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by ridgewell 1y ago
>A core idea is that a house sells for a positive value. But that presumption is likely false. Houses at unattractive places in poor condition might actually represent a negative value. This reminds me of an incident in Vancouver, where
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by ridgewell 1y ago
It can depend a lot on the shape of your batch to my understanding. A small batch job can be tasked out a lot quicker than a large batch job waiting for just the right moment where capacity fits.
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by ridgewell 1y ago
I'm not familiar with this app but based on the read, it sounds like they're essentially relying on someone to sneak into the target's phone, install an apk with a 'Settings' logo, where you grant it all permissions
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by ridgewell 1y ago
>The thing I found most remarkable is that house prices there are not much less than in Seoul proper (that's what I was told at least), which just seemed utterly absurd - what market forces could drive prices of a farmer village (be
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by ridgewell 1y ago
The one that I frequently hear of as a layman (not a lawyer) is Toronto Pearson Airport's Preclearance, which has a very strict and narrow view of the TN Status eligible occupations.
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by ridgewell 2y ago
I remember at the start of COVID, scoring a Steelcase Leap v2 from a guy who was scooping up office chairs from failed Silicon Valley startups and hauling them up to Canada. Super chill dude, and totally upfront about basically making a 100
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by ridgewell 2y ago
In Canada, they use gross income instead of net income for student grants.
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by ridgewell 4y ago
Google Maps in many urban areas is actually aerial imagery. Satellite imagery serves a different use case - often for difficult to access areas where aerial photography is not viable or permitted.
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An ed-tech specialist spoke out about proctoring software. Now he’s being sued(theverge.com)
31 points by ridgewell 6y ago|6 comments
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by ridgewell 6y ago
I love Miniflux. I found TT-RSS to be much too cluttered and I enjoyed Miniflux's focus on minimalism & privacy, but that's a personal opinion. It also doesn't require a mobile client: it works just fine in a mobile brows
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by ridgewell 6y ago
Lufthansa: Where fuel surcharges don't match up with reality.
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by ridgewell 6y ago
DuckDuckGo is just Bing, with the optionality of geolocation by country.
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by ridgewell 7y ago
This website unfortunately has a reputation for the extreme levels of spam employed used to promote the platform.
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Curation as Creation(nybooks.com)
1 points by ridgewell 7y ago|0 comments
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by ridgewell 7y ago
Is the situation improved by using the Privacy Pass add-on [1] from Cloudflare? Supposedly: >Privacy Pass is a Chrome/Firefox browser extension to make browsing Cloudflare-protected websites a better experience for users. In particu
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by ridgewell 7y ago
Still protects you from hijacking at public wifi hotspots. Doesn't let you watch geolocked content (US Netflix), and probably doesn't let you torrent either.
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by ridgewell 7y ago
What's the underlying technology? WireGuard (via BoringTun)? I see there's two tiers, Warp and Warp+. Supposedly Warp+ has better/optimal routing that lets you avoid local ISP congestion. It's $7 CAD/month. This wou
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by ridgewell 7y ago
Donation bins for nonperishable goods are there for a few reasons. 1. Promote Awareness of the Food Bank, and to create connections with either potential clients or donors. Having a presence that you walk by on your way to buy lettuce can h
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by ridgewell 7y ago
I would be surprised why game developers and publishers don't cancel out old keys from free giveaways to prevent hoarding and reselling then.
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by ridgewell 7y ago
>2. Tactically/strategically reselling keys legitimately acquired cheaper (giveaways, review keys, differentiated pricing between markets) Key reselling from giveaways could be mitigated if we somehow figured out a way to make keys
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512GB SSDs expected to fall below $0.1/GB and hit an all-time low by end of year(press.trendforce.com)
4 points by ridgewell 7y ago|0 comments
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U.S. Added 263,000 Jobs in April; Unemployment Rate at 3.6%(nytimes.com)
1 points by ridgewell 7y ago|0 comments
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by ridgewell 7y ago
I would appreciate if you transparently disclose your pricing instead of making me register to see pricing.
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by ridgewell 7y ago
Cloudflare uses a reverse proxy design for its CDN features.
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by ridgewell 7y ago
Furthermore, in Canada (Federal), deputy returning officers are chosen by the party or candidate received the most votes in the last election and poll clerk's are chosen by the party or candidate that came in second in the last electio
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My Search for a Boyhood Friend Led to a Dark Discovery(wired.com)
4 points by ridgewell 7y ago|0 comments
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by ridgewell 7y ago
I saw Derrel Fincher, a Oklahoma House Representative, wrote a comment against the price cap removal. [1] This was relatively interesting since I've never seen a politician participate in such a niche request for comment process. [1]
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by ridgewell 7y ago
A balloon at 50,000 feet rapidly descending doesn't fit the bill at all?
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by ridgewell 7y ago
To be perfectly fair, a good chunk of VPN providers primarily see P2P/bulk downloading and streaming traffic. Ordinary web browsing probably isn't a significant part of VPN traffic when you think about it. Agree it would reduce ba
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by ridgewell 7y ago
>Others say they’ve seen white, Tic-Tac-shaped vehicles. Aside from drones, all engines rely on burning fuel to generate power, but these vehicles all had no air intake, no wind, and no exhaust. These sound like weather balloons to me. I

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