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With SafetyNet the phone already hasn't been yours for years. Banking apps and weirdly a lot of public transit apps and random games refuse to work on rooted phones. I'd switch to iPhone but that's even worse, if there's an actual open phone ecosystem let me know.

Hmm, I hadn't considered additions to existing plants versus greenfield plants, fair point. Presumably those have less local resistance and permitting issues considering it only took fifteen years from application to generating power. Guess there's probably a market in selling existing datacenters to the hyperscalers to expand them!

> A nuclear power station puts out many times the waste heat of the sites mentioned in the article. We've apparently mostly made peace with the local impacts of those.

Although to be fair, when was the last time we actually managed to build a new nuclear plant?

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 it's $10/month.

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 рг (Cyrillic) ο (Greek)... etc, and can change from run to run. It would also artificially pad or shorten terms to catch cases where the (usually German) term would be much longer or a (usually CJK) term would be much shorter and screw up alignment or breaks.

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 with her politics, people might see that as censorship, or at least shady.

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.

I mean, Gruber is a clown and as far as he's concerned everything Apple has ever done is pure and right and everyone else is sad and wrong. If you're actually trying to engage with him on technical merits you're going to have a bad time.

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" instead, which do not require Congressional approval and can pretty much be ignored on a whim by the next president. We could go back to treaties but considering Congress has given up so much of their responsibility to executive agencies because they can't even pass laws, it seems unlikely.

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 even agree if you said Global Entry is only $30 more because your fingerprints are part of the payment.

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 deposits and trading and have to wait for everything to clear normally.

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 any day that the customer day trades

> pattern day traders cannot trade in excess of their "day-trading buying power"

> If a pattern day trader exceeds the day-trading buying power limitation, a firm will issue a day-trading margin call, after which the pattern day trader will then have, at most, five business days to deposit funds to meet the call.

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.

Whenever the Libertarian party chooses their candidate, he or she will almost certainly be on board with it.

The Flight 93 movie making heros out of people resisting hijackers (and making it known that hijacking wasn't just a diversion to Cuba anymore) was the only thing we ever needed to fix the system.

Wow, had to look it up and they haven't really put out an original game of note since Portal 2 in 2011. (Not counting CS:GO, as a remake, or DOTA2 since they bought it, but even counting those it would be 2013.)

Doesn't the definition of background actor preclude being in SAG though? I thought extras had to be in three or four productions in a year before they got their SAG cards.