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   by StackRanker3000 2y ago

   Is plastic pollution the only factor that matters in being environmentally friendly, to the point where you can dismiss all others out of hand?
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   by StackRanker3000 2y ago

   > how should countries stay socialist? That’s a hard question, I don’t think there are any examples of long-lasting socialist societies of substantial size that have stayed particularly true to the purported ideology. If we think about s
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   by StackRanker3000 2y ago

   There is more reason to be concerned about Telegram than most other similar services. Partly because it’s insecure by default, which makes a large percentage of conversations vulnerable. And also because the team behind it is very susceptib
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   by StackRanker3000 2y ago

   I think you misread the comment you responded to. It didn’t mean ”I suspect that what they are getting from Amazon isn’t a dedicated server”. Rather it meant ”I suspect that they’re getting a dedicated server from somewhere else that isn’t
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   by StackRanker3000 2y ago

   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40225838 ”Android lets you choose which digital assistant app to use. Settings > Apps > Default apps > Digital assistant app. Stock Android will have this preconfigured to Googl
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   by StackRanker3000 3y ago

   Why are you assuming it must necessarily be paid for in the first year? Are they not keeping these plates indefinitely, unless sold?
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   by StackRanker3000 3y ago

   Thanks! After a quick search, EDP seems to stand for Enterprise Discount Program, and PPA means Private Pricing Addendum.
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   by StackRanker3000 3y ago

   Sorry, could you/someone please help with these acronyms?
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   by StackRanker3000 3y ago

   Are more or less acts making a living off their music now or back then? Absolute numbers and percentage-wise? How do we decide what number is "fair", or what we as a society want? Surely it's not reasonable that every band th
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    by StackRanker3000 3y ago

    > except the huge amount of music that will never be on there. I can count on one hand the amount of times this has happened to me in the last decade. Is it fair to say that you have fairly esoteric taste in music? I don't think it&
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    by StackRanker3000 3y ago

    Spotify allows you to play local files, add them to playlists, etc. So no you can't buy the files from Spotify, but if it's important to you, you can buy them elsewhere and import them.
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    by StackRanker3000 3y ago

    I agree that it has nothing to do with Twitter’s technical capabilities per se. I disagree that it’s due to political decisions - it’s due to business decisions. To a large extent because Elon dropped the ball when major advertisers were
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    by StackRanker3000 3y ago

    > Do you have any examples in mind of where this feature was billed confusingly? Yes, when they started calling it full self driving, which by any reasonable person’s definition it isn’t. That deception is not entirely ameliorated by usi
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    by StackRanker3000 3y ago

    Clients and other stakeholders often need status updates and estimates to conduct their business. It may even be worth sacrificing some speed and value in order to have better insight into when it is likely to be delivered, so plans and coo
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    by StackRanker3000 3y ago

    This may be helpful: https://www.studera.nu/startpage/higher-education/universiti... > To put it very simply, the difference between universities (universitet) and university colleges (högskolor) is that univer
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    by StackRanker3000 3y ago

    Don’t forget the massive amount of new debt that needs servicing.
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    by StackRanker3000 3y ago

    There are also tools that allow you to block everyone who’s liked a tweet, everyone who follows a particular person, etc. I don’t know if Garry Tan uses such a tool, but maybe he does.
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    by StackRanker3000 3y ago

    See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32639125