Faark

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by Faark 8y ago
> And yet, Jay-Z, or whoever made the song quoted, was able to release this lyric in the public without causing a problem. Context matters. Saying otherwise is either uninformed or dishonest. Performing a song containing "the roof i
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by Faark 8y ago
> would be fascinated to watch I'd expect it to get boring quick, just like watching rocket launches. New exciting images can only happen every so often. You probably want some drama or tension for better ratings. That's a pret
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by Faark 8y ago
> You wouldn't call it efficient if a government came in and decided That is what happens for every natural resource. Your gov establishes rules for land and ground water just like that. Actually, even for IP and patents... I don&#x
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by Faark 8y ago
Yes, we want to utilize spectrum as efficiently as possible. But do we have any better mechanisms to efficiently allocate resources than markets? I'm sure we could improve the spectrum market. Maybe renting for a limited time instead o
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by Faark 8y ago
You're seem to ignoring what AMI was demanding from Bezos/WaPo. Wanting funding from Saudis is no big deal, unless you compromise your core business to do this sell-out. Maybe the deal would have fallen through with it becoming pu
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by Faark 8y ago
> the occasional wall of sound when re-opening a browser with way too many random things open Firefox only restores tabs (and thus resumes playing) once I actually select them. This sounds like a better solution for your specific problem
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by Faark 8y ago
Until the platforms push exclusivity contracts... I do remember a twitch streamer being happy about his contract being old enough to allow him streaming on youtube while temporarily being banned on twitch. Sure, you can fault the individual
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by Faark 8y ago
Here he is ridiculing climate change as of last week, in case someone wants a more recent example (he missed the 15th anniversary of The Day After Tomorrow by a few months) > "[..Its cold right now..] What the hell is going on with
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by Faark 8y ago
I emphasize with not having a good idea on what and how much news to consume. Especially developing news... just reading the summary afterwards seems way less time consuming. A digital counterpart to a weekly newspapers, doing the selecting
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by Faark 8y ago
It's funny how this thread criticizes media for making up details to push a narrative while doing exactly that. > as having completely fabricated the majority of the articles This is about as fake news propaganda driven as it gets.
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by Faark 8y ago
At that point you're basically discussion voting systems. Using first-past-the-post with three options, two of them being breixt, would heavily rig the vote towards remain. Improving voting systems would be great (especially looking at
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by Faark 8y ago
> You announce it to the staff and at the same time you let those affected know. To do this you would have to already have finalized this list of people to let go. Specifying that list beyond rough department targets to actual individual
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by Faark 8y ago
Euro guy here, so correct me if I'm wrong, but the way I understand your freedom of speech it only protects you from your government. I to doesn't give me the right to spout nonsense in a private space like your living room or on
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by Faark 8y ago
> So, unused button. Wish I could bind it to camera or something, no such luck. The reddit thread about this story mentions an app "bxActions" that sees to be doing exactly that and might be worth a look: https://www
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by Faark 8y ago
> The last thing we need to do is label even more human behaviors than we already do into the bucket of "strange." I couldn't disagree more. Having had a proper manual for my human body would have been amazing. I had a les
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by Faark 8y ago
I'd even expect their human driven statistics not actually representative or useful for comparisons. Their cars are expensive, mostly excluding young and thus often unexperienced drivers. They also don't particularly target older
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by Faark 8y ago
I use mailgun to forward mails incoming on my domain to my usual web mail accounts. Free tier is more than enough, since i don't expect hundreds of mails per day. Sending is a bit painful, though. Also sometimes mails fail to be forwar
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by Faark 8y ago
I'd fully agree with you if we were talking about small entities. Maybe we can not expect every citizen to fully learn the details and pitfalls of all those financial constructs available and thus want to protect them with regulation.
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by Faark 8y ago
> would they get to keep all the test results Huh, is that a thing in the US? I understand the old hospital might not automatically giving them to you or the new one rerunning them anyway for practical reasons. But if you've payed f
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by Faark 8y ago
Love your list & know I'm late, but I'd add one item to your list: Make your update mechanism resistant against sending "personalized" update versions to specific clients. A client querying a central server can be ov
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by Faark 8y ago
Why have some people here such a hard time acknowledging that strong network effects can be one form of market failure? A network effect is a classical prisoners dilemma / tragedy of the commons / whatever it's called for eve
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by Faark 8y ago
I use syncthing for some backups, no idea why I've never considered it for keepass. Probably cause I don't want to mix the two and clients don't offer it already integrated. Or are there any? It for sure wouldn't make bu
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by Faark 8y ago
Google will continue to have the upper hand in public image until stuff like that happens. Yes, this would be a PR challenge, but one MS might even be able to spin in a way they can benefit from...
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by Faark 8y ago
More citizens mean more cost for the state, aka the thing taxes are supposedly collected for. Amateur here, so I might just missed it, but where did you account for those marginal cost? I have a hard time believing original residents actual
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by Faark 8y ago
You two comments strongly remind me of what is currently happening in Venezuela. Having bigger numbers on your money or bank account isn't necessarily a good metric. Anyway, let me rephrase your argument to make sure I understand it co
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by Faark 8y ago
> If you want to encourage more exciting games then you need to reward those who play them And that seems to be exactly what is happening by respecting those who do / looking down on those who don't. Not every reward has to be
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by Faark 8y ago
You mean key->handle dict? Most environment variables on my windows seem to be what you are describing, except currently being path strings instead of file system handles.
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by Faark 8y ago
My problem is just not having the time to read such long texts. So yeah, I agree, just get to the damn point and give me the facts! On the other hand, anecdotal evidence suggests for many people telling an emotional story about someone they
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by Faark 8y ago
Hm when I hear "tree", i'd expect it to be at least somewhat balanced. Wikipedia also has "Hash chain" and seems to be a better fit to me, but at that point we are basically arguing semantics. But yes, "blockch
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by Faark 8y ago
Exceptions in threads is a valid objection, but designs have gotten a lot better. They now usually get automatically re-thrown whenever you access the result of futures. But that seem barely any different than return based error handling to

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