecitygis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/ind...

Brave announced only 2 weeks ago that they would no longer default to Google search in their browser.

"Privacy-preserving Brave Search Replaces Google as the Default Search Engine in the Brave Browser"

https://brave.com/search-and-web-discovery/

In the roaring days of the railroad, most railroads had dispensed with manually shoveling coal out of the tender. They used mechanical stokers to move the coal from the tender to the firebox.

Of course Australia allows road trains, that is a truck tethered to 4 or 5 trailers with a length of over 50 meters.

Except former Wukesong Arena in Bejing has been named "MasterCard Center", "LeSports Center" and is now "Cadillac Center". Then there's "Mercedes-Benz Arena" in Shanghai. Shaanxi Province Stadium was for a few years named "Coca-Cola Stadium".

The guns were left on a table to be picked up by the assistant director. Anybody could have tampered with the guns.

It's more prevalent than that. Just on this movie set alone, there were prior problems with accidental firings of prop guns that were supposed to be unloaded. On the morning of the deadly shooting, union members walked off the job due to safety concerns. This is going to be one huge lawsuit.

From the article, it doesn't appear as though Baldwin pointed and fired. It looks like the gun discharged when he removed it from the holster.

"Baldwin removed the gun from its holster once without incident, but the second time he did so, ammunition flew toward the trio around the monitor."

In this case, an assistant director handed the gun to Baldwin. I would expect that no one should hand a gun to an actor but the armorer and that armorer should open the gun and show the actor whether it is empty or loaded every time they are handed a gun, not laid on a table for anyone to pick up (see article below). Every gun should also be immediately retrieved and locked up following filming by that armorer. And in the case of blocking (setting up camera shots) no operational gun should ever be used, which is what happened in this case.

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2021/10/23/who-is-hannah-gutierre...

Currently, Fastmail's limit is 600 aliases per account for all three payment levels.

CloudFlare doesn't need to be an ad company, they have plenty of paying customers.

How hard is it to stop an EC2 instance? It's literally 3 or 4 clicks from when you login. As for forgetting how to login, if I give some company my credit card info, I damn well make sure I know how to login when I need to.

You mean "all browsers are WebKit". Safari is Apple's browser that uses WebKit.

ArrivCan has a website that people can use.

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/cor...

That's another quirk of South Dakota law. Essentially the state has no limit on interest rates, which is why all the credit card companies have offices there.

I recall that when the first Apple stores were opened that they used an overhead camera technology that recorded customers moving about the store. This included customers that walked up to the window, and those that walked inside. The images were rendered as black silhouettes so as to anonymize the customers, but the technology helped Apple understand traffic patterns in their stores.

So how can Apple make it easier to cancel a subscription if they don't have control over the payment method?

You're allowed to use their trademark terms in your product description, just not in the title or subtitle of the app.

Or use Swatch Internet time. Essentially a metric clock, divided by 1000, with the meridian in Biel, Switzerland. @248 is 248 divisions past midnight at the meridian, but still 248 worldwide. No more conversions needed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

Timezone logic has much more to do than just DST.

You've got places like Kabul in Afghanistan where the timezone is 1/2 hour off the normal hourly zone (UTC +4:30). You've got countries that want to be aligned with their neighbors for commerce so normal timezone boundaries have exceptions.

Can you find an item using Tile if it's out of Bluetooth range, like AirTags can?

That's what self-service stands are for. Let the little old ladies argue about coupons all day long, I can get in and out with my few items quicker.

Tracking user's interactions with the site (or any site out there) doesn't have to be related to monetization. It could actually be part of SO's mission to make the site better and more useful to its users.

> Yup -- another business trick is in McDonalds -- the company that supplies the beef in Ireland is called "100% Irish Beef" and thus they put that on the packaging even if the beef doesn't come from Ireland.

Yea, I'm going to call bullshit on that. "100% Irish Beef" is a marketing slogan by Irish beef producers to signify that all of their beef comes from Ireland.