SifJar

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by SifJar 6y ago
Well of course, these types of communities aren't going to be paying for advertising because the communities themselves are generally going to be non-profit. My point was if these communities are hard to find, targeted ads from small b
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by SifJar 6y ago
OK, but pretending that the world hasn't moved on from these niche publishers seems naive to me. Perhaps I should have said "in the modern world, word of mouth doesn't work..." Today, chances are those niche publications
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by SifJar 6y ago
Right, but how do I find that tight-knit community (and begin to trust the people in it) if none of the people I currently associate with are interested in that niche & can introduce me to it?
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by SifJar 6y ago
Word of mouth doesn't work for super niche services/products where e.g. there's a good chance no one who's recommendations you trust would be interested in the same type of service/product It also favours more estab
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by SifJar 6y ago
> The collected data makes stock purchasing more efficient. Why does the data need to be personally identifiable for this? Is there a reason a store can't look at total sales volume for a particular product & figure out how many
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by SifJar 6y ago
> You use paper GP was talking about banning paper bags I believe
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by SifJar 6y ago
Anecdotally - I've mostly stopped using plastic bin liners in the smaller bins where I could previously have reused carrier bags from shops. Rubbish goes in the bin directly & that gets tipped into wheelie bin periodically. Slightl
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by SifJar 6y ago
This seems like a positive outcome to me - thicker plastic bags are more durable, can be reused for longer etc., so while there may still be the same amount of plastic "being used", more of it is presumably plastic that has been u
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by SifJar 6y ago
> water waste ... is not an issue Except in the times & places that it is (i.e. times/places with water shortages)
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by SifJar 6y ago
But still better than nothing. And for some (most?) people/businesses, probably worth more than any resulting monetary loss
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by SifJar 6y ago
Looks like BeautifulCodes supports more languages?
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by SifJar 6y ago
> These vaccines have been tested in ~40,000 people each, so we do know quite a bit about their safety. We know quite a bit about their short term safety. It's impossible to know for sure if there is any long term side effect. But
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by SifJar 6y ago
Do you have some evidence of this?
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by SifJar 6y ago
I think another factor that may come into play here is distinguishing between "products that serve the same purpose" and "related products" e.g. between "vacuum cleaners" and "vacuum cleaner accessories&qu
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by SifJar 6y ago
I think the point was that the people who buy the $999 laptops would be fine with the $300 laptops
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by SifJar 6y ago
In principle, wireless chargers can have very low power use when idle; I've seen figures quoted as 0.1mW i.e. over the course of a year 0.876Wh (so ~0.0009 kWh). Of course, this will likely vary based on the specific charger in use. I
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by SifJar 6y ago
Another option for Wiki, which I think is a bit closer to Confluence (but open source & self hosted) would be XWiki https://www.xwiki.org/
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by SifJar 6y ago
I never said I was worried about free speech.
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by SifJar 6y ago
> You assume that the WHO and others have to be right all the time everytime. If information is going to be censored based on what they say, they do have to be right all the time. And the point is, they aren't right all the time.
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by SifJar 6y ago
camelcamelcamel [0] tracks price history for Amazon listings [0] https://camelcamelcamel.com/
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by SifJar 6y ago
From article: > You can deploy the source code directly from your GitHub repositories (support for GitLab and Bitbucket is coming soon). Naming specific git hosts suggests it may not be available on "arbitrary Git repositiories&quot
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by SifJar 6y ago
> you can import CSVs values as strings instead of numbers Of course, but the problem isn't that the person who posted the comment doesn't know this - it's that many users of their systems don't know it. Most people a
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by SifJar 6y ago
auto-fix by padding assumes that the only way to get an ID that's too short is by excel removing the leading zeros - presumably it could also be human error when entering etc. (in theory I suppose that would be validated in whatever fo
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by SifJar 6y ago
This is very subjective, I have rewatched far more DVDs than I have reread books; seems to me that rewatching a good story in movie form isn't much different to rereading a good story in book form? (Typically with less time commitment
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by SifJar 6y ago
> it explicitly does not follow all USB standards I think that is very non-obvious though, especially for the typical consumer
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by SifJar 6y ago
Why just videos? Images and text posts could be used in the same way, to disguise messaging/propaganda as a joke etc. FWIW I don't think Facebook is likely any better in this area than TikTok, or indeed any social network or platf
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by SifJar 6y ago
Facebook allows anyone to purchase targeted messaging, but it's an American run company which likely makes the difference - there is likely a perception (real or imagined) that FB will be willing & able to combat "enemy"
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by SifJar 6y ago
That sounds nice in theory, but I imagine in practice it's a bit trickier - presumably there are plenty of cases in which modifying one part of the car could cause damage to another, unmodified part. How do you figure out if any seemin
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by SifJar 6y ago
If you have to represent "both sides" (in many cases there'll be more than two sides really), you end up having to give a voice to nutjobs, plus you present both sides as equally valid assessments. Much as we'd all love
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by SifJar 6y ago
On search, I wonder if this is deliberate; if they gave you exactly what you want as the top result, you'd click that one and not look any further. But by having to scroll past a few other videos, maybe you'll see another one or

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