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Libcat99
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Comment #48721103
I think it would be reasonable for the typical person to believe that when you click a button labeled "buy", you are buying the item, not renting it. Don't defend theft/fraud based…
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Comment #48710217
No one in law enforcement is trying to help you. That's not what it's for.
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Comment #48674248
This is true in the same sense you don't need to own a pair of shoes. Technically, sure, but there are jobs that require you to have a phone (at many different career points too), …
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Comment #46958656
The feds don't own state IDs in the US, at least.
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Comment #44805375
And arresting the users solves none of that. Maybe it hides it from casual observers, but if you actually want to help people, treatment programs and assistance, not cops, are what…
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Comment #44364775
8 years ago I bought a house. My monthly rent was 1300 and mortgage/escrow/repair savings were instead 2000. Rent went up $100-$200 a year. My son is looking for rentals in our sam…
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Comment #44025124
The issue is not that companies don't have the funds to chase these bugs (which will impact future trust/revenue), it's that they don't want to spend it chasing these bugs. Next qu…
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Comment #44022080
Not free, but this was one of my favorite things when learning to program. https://everybasic.info/lib/exe/fetch.php/basics/vbdos-3.png Visual Basic for DOS.
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Comment #43477352
The report includes notes on certain messages having durations set before they would disappear. This indicates intent.
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Comment #43337045
A broad UBI plan would likely not have every single person's income going up by a known amount, either. Most of the plans I've seen taper off and then become a tax at certain incom…
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Comment #43257819
I agree with you, and I support archive.org, but let's be clear. The US gov could shut them down tomorrow. Illegally, but that's not stopping them elsewhere right now. So support a…
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Comment #43127366
Support is looked at as a cost center only. This policy was meant to make people give up, it's literally anti-support.
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Comment #42771729
Imprisonment is worse, being kicked out of university is also worse, but a company taking your money for a product and then banning you from use of that product without a reasonabl…
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Comment #42720188
Our town has Installed several crosswalks with flashing lights in common crossing areas away from traffic lights. It feels many times safer.
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Comment #42696502
It appears to have better blocking mechanics, so I don't know. The same content might exist there, but you won't see things that you filtered.
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Comment #42564061
Switching to sending wrong, inexpensive data might be preferable to blocking them. I've used this with voip scanners.
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Comment #42395632
Don't misunderstand me, I think it's fine he gets the treatment he needs to resolve his pain. It should have happened without death, is all.
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Comment #42378610
Where he'll get treatment on the taxpayer dime?
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Comment #42261283
So responding to you and the parent post both... I have my own thought and also one in response to the "taking a photo" type tasks. I'd like a drop down of some tasks I predefined,…
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Comment #42125868
I reread the part about speakers 3 times and still don't understand. He says it has speakers but then implies it doesn't? I'm lost.
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Comment #42122263
I don't disagree IF they make tooling available for reuse. Of course, I'd prefer they do that all along.
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Comment #41945785
Love this concept :)
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Comment #41925317
https://github.com/JonD-libera/sandwichbot
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Comment #41925237
I have not yet done this. None of the code is complicated, however the setup is a bit (needs an asterisk server, a trunk with a voip provider, an openai account, a text to voice se…
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Comment #41925214
Not when you open the app store. The typical app store workflow for me is I visit the store to download a specific app I'd like to install. That app will then have to download and …