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by Funes- 2y ago
Is this just a mindless comment made without even skimming through the article or thinking about the actual meaning and intention behind the question? It's an intended correction I could attribute to a caricature of an autist, taking e
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by Funes- 2y ago
I'm being downvoted into oblivion for stating "the obvious" elsewhere in this thread. Look, I don't know if they actually stole it, but after last night, many people is having your exact same thoughts. It doesn't
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A ketogenic diet or a strict fasting regimen are two health strategies that are too frowned upon, still, and unfortunately so. Food (or whatever passes for "food" in modern times) has become such a crutch, and people have such pot
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by Funes- 2y ago
>Why would someone use a walled-garden instead of a protocol ? >It's a very similar feeling for Bluesky. Is this actual wondering on your part, or are you just rhetorically framing these as questions, as a means to express frustr
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by Funes- 2y ago
>We're suppose to trust institutions based on the idea that institutions are inherently trustworthy. Trust-based systems and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
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Where exactly in parent's post are cave paintings mentioned, instead of explicitly just books and screens, whose specific relationship is what the tongue-in-cheek comment is about? Your post makes no sense, other than trying to be a &q
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I get the joke, but color has been present in books (manuscripts, before the invention of the printing press, even) basically since their inception, many centuries ago, so just adding color wouldn't make these devices more similar to s
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by Funes- 2y ago
Mine too.
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Friendly reminder to generate a unique password for every account you create so database leaks like this one don't bother you (besides on the site they're used).
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I don't really know how prevalent the phenomenon is nowadays, but there have been "fanboys" for specific console manufacturers for decades now. Even "console wars". In any case, it seems now most people play on PC,
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>We were told that the Internet would “dematerialise” society and decrease energy use. Contrary to this projection, it has become a large and rapidly growing consumer of energy itself. According to the latest estimates, the entire networ
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>You are far more likely to die of eating too much and getting too fat than whatever microplastics are supposedly doing to you. Funny how you can imply that we are still in the dark about how microplastics and other toxins or chemicals (
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by Funes- 2y ago
Alright, I think I'm ready to be part of the current music industry: https://martinwecke.de/108/#A02D14E02G14I02L14M02O14 .
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>“I think this reflects a tremendous hunger among people for ‘reality’—for ordinary reality. It’s very difficult to find the ‘real,’ because the environment is totally manufactured.” I'd say just "reality", not necessarily
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by Funes- 2y ago
I've always loved quick calculation games, learning mathematical principles and concepts, applied mathematics, probability theory, etcetera. However, I developed huge mathematical anxiety throughout all of high-school, because math cla
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TikTok reward-to-watch feature suspended after EU threats to block it(theguardian.com)
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Were they vaccinated against COVID? Did they get infected at any point?
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>something that seems like truth, but is not truth - otherwise we'd just call it truth. Not really. Something is verisimilar when it has the appearance of truth, or is likely to be true, regardless of whether it is in fact true. In
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by Funes- 2y ago
You haven't heard about capitalism as of late? It's all about profits, at the expense of everything else.
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by Funes- 3y ago
>Re. your handle: did you snag it from the Borges short story? Yeah. I've read most of what he published. Even his poetry is great ( El bisonte is one of my favorite poems).
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>That said, this has its pros. If citizens had more of a say, we'd probably have no low-emmission zones, no or almost no pollution regulations, etc. Since we would rightly blame corporations for polluting the Earth and not ourselves
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by Funes- 3y ago
We don't live in democracies, but simulations of democracies. It's all about outward appearance.
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>Europeans are mostly happy giving more power to their government including surveillance (they're tried to make end-to-end encryption illegal how many times now?) No, we aren't. And we haven't tried to ban end-to-end enc
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by Funes- 3y ago
Lynch embodies the magical spell of art in such a free and aggressively personal form, it's amazing. And for him, that tends to come at the expense of ordinary narrative intelligibility. But it's not only intelligibility between h
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by Funes- 3y ago
>That sure would explain the increase in blaring phones since they became popular with the idiocracy. Oh, not at all. It's just that there's no in-app volume control, so they depend entirely on the phone's media volume. Th
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by Funes- 3y ago
That's a good option, since it will make the whole experience much more intentional. Carefully selecting what you want to watch and committing to it without having the option to immediatelly skim through it before it's completely
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by Funes- 3y ago
No. Just accessed it through Norway, Luxembourg, Germany, Finland, and Romania. Not a single problem arose. This is more probably what happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40004163 .
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>it is not possible for it to block an individual website served over HTTPS by altering the status code. The fact that you get a 451 indicates that the server is blocking you. I think I just realized what they're doing. Here's
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Absolutely not. There are some ISPs left in the country that aren't blocking access to those very sites. I mean, I was accessing them no problem until I switched providers. That's precisely how I found out they were blocking them.
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>Not sure why you'd assume the US is responsible for blocking sites for you in Europe I never said that. I said that ISPs in my country (Europe) are blocking these sites, and I (wrongly) thought that ISPs in the US would be doing th

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