Tharkun

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811.
by Tharkun 10y ago
They're not idiots by a long shot. But Japan is particularly racist. Living on an island and isolating yourself from the world for over a century will do that... FYI: there are no laws that ban discrimination in Japan, for instance i
812.
by Tharkun 10y ago
School is a waste of time for a very, very, very small part of the population. For the vast majority of people it works (surprisingly?) really well.
813.
by Tharkun 10y ago
Of course there is. They want to shove iTunes DRM down your throat. They can't do that with standard headphone jacks. But with their own solution, nothing is stopping them from allowing only headphones with built-in DRM.
814.
by Tharkun 10y ago
Have you considered the alternative approach of talking to people? A lot less creepy than cyber stalking their tax reports.
815.
by Tharkun 10y ago
I never run out of disk space, but I frequently run out of inodes. It's definitely still an issue. And if you don't stop to think about when you're creating your file system, it tends to bite you in the arse at a later date.
816.
by Tharkun 10y ago
> It's not at all clear to me that power generation via solar has anything at all to do with supplying electricity to cars. Tesla is a battery company that just so happens to also make a couple of cars. When you look at it that way,
817.
by Tharkun 10y ago
Now, can we look at the same repositories and look at the number of bugs and correlate it with the use of spaces? But in all seriousness, how often something is used isn't an indication of how good it is. Spaces are like cigarettes. Ju
818.
by Tharkun 10y ago
Not entirely true. PV panels perform better on cold sunny days than on hot sunny days. Semiconductors and heat are still no match made in heaven...
819.
by Tharkun 10y ago
Ventilation != aircon. Believe it or not, people lived in Florida before a/c was a thing... And maybe use some damp proofing while you're at it.
820.
by Tharkun 10y ago
If all roofs had south facing PV panels, there would be huge peaks at noon. This is already a problem in some German towns, where the installation of new south facing panels is no longer allowed.
821.
by Tharkun 10y ago
'That country'? So does the rest of the world...
822.
by Tharkun 10y ago
Erhm, do you honestly expect to keep your A/C running during a power outage? First world problems indeed.. Insulating your property to keep heat out/in is a hell of a lot cheaper than buying enough backup power to keep your A&#x2F
823.
by Tharkun 10y ago
I think they meant that the psychologist would tell the patient when a condition wouldn't benefit from CBT. As opppsed to relying on your own judgement and using self help books.
824.
by Tharkun 10y ago
Kurt Vonnegut predicted this in Sirens Of Titan. His spaceships have two buttons: on and off. The on button starts the auto pilot. The off button doesn't do anything at all, but gives its human passengers a sense of control.
825.
by Tharkun 10y ago
You need a lot of goods to feed many mouths. Two or three of something is a pretty common pattern in kanji. Two basically implies "several", while three implies "a fuckton". Two suns, for instance, is "bright".
826.
by Tharkun 10y ago
US banks (and consumers) are stuck in the stone age. Paper cheques, magnetic swipe cards, it's pretty bad.
827.
by Tharkun 10y ago
Erhm, yeah, good luck losing that amount of weight easily and ending up underweight...
828.
by Tharkun 10y ago
I don't think the act of replacing them is the biggest cost, but having to make hundreds (or thousands) of custom printed labels is definitely costly. I can see this saving time and money in a lot of places.
829.
by Tharkun 10y ago
Addressing is broken on a global scale. And this won't fix it. Addressing schemes like street & block level addresses can be useful for finding your way around. This is an important feature. I know how to get from 123 My Street to
830.
by Tharkun 10y ago
Really? It doesn't like my phone. And every time the train enters a tunnel, Twitter tells me my connexion is unavailable and ruins whatever I was doing at the time.
831.
by Tharkun 10y ago
You're using FB. Talking about a 'gross violation of privacy' is almost laughable.
832.
by Tharkun 10y ago
I'm amused by the CIA's use of the metric system in the manual. If only the rest of the US would follow ...
833.
by Tharkun 10y ago
I was involved with a couple of ESA and EU FP7 projects. They're a joke. More paper than code is produced, and none of the code ends up being used.
834.
by Tharkun 10y ago
This is one of the many reasons why there shouldn't be any cars in a city.
835.
by Tharkun 10y ago
How is this going to make PGP easier for the average user?
836.
by Tharkun 10y ago
Twitter Mobile is horrible. It's bloated, it frequently crashes my browser, it tries to do autocomplete of @handles but is slower than my touchscreen typing. In fact, Twitter Mobile is so bad that I'm considering installing an app
837.
by Tharkun 10y ago
If intent matters, then guns are doubly problematic. They are specifically designed to kill people. They have no other use or purpose.
838.
by Tharkun 10y ago
What a load of crap. It's good because it carries 'risk' and can be used as a sign of trust? In what universe does swearing carry 'risk'? Might a puritan cultural thing. In which case the 'benefits' probab
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by Tharkun 10y ago
I assume this was prompted by the battery status information leak. That sort of behaviour is likely illegal under EU privacy regulations without explicit concent. In firefox, you can disable this nasty behaviour by editing the "dom.bat
840.
by Tharkun 10y ago
I use a browser extension that gets rid of the vast majority of them. Cookies are the wrong target, and the EU knows it. It's a matter of wanting to be seen doing something, rather than actually doing something useful. Their grasp on t

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