VBprogrammer

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   by VBprogrammer 6y ago

   If you found this interesting you will probably also enjoy having a read of Joey Hess' blog https://joeyh.name/offgrid/
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   by VBprogrammer 6y ago

   Personally, I'm not really comfortable with the existence of a database of people from which to compare faces against. However, I think it's perhaps more worrying that one day this evidence will be presented in court and the jury
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   by VBprogrammer 6y ago

   Approximately 23% of the US population voted for him. Typically I don't like this arguement, the rest of the population would probably have voted along much the same proportions as those who did.
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   by VBprogrammer 6y ago

   That's false. At least 14 officers hurt. See for example: https://www.foxnews.com/us/d-c-mayor-issues-order-extending-...
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   by VBprogrammer 6y ago

   While on the whole you are completely correct, it's worth remembering that the risks associated with taking recommend doses of vitamins are negligible. The only plausible confounding factor is people behaving less responsibility in the
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   by VBprogrammer 6y ago

   Can you think of any sitting president instigating a protest nevermind directing their ire at specific people (one of those tweets specifically targeted Mike Pence) and buildings (telling supporters to march down to the capital). Anyone cou
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   by VBprogrammer 6y ago

   To be fair, I said established under the Obama administration, not by the administration. In reality I think both were riding the wave following the 2008 collapse. As such we could probably point the finger at financial deregulation under
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   by VBprogrammer 6y ago

   Perhaps you are right on regulation but it is not clear that it has moved either of the metrics you mentioned. Looking at unemployment there is no deviation from the established trend during Trump's years in office. https://
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   by VBprogrammer 6y ago

   Apologies if I'm misrepresenting your point of view here; it sounds to me like you feel Trump was behind these improvements in the metrics. What changes which he implemented do you feel where behind these improvements? If I posited the
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    by VBprogrammer 6y ago

    The cynical part of me says this is a political stunt to make the Biden administration cancel this order making them "weak on China".
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    by VBprogrammer 6y ago

    As a life long meat eater, most of those things you mention are caused by agriculture which ends up feeding animals in the form of corn and soya.
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    by VBprogrammer 6y ago

    Honestly, I've been the same. I've been working from home since March and hardly go out. My partner does most of the shopping etc. I blame my very own live in bio-terrorist, also known as my 2 year old child.
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    by VBprogrammer 6y ago

    I think you are seriously underestimating the number of essential services which are now mostly been conducted online. Try finding a property to live in or a new job without using the internet.
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    by VBprogrammer 6y ago

    I think we're largely in agreement. I think the definition of fat shaming I was working from was more on the "Omg, look at [insert c list female celebrity], she's (gained|lost) 10lbs!" end of the scale. There is also a p
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    by VBprogrammer 6y ago

    I accept your own experience but realise that this isn't necessarily the whole truth. For example, in Canada I found myself accidentally ordering a large out of habit. What arrived was invariably more than I could eat. Easily one and
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    by VBprogrammer 6y ago

    I know your comment is coming from the right place here but it reads to me like "how strong is the evidence that straight conversion doesn't work for homosexually?". I think these is some merit to the arguement that we should
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    by VBprogrammer 6y ago

    The circumstances in which organ donation is viable are surprisingly rare. I have a friend who worked in a head injury specialist unit, naturally this was a pretty good source of donors. You ideally need someone who is alive but only by vir
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    by VBprogrammer 6y ago

    Thankfully he has a guitar collection that means more to me than any amount of money could! (one Les Paul he has owned for over 30 years and some guitars he has built by hand).
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    by VBprogrammer 6y ago

    If there were any greater signal that bitcoin is not a safe bet right now, my dad has started buying it. He keeps saying thinks like "if I'd have put in £100 4 years ago". I keep trying to tell him that if he'd tell me t
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    by VBprogrammer 6y ago

    We signed an 11th hour deal which means we trade on the same terms. We've lost freedom of movement for some tenuous benefits.
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    by VBprogrammer 6y ago

    I'm sure there are answers in the actual paper behind this press release but I wonder how much more it costs to make the membrane so much more uniform.
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    by VBprogrammer 6y ago

    More pondering than a serious question; would it make a difference if they didn't rely on the original business name and reputation? For example, if I created a fictitious "Lucky Dog Chinese" and in fact delivered food provid
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    by VBprogrammer 6y ago

    There was a recent case of 3 deaths occuring in a nursing home in the UK after an infected Santa came to visit.
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    by VBprogrammer 6y ago

    One thing you may or may not be missing is that most heating in the UK is done using gas fired central heating, air conditioning is very rarely used due to the UK's climate (even working from home there might have been 3 weeks in the y
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    by VBprogrammer 6y ago

    Depending on importing electricity is the wrong phasing I think. Most of the electricity we import is due to French nuclear power overproduction, the marginal cost of producing more power is negligible so it's more economical for them
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    by VBprogrammer 6y ago

    I've had this before. Gate agents told us we had to book online. Online the next available flight was Thursday. No true easyJet representative in the airport on a Sunday evening in a non-base airport. Phoned the call centre and assured
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    by VBprogrammer 6y ago

    Perhaps this has gone too far, as others have noted, there are so many ads and Google generated content (esp. YouTube links) that the organic search results are practically on the second page. If Googlers were allowed to consider revenue in
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    by VBprogrammer 6y ago

    Ok, it wasnt technically this year but I have to share this one just incase anyone missed it, because it's quite possible the best conference talk I've ever seen. https://youtu.be/r-A78RgMhZU
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    by VBprogrammer 6y ago

    One possible reason would be to allow geometry which isn't easily milled. Perhaps cooling jackets, for example, could be incorporated into the mold for example.
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    by VBprogrammer 6y ago

    > if you login you are known to have accepted the terms of service and as such after login no opt-in pop-up is needed either Apologies if I've misunderstood your claim here but it seems to me that you are saying you can bury consent