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by Qwertystop 7y ago
> There are even people who are upset about the mere existence of the SSN for weird religious reasons. The religious reason is generally about seeing insurance and/or investment as gambling, as I understand it. I wouldn't call
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
Problem: Too many places already use them as pseudo-passwords, and no amount of forewarning would stop at least some of them from not moving away from that in time.
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
And I'm saying, don't pass judgement on the fuzzy ones. Draw the line where it's indisputable; you'll miss some but it's better than missing everything.
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
Kanji is logographic: each symbol is a complete word, phrase, or idea. Hangul is alphabetic-syllabic: each symbol is a segment (vowel-or-consonant), except that they're written in two- or three-letter blocks each representing a syllabl
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
The boundary may be fuzzy, but that doesn't mean there aren't clear things like "if you're promoting or smearing a particular candidate for an elected political position, that's a political ad".
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
Fair enough. For me (in the US), I have a driver's license but don't own a car, I don't need ID often, but if I leave it in my wallet, there's a much smaller chance that I'll forget it when I do need it (e.g. pickin
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
Disappointed; I was not expecting that kind of pager.
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
I'm not sure I follow the argument at the end. The author has given a good explanation for why our current metaphors describing the lambda calculus might not be applicable to aliens (requiring the concepts of direction and containment)
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
> (although I recognise that in the US, carrying a driving license everywhere seems to be a weird cultural phenomenon). Perhaps less "weird cultural phenomenon" and more "it's about the same size as a credit card&quot
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
At least one GBA game (Megaman Battle Network 4) had a major glitch (game hangs in the WoodMan scenario, in a particular area of the game, after a random battle) that only occurred on some hardware (Nintendo has acknowledged the issue on th
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
I would think the more important safety risk from 5G would be that it's going to cause interference with weather-forecast satellites. A small increase in cancer incidence seems like less of a danger than hurricane path predictions bein
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
Post may start (and end) with a screed against Apple's warranty and repair policies, but in the middle there's what looks like pretty useful advice on cleaning out a MacBook keyboard.
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
Arguably, if you knew that A: there was code in Lisp and B: only one person knew how to support it, they should have either rewritten it while the one who understood it was still there, or had more people learn Lisp, or hired more people wh
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
> life-drawing is a practice that is good training for a specific use of that tool - portraiture > The question is, why did they continue for so long? Well, as said in the original quote, it's apparently also good for internalizi
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
> My suspicion is that in 20 years, many of today's games will be forgotten but people will likely still play FFIV on emulator - not because some artistic quality were better but simply because you can. Inn 20 years, emulators will
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
You're saying "taxes will be too high on the masses" but this proposal would reduce taxes on everyone below the 95th percentile (or perhaps 90th?) in income. If almost everyone gets less taxes, how will that make them too hig
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
Or forwarding, or clicking "archive" instead of "delete", or screenshots...
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
An honor system on ticket-checking can work fine if there's high enough fines for being caught without a ticket. If there's a 1 in 10 chance they'll check your ticket, and the fine on riding without a ticket is at least ten t
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
My point is that public primary and secondary schooling seems to have been more effective (anecdotally) than private higher education. This is a strike against the idea that the government shouldn't be paying for it, in that in at leas
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
Because they ought to be more than that? In some cases, perhaps, because they _are_ more than that? I'm pretty sure my K-12 education (public school) and college (private university) were both above average, but I definitely learned _s
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
I wonder how hard it would be to use this with Unity? Getting a REPL into a running game is the biggest reason I'm interested in Lisp in games, but engine options are limited (the one I've tried is LOVE with Fennel, but Fennel is
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
Generally, I think artisanal soapmakers buy lye flakes rather than making it from ash. Fundamentally, you need lye, water, and fat (or oil). Usually I think vegetable oils are used, rather than animal fat.
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
Almost everyone making election predictions with a decent-sized platform, as I recall.
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
Some people are mindful and/or empathetic, and it's not inconceivable that more people would be if society/technology/whatever was more encouraging of it. "By nature" is not a useful qualifier here. Maybe it&#x
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
Leather has the advantage that one animal produces multiple things -- US beef and milk production produces leather as a byproduct. If people want local beef and milk, there's also going to be local leather. Leather keeps better than me
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
> “Consumers want choice — but only up to a point,” said Kevin Westcott, Deloitte vice chairman and U.S. telecom and media and entertainment leader, who oversees the study. “We may be entering a time of ‘subscription fatigue.'” M
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
It's definitely possible to have multiple Bluetooth peripherals on a single device in the general case (see: laptop with wireless keyboard and headphones). So that would just come down to software on a per-phone basis (and may or may n
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
A third route is to offer journalism or other content for free while soliciting donations. That works for Wikipedia, it works for NPR, and it works for a wide variety of smaller writers and artists through Patreon. There's also the adv
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Global Climate Strike Sept. 20-27(globalclimatestrike.net)
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
Do they? I've only ever seen major TCGs sold three ways (not counting secondhand): Regular booster packs (fixed number of cards, odds of rarities in small print on the back), preconstructed decks (fully known, no randomness), and bundl

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