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6y ago
I thought you meant that people willingly sign up to be defrauded with their knowledge and consent.
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6y ago
But what are you going to do with that information? It's important to know if someone died of Covid or because of our measures against it. Or even of Covid because of our measures against it (stress weakens the immune system + getting
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6y ago
Working around Chrome's bugs just disincentivizes Google from fixing them.
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anoncake
6y ago
How does a "straight up fraud scheme" work? Can I tell people on Bitcoin forums that I'm pretending to be a Nigerian prince and they'll give me money? If so, where can I find these forums?
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6y ago
Why does Covid drop traffic for a content site about keto?
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6y ago
Also, browsers have bookmark features.
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6y ago
It's imparsable in a similar way to TeX and Perl: There is a program that can process it, good luck creating another.
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6y ago
It's still fine.
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6y ago
Just because "humane" is related to "human", it doesn't mean it applies only to humans. Also it's silly to allow cats on planes while prohibiting dogs.
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6y ago
I think their point is obvious but off-topic.
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6y ago
I'm not surprised at all that it works, I just think something must be broken if it does.
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6y ago
Font designers publish poor quality fonts to promote their products? That isn't supposed to work.
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6y ago
Setting timers is apparently surprisingly hard! Google Assistant frequently just tells me to set the timer in the app.
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anoncake
6y ago
Because vaccines don't do that.
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6y ago
Basically: In the best case, it's a cure-all. In the worst case, it's still a cure-something.
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6y ago
Are sun lamps sufficient to enhance Vitamin D production? They're mainly used for their psychological effects.
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anoncake
6y ago
Getting people to eat fatty meals doesn't sound very challenging.
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anoncake
6y ago
Agreed, "KDE Community Edition" sounds like the libre variant of a hypothetical open-core KDE.
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6y ago
In a working market, companies only make enough profits to cover their opportunity costs. There is no way that's the case at the moment.
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6y ago
> The left broadly assumes that we're all equally capable and that it's just opportunity that's the problem. I don't think it matters if we are equally capable. Capability, or at least talent, is just another form of
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6y ago
Most developers don't even care that much about their work, their sites just silently break without Javascript.
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6y ago
I can't see that happening. Making bad jokes could make people think the people of Fugging are some kind of Germans. Austrians hate that.
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anoncake
6y ago
Why does it matter if something is considered offensive for sexual or religious reasons?
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6y ago
I wouldn't skip it because I find the idea of Google cars braking to avoid crashing into a pictogram hilarious.
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6y ago
It's not a cost. Google doesn't want you to protect your privacy from them. It's a punishment.
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6y ago
micrototalitarian, adjective: relating to a system of government that is a tiny bit centralized and dictatorial and requires a microscopic degree of subservience to the state.
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anoncake
6y ago
You really need some kind of doublethink here. Believe you can do anything, but make decisions "as if" you couldn't.
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6y ago
Since far from all TLDs have reliable semantics and it's impossible to know all of them, it doesn't. And compiling a project from source code is not the only meaning of "build", not even in tech.
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6y ago
It may be a little-used feature nowadays, but you can still transfer data using your phone's charging port. And what about Bluetooth, are BLE cameras also flaky? (I'm sure classic Bluetooth cameras are.)
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6y ago
Is that feasible? The container for the radioactive fuel must be robust enough to survive a catastrophic failure during launch followed by an an impact on Earth without releasing its contents. Which is possible (RTGs are built that way), bu
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