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  1. Does it really trick anybody?

    I use it specifically because it is a search engine.

    It aggregates many stores, and pretty clearly links to them.

    Similar to its flight search.

    It is specifically because it is a search engine and not a marketplace that I find it so useful.

  2. Re:If all you do about it is filter ... on Forty Years of Spam Email (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe a filter for [git pull] would solve that?

    It's formatted as a list message, the whole point of the square bracket list title is for the sake of mail filters.

  3. Re:If all you do about it is filter ... on Forty Years of Spam Email (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I miss a real email about once a year from SPAM filters in Gmail, and it's usually a shady email (as I contact form from a small website I setup, and didn't whitelist the address).

    Every now and again a registration confirmation or receipt goes there, but I know to check because I'm expecting it.

    I literally never check my Gmail SPAM just because.

    Even so, it's not too bad, I assume the vast majority of true spam doesn't even hit that folder.

  4. Re: As usual promises for the future on Tesla Earnings Show Record Revenues With Record Losses (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    A deposit shouldn't show up as profit.

    You get the cash, but it's paired with an unearned income liability and it's profit nuetral.

    Then when you book the sale, you record the profit, but don't get the cash (you already have it).

    This means that actually Tesla can book positive income but still have significant negative cash flow.

  5. Re:Consumer bots on Facebook Brags That Messenger Has 300,000 Business Bots (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never been spammed by a business bot on Facebook.

    I've had a couple interactions.

    One was opening a support ticket, and it worked like phone prompts but far quicker. I preferred it to an automated phone system, and also when compared to forms with drop downs etc. some websites use. It was quite effective for getting my ticket to the correct person that gave me a prompt human response, and wasn't a terrible way to follow up on said ticket.

    The other one I used is TRIM, and it was maybe more accurately a consumer bot, but it gave me info for price matches on things I purchased, got me Comcast refunds, and was all and all OK. I switched to a credit card with better rewards and stopped using the one with price match, so I no longer interact with it.

    Neither of these bots have spammed me.

  6. Re:It's not frivolous. on Nikola (Motors) is Suing Tesla (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, Bolt is the pure electric Model 3 competitor.

  7. Re:It's not frivolous. on Nikola (Motors) is Suing Tesla (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The company's name seems to be chosen to cause confusion to me.

    in 2014 an alternative fuel transportation company chooses Nikola as the name, I'm sure it was definitely coincidence...

    Sure, they seem to be also legitimately competing, but I think it's pretty weak sauce for them to claim confusion with a company in the news wasn't their plan from the start.

    Based on the fact that they chose their name in 2014, Nikola Motors seems like a dubious company.

    None of this is necessarily legal arguments, but it is legal to be shady, and based on what I've seen Nikola is shadier than Tesla (which certainly has some shadiness itself).

  8. Why would I expect them to use their time for free?

    I've definitely been waived for work that doesn't fix the problem, and received some free diagnostics (even some repairs, such as my AC relay being dead, they looked at it and replaced it with my seat heating relay and told me to buy the part and replace that before winter), but a full AC diagnostic isn't something I'd expect for free anywhere.

    I consider my mechanic very honest and trustworthy, and nit the type to nickel and dime.

  9. Re:creep date on Facebook Reaches Its Natural Conclusion As A Dating App (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    You're working from the assumption that women aren't getting come on messages on facebook already.

    This (presumably) opt-in service will move looking for love types to a semi-walled off part of Facebook.

  10. Re:"All of our customers are cutting the cord" on Comcast Won't Give New Speed Boost To Internet Users Who Don't Buy TV Service (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Where I live $180/month (don't know if it'd be truly unlimited, but they're claiming it would).

    40/20 typical speed (tmobile network at my house), carrier level NAT, usable, but high latency (sub 80 over 20), I thought about it just because Comcast sucks, but I'm on a $60 25/5 Comcast plan.

  11. I am not weighing in on the validity of the headline (since I have only used SO when I find it with google, and find it very interesting and helpful).

    But, one could be non-welcoming by being sexist/racist/anti-this-or-that without knowing the demographics of who they are talking to.

    I'm sure you could picture a place where racial slurs, and bigoted ideas are worked into answers, and would think of that as unwelcoming, even if nobody knew the race of anyone involved. Your premise that one needs to be able to see the race of participants to be unwelcoming is mistaken.

