Digit-Al

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How to heal the 'mass trauma' of Covid-19(bbc.com)
2 points by Digit-Al 6y ago|0 comments
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
Wish they could do something about Amazon. Every time they "offer" me an Amazon Prime subscription it's an absolute nightmare trying to find the link to continue without it. A tiny little link with absolutely no highlighting
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
False equivalency. We prevent children buying alcohol and firearms because they might harm themselves and other people not because other people might use those things to harm them.
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
anatomically correct: having body parts like those of actual people. So they are basically saying that America is not made for people who have actual human bodies, that need to pee and poop.
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
I really don't like the title as it is taking chunks of what he actually says and missing bits out to make it deliberately provocative. Not sure on the rules on retitling articles though, so I've left it.
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‘I’m not trying to take anything away from Greta Thunberg, but ’(irishtimes.com)
3 points by Digit-Al 6y ago|1 comments
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
Something that I don't recall seeing discussed anywhere: does anyone else think that news sites having social media sharing links at the head or foot of their articles kind of undermines their case?
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English football is consumed by racism and hatred. Can the cycle be broken?(theguardian.com)
4 points by Digit-Al 6y ago|1 comments
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
But how else are you supposed to denote that something is in the original text and not a transcription mistake?
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
I've always hated those brackets. I never know why they've bracketed the word and what it's supposed to mean. At least now I know it's purpose, but it's still confusing. I absolutely agree with the author's poi
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
The physical dimensions of a laptop screen are constrained by the physical layout of the built in keyboard. So unless you can design a clever keyboard that is longer than it is wide...
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
So, would you volunteer to be deliberately infected with a disease that might or might not kill you in order to save many other lives?
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
Yes, we do know the answer. We have many letters written by them. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34243042
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
When I read this I thought "funny, I didn't notice any ads at all". So I reloaded it and checked the protections dashboard (using Firefox with Enhanced Protection turned on): 52,449 blocked! WTF?
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
Have you ever read "All you zombies" by Heinlein? https://gist.github.com/defunkt/759182/ad44c6135d168ae54503a...
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Why the driverless car revolution has stalled(theguardian.com)
4 points by Digit-Al 6y ago|0 comments
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Why David Attenborough cannot be replaced(theconversation.com)
1 points by Digit-Al 6y ago|1 comments
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
I know nothing about SEO either, but a quick search gives: https://moz.com/learn/seo/google-panda
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
I don't buy it. We're talking here about people who have literally never lived in America since they were too young to even remember. They have lived in another country, paid taxes in that other country, and probably have a passpo
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
Ugh. Tell me about it. I tried reading the GDPR stuff regarding legitimate interest but couldn't work out how it was relevant to what they are doing. It appears to be just two different switches for the same thing with one switch defau
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20210101163701/https://www.nytim...
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The Gospel of Hydrogen Power(nytimes.com)
2 points by Digit-Al 6y ago|1 comments
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
Something I think you are missing is that at the moment if the government is investigating potential money laundering and the trail leads to a shell company then the trail ends there. With the new law, if the company is registered to someon
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
Yes. The actual lyric is "dancing to electropop like a robot from 1984" and it does, indeed, refer to a robotic dance style done to electronic pop music. A dance style that is always more effective when aided by strobe lights. Als
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
I think this article needs to be tagged that it's from 2010.
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
> A surprising number of Americans seem to think it's reasonable to tax non-residents, so such legislation may be hard to get passed. So let's get this straight. On one side you have Americans who think it's reasonable to
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
I thought their notice was terrible. A huge list of companies each of which has t be turned off individually as there is no reject all button as many of these things have. If I had unchecked all of them it would have taken me longer to do t
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
> How is running AMA polluting this place? Because I have no interest in reading them, so from my point of view they would be polluting the newsfeed and making it more difficult to find interesting articles. > Are you sure that all th
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
He's only being used as an example because he is, presumably, the richest person on the planet. The author of the article does not make any comment on the makers of the vaccine, presumably because they are not even close to the same le
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
Because Hacker News is not Reddit. AMA exists on Reddit and Reddit is well served for that purpose, so why pollute the Hacker News feed with it? People are free to post anything they want on Hacker News, it's then up to the community,

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