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> If they want to salvage Alexa, they need to forget shopping and start doubling down on the smart home and assistant experience [...] and I wouldn't mind paying a subscription fee…

Vancouver is one of the cities where the incumbent taxi lobby won concessions to allow ride hailing, one of those being they all have to charge the same base rate. While some compa…

Having one of the possibly effected devices, I typed in my serial number and it claims to not be effected (has an updated firmware). There is no date on that web page about when th…

Curious what the justification is for 0.9375% (very precise number), given the report 0.3% interchange fee cap in EU noted in this thread? The vendor can charge you more than it co…

A very recent BBC article substantiates the hostility to immigration in Japan, and is an interesting read overall: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63830490

Certainly it does, but one can guarantee more than 30min wait time at some emergency rooms coming up as they are closing outright due to staffing issues. https://bc.ctvnews.ca/8-mo…

"tax bureaucrats" are what took down Al Capone. These days Al would have much better lawyers and layers of shell corporations in various tax havens. He would be untouchable merely …

Wait though ... how can you make that assumption without actually testing it? For science!

I feel you hit reply on the wrong thread ... this seems to have nothing to do with Rancher Desktop?!?

A key point around Rancher Desktop's k8s (actually k3s) support that stands out is that it allows you to use any k3s version and swap between them. This is great for those that wan…

In the 50s there was US agent repression and intimidation of beliefs around communism (see McCarthyism). The KKK was also still rampant and had members that were police or other "s…

"Over a third of the country’s vegetables and two-thirds of the country’s fruits and nuts are grown in California."[0] I'd be careful to imply blame on a single state, when it is a…

> There are a lot of decent folks in a terrible situation solely because of their awful and incompetent politicians. Politicians are elected. If the people don't approve, they have…

I suspect your experience with Tcl is a bit old. Tcl finally standardized on a single core OO library several years ago. The quoting issues can be a pain, but if you learn to treat…

Most of the car share companies operate this way near me. It's not "exclusively via app", but most people rely on the app and NFC to unlock/start and lock/end their trips for conve…

Actually it's quite possible to run a full Cloud Foundry environment in a single VM, as seen with Stackato ( http://www.stackato.com/ ), which can then be scaled out as necessary.

Most people are actually unaware of Ford's "innovations" on pay, or the reasoning behind them, but that does not dilute the profound impact the actions had.

ActiveState Software - Vancouver, BC We are working on private cloud platforms (the P in PaaS), based on Cloud Foundry and Docker. Also well known for language distributions like A…

> "I already had a hunch that it would automatically load in external images" ?? Excuse me, but if the author was clueful enough to expose this issue, why didn't they explain the v…

Just a bump to support this comment. Too many people do not realize that the privacy breaching laws (public and secret, if they are even adhered to by the govt) extend to any US en…

As a recipient of that email (several times), it's apparent a script went bad that had all users on the To: line, though still iterating through each company account. IMO it looks …

Disclaimer: I work at ActiveState, named in the article. I'd just like to point out that ActiveState is not VC funded and is profitable. We are able to grow other parts of the busi…

You make a claim that this is specifically for Chrome on OS X, yet I don't think you've done enough homework to make such a broad statement. I am using Chrome 23.0.1271.101 on OS X…

While the EIAS philosophy is true in Tcl, at the real guts level, the actuality is "Everything must be representable as a string". EMBRAAS it! There is an object system underneath …