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I would argue that aggregated, anonymous viewership data is a net positive to society, as it helps content creators better cater to demand

imho these high trade in offers are basically carrier-subsidized phones in new clothes: in exchange of a discount, you agree to stick with the carrier and phone for the next 3 years. And the discount may not be that great! You can get plenty of money if you sell the phone yourself.

Ten years ago someone told me that you can find out where someone lives by typing their name into Google Maps. I tried it on a few friends and it was shockingly accurate. I was completely mystified by how it worked (we were all college kids and none of us owned property) Doesn't seem to work any more though.

I think this situation, while extremely unfortunate, is just the natural consequences of how banks are regulated in the US. The big banks face a constant threat by the government: if your customer does something illegal with your product, YOU will be fined millions of dollars. Therefore, if your activities have any resemblance of money laundering, they'd rather lose your business than lose millions. Different banks have different "sensitivity", and Chase, unfortunately, is one of the more sensitive ones.

What are the solutions? Laws should be passed to protect customers' rights in the event of an account closure; banks should probably be provided some safe harbor so they aren't as skittish; and in the meantime, bank with a smaller credit union that have a smaller target on their back, and also if something breaks you can yell at someone who can actually fix it.

The content directly obtained from the source would also likely be cleaner, and even if it's settled that scraping and training is legal, the cost savings in data cleaning could still warrant a paid partnership.

Disney Springs is a shopping mall though. You don't need a ticket to visit. It's also a stretch to claim one agreed to certain terms of service by merely visiting a website.

It's a rent seeking scheme. The algorithm is already reverse-engineered and you can download it from your favorite package manager. But in order to operate legally in China you need to purchase the "decryption module" from the surveying department.

I wonder why they didn’t integrate directly into Instagram main app. They did it for short video, why not text?

I’m not advocating this from a customer perspective; it just sounds like a good idea if they want to fully crush Elon’s Twitter

Unfortunately it doesn’t work. There are a few states where the minimum wage is the same for tipped employees, but tipping is still required in those states :(

I replaced all switches in my apartment with Lutron smart dimmer & smart switches, and have Philips Hue in some lamps.

- While the color change feature is mostly gimmick, the adjustable color temperature is really useful. You can't get that in a smart dimmer / switch

- Dimmers don't work very well with LED bulbs, and they can flicker at low end of brightness setting

- At least the Lutron smart switches I used don't work very well with LED lights with minimal power draw. Apparently due to the way they work, in off state, there still will be a little bit of current leaking to the circuit, which would be enough to power some LED bulbs

AFAIK, legacy admission and donations are two separate "tracks", if you will.

Donations are when the "donation office" giving a list to the admissions office.

Legacy admission is when the student ticks a box on the application.

The former is to recognize past contributions, where the latter is more for future contribution (if your whole family went to Harvard, presumably you will be more likely to give money to Harvard)

One thing I never understood is why colleges themselves fight so hard for affirmative action? Wouldn't admitting the most qualified students, regardless of race, be in their own interest? If they are afraid of the political pushback for having too few Black and Hispanics, doesn't this decision give them cover?

It actually could be the opposite: since the OTA guest can leave a bad review, hotels may treat them better.

I think this is the answer. Just tried this (on free ChatGPT 3.5 though)

Q: A glass door has ‘push’ written on it upside down. Should you push or pull it

A: If the word "push" is written on the glass door upside down, it is likely that the sign is intended for people on the other side of the door. Therefore, if you are approaching the door from the side with the sign, you should pull the door instead of pushing it. However, if there are no other signs or indications on the door or its frame, it may be helpful to observe other people using the door or to try both pushing and pulling to determine the correct method of opening the door.

To be fair, the theory that economic development leads to political liberalization isn't entirely fiction. Taiwan and South Korea both used to be de facto dictatorships.

Sadly at $579 that is almost the price of a full printer at $799.

May as well buy the full printer and sell the old one :(

Chinese apps, even those from big established players, are often indistinguishable from malware. Off the top of my head, I can think of:

- Hiding their app icon from launcher, but add a widget that looks the same. So if the user tries to uninstall the app, they just deleted the widget and the app remains.

- One app would install other apps from the same company in the background without user consent.

- Multiple apps will wake each other so they always stay in the background and become impossible to kill

- Requesting every permission under the sun and transmit as much info to the mothership as possible

- Secretly turning on the camera and film their users

However, these only happen on Android version. iOS version never have these issues.

So even though I am not a fan of the Apple monopoly, I am really really afraid that by allowing third party app stores and sideloading, the western apps will race to the bottom and become just like this.

("But you can always download from the official App Store!" you may say. But what if, say, Tik Tok announces they will from now on leave the App Store and available only via direct download?)

One underappreciated benefit of the lack of national ID is it forces the system to deal with a plethora of different IDs, and therefore makes the lives of those with rare forms of ID (such as foreigners) much simpler.

Birds aren't gonna like this plan though

Story circulating on Chinese Internet:

- Foxconn workers have to walk on highways for hundreds of miles with their luggage to go back home

- Villagers nearby set up free food and water distribution stalls en route

- Some scoundrels steal all the food and water

- The thief are forcibly sent to quarantine because they are now classified as close contacts to COVID positives

I am actually sympathetic here - one quirk of New York City is despite hosting some of the busiest airports in the country, there simply aren't any reasonable airport hotels.

There used to be many, but the City bought most of them outright and converted them into homeless shelters. The remainder serve as overflow, so you probably don't want to stay there either. The common wisdom in the frequent flyer community seems to be to just head to Manhattan, or go to Flushing - it's more fun that way anyways.

* The exception is probably the newly opened TWA hotel on JFK, which is really nice, albeit pricy

In China:

* During COVID, a medical school professor complains his class livestream would get cut off constantly without warning because he is teaching anatomy and showing pictures.

* Civics class online quiz. Multiple choice question. A: *; B: *; C: *; D: * - apparently all four choices are censored because they are names of Chinese leader.

* A police officer complains his files related to a rape case he is investigating was deleted by the cloud service provider

Chinese here. Dream of high school constantly - most recently last night.

It kinda depends on what kind of aircraft you want to fly.

Thrustmaster t16000m is more geared towards military aircrafts.

If you want to fly Airbus, TCA Officer Pack Airbus Edition (which under the hood is the t16000m) is very good and works well with FS2020's Airbus A320 (even better with the free FlyByWire A320 mod)

If you want to fly general aviation aircrafts, the Logitech Yoke is pretty good. The Honeycomb Aviation stuff is much better but cost double your budget.

You could just tap a contactless credit card.

It's actually really simple. The parties short seller sold to can lend their shares out again.

Say I own the only share in Acme Corp. A borrows it and sells it to B. B then lent it to C who then sold it to D. Now you have both A and C with short position, despite only one outstanding share.

Presumably inflation is not going to stay at 8% over the next 30 years.

In fact the current 30-year expected inflation is only at 2.2%: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EXPINF30YR

That is by design; only 10% to 50% real world traffic is replicated into FS2020.

I imagine if you replicate all traffic you will never be able to take off and land at popular airports like JFK or LHR :)

If you can work remotely from India while making enough money to cover your cost of living in the U.S., then you should... stay in India and live like a King?

I had a domain that I let expire, but the associated Google Apps remained valid and I continued to use it