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by Iv 7y ago
Going in a big for-profit news paywall thingie that require I shut down anonymous browsing or ad blocking is to me the mental equivalent of picking up an unindentified pile of trash in the street. You know you'll have to wash hands aft
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by Iv 7y ago
Could we add "in the US" to the medical news that may not be that relevant in other countries?
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by Iv 7y ago
Almost every company-sponsored hackathon is like that. And every Google prompt to help them feed their recommendation database "to help improve their products" is the same.
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by Iv 7y ago
Totally makes sense for both sides really. VCs look at this and are like "We can't do that with run-off-the-mill webdevs and marketers". And they have a formula to express what to expect from this reasonable effort model. Com
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by Iv 7y ago
Having followed the question in France pretty closely, most of the progress in both broadband and mobile telephony came from mainly one slightly less greedy ant later comer: Free Telecom. Before that, it was basically 3 operators with sever
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by Iv 7y ago
I used to think it was just me not keeping up with the cultural change. Then Amazon made their search result unusable by interlacing each product row with a product advertisement row. Browsing visually just looking at pictures became insuff
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by Iv 7y ago
I am not bothered when someone promotes their favorite brands or products. I am however bothered when companies encourages and promotes such a mindset. Thank the volunteers, that's fine. Incite regular consumers to become proselyting a
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by Iv 7y ago
Trust me, when your brain does not receive the amount of oxygen it needs, even though mostly breathing pure oxygen at that point, your understanding becomes blurry at best.
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by Iv 7y ago
> On a couple of occasions, now, you have conflated DNR (or POLST, more accurately, these days, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatments) with the act of suicide. I certainly did not and having a few idiots who cannot make the dif
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by Iv 7y ago
> You call it "living", it's not Well she did not kill herself despite being able to, now did she? > A man who had Alzheimers with some lucidity. Maybe 10 minutes an hour. Who again did not take those 10 minutes to take
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by Iv 7y ago
Oh! Look! Anecdotes from a country where you can get broke if you go the hospital! Surely it applies to people all over the world! You imagine and you assume. Please don't argue about ending other people life based on assumptions and i
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by Iv 7y ago
See? People would assume tons of things about other people. And one common assumption is that "what I want for me is what others want for them." My opinion on the issue was already strong, but seeing people die after long diseases
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by Iv 7y ago
On my last contract, working with very competent people, I got struck with one of the biggest procrastination wave I ever experienced. Thanks to a bit of introspection and awesome support from the team, I Realized this was just anxiety due
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by Iv 7y ago
Not at all, thanks! I stumble on these every time I inadvertently translate things directly from my native language. Ill be more careful thanks. Corrected, by the way.
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by Iv 7y ago
Speak for yourself. I want to live for as long as I have even brief moments of lucidity. I don't believe in an afterlife, I intend to savor everything I am receiving. One of my biggest fear is that people fail to appreciate that I valu
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by Iv 7y ago
Thanks! That's a great concept! One way of explaining it would be that instead of leaking air, it leaks sealing water without suffering dpressurization in the process. Really neat.
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by Iv 7y ago
Well the user is the product. Considering it human would interfere with the bottom line.
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by Iv 7y ago
Not exactly a board game but I would expect rock paper scissors game patterns to be universal. I think dice combination games are going to be popular as well.
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by Iv 7y ago
Movies make humanoid aliens because it is much cheaper. Books are much more various and imagine all sort of body shapes or amorphous possibilities. I think the assumption there is that the alien race is smart enough and dexterous enough to
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by Iv 7y ago
Unfortunately Lemy is dead
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by Iv 7y ago
Why should it bring more comfort than knowing, e.g. that there are alternative universes where my deceased loved ones are alive? There seems to be a belief that our consciousness will "jump" to an alive alternative. I think that&#
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by Iv 7y ago
China is scheduled to peak this decade, at a much, much lower level per capita than the US is at. China is on the good track. Taking bold political decisions to control its emissions. Meanwhile US is stuck at 3x EU's per capita emissio
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by Iv 7y ago
I find the whole QI following so weird... Do people really argue that QM can provide cartoon-like effects like a convenient truck under the bridge? Do people really argue that conscience is so special that the universe refuses to end one? T
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by Iv 7y ago
Everything you consume in a non-sustainable society is going to damage environment. The pressure to find a solution is not solely on the consumer. It is on the producers as well. Fishing does not require that fishing nets be abandonned in t
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by Iv 7y ago
I explicity pointed out that in these countries it is a far-right thing.
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by Iv 7y ago
Yes, and the article we discuss about is about oceanic plastics.
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by Iv 7y ago
Just a thought: If that is really what it would cost, then for 0.1% of the cost of the Iraq war, we could have had free culture, unencumbered by copyrights. I guess for 1%, the whole century's music production released in the public do
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by Iv 7y ago
Don't make bold statement, exactly like I used to do a few months ago about this very subject :-) I got pointed to more recent studies by an oceanographer. Here is a Nature (2018) paper stating that the amount of fishing nets were unde
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by Iv 7y ago
> You'd think that the Thai would oppose the ban Why? Anti-ecologism is not really a thing in most of the world. It is a far-right thing in a few countries like Brazil and US, but a lot of nations don't consider "fick the
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by Iv 7y ago
The first source of oceans plastic is fishing nets. Ground based sources of oceanic plastic are coastal cities. Rivers in developed countries carry very little plastic to the sea. Actually a fistful of rivers in poor population basin accoun

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