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by _tulpa 9y ago
> means it does affect them (the tax payers)? Okay sure. but... > About 10 to 20 die world wide in about a population of 1000 or so active jumpers. How is 10-20 peoples worth of coronor time worldwide an appreciable number for taxpa
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by _tulpa 9y ago
Valid concerns, sure. But how is banning it a good solution? How do you even enforce a ban on a group of people who are okay risking their lives for fun? Maybe instead you get them contributing to a local SAR organization. Maybe they have t
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by _tulpa 9y ago
Why should it be? It's not like poeple don't understand the risk - especially by the time they get to the point where they can actually do it. What about all the other 'extreme' sports where death and/or serious inj
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by _tulpa 9y ago
How about you make something worth paying for instead?
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by _tulpa 9y ago
That's... Not how any of that works
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by _tulpa 9y ago
Works fine if you also disable javascript.
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by _tulpa 9y ago
I really don't think there are many people at all who are in a position to make use of the advice in the book, and of those who are I really don't think there are any who would actually benefit from it. Gotta milk that survivorshi
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by _tulpa 9y ago
Nobody uses them because they're broken and slow.
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by _tulpa 9y ago
I loath that it's a thing. But in this context I'm not sure it's comparing apples to apples. Comparison aside, I do think social media platforms have a negative net value to society due in no small part to optimising only for
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by _tulpa 9y ago
I would argue that the app is morally ambiguous unless you know what habits it teaches the user. What if it teaches users the habit of selling crack cocaine? (stupid example, but you get the point)
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by _tulpa 9y ago
Last time I used this it claimed to process raw files, and then just ripped the embedded JPEG and used that. Is this still the case?
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by _tulpa 9y ago
How about a happy compromise: Ditch everything except mbasic.facebook.com (I have a hosts entry that does that) and messenger lite. Both are perfectly usable and I can still have a social life, but it's not as effortless as just scroll
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by _tulpa 10y ago
>For example I think it's far more important that gay people enjoy full civil rights, be able to marry etc. than they had better privacy tools that would allow them to remain in the closet indefinitely. That's like saying that
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by _tulpa 10y ago
Have you even used VSCode? It has refactoring, and revision control integrated. You can compile and run code, you can set breakpoints and step through execution. That's waaaaay more than just an editor.
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by _tulpa 10y ago
Uhh, it pretty much is just 'here's a bunch of money'. He's done absolutely nothing else to get it.
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by _tulpa 10y ago
People who don't want American politics leaking into NZ any more than it already does... Here's one thing he can do now: http://www.elections.org.nz/parties-candidates/registered-po...
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by _tulpa 10y ago
And then lose out to the majority who either don't see how answering the question could be bad for them or just can't see that not answering is an option...
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by _tulpa 10y ago
Would you mind elaborating on the tools you use?
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by _tulpa 10y ago
5m/hr? 50km/hr is the road speed limit for residential areas here in NZ, feels really slow sometimes but I'm pretty sure it's way faster than a snail.
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by _tulpa 10y ago
The wrath of investors...
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by _tulpa 10y ago
Jesus Christ that article is terrible, really that entire site is cancer. Just in case you were interested in the actual news, which was news back in June, here's an article that isn't shit: http://www.autoblog.com&#x2F
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by _tulpa 10y ago
1 OK company but underpaid, pretty good team, and the technical bits are really interesting. The project is a 10 year boondoggle (still dogglin' strong), I've been here for four and there's been basically no progress since my