Jiro

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by Jiro 9mo ago
There's a ton of apps and watchfaces on the existing Pebble appstore that showed the weather back when the earlier Pebbles were new. I don't think any of them still work, because they depend on being able to access services that
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by Jiro 9mo ago
So there is no way to get weather on this? That's conspicuously absent from the features.
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by Jiro 9mo ago
Different opinions: https://www.navalgazing.net/Millennium-Challenge-2002
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by Jiro 10mo ago
You said "Being an unpaid volunteer, I also don't really care about external deadlines. I'll just make the issue and the fix public and people can patch libxslt themselves." But that's what they were going to do an
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by Jiro 10mo ago
>The UI for this gets in the way and should only ever present itself if I happen to have both kinds of devices registered. I disagree. It is very annoying when some service fails to show an option on the grounds that I can't use it
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by Jiro 1y ago
>Why can't these measures be handled via parental control? Because the government is lying and this is about spying on the populace, not about parental control.
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by Jiro 2y ago
Mothra is a naturally large creature, not a small creature that was enlarged.
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by Jiro 2y ago
I seem to recall that when conservatives were getting banned from social media (or any place else), the prevailing attitude was "it's a private company, and they don't owe you anything, so they can ban someone for any reason
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by Jiro 2y ago
"If I asked the other two goblins if you are the truthteller and they both gave the same answer, what would that answer be?" If you are talking to the truthteller, the answer is no. If you are talking to the liar, the answer is
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by Jiro 2y ago
If you read the wording of this article carefully it says that the employees were fired in error. By referring to several different firings and by juxtaposing statements, the article tries to give the impression that Trump's rules dem
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by Jiro 2y ago
Google up "hostage puppy". I could give you a link, but I'm not trying to claim that any particular person who said it is an authority. The idea is that your organization may be doing inefficient or horrible things, but it a
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by Jiro 2y ago
Naming these people this way is a blatant invitation for harassment by signal-boosting their identities, even if technically their names are already known. This is one step away from doxing and we should not support it.
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by Jiro 2y ago
I noticed that pretty close to this post is another one "Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”." If you're going to be consistent, it should be fine for companies to delete people's
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by Jiro 2y ago
... after they unconditionally surrender.
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by Jiro 2y ago
The people deliberately hiding behind the babies were armed.
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by Jiro 2y ago
There's a problem which he misses in this which appears in this game and almost everywhere: Games that don't have any useful words on the board, presumably because the game is to be sold in multiple countries. For instance, the q
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by Jiro 2y ago
Also, stamp collecting is almost dead (in the West anyway). Although it isn't just the lack of mail that did that, it was also countries putting out huge numbers of stamps to milk the collectors for money.
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by Jiro 2y ago
gwern thinks we shouldn't be writing any more books anyway: https://gwern.net/culture-is-not-about-esthetics
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by Jiro 2y ago
D&D isn't American history. It's fantasy fiction. The "American History"-like elements come from fantasy fiction, where someone like Conan could become a king and there are unexplored areas full of hostiles all ove
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by Jiro 2y ago
It's easy to say that forgetting is an ethical act if you're the perpetrator of things you want people to forget. Reading this article, it seems she once got her jollies making the world a worse place for her political enemies. S
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by Jiro 2y ago
McDonalds never does anyone a solid. As long as it's legal, you don't owe McDonalds a thing. It's the flip side of McDonalds not owing you anything under capitalism.
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by Jiro 2y ago
The employers you want to work for are the ones that pay you a salary so you can eat and pay your mortgage.
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by Jiro 2y ago
Dilbert strip on "is our top priority": https://qhselife4business.typepad.com/qhse-life-for-business...
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by Jiro 2y ago
Google brings up a site showing that Wyoming does make money from taxing the oil: https://pawyo.org/facts-figures-2023/
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by Jiro 2y ago
>If a lease has value to me remaining undeveloped, and it has value to them being developed, then shouldn't we be able to compete to see how much the market values those priorities? No, because the actual amount the lessee is paying
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by Jiro 2y ago
The state is basically selling the oil in the land on consignment. The state sells the oil rights, the group who buys the oil rights sells the oil, and they send a part of the profit back to the state (there's at least taxes, and mayb
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by Jiro 2y ago
Saying "Obama killed Americans" is really demonstrating a problem with birthright citizenship. Without that, these Americans wouldn't be Americans.
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by Jiro 2y ago
Ensuring a "correct labeling and clean environment" is really expensive. I mean, really expensive. It's not going to be practical.
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by Jiro 2y ago
Giving the impression they have a relationship with the restaurant is exactly why it's damaging the restaurant's reputation. The distinction you make doesn't exist.
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by Jiro 2y ago
They established an unreasonable standard for standing that doesn't match previous cases. There won't be future cases where standing is established, by this standard.

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