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by JackCh 8y ago
Recent versions of Firefox have a feature called "Multi-Account Containers" that can be used to isolate websites from others. It can be used with any website, but the interface leaves something to be desired. Mozilla was good e
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> "BTW did you see the super cool world domination mind control fantasizing internal video?" Care to share?
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Archive.is has the full text, which is not atypical.
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Youtube seems to offer a better user experience than facebook for users who don't have an account or aren't signed into an account. I have no data to back this up, but I suspect users with no accounts or users who aren't sig
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Maybe he's stuck in the sunk costs fallacy. I've also heard that Tim Draper is an old family friend of Holmes; perhaps that is clouding his judgement.
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> Music Modernization Act I don't know if/how it could legally be done, but I'd love to see "cute" names for laws barred from use in Congress. Refer to them all by number not brand names dreamed up by marketin
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There used to be pretty cheap stand-alone GPS navigation devices (probably still are, though I haven't bothered to look.) And many cars have built in GPS navigation these days anyway. You can also get a road atlas for the regions you&
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IANAL but as I understand it, the circumstances under which a 'private citizen' is permitted to arrest people are more restrictive than the circumstances under which a police officer is allowed to arrest people. Namely that a &#x
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> "MITM the content for the benefit of...why?" To insert advertisements or "helpful" messages ( https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108 )
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With respect to cp and mv, I've found that rsync is often a good alternative for anything more than trivial moves and copies.
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I'm sure there are many ways. Self discipline, meditation, practice, or cannabis.
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Do you honestly believe that man is sincere? Do you really think that he thought his rocket would prove anything, other than his machoism? I think he's a stunt man, in the vein of Evel Knievel (or at least aspires to be thought such
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> "Basically, you have people who could be cured of flat Eartherism by going out just one whole night and watching the stars rotate around the pole, just one trip to the ocean with binoculars to watch a ship disappear over the hori
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> "Has anyone found effective methods to counter the above traits?" In the case of anti-vaxxers (most of whom are probably sincere,) when you become upset or even infuriated with them it cements their beliefs. They interpret
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I have my own loony belief with little supporting evidence. My loony belief is that the overwhelming majority of "Flat Earthers" are joking, pulling your chain, and refuse to admit it because keeping a straight face is part of th
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>Blue Origin's timeline for entering orbit puts them years after Nasa's SLS, meaning they will be third to market for US based orbital launches Discounting Orbital ATK and ULA?
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I'm not on a quest for precise numbers.
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The worst question of the bunch is undoubtedly the tennis question. A very clever alien could answer the other six, but having never been exposed to the rules of tennis would be hopeless against the Wimbledon question. (In fact my knowledg
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I think it's a small minority, but probably not as rare as you make it out to be: https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-people-are-psychopa... I don't mean any offense by this, I'm trying to say it delicat
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I think most people would say that context matters ethically or morally too.
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I don't doubt that betting against it is a good bet. But I do doubt there is zero intersection between braggart and people who enjoy killing.
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> "Violence (or threat of violence) is the answer to almost all problems." Not including which js framework to abuse, I hope!
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Do you wager Ernst Jünger fabricated his memoir? I strongly suspect there are exceptions to this rule. At the very least we know there exist people in prisons today who enjoy murder. Arguably that's very different since (I assume)
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The line "I guess there's a need for that kind of person to exist to do our dirty work." made me suspect he was talking about killing not murdering (I presume he wouldn't say that about murderers.) His response to
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> "The act is the same regardless." I think most would say context matters.
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> "people who will look you straight in the eye and laugh as they talk about murdering someone" Murdering, or killing? I ask because murder refers to a specific sort of unlawful killing, but it's not clear if you're
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Sometimes I wonder why we're not all using Lua instead of Python. Lua seems to get a strange amount of hate in some circles, but I've found both Lua and Python to be reasonably pleasant languages to work with.
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Don't you think that's a needlessly offensive analogy? Signal is not using children to shield themselves from rifle fire.
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It's a pretty shitty state of affairs, but for ebooks what I've done is purchase an old model kindle and buy ebooks for it. I then crack that DRM using Calibre (easy to do with the old model kindles, you only need to enter the se
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Given the link to the archive, it works without javascript for me. I disabled scripts from archive.org with umatrix and the archived page loaded just fine. The only difference from usual is the top bar that archive.org normally displays i

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