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by Youden 5y ago
As someone who is doing that at the moment, the reason for me is because I treat the floor as dirty (due to cats) and want to avoid touching it with bare feet or socks. When I'm in the apartment, I wear slippers. My socks are stored in
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It wasn't owned by Facebook when people decided to use it. Facebook bought it after it became popular.
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> I don't even know where to start on that comment. The premise that wealth determines some concept of "your station" is part of the problem here. I think you're reading things that weren't intended. My reading w
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Sorry, my post wasn't clear. These organisations do a lot more than exit interviews, those are just one kind of input. And knowledge management isn't limited to the military, I just don't know other examples off the top of my
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> Long term, that can become a form of institutional knowledge (risk) This is a bit of a tangent but it's something I find surprising in tech (at least the megacorp I work in): institutional knowledge is kept inside people's he
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> I'm weary of studies in general because they're capable of justifying absolute bullshit. Do you have a proposal for an alternative process? > Anyway, your study was conducted in a regime where getting films for free is ill
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> But I asked whether copyright enforcement was necessary for films to get adequately funded. I addressed that by referencing a study that concludes piracy has no measurable impact on revenue.
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> It depends on the video file format. If the file format supports opening partial files you can just open them when downloading. It's a bit more complicated than that as you have to ensure that your torrent client downloads data in
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I can't speak for others but I generally turn to piracy when legal options are unavailable or unviable. For example it's basically impossible to legally watch anime with English subtitles in my region, so I have no alternative to
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The name reminded me of Kägi, a Swiss chocolate wafer: https://www.kaegi.com/en/
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If they continue to refuse, the fines are unlikely to stop there.
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> I am becoming a bit more adventurous with my designs, and have started designing some ideas that would need to be injection moulded to be of any real practical use. Your wording here is a bit odd. Injection moulding is mostly a questio
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> Do you know by chance if there are similar companies (complex engineering, with physics, maths, chemistry, computer science, ...) that are located in Switzerland? I've only worked with their products and not a whole lot with the p
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I don't think the claim that the human eye can't see more than 30fps was ever supported by evidence, it was just "common knowledge" like other falsehoods such as certain parts of the tongue only detecting certain tastes.
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You're right of course that given the same resolution, a Blu-ray will have a higher bitrate but to elaborate on what I was saying: - The perceived streaming quality may match Blu-ray because the bitrate is high enough that humans can&#
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Your experience of Facebook is very different to mine. In my bubble Facebook is basically a graveyard; I see posts from friends every now and then and use it to chat with people I don't have contact with on other platforms and that&#x2
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> Blu-ray quality is better than streaming in some cases. The wording here sounded a bit off to me here; I read it as "usually Blu-ray quality is worse or the same as streaming quality but sometimes it's better" while I th
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> A complete deletion is not really an option since I enjoy Twitter, Reddit, HN to stay up-to-date with the tech world :) For me, there are two primary negative aspects of social media and two "cancellations" (at least partial)
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Not that the optimisation isn't interesting but if the query is column-based, wouldn't it make more sense to use a binary column-oriented format like Apache Parquet [0]? Or perhaps a binary format like Protobuf, Webpack, Cap'
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> I think you missed the point, people under 40 are not very likely to be hospitalized so why should they get the boosters. I don't see the point written anywhere so I suppose I did. In my opinion, people should get the vaccine as l
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> those younger than 40 I think your concern is based on the heightened risk of myocarditis, right? My understanding (mostly from [0], made by a UK cardiologist) is that the danger of myocarditis from the vaccine is higher than the dange
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The dictionaries the author starts with seem to be the concise dictionaries which are intended to be that way. I don't blame him since the full dictionaries (e.g. OED) are hidden behind paywalls but the full dictionaries are really, re
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> the prices they reach when they arrive in Europe are sometimes even in bad taste You can always import products yourself using a shipping forwarder like Tenso [0] or a purchase assistance service like Buyee [1]. [0]: https:/&#x2F
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The method you used (Whois for the IP address) doesn't tell you where it's hosted, just the address the IP is registered to. It's being announced by Amazon, has nearly 100k other domains associated with it [0] and a <3ms p
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Not quite all TLDs. They don't have .lc for example.
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I'm curious, do you also think it's wrong when the US applies its own laws worldwide where they concern its citizens (e.g. FATCA, Hague Invasion Act.)?
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No. A nebuliser is a medical device that turns a known, regulated, controlled substance into particulates, which will be inhaled in a couple of seconds. Ultrasonic humidifiers are unregulated consumer devices that turn whatever happens to b
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> is explaining then how crypto is different from gold besides "some people value gold also because of intrinsic value". You say this as if having intrinsic value isn't enough?
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Are the constitutional arguments about self defense? I've heard a few times that they're about rebelling against a corrupt government.
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Why do consumers need to pay way higher prices for games? In 2000 you could buy Deus Ex for $40. It was a fantastic and fantastically successful game, developed with a budget of ~$7 million dollars. It needed 175000 sales to break even, whi

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