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by blfr 5y ago
You can even log out particular devices on account.google.com (security tab → your devices). This is a weak protection, however, since they're probably cached on the phone.
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by blfr 5y ago
OP's contents are posted in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29406217
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by blfr 5y ago
How did Turkey find its way to Eastern Europe?
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by blfr 5y ago
It's hilarious that after a decade of explosion in streaming the corps still can't (don't want to) beat the experience of torrents + mpv. The latter is particularly interesting since there are no licensing issues. Every profe
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by blfr 5y ago
> Yeah, I bet when it comes to your own healthcare you'll want your provider to do whatever it takes to keep you alive. Because you think your life matters. I don't know. I don't think I would want to be kept alive through
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by blfr 5y ago
Earlier groups of humans could have also been genocided by the later migration waves which would explain why they left no trace in modern populations. Although this is less likely for women.
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by blfr 5y ago
Languages change slower once they're written down. Today's English should be readily comprehensible.
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by blfr 5y ago
Being treated poorly compounds, just like the fear of looking stupid. Especially in the dating market.
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by blfr 5y ago
It's a social reality most nerds ignore at their own peril. The way you're treated is very loosely correlated with being smart, having unusual tastes, or asking questions but tightly with how you present yourself.
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by blfr 5y ago
As a man, every condescending comment you get in person only tells you one thing: your deadlift PR is still too low. Get jacked and all these problems disappear. No matter how silly your questions and objections, no matter how dumb they may
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by blfr 5y ago
Why would brexit impact police interactions with other commonwealth countries. Or even global policing.
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by blfr 5y ago
I would have called this conspiracy territory It is a conspiracy theory. Some of them are just true.
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by blfr 5y ago
Holocaust was so striking to contemporaries, despite genocide being fairly common in history, at least in part because of its technological efficiency. Technology also allows for more leverage. Hitler need an entire modern nation state with
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by blfr 5y ago
> created: October 4, 2020 > karma: 258 Yeah, there are plenty of people here with knowledge and experience from surprising fields but I, too, would like some confirmation.
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by blfr 5y ago
I read a speculation somewhere that coronaviruses may have occupied the niche flu took over for a while with the 1918 pandemic and we're just going back to the norm. (No sources will be provided.)
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by blfr 5y ago
'patio11 covers that and notes that it was fairly exceptional https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1443739575872999424
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by blfr 5y ago
I believe it starts here https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1443738002065268736
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by blfr 5y ago
Yeah, I don't like how overcomplicated many products are becoming but even then wouldn't buy a car without at least AC and Bluetooth.
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by blfr 5y ago
That's just venison delivering itself.
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by blfr 5y ago
For "hide my email"-like feature you can use a domain with a catch-all address and either use somehash@yourdomain.tld or just servicename@yourdomain.tld for every login.
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by blfr 5y ago
There was a bubonic plague pandemic (1346-1353) right after the time this book was wrtten (1339-1345 according to OP).
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by blfr 5y ago
I think the idea is that he heard the same tales because he was in the same milieu, not that he read that book.
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by blfr 5y ago
That's one way to look at it. Another is that we have this beautiful open source commons that most devs make use of and we would like it to be richer.
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by blfr 5y ago
Your podcasts with Greg Cochran are quite possibly the most interesting (interesting stuff per minute) audio I've ever listened to.
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by blfr 5y ago
Is OP lurking? I know this is not TRL but I'd love to read a post for this exact timeframe for changes in technology: frontend, backend, infra.
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by blfr 5y ago
Oil basically powers the modern world. Everything from food production through material manufacturing to basic transport collapses without oil. Food abundance, even if it's can be barely called that like corn syrup, is the most basic s
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by blfr 5y ago
Thor Ragnarok is one of the few capeshit movies I have seen and it was pretty bad. The entire dialogue is written around forced oneliners from a minute into the opening scene. Guardians of the Galaxy was OK but nothing to write home about o
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by blfr 5y ago
His usual answer is "vote on values, bet on beliefs." So we would just vote on what to include, and then bet (through prediction markets) on how to achieve these goals.
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by blfr 5y ago
your site is taking multiple seconds to load for me, depending on when I refresh. Barely over a second here. Much better than vast majority of "webscale" services.
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Tetlock and the Taliban(richardhanania.substack.com)
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