DocTomoe

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by DocTomoe 4y ago
I would guess that for a mythology to work, in the end you need easy-to-understand progress, movement, and an easily-identifiable cadre of heroes. Can't have a hero's journey without a hero or the journey. Just take a look at &#x2
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Read it from the man himself - and also common myths around the filename: https://grumpygamer.com/guybrush_fact_fiction
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
In other news, the solar cells installed on the White House by Carter apparently still provided energy ten years ago [1], and those who were not broken deliberately likely still do today. I am all for nuclear - but let's keep the discu
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Given the potentially destructive nature of this policy, even suggesting it is a major red flag and it's not unreasonable to take an absolutist approach to the problem. Turns out if you pander to wannabe-autocrats, people will remember
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
With symbols, it is often better to have simplified, general-purpose representations as compared to highly specific ones. E.g. it's better to have a highly stylized "aircraft" emoji [1] than a tiny, but screw-accurate variant
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
And that's why I so vehemently argue against them.
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by DocTomoe 5y ago
If you wanted to give wireless bluetooth headphones another try... In my experience, the better Airpods are made by Xiaomi (their top-of-the-line 'Airbuds 3 Pro' work out of the box, are relatively comfortable to wear, and are ine
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by DocTomoe 5y ago
I feel that there are things that democratically elected governments is not entitled to do, like denying my basic human rights, which include my right to inform myself about world affairs from sources that do not align with said government&
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by DocTomoe 5y ago
And somehow, because you feel uneasy with Russian propaganda, you feel entitled to deny my right to consume and analyse it?
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by DocTomoe 5y ago
Alright, I am biting: Yes. It also transports the idea of "turtle" better - especially when you deal with people who are unaware of the difference between turtles and tortoises, or who know not all turtles have extraordinary large
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by DocTomoe 5y ago
> What do I think about the future of AI, which programming languages will remain relevant etc. I've been in the industry for some 30 years now - and I have become very careful, even reluctant making specific predictions like these,
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by DocTomoe 5y ago
I really wish you had not brought up Child pornography. CP material is not speech, much like criminalised drugs are not. Hypothetically, the idea that CP media possession should be decriminalised, or what material should constitute (or not
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by DocTomoe 5y ago
> This would make gay marriage an illegal act. Back in the day, noone prevented same-sex partners to marry in Germany in front of a religious congregation which allowed that according to their rules. They just couldn't get the marri
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by DocTomoe 5y ago
> Except for nearly all the other countries in Europe, Canade etc. None of them has free speech. Free speech is a binary thing - either speech is free, or it isn't. The moment you face criminal lawsuits for saying the wrong things,
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by DocTomoe 5y ago
Even hiding potentially illegal speech (if you believe such a thing should exist) for some time creates considerable potential of abuse. A group of malicious political actors could still suppress opinions and thus make it appear that there
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by DocTomoe 5y ago
The problem is that the platform has to decide if a given piece of content actually is illegal under German law, something courts may take years to decide, and forces them to make that decision in minutes. On the other hand, it does not p
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by DocTomoe 5y ago
> "Erdogan’s Turkey – one of the world’s leading jailers of journalists – is citing NetzDG as inspiration for its new draconian law on “The Regulation of Publications made in the Internet Environment” I would like to remind everyone
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by DocTomoe 5y ago
Humility. Quick progression can nourish a feeling of invincibility/superiority which will eventually come back to bite people.
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by DocTomoe 5y ago
I am not trying to make this about China in particular, but I'm biting: I would love to see some peer reviewed papers about vaccination efficiency of Chinese vs. European vs. American vs. Russian vs. Cuban vaccines (bonus points if it
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by DocTomoe 5y ago
And yet, eventually, we will see the bug breaking through, now probably a whole different beast than we saw before, into a completely unprotected population (with - in the PRC - a vaccination we don't consider particularly good). In fa
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by DocTomoe 5y ago
It's essentially the same kind of security kabuki that we know from the TSA. Impressive, a nuisance at best, frightening at worst, and perfectly useless.
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by DocTomoe 5y ago
Most flight booking portals I know do tell you which equipment a flight is using. And yes, I strongly prefer airlines that do not use "modern" Boeing planes at all (which arguably might be a lot easier here in Europe). If it'
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by DocTomoe 5y ago
Airplane safety is a function of fatalities over capacity, flight hours and model service life. As such, planes that have been in production longer usually tend to become "more safe" (which is a self-fulfilling thing - notoriously
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by DocTomoe 5y ago
> From what I've read, following the merger Boeing was no longer run out of Seattle but Chicago. How can you effectively manage a manufacturing facility from halfway across the country? It's worse than that: They deliberately
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by DocTomoe 5y ago
> The skills need to run a hospital are quite different than those required to be a doctor. And still, in many countries, including highly industrialized ones, hospitals are run by doctors. So either US administrators are making their ho
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by DocTomoe 5y ago
In all fairness, I still don't see why we need big players in the podcast market to begin with. A podcast can be as easy as MP3 files and an RSS file pointing to them - the whole "podcasting webapp" thing that people add on t
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by DocTomoe 5y ago
I love how you bring up diplomacy. It brings up all kinds of associations, good old Clausewitz not being the least of them when you consider what else happens at schools.
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by DocTomoe 5y ago
And we all know the best way to learn about how to deal with people is putting them in a group of incompatible people in a high-stress, prison-like environment. What could possibly go wrong? As long as high schools are facilities that push
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by DocTomoe 5y ago
And training, which the run-off-the-mill criminal would be unlikely to have. Just because something does not work 100% of the time, every time, with highly sophisticated criminals does not make it worthless as a tool.
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by DocTomoe 5y ago
My Android phones have had dual SIM for years, so I only have to carry around one device to access both work and private phone functionality. That's why I declined the provided iPhone, which only would have had one SIM slot. Apparently

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