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brandon

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  • If the rubbish/trash/garbage collector misses your bin, can you request them to pick it up again? And how do they know it wasn't you forgetting to put the bins out?

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  • No issues requesting a missed pickup here. It can be quite common if they get overloaded, i.e. after a holiday weekend. It’s probably far more costly to do verification on every instance but they may look into it if it becomes a common pattern.

  • News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline.

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  • What the industry desperately needs is some distributed payment platform. Maybe you sign up for a subscription clearinghouse for $50/month. The service then distributes your subscription funds to the dozens of different news websites you visit, in proportion to the amount of time spent on or stories read from each.

    This is basically what Apple News+ is, which includes quite a large set of newspapers and magazines and their back catalogues.

    Also, various libraries will include some sort of mechanism to access a small set of news subscriptions as part of their digital offerings.

  • UI is eating more into my content with each redesign

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  • Very much so. The longer the line, the more your eyes move and the easier it is to lose track of where you are. It can be worse when you move to the next line, as you lose your frame of reference from the previous line on the other side of the screen.

  • UI is eating more into my content with each redesign

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  • For horizontal space, it tends to be really hard to design for larger widths and still maintain focus on the main content in a readable way. For example, you should avoid super wide blocks of text as it’s really easy to get lost as you read. This is why you often see a max width with large gutters for wide displays, especially on pages with a singular focus, such as an article.

  • What Caused Democrats’ No-Show Problem in 2024?

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  • You can find the data here. Took a quick glance at the data and didn’t find anything particularly loaded and didn’t see any direct mentions of Gaza but I could have missed something.

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  • It’s actually a US regulation which goes into effect on May 10th. Most other booking sites should be following suit with something similar over the next few weeks.

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  • It’s because FTC regulations requiring fee-inclusive pricing go into effect on May 10th. Everyone dealing with short term rentals and hotels in the US will be updating to this over the next few weeks.

  • Ive wrestled with spirituality for a while now, and and don't know what to do?

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  • Not spiritual myself but you might want to look into Unitarian Universalism. It’s all about diversity, inclusivity, and spiritual exploration without a particular set of required beliefs or dogma. I believe it’s mostly concentrated in the US but you might find congregations elsewhere around the globe.

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    Trump's Latest Tariff Hike Brings Additional China Rate To 145%

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  • This time next week, it’ll probably be at 420.69% to get Musk on board

  • For over a century, a U.S.-Canada cross-border library used a single entrance. Now, the U.S. says Canadians must build their own.

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  • A separate entrance is more then just a door:

    To build out the Canadian entrance, the Haskell has to create a parking lot with reduced mobility spots, install reduced mobility access ramps and entrances, and build another proper building entrance to the facility.

    Looks like their GoFundMe has a good response so far, already receiving over the expected $100k needed.

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    Retailers who pack & ship HDDs right?!

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  • They use air pockets but they are of the stiffer variety that are fitted around each drive, not the super cheap and thin air pockets that just get jammed in to fill the box.

  • What is the worst, most incorrect way to eat a pizza?

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  • Blending and drinking through a straw

  • Firefighting planes are dumping ocean water on the Los Angeles fires − why using saltwater is typically a last resort

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  • If I remember correctly, it comes from measuring volume coming to/from large bodies of water where surface area (acres) and depth changes (feet) are easier to measure and there is little reason to do unnecessary conversion to other, more common, units of volume for industry-specific purposes, especially if others outside the industry rarely see or care about such values.

  • Apple board pushes against diversity rollback call

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  • The board is pushing against it and I’d doubt they’d move counter Apple leadership in this instance. While I don’t like the sucking up to Trump and the effective bribery of inauguration donations, outrage for this specific instance should be placed on the conservative group driving a shareholder vote rather then leadership that seems to be against it.

  • Apple board pushes against diversity rollback call

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  • Pulling the ladder up behind him.

    This isn’t coming from Tim Cook or people internally at Apple but a conservative group, I’m assuming activist investors, trying to reverse DEI programs via shareholder vote.

  • New federal rule bans 'junk fees' on hotels, live-event tickets

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  • America has thousands of tax jurisdictions, every state, county, city/town can impose their own set of taxes. For the longest time, online shopping was effectively tax-free shopping unless you happened to be based in the same state as the seller. That is largely not the case anymore though as various states passed legislation to enforce tax collections on online sales rather than trust the consumer to volunteer that info when it’s time to fill out tax forms.

  • New federal rule bans 'junk fees' on hotels, live-event tickets

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  • Agreed 100% but it is more complicated for online shopping in general as sales tax is largely unknown in many cases until you have billing or shipping address which is not always known upfront.

    In the case of this rule though, related to events and short term lodgings, there is a pretty obvious jurisdiction in most cases so allowing a “government charges” exemption is nonsense.

  • New federal rule bans 'junk fees' on hotels, live-event tickets

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  • There is already traction here at the state-level. It’s been the law in California since the summer and Minnesota has something similar going into force on Jan 1st.

    I expect many more states to follow with their own rules if these federal rules die with the new administration. I expect some noise to be made but wouldn’t be surprised if it survives for some time to avoid more complex state-level that would be more expensive to manage.

  • Steve Bannon's trial in a border wall charity scheme case delayed until February

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  • This is a NY state criminal trial, the president can only pardon federal crimes. Doesn’t mean shenanigans can’t happen but it’s unlikely to go away the moment Trump gets into office.