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Thanks a lot for taking the time to respond. This is how I interpreted the situation as well.

What complicates matters is that the product name is a registered trademark, and the holding company also has patented the tool. I raised these concerns with my management but they still want to proceed, so I saved well the written confirmation. We'll be using the tool internally, no plans to sell it.

Banning international sales is a politically damaging move because it would crash the market value of existing housing, affecting those residents who own one (or more), particularly if they're on a mortgage. It also reduces the tax income from properties and propert sales. Banks probably wouldn't be too happy either that the security on the loans no longer cover the outstanding balance.

Things will probably shift when the proportion of renters significantly outnumber the home owners.

Airbnb Q1 4 years ago

Same in UK, price is 2.5 - 3x of the long term lease rate

Winamp has a media library feature, it can keep track of what you're listening to and builds playlists of your most listened and top rated tracks. Quite handy.

I'm using Winamp on my Surface Pro 6, switched from foobar2000 for the Media Library feature. (I've been also using Winamp in my teens starting with the first versions up until last ones, then stopped listening to local music files).

It's an amazing low resource player. The YouTube playlists I'm listening to in Firefox consume 1.6GB of RAM and significant CPU, the downloaded opus files with Winamp take up a few megs of RAM (and bunch of disk space on my SD card).

I tried WACUP but it doesn't work well for me. Very complicated UI, too many settings, it also corrupted my real Winamp library.

Regarding the leak - perhaps the founders aren't happy with the direction of the app in the upcoming release (we can notice the ugly website update) so they may have leaked the code. Great news.

The Stroad 5 years ago

Great channel, have been following it for some time, a few takeaways from there:

- It's the cars that make the cities undesirable

- I was shocked how the historical center of London, ON was demolished to the ground and replaced with shacks

- Kids should be able to walk to school alone in safety

- I live in Europe and I was baffled to learn that multi-purpose developments are disallowed in most of North America. This alone makes me reconsider my plans to move to the States. I love how I can just jump on a bike here and be at a large supermarket in 5 minutes