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gordyf

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    Comment #41515133

    Good -- such a person doesn't deserve luxury waiters and servants.

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    Comment #17084492

    You can be upset about an aspect of a product, and seek to change that aspect, without abandoning use of the product. For example, 1.3 million people are killed by cars every year,…

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    Comment #16477086

    > Customers are not sending all their generated power out their meter, then putting load on the "grid" on another meter back in. That would indeed be absurd. That is exactly what t…

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    Comment #16026430

    You really want Apple to put a “Crash: on/off” checkbox in Settings?

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    Comment #15500204

    Hey Siri has been an iPhone feature since the 6s, which came out in 2015.

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    Comment #15326722

    I don't think something needs to be common in order to be protected against.

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    Comment #13265322

    As others are posting here, the Echo is obvious about when it's recording: when the onboard hardware detects the wake-word, the LED rings light up blue and it begins streaming audi…

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    Comment #13264975

    I think you may be making a distinction where none exists. Can you give me an example of what "other stuff" you're referring to? (Disclosure: I worked at Amazon on a related produc…

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    Comment #13264615

    No need for speculation: you can open the Alexa app and play back your own queries, audio and all. There's even a help section titled, "How do I delete Alexa voice recordings", whi…

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    Comment #11137519

    While I agree that TVs don't go obsolete after one year, obsolete doesn't mean "broken" or "no longer works", it just means that the item is outdated or outmoded and generally no l…