bigbaguette

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by bigbaguette 7y ago
A couple points to balance the opinions seen in the comments: -While the photographic offer grew a lot over the past decades, demand spiked as well. Ask yourself: how many pictures have you seen since you got up this morning? We're sur
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by bigbaguette 7y ago
>the ease with which really hardcore porn is increasingly accessable today means very young kids are able to get their first views of sex being extremely warped. This creates expectations of what sex is that many are likely uncomfortable
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by bigbaguette 7y ago
On a side note, what is the rationale behind the fact that there are doors that can be locked without a key? The horror stories of having the door slammed and getting trapped while outside are so common. If a key was necessary no matter wha
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by bigbaguette 7y ago
Following this logic, I often thought electric heaters are a waste of energy since they perform no computation. But a French company is having a go at this: https://www.qarnot.com/computing-heater_qh-1/
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by bigbaguette 7y ago
Some argue that it's better than nothing, seeing the lack of progress on this matter at the OS level
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by bigbaguette 7y ago
105 launches, 2 failures, 3 partial failures. That's a 95,2% success rate.
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by bigbaguette 7y ago
The artistic aspect of dentistry is often underestimated
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by bigbaguette 7y ago
That, and the in-app "make Chrome/FF the default browser" popup redirecting to a Windows settings page where when you choose anything else than Edge, you get yet another popup asking you to confirm that you really don't
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by bigbaguette 7y ago
For some vaccines, it's not an individual choice. People who choose not to use them for themselves put the rest of the population at risk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity
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by bigbaguette 7y ago
This is how international trade works. It's intimately intertwined with diplomacy and each party will play according to its own interests, related or not. Just like Russia could say "no gas for you" if you make too much of a
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by bigbaguette 7y ago
You could just not cooperate with anyone if you're afraid of what happens when you decide unilaterally to stop cooperating.
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by bigbaguette 7y ago
Grandma used to say "we can't afford cheap clothing"
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by bigbaguette 7y ago
Good on him for taking the time and energy to get through it. Apple is still waging a war on its own customers. They wouldn't replace a faulty magsafe charger that suddenly died and that was still under warranty. The "genius"
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by bigbaguette 8y ago
True, nothing to do with the article but Candida Albicans does exists in the gastrointestinal tract of about half the population. It's a commensal organism that sometimes overgrow and becomes pathologic under opportunistic circumstance
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by bigbaguette 8y ago
Very relevant, and after a couple years away, coming back home and see the network you had faded away as well.
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by bigbaguette 8y ago
Evil and dumb can be manageable. Evil and intelligent is frightening
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by bigbaguette 8y ago
Thing is populists tactics wouldn't get as much traction if the prejudice was not as bad, or worsening in the first place. Populism starts as a natural consequence of misery and lack of education, then becomes a cause that keeps reinfo
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by bigbaguette 8y ago
My father once told me, before he passed: "No matter what you need to fix in your life, start with sleep and food. You'll have difficulties improving anything else if these two basic needs aren't fulfilled" That sounded
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by bigbaguette 8y ago
China is paying big bucks right now for timber and buys more European wood since the trade conflict with the US. There are forests to protect.
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by bigbaguette 8y ago
Teamspeak/Ventrilo/Mumble could get some inspiration from some ergonomics aspects of Discord. Quickly sharable unique urls for invitations for instance, instead of server:port-username-(password)
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by bigbaguette 8y ago
you'd loose your liked songs library, playlists... the whole profile that makes the suggestion system work okay-ish.
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by bigbaguette 8y ago
on a side note, that's going to be 2 million less users in their ML feeds (1.3 percent of the user base)