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The ones with terrible slides on their MTA ads?

They refunded me all the money I spent on the Stadia + games and unlocked the video game controllers so I can use them with other systems... my only regret is that I didn't buy more

Which do you find best? I am using Claude Code but hit the 5-hour limits easily, and burn through the weekly allowance in 3-4 days... and I'm not even using it for work

I only see plans for $8, $20, and $250/month... which one are you using exactly?

https://gemini.google/subscriptions/

I'm sorry, what is Awdah Hathaleen's connection to Hamas?

No X1 Carbon on the laptops page? That's surprising... or just interesting (if it's wrong)

(I see the Yoga there, but it's a pretty different product)

Heads up, "ahead of it's time" should be "ahead of its time"

Cool tool!

> Total sin tax burdens are poorly explained by demographics (including income).

While two most-taxed clusters may be low-income, the researchers found a poor correlation between income and sin tax burden overall.

More detail from the paper:

> The second takeaway is that saying “sin taxes are regressive” or “sin taxes are progressive” largely misses the point. There is much more variation among households within income groups than across them in purchases of sin goods (Figure 3). Even among the lowest-income groups, the majority of households pay negligible amounts of sin taxes, and there are heavy smokers and heavy drinkers at all levels of education and income.

Ironic from a website that requires me to allow javascript to run before I can read a text-and-image blog post.

Caught my attention too so I looked it up. Looks like a great list of goals to me.

> Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.

> Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact.

> Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation.

> Work with independent researchers to facilitate in-depth studies of the platforms’ impact on people and our societies, and what we can do to improve things.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...

This is an amendment to a bill.

Is Tether now backed by a reasonable amount of real dollars? I'm surprised to see it being used in such a serious application after years of hearing how it was a scam.

edit: looked it up, still looks like a total scam. I hope El Salvador is able to get through this without getting screwed and I guess I'll assume Strike (first time I've heard of it) is just as shady until I hear otherwise:

https://coingeek.com/crypto-crime-cartel-tether-using-its-st...

Neither of those things have units on them, so that's obviously not the comparison they were trying to draw. The way I see the comment, labor is more valuable to society than putting up capital is, so the government should incentivize labor by raising the capital gains tax.

Thinkpad X1 Carbon, although I'm not sure what the touchscreen support actually looks like (I bought the Windows version of the machine and installed my own Linux distro)

You're right, edited. Thanks!

The claim isn't that Telegram's encryption is worse, it's that Telegram's closed-source backend is unauditable.

Your other points are a great example of FUD.

edit: changed clients to backend

I looked up every newspaper in the list, and I don't see any evident connections to Murdoch (which I found surprising). Am I wrong?

You're ignoring the living, moving context that is the adtech industry. It's one with a much higher ratio of middlemen:customers than needed, representatives of whom appear in this article.

One underreported angle of the blockade of Qatar was the fact that Qatar continued to supply the UAE with natural gas throughout the several-year affair.

> It pumps around 2 Bcm of gas per day to the UAE.

http://www.gasprocessingnews.com/news/qatar-has-no-plan-to-s...

It says 2020 instead of 2021.

You're playing on literally the most playable platform there is (the game is even less buggy on Stadia than on latest-gen consoles).

Data collected on a FitBit (or any other device) is not regulated by HIPAA.

So much saffron!

Just so I have more to add than that observation, I recommend anyone who's interested in the Middle English in these recipes to check out this episode of The History of English Podcast looking at a 14th-century cookbook:

https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2019/12/19/episode-132-f...

For more info on the nautical origins of the word "average," check out this episode of The History of English Podcast:

https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2020/04/06/bonus-episode...

I can now only read how many unread emails I have on 1/3 of my tabs and am very upset about this permanent downgrade, so yeah, I upvoted it.

https://i.imgur.com/eI7Bczd.png

For $160k?

The calendar entries for the professors who use the Canvas Zoom feature don't have Zoom links (I assume it should be in the location?) - the only classes in my schedule that have working Zoom links have them copy/pasted into the event description, where the password has been embedded in the link.

And this is what I see at the top of two of my next submissions:

Due Monday by 11pm / Points 30 / Submitting: a file upload / File Types: pdf, doc, and docx / Available until Oct 20 at 12pm

Due No due date / Points 1 / Questions 1 / Time Limit None

Neither says how many attempts I have. I believe the file upload has unlimited re-uploads and the latter only allows for one submission, but I really have no idea how to confirm that without risking it.

As a student on Canvas this year and Sakai last year (and Blackboard before that), I can tell you that Canvas is atrocious and easily the worst of the bunch.

Just so I'm not making an empty comment, here are a few quick complaints:

- Confusing differences between calendar vs module views that differ from class to class depending on where the professor tries to put things

- Zoom is shunned to its own tab rather than integrated with the calendar, causing students to constantly ask each other for the password for every session

- Everything (tests, midterms, homework assignments) is called a quiz, and it's often unclear what is going to be graded or what allows multiple submissions until it's too late

- Notification settings are terrible and most people stick with the settings they set in the first week, meaning some of my classmates are just now realizing they've been missing announcements or grade postings

- If I get an email that a teacher has released grades, I have to go to Canvas to open it - and sometimes it's not even true

- Notification counts are ignored because they appear even on things I've already seen but just not clicked on from the "home" view

- Replies to my own discussion posts are mixed in with replies to everyone else's posts, meaning no real discussion is had

"nabith" translates to wine. I wonder, what were they drinking?

> "can I help you"

Walmart? Are you sure? They are not known for being helpful, let alone solicitous.

Ironically, the only grocery chain that I can think of where employees actively ask if they can help is Trader Joe's. I can't help but giggle at the fact that they're German-owned, even if this part of the culture came from the American founder.