  12. Re:and GDPR is? on Will GDPR Kill WHOIS? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Does icann make any money publishing WHOIS?

  13. Re:If they merge Iâ(TM)ll have to switch on Sprint, T-Mobile Aiming To Reach Merger Deal Next Week (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    T-mobile has experience in this type of acquisition thought.

    They purchased Metro PCS and converted them over fairly effectively.

    They handled it much better than when Cingular did the switch with their own customers back in the day.

    I'm actually somewhat optimistic that this merge could be not horrible as a customer. Sprint sucks so bad, and has given up (did not invest in the last spectrum auction for 600MHz), they hardly count as a competitor. I have seen very little evidence that they are doing anything to become better.

    As a TMO customer, I really REALLY hope they don't give Sprint/Softbanc much control.

  14. Re:So Trump keeps another campagn promise on Medicare To Require Hospitals To Post Prices Online (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937[1] (frequently called the "court-packing plan")[2] was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.

    I am struggling to find any reference to his threatening to appoint willy-nilly without a bill. Could you please point me in the correct direction to educate myself?

    Source of quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  15. Re:So Trump keeps another campagn promise on Medicare To Require Hospitals To Post Prices Online (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    Based on the history of legislation being the method of changing the size of the court, it doesn't seem like that's actually a question.

    Again, FDR wasn't threatening to nominate justices, he wanted a bill passed that allowed the court to increase in size.

    The court was at one point 10 I believe, then Congress passed a bill that would make it reduce to 7 through attrition, then it reduced to 9 through attrition, and a new bill was passed that set the number at 9.

    Maybe these bills are non binding to the president, but I doubt it. Of course, if a president wanted to nominate a dozen more justices, and the Senate backed them, there'd be a dozen new justices sitting to determine if that action was legal or not, so I'd guess effectively, the laws regarding court size are irrelevant.

  16. Re:So Trump keeps another campagn promise on Medicare To Require Hospitals To Post Prices Online (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    So, you're saying that the president, not SCOTUS gets to determine the size?

    Also, FDR was pushing for a bill that would allow him to increase the court size (according to the article that was linked).

    How does this not apply now? has it been struck down?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Is there any time where the president has attempted to appoint a justice and increase the court size without the support of congress?

  17. Re:So Trump keeps another campagn promise on Medicare To Require Hospitals To Post Prices Online (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    And this is because the court is the current size how?

  18. Re:So Trump keeps another campagn promise on Medicare To Require Hospitals To Post Prices Online (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    What?

    The fact that he could do that is an embarrassment of all branches of government, but has nothing to do with the size of the court.

  19. Re:So Trump keeps another campagn promise on Medicare To Require Hospitals To Post Prices Online (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    How does this article inform me about the court determining the number?

    It seems to reinforce my belief that Congress can pass a bill that alters the number (as they have done a few times).

  20. Re:If providers were bound by 20% price variation on Medicare To Require Hospitals To Post Prices Online (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    I agree with this entirely, but feel the number should be 0%.

    If anything, me walking in without insurance but with check book should be discounted, not 3x extra (my experience with a lab running blood tests, $900, then reduced to $275 because insurance negotiated).

  21. Re:So Trump keeps another campagn promise on Medicare To Require Hospitals To Post Prices Online (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    Isn't it Congress that must decide?

  22. Re:Don't let your kids be doctors on Google's AR Microscope Quickly Highlights Cancer Cells (uploadvr.com) · · Score: 2

    You just described my last medical visit in the US.

    We're catching on, quick clinics with nurse practitioners are the first line for sick people here. Doctors are more about general health and check ups, monitoring ongoing conditions etc.

  23. Re:Trade war could break out too on ZTE Exports Ban May Mean No Google Apps, a Death Sentence For Its Smartphones (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    How is 120% or so of GDP capable of being paid off in a year?

  24. Re:And Greenpeace, as usual, are major dicks about on Apple Has a New iPhone Recycling Robot Named 'Daisy' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    And Shenzhen is where electronics recycling happens?

    I was under the impression it happened in much poorer areas with a lot of child labor.

  25. Re:The printing press put a lot of monks out of wo on Apple Has a New iPhone Recycling Robot Named 'Daisy' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    How can we expect the farm hands to eat with tractors doing their jobs. It'll be impossible.

    Probably should break them all, and this evil robot.