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  • Border czar warns there will be more ‘bloodshed’ unless Democrats ‘shut their mouths’

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  • "The bad guys can be quicker,” Homan told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Wednesday night.

    "...this is why we have to shoot innocent people dead before they do anything illegal just to be sure ICE is safe". - Homan probably

  • How did browsers make money before they sold user's data?

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  • I think another thing IBM was counting on was OS/2 Warp came out about 6 months before Win95 so folks were expecting a radical change in OS.

  • How did browsers make money before they sold user's data?

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  • “but at least you got free email and a homepage so you could put up HTML pages with animated GIFs“

    Aw happier days. So much creativity and the ability to communicate with other humans. Meeting randoms was a fun gamble!

    95% of people would put an "Under construction" gif and never another update to that web space.

  • How did browsers make money before they sold user's data?

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  • The first web browser was free!! NCSA Mosaic! However since few new users had download capabilities (because they never used command line FTP before), there were software distributes making copies and selling those on store shelves for a few dollars.

    To beat Netscape, Microsoft bundled Internet Explorer with the third edition of Windows 95.

    Not quite accurate. Yes, at the time Windows 95 came out Netscape Navigator Personal Edition was selling on shelves for about $40-$50. If you bought Netscape Navigator Gold, it came with the Netscape browser and and WYSIWYG HTML editor which was a big deal back then because otherwise you're using notepad to make your website.

    Other WYSIWYG HTML editor sitting next to this on the self would be products like Hotdog or Hot METAL Pro:

    However, Windows 95 at launch did NOT ship with Internet Explorer. For the launch release of Win95 to get Internet Explorer 1.0 you had to buy the addon package "Microsoft Plus: Companion for Windows 95" for $49:

    Internet Explorer 1.0 sucked and Netscape was far superior for the day.

    One other artifact from those days. There was another GUI operating system that was still around back then called OS/2. This was an IBM product from the 80s, and the last gasp of it occurred right before Win95 came out. IBM released OS/2 Warp (OS/2 3.0). A good chunk of the marketing was that it contained web browser (called WebExplorer). There were unsavy users buying OS/2 Warp thinking it was just an application when it was a whole replacement operating system.

  • US Adults Are Throwing Away Over $250 a Year on Unused Subscriptions, CNET Finds

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  • What is the dollar figure of your highest interest bill and its interest rate?

  • McConnell was loaded into ambulance on a stretcher, according to eyewitness and new video

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  • Thanks for spelling HIPAA correctly, so many people get it wrong.

    I always confuse what the HIP stands for, but always remember the last two are "Accountability Act" so "AA" at the end is easy to remember.

  • US Adults Are Throwing Away Over $250 a Year on Unused Subscriptions, CNET Finds

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    • A common insurance co-pay to see a Primary Care Physician (regular family doctor) is $40. That could mean going to the doctor or not for some folks.
    • $20 would pay for five different 30 day prescriptions of common generic prescription drugs.
    • $25 ($5 short) would buy more than a month's worth of insulin.
    • $20 will by 35lbs or rice. That's well over 2 weeks worth of meals (at 2000 calories a day).
    • $20 will pay for one month of mobile phone service with unlimited talk and text along with 4GB of data (as well as hotspot functionality)
    • $20 would pay for 100 full charges on a very large ebike battery. Thats enough to go 7500 miles of range on average.

  • McConnell was loaded into ambulance on a stretcher, according to eyewitness and new video

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  • Do HIPAA protections still exist after the person is dead?

  • Reusable rockets could turn orbit into military supply chain

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  • Dude, you realize the whole ‘going to the moon’ thing was just a way to convince the public to fund ballistic missile technology?

    And this was true for both sides of the 1960s Space Race.

    • Sputnik 1 was carried into space by the Soviet Sputnik rocket (an adaptation of the R-7 Semyorka Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) on October 4, 1957 source
    • Yuri Gagarin was carried into space on April 12, 1961, by a Vostok 8K72K rocket. The Vostok 8K72K was a three-stage liquid-fueled launch vehicle derived directly from the Soviet Union's R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) source

    There was fierce competition inside the USSR for which rocket technology would be best used for weapons. The whole "exploration" or "civilian use" thing on both sides (USA/USSR) was just window dressing for weapons programs in space.

