Yetanfou

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by Yetanfou 7y ago
You use terms like climate denial and climate science as if they mean something. You also simply state that we are right and they are wrong as well as give an emphasized hint that the data supports your claims. If you read what th
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
I'd rephrase that into skimmers are often driven away by a block of text while readers are driven away by page-filling images . There is an optimum between these two which attracts people from both sides of the divide - a few targeted
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
I'd say this effect is a perfectly rational part of being a functioning actor in a complex environment. Partly completed tasks need to stay relatively high on the stack when interrupted to make it possible to continue the task when the
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Can you point at the data you based your claim that global warming is so out of hand that the 0.3 degree cooling effect means absolutely nothing now on? I've been going over a lot (and I mean a lot ) of data from many different so
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Plus the additional health benefits which come with the job of conveying self plus bike from a to b as well as the cognitive benefits of mens sana in corpore sano [1] Bikes won't carry everything but they go a long way in solving day
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Is is, just add `termux` and install whatever packages you want. That won't help those who want to install Sailfish or Ubuntu or their very own mobile Linux creation or whatever other option they might contemplate. For those applicatio
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Who cares why the device 'needs more memory' (which it doesn't by the way, the excessive amounts of memory in recent Android devices is more of a marketing ploy than a necessity) when the goal is to select a device to run an
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
You're forgetting the context, being the selection of a device to run Linux (or anything else) on. Also, more memory is more memory, no qualification needed. It doesn't matter why the device has more memory, just as long as it doe
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Facial recognition is a software function which can be performed on image data coming from any camera with sufficient resolution, most likely that includes the majority of surveillance cameras deployed in China. China might suffer under an
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Better value for money, bigger battery, better screen (Samsung), more memory (most devices), more storage, expandable storage, standard interface (all devices), no legal liabilities related to 'hacking' the device, better camera (
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
On the subject of weird language constructs there's also the following correct Swedish sentence: Bar barbarbarbarbar bar bar barbarbarbarbar This translates to 'naked naked-barbarian-bar-barbarian carried a naked naked-barbaria
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> Some people just want an emotionally calm place In an emotionally calm place nothing of substance can be discussed as emotions tend to rise and fall with the importance of the subject matter. Whether it is vi vs Emacs (which is totally
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> biology studies like this are unfortunately controversial to the general public these days. ...but this site is not catering to the general public but to self-proclaimed hackers , a species which used to pride itself on intellectual
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
I say it is time for a Latin revival - quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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Don't forget this classic: hottentottententententoonstelling This translates to 'an exhibition of tents made by hottentotten' (a word used in colonial times to refer to the Khoikhoi, the non-Bantu indigenous nomadic p
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
I see your 1200 and raise a self-built 300 baud modem with loads of blinkenlights and switches, housed in a wooden enclosure only slightly smaller than the C64. Hey, it worked, I was a poor student. Initially I had to dial the BBS using a r
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
The Swedish bank (Riksbanken) disagrees: https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/press-and-published/notices-an... High and growing household indebtedness continues to pose the greatest risk in the Swedish economy. To come
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
South Korea or a reunited Korea - keep in mind that I'm talking about possible future scenarios, decades from now. There has been and still is a lot of animosity between Korea and Japan [1], this goes back centuries. [1] https:/&
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
I'm 54, nobody seems to be able to read text on my screen or phone but I like it just fine. It has gotten harder to focus at short distances (~20 cm and closer) but at normal reading distance I seem to have more acute eyesight than mos
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Do physical work, use them in the way they evolved to be used. I have a farm which helps here as well, land and forest give enough opportunity to behave in typical primate-specific ways. I also build stuff around here, now building another
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
There are two carbon cycles, the biological one (fast) and the geological one (slow). In the biological cycle carbon enters food chains through autotrophs (self-feeders, nearly all of them photosynthesising organisms like algae and plants)
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Is that really the case though? I mean the 'catastrophic' part, not the 'climate change' part as that has been clear from the get-go - climate change is happening and has been happening for as long as the planet has had
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
China, Russia and possibly Korea (which army is far larger than Japan's) come to mind. While Japan still does have 100+ million people the population is going to shrink and those who live there are getting older and older. The low birt
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Japan has close to zero immigration where Europe has a large migration from countries with a much higher birth rate. For Japan this implies that their population will shrink while staying ethnically homogeneous while the European population
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Add Sweden as well, same story here. The national bank (Riksbanken) can not increase interest rates because it would have disastrous consequences for the large majority of over-extended loan takers. The low interest rates in their turn lead
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
If by 'drone' you mean 'cruise missile', sure: [1]. Of course the interest in this area are so intermingled that literally anyone could lie behind this, from the Saudis themselves (who need the oil price to go up to at l
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_Fascism_: political ideology and mass movement. The name comes from the Latin word fasces, a bundle of elm or birch rods (usually containing an axe) used as a symbol of penal authority in ancient Rome. Although fascist parties and movement
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> People should never have to worry whether they can financially manage to go and see a doctor when they are in need of one. Doesn't care if you've broken your arm, am expecting a child or if you're chronically ill. I live
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What if we stopped talking in apocalyptic terms and started looking at ways to live on a planet which, for whatever reason, is endowed with an ever-changing climate which has given it everything from dragonflies with a 70cm wing span to blu
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If you want to have more control over your device I do not see why you would buy one which you know does not allow this type of control. This is, after all, the tool the market offers to take care of this type of problem: competition. Use i

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