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by SL61 6y ago
There is an alternative subreddit, /r/forhire, which tries to enforce higher pay, although there are tons of rulebreaking posts that the mods understandably have a hard time keeping up with. My only /r/slavelabour experi
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by SL61 6y ago
It's also how Google Fi works. Every time I loaded something, in the back of my mind I'd think "this page is costing me two cents". It makes everything you load feel like an individual transaction, making it super uncomf
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by SL61 6y ago
Not trying to draw too much of a comparison here, but Britain did this when they formally abolished slavery. It's still very controversial today, but it did thwart the opposition to abolition among Parliament's pro-slavery lobby
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by SL61 6y ago
It doesn't help that Reddit's automatic spam filter will go over the heads of subreddit moderators and remove posts without their input. Users are aware that mods can remove posts but are generally unaware of the auto filter, so t
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by SL61 6y ago
It's here in the content policy: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy What interesting, though, is that in all my years on Reddit I've never heard of anyone being suspended for it. There are a lo
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by SL61 6y ago
This was my experience on a couple of subreddits which were a bit smaller than yours. One of the subreddits even covered a topic that often gets a lot of drama and high-strung people. But outside of the occasional obvious troll, the communi
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by SL61 6y ago
Message the mods politely. If you made a mistake by posting something against the rules, apologize for that. Usually, mods are happy to unban you in that case. But some mods become really jaded over time and are mean to users by default. I
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by SL61 7y ago
These can be fascinating. If you tune in at the right times on some American receivers, you can hear the truckers communicate via shortwave. They chat on a few different channels from hundreds of miles apart. It's like typical office c
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by SL61 7y ago
I just downloaded it and booted up Minecraft since I was curious too. The article are held in books like this: https://i.imgur.com/KZoknDt.png Note the button to turn the page on the bottom right. There actually don't
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by SL61 7y ago
It's paywalled for me too, in the US. If you paste the URL into Google and follow the link from there, the article will come up.
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by SL61 7y ago
A bunch of random predictions that I typed as they came to mind: 1. Google has a serious competitor in the search engine space, but it is from an already established corporation and not a new startup 2. An internet celebrity (i.e. fully-onl
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by SL61 7y ago
This really shows the power of habit. Now that it's been 12 years, a whole generation has grown up with the ribbon UI. At 22, I'm one of them. Office 2003 and earlier (+ LibreOffice) feels clunky and arcane to me. 2007 was the fir
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by SL61 8y ago
I check Rate My Professors for every registration. It's very reliable once you learn to read between the lines of some reviews. One professor is particular is really great, and I'd sign up for a class with him each semester even i
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by SL61 8y ago
> It's important to me that my physical address not leak How do you avoid the people-search sites coming up in Google? When I search my name, Google instantly provides several Whitepages-like sites with my full name and address. Som
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by SL61 8y ago
There's a recent New Yorker article by Atul Gawande covering this from a slightly different angle: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-ha... He puts much of the blame on the ge
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by SL61 8y ago
Looking through the Wikipedia pages for June 1910, it looks like quite a bit was happening in the US. Oklahoma chose its capital, O. Henry died, statehood was given to two states, and Halley's Comet made a visit. Newspapers might have
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by SL61 8y ago
Crime and Punishment is a wonderful deep dive into the mind of a really messed up person. If you like the film Taxi Driver, it is sort of similar, but with a lot more direct philosophical underpinnings. Raskolnikov has a whole philosophical
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by SL61 8y ago
I'm gonna have to disagree with you there. Gamers today are not price-averse like they might have been when the gaming demographic was mostly teens. After a peek at your website, I see I'm quite a bit younger than you. I know a lo
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Not so green: how the weed industry is a glutton for fossil fuels(theguardian.com)
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by SL61 9y ago
At Mammoth Cave in Kentucky they turn off the lights on every tour. On one tour, my guide turned off the lights and seemed to lose track of time. He started talking about different things, meandering into other topics, without turning the l
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by SL61 9y ago
It has greatly improved over the years. I remember it being unusably bad when I first tried it in 2013, but today I only have to revert to Google once in a while. That being said, there are rare occasions when it fails spectacularly, bringi
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by SL61 9y ago
Same here. It streams from Vimeo, which has always had buffering issues on my end, despite a reasonably fast connection.
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by SL61 9y ago
Should say (2016), this happened a year ago.
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by SL61 9y ago
I use it this way for debit card transactions. I never receive money through PayPal, I don't keep money in my "wallet" there, and my bank account is not linked. Although I made my account when I was 15 or 16, I should be alri
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by SL61 9y ago
Firefox for Android has an option to disable images when using data. Opera has an even more powerful data saving tool, with the caveat that the data goes through their servers (no privacy). I can spend 20 minutes browsing the news, and end
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by SL61 9y ago
This is what immediately crossed my mind too. I have talked to quite a few people from other countries who assumed that USA Today is our foremost national paper, like the American Der Spiegel. I have no idea where the idea comes from though
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by SL61 9y ago
Reddit was indispensable for me during my teenage years. I was a lonely, isolated homeschooled kid and my parents didn't let me do much. With Reddit, I was exposed to different viewpoints, all sorts of things I would never hear about f
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by SL61 9y ago
It looks like they've changed the title now. "Literature’s Arctic Obsession: The greatest writers of the nineteenth century were drawn to the North Pole. What did they hope to find there?"
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by SL61 10y ago
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Better touchpad gestures out of the box - DESCRIPTION: I recently got my first ultrabook. I used Windows on it for the first few weeks before installing Ubuntu. The touchpad gestures were very useful for
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by SL61 12y ago
I'm currently homeschooled (senior year) and I can say it really depends on the area. In my area, homeschoolers are almost all conservative Christians who are very isolated from every other demographic. There are enough of them to form

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