Vicinity9635

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by Vicinity9635 3y ago
The examples having to word wrap in a tiny text box look even more absurd and unreadable when the page is only using 1/3rd of the screen. What is with this awful formatting? https://i.imgur.com/nQmt7Qo.png
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by Vicinity9635 3y ago
> There was over a decade of QE which the rainmakers said would totally cause inflation. It didn’t. False
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by Vicinity9635 3y ago
Is this the one that explicitly won't let you boycott products by Israeli companies? edit: Yep https://honestreporting.com/fighting-bds-with-buycotts/ You can use it to boycott anything (perceived as conservative
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by Vicinity9635 3y ago
> And that purchasing power of currencies will go down over time. This is only true when you keep printing more of it. The creation of currency outpacing the creation of value is inflation.
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by Vicinity9635 3y ago
The question I have is why is Match Group allowed to have a monopoly on online dating? > Match Group is an American internet and technology company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It owns and operates the largest global portfolio of popu
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by Vicinity9635 3y ago
One thing I would check out is short key travel distance. I love my Bloody B975, but I know I type faster on both my Apple keyboard and especially the Magic Keyboard Folio just because of the super short travel. I can hit 80-90sh on the gam
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by Vicinity9635 3y ago
>generally so seamless that any disruption is extra-annoying. Precisely. If I moving things between my iPhone, iPad and macbook is super easy. But if I want to talk to/from windows I've been using a one person group chat on Sig
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by Vicinity9635 3y ago
> Additionally, anyone notice that nothing works worse together than Google and Google. I had Google Wifi, Google phones, Chromebooks, EVERYTHING. And nothing ever worked reliably. Ever. Apple is the only one even in that market, really
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> And while many do, the most popular and successful music still comes from major labels. Isn't that just the result of marketing? Rich Men North of Richmond just came out of nowhere and went organically viral. >And while many d
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by Vicinity9635 3y ago
I remember seeing this in Lotus Notes. Never saw it before that, or since.
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Everybody's everything is being used to train "AI". That was the reason for twitter going logged-in-only. Multiple companies were trying to download all of twitter at the same time to train their models. Reddit put walls up f
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by Vicinity9635 3y ago
It was never more than marketing for "identity theft protection". When you put it like that, it starts to sound an awful lot like paying a protection racket doesn't it?
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by Vicinity9635 3y ago
Yup. I deliberately half-ass it. Seems to work even better and faster than trying to get it perfectly correct.
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Hear, hear. We finally invent a thing (the Internet) that will let us share knowledge for free, and one of the first things that happens is a bunch of lawyers invent more work and job security for themselves by creating this fantasy notion
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by Vicinity9635 3y ago
This is exactly what twitter did. From just yesterday in fact: > Past bot defenses are failing. Only subscription works at scale. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1691969296543711471 The included chart is s
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by Vicinity9635 3y ago
I get dinged all the time on Mullvad. I still love it tho
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by Vicinity9635 3y ago
Interesting. I get higher speeds on cloudflare in chrome. 603Mbps Cloudflare chrome vs. 600 Mbps Cloudflare firefox But on fast.com (netflix) it's the opposite: 440 Mbps fast.com Chrome vs. 590 Mbps fast.com firefox.
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by Vicinity9635 3y ago
> $549 million Big headline grabbing number. But what % of their quarterly profit is that? Slap on the wrist, I suspect.
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by Vicinity9635 3y ago
It has the "wrong" bias for most of the HN crowd: https://i.imgur.com/taGzsZP.jpg To be fair, it is biased, but then so are most outlets one way or the other: https://www.allsides.com/media-bias&
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by Vicinity9635 3y ago
Cheeky, but isn't nationalism/patriotism just rational self interest? Why wouldn't I want the system I pay taxes into to put me and other people in this boat first? I like this definition, personally: “Patriotism is supportin
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by Vicinity9635 3y ago
> Make no mistake: Having a law against sex work encourages, and subsidises, trafficking. Super dark take: Hey, it worked to make drugs more profitable, why not sex work? I remember when it passed and pretty much every ordinary American
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by Vicinity9635 3y ago
The last place I worked had full WFH and used Tuple (not affiliated) and it worked great for ramp-up and onboarding. It basically lets you pair program where you and a remote person can control your computer (or theirs) more or less complet
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by Vicinity9635 3y ago
> The ramifications of the inflection point we are currently at is mind boggling. No joshing, I just got done posting this on facebook: "If this is practical it will change the world like the transistor; maybe more."
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Devil's advocate: If the existing material and the process to make it can't be replicated, who really cares? Well, aside from the people who might deserve a Nobel. The rest of the world doesn't because we can't all share
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Trying to change the subject to Larry Sanger is an ad hominem fallacy. Address the content of the message, not the speaker. For example, is this accurate or isn't it? > Examples have become embarrassingly easy to find. The Barack Ob