shavingspiders

Grass based livestock farming, or grass based with corn finishing, is pretty common in high rainfall areas of the world like Ireland & New Zealand. Considerably lower intensity than feedlots (better for the environment too), easier to handle, and generally a higher quality output so long as you're around area that can process that output & send it to the right market.

Have you tried reading books out loud? I found that made a surprising difference to experience of books, even just because I was devouring them much slower. Found it much easier to enjoy the 'craft' of the book too.

There is a Belgian TV show called "Into the Night" which explores a kind of similar concept, where they have to stay in the night time or else bad things happen so they fly a plane around. I won't spoil it for you, but it's subtitled & available on Netflix.

I'd think that a fancy looking website for a group-buy, where you manage a relationship with a manufacturer to build to your spec & you build (or get them to build) the software behind it would give it what you want. Kind of like https://www.weargustin.com/ or a Massdrop?

That's a really interesting idea. I'm not sure what the commercial value would be, but the artistic value (and gain in privacy) would be huge. I'm not sure what you'd do about identifying marks like tattoos, but perhaps that isn't the biggest concern when compared to faces.

Could you train a model with your own face as a start, and then run your photos through an existing consumer face-swap app? Or perhaps use a celebrities likeness? I wonder how much the visual 'likeness' of a stranger is worth.

You might find https://twitter.com/Joe8Bit/status/1156312965265707013 an interesting read, in how the delayed removal of you from lists could be down to someone having to manually remove you & needless bureaucracy.

Another view of this - if the true purchase is of a group of workflows, are they purchasing for the things they know they need or the assurance that behemoth IBM/SAP/whatever has a process for whatever they didn't think about? Purchasing to minimise some future operational risk.

Interesting, I had a similar issue with my NZ-issued TransferWise card, however it resolved itself in a few days. This was in Dubai airport & then across a few merchants in the UK, though.

I can confirm that, too. Took 2 attempts.

What? That's incorrect - I've recently had 1Password change my Outlook.com password, and it's much more than 8 characters.

I believe you're right. In .au they call it PayPass, but in .nz they call it PayWave. I believe some old Visa machines didn't support MasterCard, or the other way round. All I remember is my flatmate complaining that his new debit card kept failing contactless payments.

We don't have many - panadol & ibuprofen combos, viagra generics, branded asthma drugs. Generally they purchase ad spots outside of prime time (and likely with more regularity on channels like One & Prime, where there's a slightly older audience.

That makes me feel very good that I locked in .party for 10 years and $3/year with Gandi.

I managed to have a bit of fun with .party and .science.

firstname.party is great to have.

The followup doco is even better - the newly minted master sommeliers proceed to contradict each other, and seem to have a lot more fun than the first one.

Really? Similar anecdata, except nearly everyone I know is on fibre. 100/20 for $79 a month, or 1000/500 for $129/month.

It's called USSD, there's a short list on Wikipedia. A lot of them are carrier dependant, and some carrier models of certain handsets will block some codes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstructured_Supplementary_Ser...

It still is an issue - carriers (at least in NZ) still ask you if you've backed up SIM contacts before switching the phone number to a new card.

It's surprisingly good - if you combine poor vision with the relatively low latency of the Gear VR, it's quite convincing. The only thing it can't do (that an Oculus can) is depth.

I've heard second hand that they're being asked to not use them or charge them (just flew into Australia).

I thought it was because of some weird laws coming through to limit small commercial gardening through licensing, and it blew totally out of proportion as people misunderstood it.

The ability to add a lock screen message is under 'security & privacy' on System Preferences. I feel like that's not the right place to put it, but I don't know what would be.

Why just take the head of the fish? Take the rest of the body, and by association it'll have the largest flow on effect. With LeRoux out of the scene, it's not like everyone else will just suddenly stop.

I don't think that really serves your argument - phonearena.com post a lot of stuff like that either as reference for people who Google the right question, or because the writing effort:ad revenue ratio is working in their favour.

Huawei kind of started something like that. Fitness band that pops out to be a bluetooth earpiece. I've seen it around a few times. http://consumer.huawei.com/minisite/worldwide/talkband-b2/

Why not hand in the characters in 4pt on a single page each? Make it double sided to make it a little more feasible. 233 characters per page is just about nothing at that size, I don't get why they decided to stop at 11 pages.

I don't know if you've visited r/fitness or r/gainit, but metabolism really only accounts for a variance in about 200 calories. The big thing holding skinny people back is that they pretty much aren't eating enough of the good stuff - sure a skinny person might eat 3 cheeseburgers in a sitting but it doesn't help that their only exercise is cardio, or that it's the only substantial thing they actually eat all day. Many self professed skinnyfat people who claim they eat like a horse are shocked to find that they aren't consuming nearly as much calories as they think they are when it's all being tracked.

Did you actually religiously track your calories in/out?

This may sound foolish, but what actually is it? I don't have the time to watch the videos, and I'm on my phone and there's no text only 'about' to be read. From what I gather, it's a music social network that puts you in contact with people nearby with the same music taste? It's like scrobbling on last.fm, but with something special than 'Bono predicted' and Woz liked? After his comments voicing support for the Great Firewall as a method of preventing music piracy, I don't really pay much attention to Bono.