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At least one news website threatened to shut my (expensive) paid account because I was using a "generic" email address, and as such, was likely sharing my credentials. They insiste…

Square acquired Credit Karma's Tax business, probably folding it into CashApp [1] https://squareup.com/us/en/press/credit-karma-tax [2] https://www.pymnts.com/news/partnerships-acq…

You should be able to block those elements with uBlockOrigin or similar browser extensions. I blocked a bunch of the "trending" stuff since it never really contributed positively t…

The other comments provided a great overview, but I would really recommend read ProPublica's reporting about them [1] Some very brief highlights: - They use dark patterns and other…

But they also have to live without an office and may not have meaningful stakes to make the tradeoff worth it for most.

Presumably this was an office job? It might be a little different with a warehouse job that has very productivity targets set from above.

I don't know if this is a recent trend, or if I've only experienced negative things in the past year or two, (perhaps in the lead up to their IPO?), but I ended up switching away f…

The whole presentation I was wondering how much Verizon paid as well. Between the pricing reveal and the conflation of their 28GHz deployment as a standard 5G experience, it seemed…

Is Spotify on Airplay 1 still?

With Amazon I do like that I talk to real people, but half the time they try to give me money instead of actually trying to solve the problem. It's great that chat is empowered to …

For sure. Like many younger workers, I didn't move into a ultra-high COL area to spend all day in my shared living arrangement. There isn't a lot of room to optimize for a WFH worl…

fwiw the Adobe Photography plan requires a 1-year commitment (paid monthly) and has an early termination fee if you do try to cancel, so it's not as straightforward.

Yes, whoops!

Yes. I volunteered at an aquarium for several years, and we spent a surprising amount of time learning octopus etymology. It was a top 10 question for adults to ask.

That's correct. It's a very big difference if you think about it. Under the normal arrangement, a customer has to retain for 12 months before the 15% rate kicks in. Depending on th…

Amazon. It may be true that they A/B test the shit out of things, but it feels super clunky every time.

They did, which was the shocking part! If you believe their claims about profit distributions (which you probably shouldn't), the total cost might even average less than $70/mo.

Funnily enough, I was doing research one day and came across a local ISP co-op in one of the Dakotas that was selling rural, symmetric 1/1 for $70 per month. Much better service at…

They must massively oversubscribe their services, far beyond ISPs. The advertising probably brings in a lot of profitable users who aren't pushing tons of BitTorrent traffic as wel…

I would add the standard caution when looking at averages, that symmetric 1/1 fiber may be pulling the upload value up significantly. Or that Speedtest users have higher internet s…

And don't forget the middlemen that monetize your de-identified data in exchange for providing the service :)

Totally understandable, but I'd strongly recommend challenging yourself. Of course I'm a little biased having done a CS/humanites major at a liberal arts college but there are so m…

True, but it also is the case that younger folk/non-devs are more likely to live in smaller spaces with housemates. Speaking personally, I made some optimizations, but there's only…

Interesting take, and it does track with my experience as a data nerd. Also, my first time looking at myself on the leaderboards was throughly depressing

This is pretty disappointing. Recently Strava seemed to be turning the corner, releasing new features that users wanted. Totally understand their need to make money, seeing that th…