avenius

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by avenius 9y ago
I started reading slashdot around 2000-2001, being about 14 years old at the time. I would venture to say that slashdot and its community has been as educational (or even more) as school, and played a large part in my deciding to work in IT
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by avenius 9y ago
I'm somewhat curious about the verification process here. Wouldn't this be a prime target for would-be blackmailers?
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by avenius 9y ago
I've been gathering stories from a collection of prominent news sites for about a year, and apparently the media just loves writing about Trump. It's consistently been the most prominent keyword (in number / ratio of occurran
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by avenius 9y ago
I think he's referring to the fact that you need a third-party application to perform maintenance, rather than have the functionality supplied in the OS.
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by avenius 9y ago
So it scrapes a ton of data about people from public sources, and encourages them to give it access to their private data such as email as well.. What could possibly go wrong?
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by avenius 9y ago
I've never quite understood how so many americans appear to oppose a communally paid healthcare system. It should be a win-win for everyone, right? Is it just a severe lack of empathy?
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by avenius 9y ago
The fifth group must be the nihilists ;)
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by avenius 9y ago
It seems to have seen widespread adoption in Norway already (probably due to the large and still growing vegetarian market). The non-cow options are all more expensive than cow milk, but that doesn't seem to make much of a difference.
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by avenius 9y ago
Agreed, I've always considered "clean" to mean non-preprocessed food. n=2
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by avenius 9y ago
5 years here, focused mostly on the back and legs to ensure I don't get a permanent desk posture (and nothing makes me feel more powerful than a set of heavy deadlifts). The first two years I used to go 3-5 times a week, but lately I&#
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by avenius 9y ago
Wes? ;) Also, ditto - Prog and power metal seems to kickstart my brain and has often helped me out of nonproductive slumps.
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by avenius 10y ago
Answering as a fellow Norwegian: I gladly pay my taxes - the beneficiaries of these taxes are the community as a whole, including myself. I don't have to worry about going bankrupt if I ever get any serious health issues, for instance.
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by avenius 10y ago
It did - while the inner parts of the empire were quite peaceful, there were still conflicts along the outer borders. Since there haven't been any wars on US soil for ages, calling it Pax Americana seems alright to me.