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by CivBase 4y ago
> given that every LOTR fan is going to want to watch this series even if it sucks, I wouldn't be surprised is Amazon ends up getting far more than ~0.2M new Prime subscribers because of it. You're assuming they actually subscr
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by CivBase 4y ago
I know. It just amuses me to see such a great example of how much our expectations for websites have changed. In 2022, the connection latency and TLS logic actually impact the load time more than the size of the page.
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by CivBase 4y ago
Thankfully this article uses GIF thumnails instead of the full sized images. Thanks to that, I was able to load the page very quickly with my 500 Mbps bandwidth.
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by CivBase 4y ago
Why did this need to be a law? If it was so obviously beneficial like many commenters make it out to be, why didn't California's public schools already schedule high schools to start later on their own? Something doesn't add
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by CivBase 4y ago
1) I have never seen any derisive claims about the Chinese people on HN - just the Chinese government/CCP. 2) What do you expect? The Chinese government is actively running concentration camps. Most people in western democracies consid
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by CivBase 4y ago
> Mastercard/Visa are required by law to not knowingly allow the purchase of illegal goods/services (they can't facilitate the payment of illegal activites). > This seems totally fair, commendable and hard to disagree w
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by CivBase 4y ago
Most retailers also tell their employees to let theifs get away rather than physically confront them. Doesn't mean they "don't care if there's" theft. Of course they care! They just want the relevant authorities to
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by CivBase 4y ago
I'll start complaining about JIRA when I find a reasonable alternative for my organization. Until then, I'm just glad we're not using IBM Rational ClearQuest anymore.
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by CivBase 4y ago
> Not reliable in an emergency. I find it interesting how much people's feeling of safety has become dependent on their access to a personal smartphone. I didn't even get a regular cell phone until high school, but I never felt
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by CivBase 4y ago
> As a society, we may need a platform where educational/government institutions can upload content (with content warnings, if necessary) because Youtube is a terrible fit for content like this. I understand Cornell using YouTube as
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by CivBase 4y ago
I have also used Firefox for a similar time and although I can't say it has never crashed for me, it has at least proven to be a bit more stable than my experience with Chrome.
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by CivBase 4y ago
I'm curious how Mozilla feels "Thunderbird on Android" aligns with their mission statement. Thunderbird was practically the de facto alternative to Outlook back when desktop clients were the standard for email. But there have
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by CivBase 4y ago
I've been enjoying Unciv on my phone recently. It's a FOSS port of Sid Maier's Civilization V. https://github.com/yairm210/UnCiv
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by CivBase 4y ago
Has he had a high success rate with this approach? If so, maybe we should considering employing a few people with the city or state government to do this professionally.
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by CivBase 4y ago
> Many consumers judge product qualities based on superficial impressions and studies have shown that these impressions can cause users to perceive a product as less usable than it actually is. I'm genuinely amazed that touch scree
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by CivBase 4y ago
What ever happened to PEP 554? I remember reading about that and thinking it was a pretty elegant solution to the GIL. I thought I saw something a while ago about it being expected in an upcoming version, but I see it's still in draft.
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by CivBase 4y ago
I don't even think you need a machine learning algorithm. I follow a simple process all the time to achieve this. load the page with the original URL for each part of the URL: remove that part of the URL load the page wit
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by CivBase 4y ago
I wish that tools which remove unnecessary information from URLs were more popular than traditional URL "shorteners". For example, if I go to some random product page on Amazon, the link looks something like this: https:/
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by CivBase 4y ago
Why would Ukraine's missing wheat exports matter that much? Russia and Ukraine are significant exporters of wheat, but their contribution to global wheat production isn't near as impressive. There's plenty of other major ex
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by CivBase 4y ago
The title implies that Google is the culprit. The article paints a more nuanced picture. It blames Google for providing marketing results for a query about the validity of some dental procedure. It also shares some blame with the dentist
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by CivBase 4y ago
> These proposals come from committees and groups of people, and it's just not realistic to write off the entire group of people behind these proposals as having some uniform set of beliefs like that, especially when they give other
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GM stops providing battery replacements for Chevy Spark EV(theverge.com)
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by CivBase 5y ago
Regardless of Google's motivation or intention, it's horrifying to see a massive company exercise so much influence over written language.
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by CivBase 5y ago
How (and how much) are these spammers profiting? I'd expect that with time the cost/risk would increase as governments and infrastructure providers intervene and the reward would decrease and people wise up to spam/scams. But
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by CivBase 5y ago
I agree that ownership of a company does not entitle you to harm others. There are many laws which exist to prevent companies from harming others and we probably need more of those. But this isn't about what rights a company has. This
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by CivBase 5y ago
I read the comment as being a complaint specifically about the rule that board members should have to act in the financial interest of shareholders. If the intention was to criticize ownership rights of shareholders or to argue for legal li
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by CivBase 5y ago
While I'm not necessarily disagreeing with that assessment, I think those examples of Gab and Parlor are weak. Those platforms were essentially created and marketed specifically to individuals and groups who were kicked off of other pl
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by CivBase 5y ago
> The fact that their primary concern has to be for their shareholders and not whether the sale will be good at all for the rest of humanity is a huge problem in my eyes. I know very little about public trading or the laws regarding it -
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by CivBase 5y ago
Why click anything on the banner at all? I either ignore it, leave the page, use Firefox's reader mode, or delete the DOM node. uBlock Origin has a nice "zapper" feature to do that last option quickly and painlessly. Even sit
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by CivBase 5y ago
What you say makes perfect sense from an engineering perspective. From a marketing and legal perspective, this is a feature to advertise for perspective buyers and ammunition for their anti-R2R lobbying so best to announce it as soon as pos

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