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Same as the current labeling/moderation service: any participant can verify any other participant. Which verifiers gets a check to appear is a property of the AppView. If Bluesky b…

No need for the monospaced requirement - it would reduce the search space, but it's solvable even before this reduction.

It won’t come back, as it never were in the US.

It also puts more tax burden on the less wealthy. Sales tax is regressive; income tax is progressive. But yes, that’s exactly why the American right makes taxation so cumbersome an…

> Hey has been doing great business with an only-paid model. [citation needed]

Assuming you speak English.

All smoke alarms have expiration dates. Mostly due to the isotopes used in them, which decay. The alarms themselves should be able to work even without network connection, but you …

Can't wait for the Monday issue of Matt Levine's newsletter.

I don't believe it has to be said: It's not about product, it's about manipulating the balance sheet.

The problem is the camps. It's forces framing certain traits as something that requires exiling people who show them.

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He has no heart. He is cruel, as he subscribes to the idea that a disease isn’t something you get because you rolled the dice wrong, but something that can be avoided by being “pur…

Not if you know how militaries and intelligence agencies are run.

This is a wild exaggeration - very few people are a good fit for serving in a military, and while the Israeli army ignores that, and drafts many it shouldn't (resulting in high sui…

To comply, for every item in that list, Apple can decide to enable it world wide, or only enable it for devices sold in the EU. The latter would cost them more, both to initially i…

With Spotify app, some issues seem to be due to Spotify themselves. For example, even when you explicitly download music to your watch, the app needs network connection to start pl…

A car analogy can work here, but a slightly different one: Tesla remotely disable cars when they decide to, as they claim that they sell you the car, but only license the software.…

No, that didn't happen.

You can get better in a Mercedes, but it ain't cheap. Tesla ADAS isn't all that it made out to be: it's mostly very aggressive, which imo makes it more dangerous, especially to oth…

Side windows in most new cars are also laminated. The quarter windows are the one you should try break.

Hyundai and Kias have good ADAS, and can be had for less then a Tesla.

AWS (which isn't Amazon, really, even if they share resources), used to bake the cost of keeping the lights on practically forever, or at least until the last user churns. The prod…