Angostura

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by Angostura 8mo ago
Is this the sort of thing you are looking for? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/us/politics/vance-far-rig...
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by Angostura 8mo ago
> The research team in the US does not think the immune system should be permanently dialled up and think such a vaccine should be used to compliment rather than replace current vaccines
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by Angostura 8mo ago
So if I carry out hip replacement surgery, at my own cost its good? But if the NHS pays me to carry out hip replacement surgery - funded from tax revenue, but free to the patient, it's bad?
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by Angostura 8mo ago
Right. So it's not just work - any good or altruistic act, will by definition only act to stoke the machine. It's certainly a way of thinking, I suppose
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by Angostura 8mo ago
Temporarily disable dual-band wifi and go to 2.4. Temporarly open the network with no WPA - should be good to go
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by Angostura 8mo ago
I’m not your adversary, I’m just trying to understand your point. Your original assertion was that ‘ you’re only there as long as the use values you create can be exchanged in the market for a profit.’ When I suggested that non-profit or pu
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by Angostura 8mo ago
> The truth is just that there’s no profit extraction without charity work. I'm not actually sure what you mean by this, so I can't really assess its truthiness > not only there isn’t a just salary for those who bear the wei
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by Angostura 8mo ago
Your argument appears to be that if you redefine all of humanity to be mere grist for a capitalist machine, you can then redefine any altrustic act, as a measure to extract more profit. Truly feat of semantic legerdemain
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by Angostura 8mo ago
Unless you work in the public sector, non-profit or charity.
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by Angostura 8mo ago
They certainly say they don’t. Its a company that I don’t think would have any qualms about lying through its teeth.
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by Angostura 8mo ago
Is this the ‘oh he was just joshing about, he didn’t really mean what he said’ defence?
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by Angostura 8mo ago
No. It’s literally has exactly the same meaning.
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by Angostura 8mo ago
I guess that's probably Apple now.
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by Angostura 8mo ago
Ah, thanks interesting. I remember the kerfuffle when Safari introduced its new model and I didn’t realise Chrome had followed suit
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by Angostura 8mo ago
It’s nice, be a it’s all handled on-prem of via iCloud. Lot less vendor exposure to data.
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by Angostura 8mo ago
It’s one of the reasons I run Safari, which strictly limits what extensions can do for these reasons
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by Angostura 9mo ago
Any interesting topic can be reduced to a dull sounding meme, if you try hard enough.
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by Angostura 9mo ago
Or do what the V&A has done in Docklands - make its warehouse available for the public to visit. Pretty cool day out. https://www.vam.ac.uk/east/storehouse/visit
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by Angostura 9mo ago
"I didn't say anything to the manager - I made a subtle hint and prayed that they took it, because ... reasons. On this occassion, I lucked out"
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by Angostura 9mo ago
I got: Already said more specific animal: Leopard I assume you mean “panther” in the general sense of any big cat. At that point I stopped playing because this seems nonsense
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by Angostura 9mo ago
> is literally a predictive method to experience deeper aspects of oneself, one part of which is a greater sensitivity to energy movements and corresponding fields. What does it actually predict? What measureable predictions can be te
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by Angostura 9mo ago
What you are talking about is the functional use of electrical impulses to active muscle. This article is talking about electrical potential as signalling mechanism for cell health, than can be used by a tissue to eject aging or sick cells
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by Angostura 9mo ago
Again, they get paid a cut of Google's ad revenue from Safari users. This has one impact on Apple's design choices - Google remains the default search engine. Notably, this hasn't stopped Apple from introducing multiple ant
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by Angostura 9mo ago
That chimes roughly with my experience, but to be fair ADP is designed not just for encrypted backups, but to harden the ecosystem for people who may be under the greatest threat. Worth noting that it has been outlawed in the UK and cannot
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by Angostura 9mo ago
And how would GPT 5.0 know that, I wonder. I bet it’s just making stuff up.
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by Angostura 9mo ago
It will all be written from scratch in binary.
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by Angostura 9mo ago
> Doctors won't say there's a problem until you're SICK and usually pretty late in the process when there's not a lot of room to make improvements. As someone who is fit and active,in their 60s with zero obvious sympt
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by Angostura 9mo ago
Sounds like you want to run your own private instance. That way you control your own moderation and federation policies
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by Angostura 9mo ago
If Ford offered loaners and wasn’t cooperating with police to identify the speeding drivers it absolutely would.
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by Angostura 9mo ago
It’s a precise and accurate headline.

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