With Trump already threatening Canada without this ridiculous plan, no thanks.
> The Monroe Doctrine is a United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It holds that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers is a potentially hostile act against the United States. The doctrine was central to American grand strategy in the 20th century.
Exactly what I was going to say. It was only in the 1980’s that Canada fully freed itself of British domination; there’s no justification for Europe to regain any political control over any independent country in the Western Hemisphere.
There's a paper I saw a while ago that uses patterns for some kind of roulette strategy, and the bankroll grew from 115k to 155k in a year, but also consistently.
Seems like there's clear patterns to how roulette tables operate. If only casinos would teach people these patterns and strategies in depth rather than just letting them play.
A comment on the OSM community thread notes, and I can confirm based on the map you linked, that it contains many POIs that used to exist but haven't for a while, which nevertheless have a date_refreshed from this year.
Looking at the narrow subset I care about (ice cream in massachusetts) they've got a bit of duplication, particularly "vague place and precise place that aren't combined":
Goodhile's Country Store, 1122 Wachusett St, Jefferson,
Goodhile’s Ice Cream, None, Jefferson,
plus some places with old names but current URLs ('Winterbottom Ice Cream', 'http://www.perryslaststand.com' - which also has an entry with the same street address and the new name, both have 'date_refreshed': '2024-10-15'; the store has always been Perry's, the family name is just the LLC behind it - feels like the result of a sloppy dataset merge.)
Hand inspected 30 items[^sample] and found 10 real ice cream shops, 9 "exists but closed at least a year ago", and 6 "couldn't even find a vague match". (Also 2 real frozen custard shops, which for my purposes don't count but if you're judging generic "retail business data quality" they're probably legit.)
Over the "Ice Cream Parlor" data subset, only 171 records even have a date_closed (a little over 10%); of the 9 I identified as closed, only 1 had a date_closed field, which roughly checks out.
[^sample]: US, MA, has "Dining and Drinking > Dessert Shop > Ice Cream Parlor" as a label, which is about 1300 items; sorted by name and picked the first 30 - not a random sample.
Thinking like this is how we end up with gadgets that can be barely be called pocket computers.
Thank God that the computer industry came of age before iOSsification began. Need to connect to wired headphones? Buy a dongle. Need more storage? Pay for iCloud. Want to program on your iPad? Jump through a million hoops and end up using a remote desktop solution.
I can understand the upgrade required for extra storage and AI subscriptions, but what revenue is earned from the elimination of the headphone jack? I can only see the marginal costs of adding one in, but for consumers who want it, it'd be a sales tactic.
I recently bought a NOS Samsung Note 10 Lite. A quarter the price of the S24, has the wonderful S-Pen and a headphone jack. And even though the battery is ostensibly not user replaceable, it is an easy job that can be done in five minutes without risking breaking anything else.
Similarly, I now have a Samsung Galaxy A52, which has a headphone jack and a microSD slot (but no user-replaceable battery).
I'm not particularly price conscious, so I feel like Samsung lost out on an opportunity to sell me a flagship phone because those no longer have these features I care about. Luckily, this much cheaper phone still has the two that are most important to me. When they stop offering them at all, I'll be done with Samsung.
You just explained something that I've been noticing more and more lately. A decade ago, the early adopters and nerds would have the flagship phones, and everybody else would have the cheap phone. Today the power users are using the absolute cheapest phones and the general public has the flagships.
I applaud the people that spend time away from their computer instead of fucking around with vim in their free time as well as spend 40 hours a week working behind a compute.r
> The Monroe Doctrine is a United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It holds that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers is a potentially hostile act against the United States. The doctrine was central to American grand strategy in the 20th century.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine
reply