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by Y-bar 5y ago
> Same for things I said months ago, what's the use? Messages in my phone are now the only remaining words from someone I once knew. I now and then scroll through them like they were an old shoe-box of letters. I don't know (an
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by Y-bar 5y ago
I'm European and have not heard of something like what you are alluding to. I know certain specific categories of pesticides are either forbidden (e.g. Propargite), or limited. But given your response I still do not understand what it
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by Y-bar 5y ago
> And them being organic also guarantees that they can't be improved Please explain this part. I was under the impression that certifications for "organic" labeling was a threshold thing and nothing prevents one brand from
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by Y-bar 5y ago
> After the box was installed, Amazon sent a text message to workers urging them to vote against the union and to use the mailbox outside of their facilities—where Amazon surveillance cameras were trained. From an earlier article on the
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by Y-bar 5y ago
> $719,548 per $1 billion in sales [...] The cost of all this shoplifting is 0.7% up from 0.45%. Wouldn't that be 0.072%?
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by Y-bar 5y ago
A couple of general examples why environmental groups may have concerns, none specific to the Tesla story in particular, but I know have happened elsewhere: - The location has a unique/endangered flora or fauna and building in the spec
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by Y-bar 5y ago
GDPR requires explicit opt-in for each type of data collection/processing which is not essential for the execution of the service: https://gdpr.eu/recital-32-conditions-for-consent/ > Consent should be given by
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by Y-bar 5y ago
They are using (in the example) an order number as a proxy to identify and track the actual user. From the article: "Simply look up the user from the identifier, note the anonymous id, and replace the anonymous id with a real user in t
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by Y-bar 5y ago
Why do you talk about consent with regards to cookies only? GDPR deals with so much more with regards to tracking and identifiable information. For example this quote from the article: "Add a unique identifier to all urls on your site
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by Y-bar 5y ago
More about the author himself: https://trueties.org/trueties.org/about-robert-bryce.html "Robert Bryce works for the Manhattan Institute, a think tank that has received more than $6 million in donations tied to th
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by Y-bar 5y ago
This! But wasn't progressive JPEG and AVIF pretty much designed to alleviate this problem though? Webp does not seem to support progressive loading however.
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by Y-bar 5y ago
You are correct that the idea to make it open source was a spur of the moment that took the developers by surprise. But the reason why it never happens can be spelled VirnetX
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by Y-bar 5y ago
I can’t see how that is acceptable in EU. For example Max Schrems has this to say about these dark pattens: https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-aims-end-cookie-banner-terror-and-is...
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by Y-bar 5y ago
I live in one of those areas and climate change is _harming_ us today, here a couple of examples: - Milder winters mean more ticks and pests survive to eat lumber and spread disease, causing personal harm as well as economic. - Warmer and d
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by Y-bar 5y ago
A couple of years ago numbers were in the 500k to 1M per year: https://greenlining.org/blog-category/2020/unpaid-internship...
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by Y-bar 6y ago
Are you maybe describing US practices? Some of these practices has been prohibited for a decade in EU and it was recently broadened to include agricultural and perishable products: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content&#x2
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by Y-bar 6y ago
I used to stuff shelves at a grocery chain ~20 years ago and one difference seldom mentioned is that grocery chains bought from the manufacturers. That meant that we as a grocery chain were responsible for the sale to consumer, we were not
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by Y-bar 6y ago
Tangent on the stock photo in the article: Some of the cod fish on that conveyor in the first photo look very young, maybe young enough to never have spawned once. Look at the one being held, a hand can almost grip around the entire fish at
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by Y-bar 6y ago
It is a tautology.
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by Y-bar 6y ago
> I am not commenting on the moral side of this persons actions, only the legal side. But this is a false sense of neutrality and objectivity. Asking about the legality of aiding humans cannot be done without considering the moral side o
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by Y-bar 6y ago
> [...] but what that person did seems illegal to me. Reminds me of this quote: > “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.” There are many
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by Y-bar 6y ago
I'm not the person you responded to, but I think their peeve stands correct for technical README's as well. I've decided more than once to not continue reading those when is is not clear to me to move on to what might be a si
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by Y-bar 6y ago
My phone needed to be factory reset, where was my backup to restore from without purchasing a second phone?
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by Y-bar 6y ago
Serious question here. How could I attempt to answer your questions without at least attempting to be emphatic to where you are coming from? Does it not require a modicum of "walking in your shoes" and trying to see things from yo
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by Y-bar 6y ago
No, from my perspective this is why you get down-voted: > I had not heard of any of this before today. The news only talked about internment, surveillance, and forced labour. You seem to lay blame on the media for not telling you about t
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by Y-bar 6y ago
It seems you are Just Asking Questions about a subject whose answers are readily available in a Wikipedia Article with 300 citations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide Nobody but you knows where you get you
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by Y-bar 6y ago
A secondary (probably small, but still...) effect of this is the possibility of creating more jobs since repairing items such as washing machines and TV:s is an inherently local activity. Not really something to send into a central hub for
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by Y-bar 6y ago
This reply is concerning, I hope you can improve on the current state of v4 more than making usability "an option". Edit: I should expand. I was not too worried after reading the article, things would improve I was certain of. But
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by Y-bar 6y ago
Yes! This is also why I think Sparkle [ https://sparkle-project.org/ ] is one of the best things about the Mac application ecosystem. Edit: Should mention why, because it presents a consistent, and clear, UI for users and it
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by Y-bar 6y ago
> First they came for the nazis and qanon extremists threatening democracy, and I said nothing because fuck those people, they are the reason this verse exists.

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