burningmatches

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[–] burningmatches 12 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Separation requirements vary. In the UK, plastic bottle caps are generally tethered to the bottle now to prevent people from separating them.

[–] burningmatches 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

It seems like Vision Pro allows selective focusing.

[–] burningmatches 1 points 9 months ago

To further clarify: These figures are entirely based on estimates. They’re not “more visible” because of the abortion bans (the statistics used to make the estimates are based on pre-ban crime figures and an assumption about the percentage of rapes that result in pregnancy).

I’m not saying this to criticise the study, but it’s important to understand what the numbers represent.

[–] burningmatches 2 points 10 months ago

Aviation types still hang out on Pprune.org.

[–] burningmatches 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are you going to jailbreak roadside assistance?

[–] burningmatches 1 points 10 months ago

That’s like 1% of critics on Rotten Tomatoes. The rest are random bloggers and the food/entertainment critic of the Springfield Courier.

[–] burningmatches 1 points 10 months ago

Is there a reason you don’t just get a joint bank account (or credit card)? Put equal amounts in each month and use that for all shared expenses. Zero effort, totally fair.

[–] burningmatches 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s true that a lot of data isn’t sold, but a large chunk of the figure you quote also seems to include business data — stuff that contains zero personal information but is still hugely valuable to companies and investors (look at how much this report costs, for example, or consider that a Bloomberg terminal costs around $25k/yr).

And remember, those investment buyers make up a big chunk of the consumer data market too and are only interested in aggregated insights to inform trading strategies. They don’t care about personal info or targeted ads.

[–] burningmatches 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There are lots of things that can go wrong with film.

[–] burningmatches 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What does that ~70% refer to? Japan is about 5% of Apple’s global revenue and iOS is installed on around 50% of Japanese phones.

[–] burningmatches 2 points 10 months ago

The golf course isn’t on an island.

[–] burningmatches 12 points 11 months ago

That’s not the origin of the term “red tape”. Binding documents with tape is as old as documents, and the practice of using red tape for important documents is hundreds of years old. Dickens used the term in one of his novels before the Civil War had even started.

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