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by asjw 7y ago
It is true But not 100% in this case They just recoloured something that already existed Design must also account for spacing, layout, positioning and emphasizing things, according to the colour scheme
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by asjw 7y ago
The answer to the question is "he would be as rich as a modern billionaire in the tens of billions range"
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by asjw 7y ago
Lower doesn't mean anything, when compared relatively You have to compare the wealth of the rich guy with the average wealth at the time not with today's standards... And even today, 2$ a day seem low but it's about how m
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by asjw 7y ago
> pretty much the only thing that matters is how you compare purchasing power and adjust for inflation Or just compare it to the average salary at the time Is there an athlete today that could pay for the entire Roman army (80 thousand p
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by asjw 7y ago
Or switch to HERE that is much cheaper than Google
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by asjw 7y ago
> . I am way more focused, happier and might I conservatively add the word "successful" in my married life as well as financially. I never practiced meditation, I am more focused, happier etc. now than I was before. It's a
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by asjw 7y ago
> pain, anxiety, chronic disease, and the fear or discomfort These are all treated in Italy for free by the public healthcare system which also provides psychological (or psychiatric) support, rehabilitation and pain management
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by asjw 7y ago
> The temporary closure of polluting industries improves air quality That is not true and it doesn't reduce anything It's not a few days that change things Besides, in Lombardy the real pollution problem is due the lack of stro
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by asjw 7y ago
Why? If someone tests positive to the flu but also have cancer, should be considered a flu victim?
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by asjw 7y ago
That could be true to some extent, but the best information I've found on the internet since 1995 have been tematic forums. Still nowadays the best use of Google for me is to find those tematic forums And I must say search result quali
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by asjw 7y ago
Use standard html then A select is a select using a native widget An input is a standard OS input widget And so on
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by asjw 7y ago
I work for a non anglofone fortune 500 and I didn't have to explain GIMP to anybody When they ask me (rarely) what software is that I simply answer "Photoshop for Linux, but gratis"
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by asjw 7y ago
Sardinia contains only 1/60 of Italian population. The post you linked does not look very reliable Moreover I'm not talking about super centenaries, but basic life expectancy People who live more in general have probably better ge
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by asjw 7y ago
Still in some countries many more get old than others And I'm talking about countries with the same level of wealth (more or less) Japan has 2.5 times more centenaries as a percentage of the population than US
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by asjw 7y ago
If we are measuring survival, surviving is not a bias, it's a data point Without taking into account genes can you explain why Japan has 54 centenaries every 100k people, France 34, Italy 33 and US only 22?
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by asjw 7y ago
> we believe that a joke name some find offensive and distracting presents an unnecessary obstacle to wider adoption That could be a valid theory if GIMP wasn't the most popular open source raster editor, while none of the forks com
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by asjw 7y ago
What kind of med school was that? Flu kills millions people every year
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by asjw 7y ago
> Many companies allow employees to stay home for minor flu symptoms of the employee or their children. You will be fired in countries like Spain if you remained home so often. (update: I mean that you can do this always, not just now be
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by asjw 7y ago
We also see corrupt and incompetent companies that fraud states and customers everyday and bribe politicians to make their scams legal Why don't you abolish them?
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by asjw 7y ago
Striking is not just cause for firing employees in every developed country, except US Strike is a worker's right
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by asjw 7y ago
> Normally yes, but criminals are just as vulnerable to viral infection as anyone else. They are also vulnerable to bullets. It doesn't make any difference. They keep doing criminal stuff.
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by asjw 7y ago
Luck exists
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by asjw 7y ago
Chat is probably one of the only functionalities that are still better served by an ad-hoc app If you need notifications, just use a native app (or even a web one wrapped in a native app) Anyway, most of these "features" are used
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by asjw 7y ago
Is letting Google, Facebook or Apple control every aspect of our lives by sending them all our personal data, contacts and network information voluntary more secure? I would rather run every application in its own VM under a different unpr
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by asjw 7y ago
It makes no difference whatsoever An OS doesn't protect you from outside, it protects the system from apps and users Imagine if your OS asked you if you would like to allocate a block of memory at address X everytime it does That'
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by asjw 7y ago
There are people who want to be spied by social networks to have a pair of free shoes and post pictures of them online It doesn't mean it's the right thing to do for society Browsers have gone far beyond their purpose in an inorga
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by asjw 7y ago
If they were OSes they would have a kernel and user land You would have ring0 and ring3 You could decide what to install or what remove In the browser everything is exposed to everyone by default More than an OS is a disaster waiting to hap
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by asjw 7y ago
The nucleus of the atom turned out to be made by other particles, it was believed to be atomic, but it wasn't In the same way in the future we might discover that what we know about DNA is wrong Or maybe not We'll never know for s
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by asjw 7y ago
That's only part of what keeps developer costs down. First of all, unless you're on a Mac, every other system can run old applications from the ninetees Secondly, web is a moving target, you spend less now (maybe) but rewrite ever
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by asjw 7y ago
> they go from cough to full-on pneumonia in less than two hours, and die on the ambulance From cough to full pneumonia in few ours sounds made up But people with severe pneumonia that die in the ambulance is not rare Pneumonia still kil

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