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by almostnormal 2y ago
Surviving is impossible in the long term. If anything, it's reproduction?
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by almostnormal 2y ago
It's not difficult to argue against democracy, but it's very difficult to find an alternative that isn't much worse.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
> and sell your data to the highest bidder. Do they provide a guaratee to only sell once, instead of selling to everyone?
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by almostnormal 2y ago
The standard for cookies should be updated with a way to include or retrieve a description of each cookie separately. Then, require sites to provide that description, and let users choose per cookie in the browser.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Paypal isn't just treated like a bank, it is a bank, at least in the EU.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Outlook has ctrl-q to mark as read, and ctrl-a to select all. A tiny error on pushing the button to mark a single mail as read sets everything to read, with no undo available.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Scanning the ones returned as undeliverable. Those would of course not have been opened and therefore nothing written on them.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
If white makes it easier to remove dust, then why are the parts that are most likely to get covered in dust gray? Also, the backpack look a bit bulky.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Speaking of the English language influencing German, I want my Erdbeermarmelade back. I don't care that english marmalde cannot be made of strawberries.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Even a malicious ps/2 keyboard could run any command it desires automatically.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Risk/threat I would accept. Leaking data - to telcos by constantly being connected to some cell tower and explicitly to the manufacturer whatever they decide to transmit - is the part I don't like. I don't even carry a phone
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Unlikely. Same as under low-light conditions where everything is grayscale. The light is still colored and just not perceived in color, so it should be blurred grayscale.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Chromatic aberration is mostly relevant further away from the center of vision. If there is an icon (or text) visually inspected carefully it is at the center where chromatic aberration matters least. The icon is mis-aligned, or its the dif
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Energy storage is the problem that needs a solution, e.g., storage from summer to winter.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
There are bathrooms, and tap water is the most strictly regulated food of all, more than bottled water.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Seems to be part of the question. It isn't "Why Do You Want To Work?" but "Why Do You Want To Work for Us?"
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by almostnormal 2y ago
> That's maybe 10 liters a day. Seems low for the size of the installation. A liter of gasoline is about 10KWh. So if this thing gets 5 hours a day of full sunlight, it's putting out 2KW. That's like 5 standard solar panel
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Leather is biodegradable and an accepted material for cars. I don't see why the same shouldn't apply to this.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
> The current system allows Apple to control 100% of the process and to be fully responsible for everything. Did Apple refund people who were scammed through apps, e.g. in bitcoin trading like [0] (first item google found)? [0] https:&#
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by almostnormal 2y ago
The comparison between machine and humans uses the results of the average human driver. Not all humans are alike. Some cause accidents, others don't. There's some randomness involved (every human might be the cause of an accident
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by almostnormal 2y ago
> What is a primordial forest [...] That's a "forrest". At least in Europe, almost all land has been influenced by humans, and "forrest" is misused for farms that grow trees. To refer to an actual forrest, an add
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by almostnormal 2y ago
While advertizers are abusing some mechanism, isn't the underlying issue that browsers allow that to happen? When following a link that did claim to go somwhere, but then does not, add a warning page? Then feed those cases to some cetr
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Both scenarios are unlikely. Most likely it will be a long time of being tortured by doctors trying everything in the book to squeeze a few more days of money from your insurance.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
> [...] postage stamp videoconferencing window s don't cut it. Where I work almost all meetings are online, because the majority of people WFH. And it's easier to join online than to walk to a common room for those that don&#x2
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by almostnormal 2y ago
> [...] by doing non-work activities on the clock How do you know they are doing it on their company paid time?
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by almostnormal 2y ago
As long as there are no id-checks required for roaming and there is at least one country without id-checks, any id-check for local SIMs is security theater only.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
>> 8 pounds per gallon > It never occurred to me that people needed this spelled out, but I guess it's simpler in most of the world where 1L = 1kg. It's easy in gallons and pounds, too, if the correct gallon is used: 10 p
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Screenshot 1 looks interesting. A mixture of a text- and graphical mode. Was that possible natively? Is what looks like text mode also graphical?
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Traditional TV was a lot less addictive than TT. Video games were too taxing to consume an infinite amount of time.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
(almost) everyone has an SSL certificate for the web. An OS could check if software is signed with one. And maybe display a warning for only domain validation.

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