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931.
by Bud 5y ago
Funny you should mention that; Minneapolis happens to be the largest city in North America that is located directly on the 45th parallel.
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by Bud 5y ago
Keep in mind that weather impacts include impact to water resources, and those resources are already becoming highly threatened in much of the west and southwest. That's only going to get worse, and will do so more rapidly than the ove
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by Bud 5y ago
An even better question: what place will continue to have the weather you want after climate change ruins the weather in wide swaths of the US in the next 5-10 years? I would not bet on Austin and Tucson, personally. Therefore, we moved fro
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by Bud 5y ago
Um, clearly it's not undeniable, because I deny it. What precisely scares you so much about vaccination status being somewhat public? There's precisely zero threat to any real liberties there. And it's laughable to call this
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by Bud 5y ago
I'm interested: can you name even one more of the supposed "many, many signs"? The only one you elucidated doesn't really click; nor can I discern that HN is, by any stretch, a "poor clone" of anything about Re
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by Bud 5y ago
Sounds like someone (with a random handle and a 20-minute-old account) who spent ten minutes in the Tenderloin and thinks they're an authority on the entire Bay Area and California in general. I'm pretty sure there are awful terri
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by Bud 5y ago
Not in English, they won't. In French, Italian, or German, though, they already do. Those languages are quite orthographically regular.
938.
by Bud 5y ago
If you need to communicate to someone how a given foreign word is pronounced, IPA is invaluable. Audio doesn't do the same job, really, since it relies on a trained ear and the ability to distinguish what each individual sound is. Expe
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by Bud 5y ago
It's also used for training singers. For instance, in grad school, I taught Singers' Diction in various languages. Being able to transcribe any given text into IPA, and then of course pronounce it accurately, is a core skill for c
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by Bud 6y ago
Would be helpful if you could support this with some links and evidence. I monitor this issue a lot, and haven't seen anything that presents added privacy risks, at least not yet.
941.
by Bud 6y ago
How are you even remotely surprised by that? If you are expecting any privacy or security from a combo of Facebook and Android, you've been asleep for the last 13 years.
942.
by Bud 6y ago
You mean the business practices wherein Apple is 10x better on privacy than everyone else to the point that Facebook and Google are now being forced to be honest with users, disclose all the user data they are stealing and selling, and disc
943.
by Bud 6y ago
In related news, the presidents of Biff, Connor, Brandon, Tanner, Logan, and Chase are all still alive and were last seen in a frat house in Florida.
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by Bud 6y ago
I don't think we need any Breitbart agit-prop here. Flag bait.
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by Bud 6y ago
Please don't pretend to know what other users would do in a given situation when in fact, you have no idea whatsoever.
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by Bud 6y ago
It's been proven a rousing success, actually, and needs to stay, urgently. It's literally the most rousing success of any product in the history of civilization. You might want to re-calibrate your sensors a bit about what is succ
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by Bud 6y ago
I'm just going to say one simple thing: very few people are qualified to assess what Apple actually "seems to care" about. And this poster definitely isn't one of those people. As for the invented-from-whole-cloth link t
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by Bud 6y ago
Please don't pretend to be surprised about that when the last decade has been all about the iPhone and its pervasive and elegant access to literally millions of sources of content that is "outside Apple's walled garden".
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by Bud 6y ago
Well, just to answer the question very directly, iOS as a whole isn't rated 17+ because it can't be. Obviously. It's not an app, it's not present in the App Store, and it has no age rating. So that takes care of that.
950.
by Bud 6y ago
a) no, not the same thing b) no, not being used the same way by Apple, so not comparable c) this is 5 months old and pre-dates Apple's current privacy initiatives
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by Bud 6y ago
No, Apple is not tracking its users to a greater extent. You wish that were true, clearly, but you can't support it. As for "flashing custom ROMs", well, if you could support your main argument, you wouldn't be trying to
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by Bud 6y ago
If you can't tell the difference between that and jail, I'm not sure how I can explain it better to you.
953.
by Bud 6y ago
You're still misstating the issue; the "justice" in question isn't being executed by "vigilantes". It's a reaction of large institutions to someone's conduct.
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by Bud 6y ago
Except this isn't a justice system, and doesn't have consequences remotely similar to a justice system. I've taken a -30 karma hit for this particular opinion already, despite very polite language. May as well go for -35.
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by Bud 6y ago
I would say that a compromise position can be found. Certainly I join in your healthy fears of some misguided actions which have been attributed to "cancel culture". And I also concede that there have been quite a few such actions
956.
by Bud 6y ago
Except there was no "mob justice" here; you are overreacting and using terms that should be reserved for violent consequences in situations that do not justify such words. I understand why you have to exaggerate, though.
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by Bud 6y ago
Is BSD generally actually "their software"—i.e., FreeBSD's software? I'd argue not. FreeBSD is merely one flavor of BSD.
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by Bud 6y ago
Well, you are right about that, but that doesn't change the fact that Bitcoin does not solve this problem.
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by Bud 6y ago
Bitcoin doesn't fix this at all. In any way. Bitcoin's value fluctuates wildly.
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by Bud 6y ago
What's interesting here is that the exception proves the rule. V is actually the only letter in English that is never silent. Most other letters also have various possible renderings into pronunciation, especially the vowels—"i&

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