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by DocTomoe 4y ago
There are plugins that work surprisingly well in skipping that bullshit [1] [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y...
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Sounds like a feature request to me: https://bugs.kde.org/
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> with proximity to Waitrose I guess this was a "sufficient affluence" indicator to filter out undesireable neighbourhoods? (for readers who don't know: Waitrose is a British high-price-segment supermarket)
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Oh, you can experience both immense moments of joy in times of tragedy, and vice versa. Your child gets born during intense warfighting. You find your dog (which you thought had perished) again after a hurricane that devastated your home. Y
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> Yep, but how many hours are you going (or expect) to use this space (monthly)? 3-4 hours per week, similar to gym use (which costs be about the same). > Moreover would you envision it as "reservation based" or "First
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> the consensus is that it's fine and faithful to the texts. Huh? Consensus is a strong word. When and on what basis was such consensus reached? Which lines by Tolkien allow for such an obvious change?
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Well, yes, and no. > In 1966 a fan of his stories wrote to him detailing a 'sequel' to The Lord of the Rings that he planned to write. Tolkien forwarded the letter to his publisher denouncing 'this young ass' for his
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
HHKB user here. I like the idea, but there are some things that seem weird . - Why are the numbers larger than the character glyphs? Feels a bit "preschool", imho. - What exactly is the "rotary encoder" for? It's a
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
It makes a lot of sense, though - interior decorations change (with very few exceptions, e.g. the French communist party HQ, which came pre-equipped with Niemeyer-designed furniture). Light impressions don't and have a lot of practical
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
The article specifically mentions getting away from alcoholism as one of the major benefits of the work on guix.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
It's Britain, the country that wants to get out of the European Human Rights Convention because ... it protects human rights. I wouldn't be so sure about oubliettes...
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Some thoughts: Actively blocking cell phone signals might be illegal depending on your country - but building a faraday cage isn't. Given how much of your identity a phone has become, and how easily someone could take my identity over
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
That's a standard no human driver could possibly achieve, for the simple fact that no human drove a billion miles. I think setting such standards, which will be close to impossible to achieve (and/or take centuries) is helpful.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
The beautiful thing about standards is that there are so many of them.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> Gmail supports the + thing, but that's non-standard Plusaddressing is valid and has been since 1982[1]. It's part of RFC822 and the subsequent RFC2822. The fact that many websites do not allow + in an email address during val
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
It's spam detection evasion. Also, depending on the legislative framework, it might be illegal: If I give company my email address with a plus and an identifier in it, I give them permission to contact me under that specific email (wit
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
"Not doing everything to prevent hijacking" is not the same as "encouraging hijacking". Semantics and formal logic matters.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
I hope they'll find and arrest the developers of web browsers and Google, because both tools were used to find information (about how to murder people and dispose of corpses).
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> Airbus and Boeing does everything to prevent attacks and hijacking and it is against their fundamental interest and the interest of their customers. They do today. Back in 2001, flying was a lot different. For starters, there was no su
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
If I buy all of object X, no object X can be sold in Montana.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
You can repackage stuff and move that to urban centers ... but that comes with cost again. Cost that will be high enough so that urban centers don't make sense to deliver to anymore.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
I really don't want to sound too Trumpesque ... but if this was related to a global phenomenon, I would expect it to happen everywhere, not always China.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
The one thing trucks have that rail doesn't: flexibility. You need to lay a lot of track - and have lots of small trains, often only pulling a single container, to get to even approach the same flexibility trucks have, in speed, in loc
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
I tried not to become too technical, given the original claim was that direct democracy does not ever work. You are, of course, right: You have a representative parliamentary system with strong direct democratic elements, which currently is
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Direct democracy does not necessitate a 100% participation rate. It traditionally only means "the electorate decides on topics directly, not with representatives who are not bound in their decisions to their mandate". Again, see S
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Traditionally, democracy meant 'all Athenian male unenslaved citizens meet up every now and then to decide by majority whom to banish from the city' -> the exact reason why democracy was a dirty word for classical political phi
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
At least with the Brother printers I've owned (and some of which I still do), they actually shine a light through a small bit of clear plastic in the toner cartridge. Taking that cartridge out, giving it a good shake (outside, no need
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Relevancy always depends on your use case. If you are setting up a new system, it's almost always better to use a predefined format for common data structures instead of rolling your own - why do the hard conceptual thinking when someo
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Recognition is overvalued: It's nice for the individual who receives it, but it comes after the fact and is ultimately neglectable. Virtually no-one knows who came up with the paperclip (Johan Vaaler), and still it is one of the world-
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
How many potential geniuses ended up herding yaks, or becoming chemical process workers, or died in some pointless war as cannon fodder, or in some hospital due to substandard care? Potential is cheap and abundant. Using it is what changes

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