ryanwatkins

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by ryanwatkins 1y ago
> It was incontrovertibly approved as it is only installable via MDM. Only if this his standard govt issued phone. It's also been shown they are also using their own personal phones. The could easily be using unapproved phones some
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by ryanwatkins 1y ago
> I don't really want to damage strangers' property. I don't own any car as I just take public transportation, so I can't really say I'm "boycotting" Tesla any more than any other brand. Divest of Tesla
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Facebook account brought back from the dead(twitter.com)
3 points by ryanwatkins 5y ago|0 comments
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Facebook bans Trump for 24 hours(twitter.com)
18 points by ryanwatkins 6y ago|2 comments
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by ryanwatkins 6y ago
Microsoft netted about $550 million from that $150 million investment in Apple.
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by ryanwatkins 6y ago
The liability is usually with the card issuer (bank), unless the merchant fails to meet liability shift requirements - like processes a card via the manually entered numbers or magstripe, rather than the chip in the card if the terminal sup
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NYPD Misconduct Complaint Database(nyclu.org)
1 points by ryanwatkins 6y ago|0 comments
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Five charged with felonies for tweeting or retweeting a cop’s photo(arstechnica.com)
43 points by ryanwatkins 6y ago|19 comments
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by ryanwatkins 6y ago
Its nearly 75% depending on how you count. See May 2020 report: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/ccrb/downloads/pdf/policy_pdf/mo... Of the requests made, about 26% are resolved in 30 days or less. 46%
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by ryanwatkins 6y ago
You can pontificate that its one rogue complainant or you can check the data because its right there and shows race, age and gender of the complainant. The very first page of data shows one sergeant with 25 complaints composed of atleast 1
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by ryanwatkins 6y ago
There are plenty of other payment methods than cash that have guards against being lost/stolen or the other problems with handling cash, but also dont have the high cost of interchange that funds credit card rewards. Merchants take cre
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by ryanwatkins 6y ago
The vast majority of that fee that merchants pay goes to the bank, not Visa or Mastercard. And a vast majority of what the bank gets in that fee goes back out to the card owner in the form of rewards. You see merchant fees of 1-2% because
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by ryanwatkins 6y ago
Their leaders may not be well known, but they spend an absolutely massive amount of money promoting their brands. They are extremely recognizable. Mastercard so much so that the recently removed their name from their logo as its nolonger n
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by ryanwatkins 6y ago
Merchants certainly "notice" and take any opportunity to use an alternative to the card networks. They only accept it because they must to avoid losing a purchase. They would rather customers pay in almost any other form due to
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by ryanwatkins 6y ago
Yes, it is legal in the US. Federal law allows it - P.R. 91-36 (FCC 93-410), though New York law attempts to make it illegal to do in your car: https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/vehicle-and-traffic-law/vat-sec...
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by ryanwatkins 7y ago
That hidden cost is subsidized by the other customers charged the same price but that pay cash, or via debit card rather than credit card, or even with a credit card with lower rewards than yours.
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Before Netscape: Web browsers of the early 1990s (2011)(arstechnica.com)
196 points by ryanwatkins 7y ago|78 comments
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by ryanwatkins 8y ago
Version in the type attribute used to be there with Mozilla. They removed it. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/sc... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.c
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by ryanwatkins 10y ago
Google Easter has a nice little easter egg when you search for for "conway’s game of life".
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by ryanwatkins 11y ago
The $2 million doesn't have to sit around for 20 years in a non-interest bearing checking account. Put $1.5million in a 5 year CD and get another ~$50k/year. Give them other maintenance work to do while they are at the school tu
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by ryanwatkins 11y ago
The Galaxy S6 and a bunch of others, including some HTC Droids, 8X and others, LG G3, many Lumia devices, Blackberry Z30 and Classic. But yes, not the iPhone.
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Iowa to launch smartphone driver's license, logistics could be tricky(desmoinesregister.com)
1 points by ryanwatkins 12y ago|0 comments
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by ryanwatkins 12y ago
He did appear on the Polymer dev mailing list last week to pick a bit of a fight about how web components are/are-not compatible with other frameworks: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/polymer-dev/
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by ryanwatkins 12y ago
They've released preview documentation of a design centered around an unreleased OS and you are upset they don't have Google implementations in all the other non-google UI frameworks already? Its early days, they're clearly
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by ryanwatkins 12y ago
Material design is more than just the colors, shadows and spacing, its also the animations and interactions. This CSS framework fails to replicate things like "ink" that fills an element with a tap color based on where in that e
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by ryanwatkins 13y ago
> The flag to enable the built in mobile hotspot feature of your phone's os is enabled by default when you choose [..] the mobile share plan on AT&T. Not if that device is a Nexus 7 tablet. ATT specifically made Google turn off
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by ryanwatkins 13y ago
Doesn't work in Chrome on a tablet. Start drawing zoomed to some a flipped view of the backside and there is no space bar to tap without a text field. Hacks for desktop only is understandable but increasingly a niche area to target fi
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by ryanwatkins 13y ago
http://logos.wikia.com/wiki/Internet_Explorer
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by ryanwatkins 13y ago
function fish_user_key_bindings bind \e. 'history-token-search-backward' end There is a thread about it here https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/89
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by ryanwatkins 13y ago
esc-. is my biggest miss as well. There are discussions on this but still havent been able to fix it on osx in iterm2 myself. Did get option-. to work for now but esc-. has 20+ years of pure reflex action burned into my brain.

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