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by avh02 5y ago
Yet is cheaper than processing for the death penalty https://www.amnestyusa.org/issues/death-penalty/death-penalt...
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by avh02 5y ago
I'd normally agree with you, but Firefox has so many knobs in the about:config and they change often enough (and e.g new ones appear) that it's a game of constant surprise, thinking you turned off all of x, only to find something
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by avh02 5y ago
Flipside opinion: I always thought album art was a feature every player tried to add for the pleasure of a non-existent user who fetishizes album art. Literally the last thing I'd want out of a music player.
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WeChat to stop routinely accessing photos after influencer exposé(scmp.com)
11 points by avh02 5y ago|1 comments
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by avh02 5y ago
My understanding was this prevents people staying around bars and restaurants drinking, and it was (at least informally) accepted knowledge that drunk people don't distance or mask as much
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by avh02 5y ago
Definitely, that's what the numbers are for, but it takes a long time to figure out what maps to what temperature
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by avh02 5y ago
In university I had an air conditioner that would turn off when the power went out (regular occurrence, few minutes), so I'd wake up sweltering or otherwise needing to get up/interrupted in order to switch it back on (it had a cab
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by avh02 5y ago
i never said entertainment does not contribute to a surrounding industry, i was only pointing out that both sides have it. You are simply pointing out to an instance where the other one does not have an equivalent. Here, i'll do the sa
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by avh02 5y ago
semiconductors also employ people in surrounding industries... like software developers, microwave salespeople, (these days) mechanics, specialized clean room equipment procurement. You've moved the goalpost, but here we go, i'll
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by avh02 5y ago
if you really want an EU vs UK comparison - we need to lump all EU countries together. (I don't know what this number comes out to) But as "single most" - fair enough.
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by avh02 5y ago
"When including box office and home entertainment revenue, the global film industry was worth $136 billion in 2018" [0] plus looking in [1] at Total United Kingdom, 2018 --> $2.74 billion vs "The industry's annual sem
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by avh02 5y ago
"infinitely [...] stable"
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by avh02 5y ago
whatsapp used to have a "status" page in their app, they removed it years ago though. That said - yeah, i figured there's an issue when hard refreshing whatsapp web (sometimes has a kink that needs to be refreshed away) didn&
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by avh02 5y ago
Even before E2E - to my knowledge, whatsapp would only store messages until they could be delivered. They never really stored your chats once they made it to their destination - there shouldn't be any "restoring" of backups t
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by avh02 5y ago
Audacious with the winamp skin mostly works for me, I still miss a few features though the core of it is there. (Global hotkeys for a jump-to and queue songs prompt, nobody except audacious has gotten this down since winamp)
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by avh02 5y ago
> There has been a "Chat export" option for years. Except where they disable it, like in Germany (but haven't followed up on that story if it was resolved) edit: seems to no longer be the case, time to run some backups!
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by avh02 5y ago
Because some people just prefer something to be laid out a certain way. I have that with music for example, I don't care about albums other than a grouping unit for files (my playlist is flat though). Album art, etc is otherwise irrele
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by avh02 5y ago
Personally I just go through Wikipedia articles, some are a little short on details but will often enough link you to more I'm depth information. I end up just jumping from one article to another through the "see also" links
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by avh02 5y ago
holy crap - i've read about that flight so many times - it's one of the stories that keeps me relatively calm in turbulence* (along with the video of the famous 777 wing failure test) - they both give me solace in how much a plane
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by avh02 5y ago
this falls in to the same category of reasoning (IMO) as "you're holding it wrong." - it doesn't answer the underlying issue (in this case - that apple's obviously being unreasonable to the developer) There are othe
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by avh02 5y ago
i wouldn't have moved to full touch-screen without swype. the state of affairs on ios was unacceptable for years after android had swype. But after getting sick of the crap we had to put up with to keep on blackberry (blackberry servic
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by avh02 5y ago
used to run tomato on linksys e4200, had a symmetric gigabit connection (university network, 2017)- it had issues getting passed 125 mbps due to not having access to certain hardware features. Flashing back to stock firmware gave me my giga
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by avh02 5y ago
I'm always amazed at people's resistance to the concept of tree style tabs (or even just tabbing vertically instead)... The horizontal space is far less valuable on widescreens (most websites are just a column down the middle anyw
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by avh02 5y ago
there are some biodegradable packing peanuts that someone like me thought was styrofoam - a way to tell is to take one and see if it "melts" in warm water... I THINK those can go in compost, but I'd check your local regulatio
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by avh02 5y ago
Had seen a few of these "protecting" malls in Beirut... Eventually I'd borderline ignore the mall security guard operating the worthless device. Shame they weren't using them near the port...
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by avh02 5y ago
Paypal is the worst with this. I struggle to understand why anybody uses them if they operate in a remotely inconsistent manner (i.e: move occasionally.) I only recently re-opened an account due to local convenience, but would not trust the
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by avh02 5y ago
netflix has sometimes wildly different libraries based on where you are - and they weren't always in as many countries as they are now. At least they're nice about updating what's accessible immediately though (this is both a
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by avh02 5y ago
I'm not saying you're wrong, but this might (obvi, wild speculation) just be a premature version of: "I heard kabul was great under the taliban" That said - yeah, I'm glad ISIS's great swoop was thwarted.
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by avh02 5y ago
until samsung gets hacked and has every TV globally disabled.
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by avh02 5y ago
all the other baby devices had copy/paste functionality though.

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