Aloisius

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by Aloisius 1y ago
Em. Tourism has been a thing, complete with travel guides, tour operators, souvenirs made for tourists and tourist attractions for millennia. Plenty of major destinations (holy places, resorts, etc) would bring in thousands of tourists at a
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by Aloisius 1y ago
The Borg were supposed to be a cautionary tale, not something to aspire to.
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by Aloisius 1y ago
All information? Including private thoughts?
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Em. Thomas Paine, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Benjamin Franklin, John Marshall, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Baruch Spinoza, René Descartes and many, many more wrote anonymously. Some wrote anonymously because the
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by Aloisius 1y ago
It's an xkcd reference. Sadly, not explicitly mentioning it is xkcd sends the exact opposite message to the one in the comic to those unaware of it. https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by Aloisius 1y ago
I'm not rich, but I'm still happy. I have little reason not to be. I woke up today and the sun shining and birds chirping. I made myself and my partner breakfast, greeted people on my way to work. I got a good amount of work done,
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by Aloisius 1y ago
The FTC sued Adobe last year for subscription dark patterns. https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings/2...
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by Aloisius 1y ago
Apple's "Europe" segment includes European countries (including those not in the EU), India, the Middle East and Africa.
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by Aloisius 1y ago
> They feel incredibly safe and don't have to worry about being victims of crimes, having their packages stolen, walking around late at night alone, etc. Em. I think feeling incredibly safe has more to do with the media telling pe
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by Aloisius 1y ago
This simply isn't true. If anything, constitutional protections have dramatically expanded since the amendment was passed. This is because until the 14th Amendment and the incorporation doctrine, the Bill of Rights only restricted the
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by Aloisius 1y ago
Both the right to privacy and the right to protection of personal data appear to have pretty big exemptions for government. The right to private communications was modified by the ECHR to give an exemption for prevention of crime/prote
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by Aloisius 1y ago
Just a mistake, I imagine. Probably just typed the pattern out starting with the last number they wrote, which unfortunately was invalid. > I was looking at ticket 984,946,605. When I type in 1 higher, 984,946,606, no ticket is found. .
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by Aloisius 1y ago
It's just x % 7. They started their example pattern with an citation number 984,946,606 they earlier said wasn't valid rather than 984,946,605 given initially (and shown in the image).
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It is a check digit, but it's just: n % 7. So ticket 98494660 has citation #984,946,605 Ticket 98494661 will have citation #984,946,616 (The example of the pattern mistakenly starts with an citation number #984,946,606 which they said
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by Aloisius 1y ago
I think you might have misinterpreted that rule? It is for light rail/trolleys (not buses) and only when you're on a two-way road and there's room to pass on the right. It also applies when they're moving, not just when
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by Aloisius 1y ago
"Vapor chamber" isn't a new buzzword. It's been the name for flat plate heat pipes since the 1970s. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19770025469/downloads/19...
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by Aloisius 1y ago
The oldest world maps were drawn long before the Middle Ages. The oldest known world map is the Babylonian Imago Mundi from around the 6th century BCE which has north at the top. Claudius Ptolemy's Geographia also specified north was a
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by Aloisius 1y ago
Huh. I'm on my third Sonicare toothbrush and none of them have done this.
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I've looked at the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and don't see why this would violate it. Both the right to privacy and the right to protection of personal data have exemptions for government. The right to private communication
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Order of events: 1. FCC Chairman Carr threatens licensed broadcasters (i.e. affiliates that have a license with the FCC) telling them they should stop running Kimmel and tell Disney they're doing it because the FCC may pull their licen
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by Aloisius 1y ago
They aren't the only autonomous vehicle for hire service. Zoox is operating in Vegas. Even if they were the only one, it would be odd to classify autonomous rideshare as a distinct market given they compete directly with other vehicle
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by Aloisius 1y ago
Zoox just started allowing rides in Vegas 6 days ago. I've seen them driving around SF as well, but they're not yet available here.
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Those definitions are mostly from out of context quotes. Many are cherry picked from large works that go into substantially more detail about how the person defined socialism. Paul Janet stated socialism is generally used to refer to a doct
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by Aloisius 1y ago
Who knew the socialist revolution would be won not by an uprising of the proletariat, but rather changing the definition of socialism? Seriously though, I realize that the American right calls welfare socialism, but that's just rhetori
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by Aloisius 1y ago
There are four alternative Tahoe backgrounds/screensavers in Landscape. They're the same shot of the lake at different times of day.
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It's odd to call people who promote capitalism socialists . They might have historically believed in gradual transition away from capitalism, but today they seem entirely happy with capitalism with a little corporatism in labor market
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Australia has an entry for a major city per state not because someone decided it was a good idea, but for the same reason Boise got one - they were the largest city in a jurisdiction that sometime after 1970 changed its timezone so it didn
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The reason why certain cities get entries is because sometime after time began (1970-01-01), the region they're in changed their timezone (usually adopting or dropping DST or changing when it began). Those changes need to be recorded i
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by Aloisius 1y ago
> Anyway, poor UX. But of course TZ names could also be argued as poor UX. What if you just did PST/PDT as Los Angeles, CA; Oregon, OR, and Seattle, WA all on separate line items? Sure, it's duplicate data but a backend system
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Prison labor = slave labor, not slavery. Prison = slavery. I blame how slavery is taught for the confusion. Slavery itself is a legal state where one's autonomy is fully controlled by another. Forced labor is something people commonly

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