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by benzoate 3y ago
I understand the poll is misrepresented but I find the proposition to be extremely anti-human in the first place — climate change is a real threat, but any directives need to take in to consideration the death and misery caused by restricti
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by benzoate 3y ago
My first employer had this rule — reverse parking only. If you parked the wrong way then reception would send you back out. Their argument for it was basically the same as the Army’s — with so many people working for them it became signific
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by benzoate 4y ago
Same as Boruto, worth it without a doubt. The quality of vision is better than with glasses or contact lenses.
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by benzoate 4y ago
I recently had laser eye surgery and subsequently re-evaluated my relationship with glasses over the previous 15 years — obviously I was frustrated enough to get the surgery but hadn’t considered their impact holistically over my life. My f
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by benzoate 4y ago
I made a rudimentary iOS Shortcut that will get one of these and let you send it to either iMessage or WhatsApp. Go nuts: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a49a1e9e05844a16a98a41cad93...
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by benzoate 5y ago
If you see something, say something, and report the person sending that stuff.
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by benzoate 5y ago
I don’t think it’s as trivial as you suggest, but yeah they could do that – they always could have made changes to flag crime or give access to criminal’s devices but they still refuse to do so. The barrier for being accused by someone who
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by benzoate 5y ago
> If I go on 4chan and an illegal image loads and caches into my phone before moderators take it down or I hit the back button, will Apple’s automated system ruin my life? No, only if you save multiple CSAM images to your photo library a
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by benzoate 5y ago
The CCP can already scan everything server side – iCloud encryption is weaker in China and the servers are controlled by a different entity than Apple. Getting iPhones to scan for illicit content doesn’t help the CCP.
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by benzoate 5y ago
Spotify even ran an email campaign to tell users that they can save money paying outside the App Store.
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by benzoate 6y ago
You can opt out of your pension contributions. You can’t opt-out of paying student loans, which is an available option with other debts. Student loan deductions reduce a balance that doesn’t impact your credit score, can’t chase you for re
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by benzoate 6y ago
You aren’t wrong, but hitting 6 figures at age 30 is very far from the typical experience. Outside of London it’s not guaranteed you’d even hit £60k. Plan 2 students are screwed, with the high interest rates and slower repayment schedule I
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by benzoate 6y ago
+9% if you’re still repaying student loans, which is common until 40s. Student loans operate like a tax in the U.K., taking 9% of your pre-tax income above 15 or 25k directly from your payslip.
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by benzoate 6y ago
I don’t disagree with you, but I suspect learning to write single characters accelerates learning to read. Joined up writing is totally bogus and most of the time I encounter it it makes the author harder to understand, not easier.
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by benzoate 6y ago
My reason for not using google services goes beyond privacy. I also do not want to contribute to or reward Google’s monopoly practices
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by benzoate 6y ago
Well you have 6 numbers and only 5 seconds to show them in. You could show 0 only when the timer has fully completed. I think either rounding up, or rounding to the closest integer is fine. The authors expectation of always rounding down is
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by benzoate 6y ago
> I would be shocked if this happened, since Apple has no ecosystem of game developers whatsoever. Apple is one of the biggest publishers in the market, with over $8bn revenue from games
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by benzoate 6y ago
I’ve witnessed this behaviour firsthand too. Several months after leaving MedShr I left what I still felt was a very honest review. 4 weeks after submission I got an email that they had taken it down (along with previous positive reviews ab
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by benzoate 6y ago
I think they’d struggle to do anything with it, given anti-trust concerns
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by benzoate 6y ago
Most self employed people are eligible to claim up to 80% of the average of their previously declared income up to 2.5K for the last 3 years. There are some notable gaps, but the vast majority are protected. The U.K. government is also back
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by benzoate 7y ago
Swift is extremely good at this pattern. I’ve been using this pattern a lot with associated values. You remove any ambiguity in the state of your view controller, and any unhandled state generates a compiler error (so long as you doggedly r
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by benzoate 7y ago
Yeah I bought my television some years ago through their warehouse deals for around 40% off. It was seemingly entirely unused, whoever had purchased it previously had gone through the effort of partially attaching (or removing) the included
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by benzoate 7y ago
The same could be said of alcohol, but I doubt most people who are drinking are also driving while under the influence.
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by benzoate 7y ago
I believe the parent poster is referring to the stereotype that BMW drivers have an aggressive and selfish driving style, and that they never use their indicators/blinkers.
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by benzoate 7y ago
The Apple dialogs fwiw are at least easy to understand, and are distinctive for each security nag type. Having used Catalina in public beta over the last month it really does not feel like using Windows Vista, you get asked once for each ap
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by benzoate 7y ago
I really enjoy it, when Apple reacts in anger to a hit-piece, like with Spotify, it makes them seem almost human in their response and it’s exactly how I may react if someone were to roast me in the group chat. Granted, CEOs individually ma
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by benzoate 7y ago
The iOS and iPad apps are native, as far as I can gather, and there are differences in how the conversations are laid out (e.g. date separators).
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by benzoate 7y ago
There are external GPUs now that use thunderbolt, prior to this you could run external displays at a greater resolution than was available via HDMI at the time. Firewire was mostly not used because people were content to endure USB, and USB
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by benzoate 7y ago
To my knowledge those described have some distinct advantage over what was available on the market at the time. Firewire was way faster, ADC carries USB, Thunderbolt is connected to PCIe, mini-vga and mini-dvi are self explanatory and their
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by benzoate 7y ago
> A web and software developer in Africa earns from $10,000 to $20,000 dollars per annum whereas their colleagues in Europe and the US earns at least $100,000 dollars per year. This is nowhere near true for Europe, the floor is more like

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