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iOsirison Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%

The is is literally just the fringe influencing politics. The majority of Albertans do not support this.

iOsirison Ask HN: How to survive as a homeless programmer in the winter (AB, Canada)?

Current provincial government doing all it can to reduce social assistance programs. They exist but not like how they use to.

iOsirison Air pollution over Alberta oil sands up to 6,300% higher than reported

The government in Alberta is heavily supported by private industry.

iOsirison Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

Harmonic on Android

iOsirison iOS 14 is available today

No, once you upgrade with iOS, you're stuck on it as an user

iOsirison Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

Are you planning on expanding to Android?

iOsirison Ask HN: Programs that wasted you 100 hours?

PeopleSoft's PeopleTools and nVision might be one of the worst out there. Randomly hangs and crashes

iOsirison Air Canada agents reveal overselling practices

There was a story a little while back that claims that customers may not actually get those credits. Basically, this guy only got it because the media picked up on it. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/air-canada-reneges-on-compe...

iOsirison Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing

This cancellation via phone seems to be a common practice with all subscription newspapers.

iOsirison To Cover China, There’s No Substitute for WeChat

> It seems incredible that people would want to use such a restrictive service when much more open ones exist, but the others routinely have their service degraded by the government so they aren't a viable option.

Do those other options actually exist within China? I thought they were blocked and that's why WeChat is dominate.

iOsirison New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub

Google handles the updates for Android One. I have a Xiaomi Mi A1 in addition to a Pixel and it seems to get updated on time. Occasionally, faster than the Pixel even for security updates.

iOsirison Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

All these people using markdown with images are self hosting the images.

iOsirison Essential Phone, available now

Most Android phones use Qualcomm chips, so if Qualcomm doesn't provide long term support. Neither does any company that uses their chips.

iOsirison High End CPUs – Intel vs. AMD

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ryzen-Se...

"AMD was also able to confirm this issue is not present with AMD Epyc or AMD ThreadRipper processors".

iOsirison Google offers at least $880M to LG display for OLED investment

I thought they couldn't purchase from Samsung because Apple bought out the supply.

iOsirison Samsung’s biggest challenge now is Google software, not Apple hardware

I thought it's because they don't release the blobs/binaries for the camera. So when you another ROM, you have to use generic post-processing for the camera

iOsirison Reserving your Model 3

It's called an "authorization hold" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_hold

iOsirison CRS-6 Falcon 9 landing barge touchdown [video]

Refreshing it seems to fix it