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by 4bpp 5y ago
> Renew If my comma-counting shell game is correct, this makes for 89/98 MEPs in what used to be the liberal group (ALDE) before they joined up with LREM in favour. A pretty shameful display, but while I was in a way relieved to see
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by 4bpp 5y ago
One thing that wasn't clear to me from the documentation: What's the typical latency you observe with this network? Does the routing take physical distance/observed delays into account in some way, or could you wind up with s
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by 4bpp 5y ago
What do you mean by "aren't allowed"? I'm not disputing that they are allowed to: otherwise I would bring a lawsuit, rather than arguing against it on the internet (as I am, and I believe I am allowed to). Perhaps, thoug
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by 4bpp 5y ago
Cars are marketed by car manufacturers as a safe and reliable way of getting from A to B; Youtube is (to my best knowledge) not marketed by Google as a source of safe and reliable life advice. The better car analogy would be someone who pro
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by 4bpp 5y ago
> If someone died because of a "Take Ivermectin and you'll survive COVID" video on YouTube, who's to blame? How about the person who took it? We are presumably talking about adults, who we supposedly simultaneously tr
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by 4bpp 5y ago
> Why can I accomplish anything I set my mind to? "Vacuously, because I don't set my mind to anything." Rest of instructions unclear, head (still) stuck in procrastination toaster.
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by 4bpp 5y ago
Not the parent poster, but I do think it's worth putting a finger on what might simply be a cultural gap between modern (and especially fairly plugged-in) Americans and others who either genuinely have not been socialised into the pres
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by 4bpp 5y ago
> Oh and don't tonal Asian languages also not reflect that tone in the written form (genuine question)? Semitic languages are a milder version of this where vowels are typically omitted. English also does not indicate pronunciation
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by 4bpp 5y ago
I am not a lawyer or even particularly well-read on this specific scenario, but my read of the spirit of the law is that (if it indeed contains laxatives) it might still be illegal. What matters is not whether you sprang a surprise to one-u
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by 4bpp 5y ago
Greg Egan's Permutation City is a story that takes a pretty interesting approach (and, trying to not give away too much, extreme perspective) to this question. I would stop short of glowingly recommending it because I found the story
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by 4bpp 5y ago
If I were working for the SCP foundation, I'd be putting some D-class personnel on the problem of figuring out where exactly the line between ideograms/pictures and "textual or verbal form" lies. Can you describe it in C
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by 4bpp 5y ago
I assume the answer to the "why" can be as simple as: being primarily a Silicon Valley software industry forum, HN knows what side its bread is buttered on (namely the side of cobbling together freely available software to make pr
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by 4bpp 6y ago
Happy long-term user here. I switched to DeaDBeeF from foobar2k shortly after I made the move to desktop Linux a good decade ago, since fb2k only ran very awkwardly in Wine at the time. One advantage of DB is how simple and elegant its plug
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by 4bpp 6y ago
Shadowbans are a very useful tool against human-powered disruptive activity (sockpuppetry and what-not), because they shift the effort asymmetry to favour the attacker a bit less than it tends to do otherwise. (Given the possibility of bein
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by 4bpp 6y ago
> There's certainly some companies that are caught in the hype and build a SPA app when they would probably be better served with a simple PHP site Yeah, like your example, Facebook. Ever since their redesign, I've switched to
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by 4bpp 6y ago
Considering the ubiquitous Touhou references ( https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Cirno#Personality ), I would assume that the project is at least 4chan-adjacent (or at least adjacent to the culture of 4chan's early day
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by 4bpp 6y ago
This reasoning strikes me as very similar to what is called out as perceiving oneself to be a "temporarily embarrassed billionaire" in the context of poor people voting against taxes and redistribution. I for my part do not feel t
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by 4bpp 6y ago
I always wonder why Firefox Mobile is so unpopular. Isn't the internet basically unusable without an ad blocker (which they say none of the other mobile browsers support) nowadays? Are the 3.something percent desktop Firefox such a ref
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by 4bpp 6y ago
Ethiopian names seem to generally not follow the western first name/surname pattern, instead using the Semitic system where you list the male lineage (cf. https://ethnomed.org/culture/ethiopian/ ). I remember
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by 4bpp 6y ago
> This is confusing to the academic who expects to get access to the raw review responses so that the paper can be fixed. At most CS conferences, there is no second round of reviews (apart from a few PL ones that have been experimenting
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by 4bpp 6y ago
The joke is a pretty good one, but what's the supposed parallel with the scenario at hand? There is a meaningful interpretation of "buy a dozen" that the wife intended to convey but the programmer fails to notice (because he
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by 4bpp 6y ago
I'm not sure joking about drowning someone meets the usual definition of criticism.
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by 4bpp 6y ago
I think you could make a good case that orphans with leukaemia are a stereotypical example of a utility monster, where the moral halo around them leads our society to waste tons of resources that would go much further doing something unglam
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by 4bpp 6y ago
I understand that the arguments both for and against the current DKIM regime are fairly nontrivial (should we analyse it as a loss of rights to the public (your past emails can be attributed to you) or a gain (you can hold the powerful to a
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by 4bpp 6y ago
I think it's perfectly reasonable to take a non-absolute position here. You can want a somewhat functioning, somewhat effective police force, but not one that is more functioning or effective than the one we have in reality; or, in fac
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by 4bpp 6y ago
I mean, the implications of having "seven zillion witches" clearly depend on what the witches being hunted in question are. Over the duration of America's existence, waves of immigrants arrived from Europe for reasons ranging
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by 4bpp 6y ago
Relevant SSC article: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservativ... > The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community
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by 4bpp 6y ago
> I do not understand this position. Why attack Wayland? X.Org works, it would probably work for another 10 years, XWayland maybe 20 years. If X.Org is such a marvel surely someone would maintain it. Because most people are dependent on
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by 4bpp 6y ago
There's a disconnect here in that your argument presumes that we are talking about groups of people which organically and unanimously decided to install a CoC as a guideline or explanation on how exactly they are going to exercise thei
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by 4bpp 6y ago
I think tearing may be one of those personal preferences where the population is divided down somewhere near the middle, but people on either side can not fathom the existence of the other as anything other than some sort of bad-faith exerc

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