  • US Adults Are Throwing Away Over $250 a Year on Unused Subscriptions, CNET Finds

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  • Just wait until you see how much they waste on unused life insurance!

    I know you're joking, but lots of people buy really bad life insurance products (whole life, universal variable policies) that are a horrible waste of money in 99.9% of people's situations.

    A large-ish term life insurance is fine if you have a family that needs to replace your income if you die early. Other than that, you only need enough money to get your remains put in the ground without burdening your family. Estimate $10k or so for full funeral and burial plot if that is your desire. If you just want cremation and spreading of ashes is much cheaper. If you've got the cash for that, you don't even need a small term policy for that.

  • US Adults Are Throwing Away Over $250 a Year on Unused Subscriptions, CNET Finds

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  • $250/year starting investing in 2020 into the regular S&P 500 would be worth $3,703 today. So maybe as much as a month and a half of rent depending on where you live. However the point being is, if the subscription is unused, you're not getting any value for it. A free month (or more) of rent is something you'll actually use.

  • Anyone else mass-renaming env variables and instantly regretting it?

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    • $variable1
    • $othervariable
    • $july2014fixvariable
    • $notneeded

    ...and finally...

    *$otherothervariable

    These shall be the variable names until the heat death of the universe! Blessed be! So say we all!

  • Any self hosted robotic lawn mowers?

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  • It depends on what you mean by robotic mowers. If you mean motors that drive the wheels and you don't have to walk behind them (or sit on them), yes, these exist without any cloud service. However, if you mean autonomous, then I don't think those are here yet. The non-cloud robot mowers use human held remote controls.

    I can think of one that is autonomous and doesn't require the cloud for operation, but does require the cloud for the inital setup and mapping. Once it has the map loaded in, it doesn't need an internet connection.

  • Any self hosted robotic lawn mowers?

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  • That pretty well describes 1st generation robo mowers: lawn roombas.

    Thankfully they've evolved significantly since then and are on 4th generation tech now.

  • What's the worst part about getting older that young people don't know about?

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  • I’m thinking of moving from my higher paying career field to one that will pay me a nearly break even salary (for this living area) because my heart just isn’t in this anymore.

    How close are you to retirement? If you increased savings from [high paying career], how much longer would you have to work at it before you could stop working altogether?

  • What's the worst part about getting older that young people don't know about?

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  • I'm old enough to be experiencing this, but I actually like it like this. I had zero desire to own a Labubu when they came out recognizing it as just that generation's flash-in-the-pan fad like beanie babies was for my generation.

    So many online services are sold for things I do not care about so I have zero to manage on those.

    I'm not seduced to buy the "latest slightly incremental increase in performance" item for 99% of products out there because I have something that does the job for me already.

    Some of today's pop music styles I don't like, but there's thousands of hours of music I do like (including a chunk of new stuff) so I'm not put out.

    Its actually kind of great to be immune to so much of the advertising thats out there today because you simply don't want what they're selling because they're targeting the younger generation.

  • What's the worst part about getting older that young people don't know about?

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  • Most people in their 40s are concerned about their plans for retirement are on track when they should be worried about their telomerase.

  • Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand”

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  • The primary Oneweb constellation exists right now in orbit. You can buy hardware and service today if you wanted to. Also yes, they continue to expand the constellation.

  • Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand”

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  • Fiber wouldn't be a one-time charge though. There's regular ongoing maintenance needed for a fiber network.

    There's an old joke in the telecom world:

    Q: If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and you could only take one thing with you, what would you take?

    A: I would take a small bundle of fiber optic cable. As soon as I was on the island, I'd make a small hole in the sand and bury it. As soon as I turn my back there would be someone with a backhoe there to dig it up.

    The cost of sending crew out to fix a 10 mile fiber run servicing a single household would wipe out any possible profit from that subscriber for more than 100 years. Now multiple that by how many 10 mile+ fiber runs we'd need to service all those widespread low-density rural customers.