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HuggableSquare

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    Comment #19647343

    I buy FLAC from digital stores pretty regularly and my favorites are (obligatory) Bandcamp, 7digital, HDTracks, and TIDAL. I also end up buying physical cd's pretty often and just …

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    Comment #19628662

    I recently discovered Coder's open source version of their web-based IDE ( https://github.com/codercom/code-server ). It's pretty much VS Code in the browser, which is almost exact…

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    Comment #17675769

    I currently pay $68/month for 3Mbps down, 1Mbps up from Verizon DSL. They're my only option for internet except for satellite. Our local cable company would need to run half a mile…

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    Comment #17414693

    I'm just going to throw in my experience here as someone who never went to college but currently writes software for a living. I do mainly frontend web development with EmberJS, an…

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    Comment #16888410

    Amtrak wifi is typically pretty bad because it's cellular, so it ends up roaming between towers constantly and you have a ton of people all on the same network. As for it smelling …

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    Comment #16136587

    Here's a reply I posted elsewhere in the thread about this: Although there hasn't been a release in two years they're currently working on releasing 1.14 this year. In case you're …

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    Comment #16135618

    Originally it was pretty much just a fork of Litecoin, but since then Dogecoin has considered the economic viability of it as a real currency. It's one of the few inflationary cryp…

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    Comment #16135527

    Although there hasn't been a release in two years they're currently working on releasing 1.14 this year. In case you're interested the core devs have been doing a pretty good job o…

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    Comment #15852968

    The arguments I've read is that ISPs would like to investigate traffic priority solutions. e.g. I'm a business that needs low latency (maybe I'm League of Legends or something simi…

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    Comment #15852877

    With regards to exempting services from data caps, it's called "zero-rating" and as far as I am aware, the net neutrality laws we have on the books don't mention it (which is why m…

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    Comment #15817102

    YouTube does actually have video categories that the uploader selects, although historically it has led to people mis-categorizing their videos on purpose. For example, before gami…

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    Comment #15788470

    At work I have two external monitors attached to my 13" MBP, and I almost exclusively use the laptop screen. I also use the trackpad and keyboard attached to the laptop, which is p…

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    Comment #13617743

    There was a paid version of something like this called Digital Lifeboat. IIRC it ran on top of the BitTorrent protocol, and users would store some pieces of other users backups. It…

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    Comment #12300822

    DVDs at Walmart would be covered by sales tax, as would satellite and cable TV, unless it's a basic subscription. From Pa. Code § 9.2. Sales and use tax changes: (2) Pay television…