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by bhc 2mo ago
Your Meta account profile region has to be in the U.S., and they do Geo IP and SMS verification.
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by bhc 11mo ago
There's a promotional video of the NeXT factory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhIwfu73reE
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by bhc 1y ago
The gambling industry has funneled a ton of cash into academic researchers producing papers that gave credence to the idea of "addictive personality," which in turn was massaged by PR experts into the notion that some people are j
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by bhc 2y ago
In case of Kakao Taxi vs Uber, it was Uber's unwillingness to work with existing taxi operators that killed any chance Uber had in the Korean market. Kakao (at least until they became dominant) acted more like an agent that sends addit
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by bhc 2y ago
I find it strange these types of articles never mention UAE's Barakah nuclear power plant (which did not source reactors from a nation unfriendly to the U.S.) and experienced only 4 year delay from the originally projected commercial o
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A tiny spark of hope in another soul-crushing round of CRTC hearings(readtheline.ca)
1 points by bhc 3y ago|0 comments
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by bhc 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jouhatsu
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by bhc 4y ago
Less than 1 percent of Lithium-ion batteries get recycled in the US and EU. https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/lithium-costs-a-lot-...
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by bhc 4y ago
It's possible that Samsung got a briefing on what's happening with ARM and Qualcomm and negotiated an extended reprieve from the new licensing scheme about a month ago when Masayoshi Son had a high profile meeting with the head of
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by bhc 4y ago
>But in recent years, nearly every modern phone shipped today has an eSIM How many phones other than iPhone, Pixel, and (very recent) Galaxy S/Z have eSIM? There aren't that many cellular IoT boards that support swappable eSIM
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by bhc 4y ago
Crowd-sourced list of Android phones that support dual-frequency GPS: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jXtRCoEnnFNWj6_oFlVW...
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Be Safe(besafe.global)
1 points by bhc 4y ago|0 comments
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by bhc 4y ago
The government that was in power from 2017 to 2022 put a moratorium on new reactor construction there and promised a full phase-out, and although the newly-elected government promised to reverse this, it likely has done some damage to S. Ko
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by bhc 4y ago
I often hear US investors have a higher risk appetite, but why is that the case? I imagine it can't be just cultural differences.
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by bhc 4y ago
That's true, but Canada has suburban sprawl just like the U.S. where, in most cities, home internet is just as expensive if not more so. Think how much less wire, amplification/splitter/switching/etc. equipment, and dril
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by bhc 4y ago
There is a cafe chain in Russia that charges by the minute but most drinks are free. They tried to expand to the U.K. in the mid-2010s, but their test cafes failed, and they pulled out after a few years. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by bhc 4y ago
Former Samsung head Lee Kun-hee had a heart attack in 2014, and his son Jay Y. Lee took over. I don't know if that had any effect on the alleged culture problems the article talks about.
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by bhc 5y ago
It's based ISED's bimonthly CSV data dump of licensed radio transmitters. Heavy concentration of cellular antennas in some blocks might be because ISED's database lists even nano/picocells. http://sms-sgs.ic.g
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I'm calling Bullshit on Medtronic's Open Sourcing of a ventilator design(twitter.com)
73 points by bhc 6y ago|27 comments
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by bhc 8y ago
How do people obtain regulated medical devices like CPAP without a prescription? I assume a sleep study is required to get a prescription from a doctor.
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by bhc 9y ago
Shel Silverstein's literary estate is also known to take scholars and biographers to court under some misguided notion of protecting the brand. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/10/m
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by bhc 9y ago
Rail companies in Japan turn profit due to these factors: 1. Transportation by road in large Japanese cities is a complete nightmare. People really can't take the bus or drive if they want to arrive on time. 2. JR companies have been p
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When Apple soured on Irish tax laws, it turned to a tiny English Channel island(arstechnica.com)
11 points by bhc 9y ago|1 comments
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Comcast files anti-net neutrality comments using your name and service address(twitter.com)
3 points by bhc 9y ago|0 comments
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by bhc 9y ago
Intel and Samsung specifically did that by creating WiMax as a competing standard for LTE, but look what happened. https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/17/14303910/qualcomm-alleged...
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by bhc 9y ago
Westinghouse only closed Stone & Webster acquisition in late 2015, so it seems like the fraud started while Stone & Webster was still owned by CB&I. The whole saga is bizarre because CB&I sued Westinghouse claiming it was pa
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BBC screenshots child abuse images on Facebook–Facebook reports it to cops(arstechnica.com)
17 points by bhc 10y ago|0 comments
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by bhc 10y ago
Is a flat rate fine a good idea in this case? I imagine an investor keeping his or her $30M mansion just as a hedge against RMB depreciation and keeping it empty will think nothing of the $10,000 fine.
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School system does not reward the best head teachers(bbc.com)
1 points by bhc 10y ago|0 comments
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by bhc 10y ago
>Pao ruined Reddit How?

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