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I got a no-name USB adapter for mine and it hasn't killed it in the couple of years I've had it, that's the one I take for travel. You can search for "USB QP2520" to find one.

m.xkcd.com lets you click for the alt-text.

It's cheaper if you have multiple computers with normal amounts of data though. My whole family is on my B2 account (Duplicati backing up eight computers each to a separate bucket)…

And seems to sound like a normal bell, or maybe that's just my ears. I guess I can see why they didn't put it up front, but that was also all I wanted.

Yeah, there were definitely ö and û and © and stuff too, just anything outside the normal 0x20-0x7E.

As I recall pseudoloc is just randomly picking individual characters to substitute that look like the Latin letters to keep it readable for testing, so it would be something like р…

Heck, they even make TV shows about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_the_Bounty_Hunter !

Technically it was because businesses were banned from raising wages during WW2 but benefits were exempt.

Well, we can't count on the entire rest of the world having all their factories bombed and being the only nation with reasonable manufacturing capability all the time .

Nintendo is going to be doing digital game lending now so that's an interesting addition. I'll probably still buy physical since the first-party games hold their value so well.

But if you own the biggest social network in the world and say "Taylor Swift is no longer allowed to advertise or promote her music on this platform", just because you don't agree …

Sure, that makes sense. Sorry again and I'll skip the epithets in the future.

My apologies, I assumed that applied just to participants on HN discussions.

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Signal also doesn't (on IOS at least), I just set it up for my parents and it asks for specific contacts.

I mean, Signal works as TOFU if you're not sharing state secrets or anything.

911 or 9911 is usually a good shot too.

Treaties specifically have to be approved by Congress and have approximately the same force of law and durability as the Constitution. Lately we mostly do "executive agreements" in…

You were 100% right until the random racism thing. I'm completely aware I'm paying a bribe for favorable government treatment. Paying the bribe is better individually though. I'd e…

I think a lot of the recent trading apps marketed to consumers give you a margin account by default though, I know Robinhood does. If you request a cash account you lose instant de…

America's requirements ( https://www.finra.org/investors/investing/investment-product... ): > pattern day traders must maintain minimum equity of $25,000 in their margin account on…

Is assassinating Supreme Court Justices really an official duty of the president? Because that's all they said would be immune from prosecution.

20-30 years ago they didn't charge extra for checked bags so more people did that instead of dealing with the carry-on hassle.