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That is why the meta commentary about identity politics made complete sense to me. It's simply observing that this discussion (like so many others) tends to go this way, and suggests a better alternative - without a straw man.
I come across it often and struggle with cognitive dissonance every time - I know of the regionalism but it feels so strongly like a glaring grammatical error.
I see/hear the specific phrase “needs fixed” most often.
Some members of congress, apparently from both major parties, are proposing legislation to raise the cap from $10,000 to $100,000 or otherwise raise or remove the cap. But these proposals are not certain to go anywhere.
Of course GDP isn’t the only factor in world power status, but it sure is a big one.
Compared to the US, China also has a far larger labor force, a greater ability to manufacture things, and greater government control over its population.
Access to natural resources is similar for many things, less for some (like oil and gas) but greater for others (like rare earth minerals).
So every category where the current phone is the best has a 100% full bar. Where it’s not, you can immediately visualize if it’s 70% as good as the best device or 99% as good - even if the high score for that category is, say, 136.
A lot of stricter review sites will say something like (made up example) “no phone gets above a 4/10 score for zoom; only a DSLR/mirrorless exceeds that.”
Which is totally valid! But I want to know how the device I’m reading about scores within its category. Those smaller bars make it look like this gadget has one major weakness despite its other high scores, when the reality might be that it actually has the best - or close to the best - zoom ability out of all devices in this class.
Seems like it would avoid a lot of the issues like atmospheric interference, frequency congestion, and careful placement of receiver infrastructure.
Interesting - it makes it look like Bash uses $ to “read” from the variable, while in PHP/Perl $ only indicates that the rest of the symbol _is_ a variable.
That describes a concept, over several stages, where a compiler can be made to change the behavior of programs it compiles in a difficult-to-find way.
[0]: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
> Fugger charged residents one Rheinischer gulden a year, the equivalent of one month's salary at the time.
As the article mentions, you could dial the 67 prefix to block your outgoing caller ID on an individual call.
With the blocking-of-blocking, you had the opposite - the 82 prefix _disabled_ outgoing caller ID block on an individual call, allowing you to call subscribers that blocked blocked numbers.
I think my folks finally decided to drop the caller ID blocking after the phone company switched from 7-digit to mandatory 10-digit dialing for all calls. It was just too many digits to dial with the prefix, especially since half the time you would dial without the prefix, get the "blocked" message, then dial again with the prefix.
I had a similar reaction - email open tracking is something you assume, by default, that regular individuals can't do. And I found it very invasive, even though I know the same tracking exists on all the non-personal email I received.
Since then I've made it a point not to open those invitations until I know I'm ready to respond - since "I never saw the email" is a less harmful conclusion for my snooping friend to draw than "I opened the email and decided not to respond."
I think one of the biggest lessons here is about the difficulty of relying on humans to maintain attention while covering an autonomous vehicle. Yes, this particular driver was actively negligent by apparently watching videos when they should have been monitoring the road. But even a more earnest driver could easily space out after long hours of uneventful driving with no "events" or inputs. And that could be enough that their delay in taking over could lead to the worst.
Certainly not defending the safety driver here - or Uber. But I think there's a bit of a paradox in that the better an AV system performs, and the more the human driver trusts it, the easier it is for that human to mentally disengage. Even if only subconsciously. This seems like a difficult problem to overcome, especially if AV development is counting on tracking driver interventions to further train the models for new, unexpected, or fringe driving situations.
If we find a way to trigger those sensations, perhaps with separate brain implants, it would be a huge breakthrough and make learning to control the device much faster.
I'm sure that's far from an easy task, though.
However, most people reboot their phone very rarely: the occasional software update a couple times a year; if the battery runs out (which people usually go to pains to avoid); or for some people, to try to fix a misbehaving phone.
The exploit does require physical access to the phone for a few minutes. But in situations where that can happen, and the owner doesn't have the suspicion or knowledge to reboot, I think an exploit could easily run for one or several months.
Paired with enough clever software modifications made possible by the jailbreak (like a lock screen that collects passcode input), a malicious instance of this could do plenty of damage.
I agree. The culture of user-submitted comments with helpful examples and clarifications on each documentation page was a big part of that, too.
Plus the non-native feel you mentioned. No pinch-to-zoom, moving tabs between windows feels clunky, and scrolling feels different than almost every other app.
I try Firefox for Android from time to time, and I also have a lot of issues with polish that make me stop using it every time. Tab management is extremely clunky, the address bar is inconsistent with virtually every other Android text input (e.g. there's a big X that I expect to clear the address bar, but in Firefox this escapes me from input mode). Even getting the toolbars to reappear by scrolling is troublesome - infuriating.
It sucks, because I care about privacy and web diversity, and have been a Firefox user since back in the Phoenix days.
By my understanding, in the US, typical merchant fees to accept a card are a flat $0.20-$0.30 transaction fee, plus 2-3% of the total dollar amount.
The article mentions the interchange fee (the 2-3%), but for small purchases the transaction fee is more significant.
I assume the majority of purchases are individuals buying a single beverage. If an average drink costs $4, a $0.30 transaction fee alone is eating 7.5% of your gross revenue. That's an absolutely huge amount.
Even if Starbucks cards are bought/topped up with a credit card, that $0.30 fee is being amortized over $20+ worth of product instead of $4 worth.
I also figured this tied in with Starbucks' contract with Square some years back - as one of Square's value props is eliminating the per-transaction fee for credit cards. Not sure why that was cancelled, though.
These "additional benefits" are all things that would increase profit - reduced loss of output from sickness; increased production; reduced feed consumption.
If the seaweed is cheap enough, it could be worth it for farmers to use without additional incentives. Though, they would also get green cred "for free."
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Probably my all time favorite: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider