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by buzzert 5y ago
How about 1,300 deaths a day from smoking? https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast...
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by buzzert 5y ago
I haven’t heard about this. Can you explain more?
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by buzzert 5y ago
Thanks! I definitely learned a thing or two from your comment.
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by buzzert 5y ago
> Even if you posted it “privately” through Facebook messenger, yep, that’s too a first: 30-day ban This is so crazy I have to ask, you’re serious here? You’ll actually get BANNED for sharing privately over FB messenger?
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by buzzert 5y ago
I don’t know much about TS/Yarn, but is this really all the dependencies they have? https://github.com/standardnotes/desktop/blob/develop/yarn.l... That’s pretty insane if so. Especially for a “simp
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by buzzert 6y ago
Drugs are also super illegal and very strictly enforced.
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by buzzert 6y ago
Hard to believe anyone still thinks of the NYT as “prestigious” these days.
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by buzzert 6y ago
Does anybody actually like the “antique” style interior? More than a modern renovation? I just moved out of a classic, unmolested Victorian house in SF and let me tell you, I don’t miss it one bit. The fireplace was not functional (I presum
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by buzzert 6y ago
> ( due to slack ToS) With restrictions like that, it surprises me that Slack appeals to hackers at all. Why not IRC?
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by buzzert 6y ago
I really think the closest thing we have these days is the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Vegas every winter. At some point in the last twenty years or so, it became less about companies demoing next year’s products and more about reall
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by buzzert 6y ago
Genuine question: do you feel like the changes are also condescending?
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by buzzert 6y ago
> Except for a handful of very over-priced models that I can't afford to buy, our computers are increasingly designed to be little more than advertising platforms and vehicles for maximizing the cloud revenues of their true owners H
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by buzzert 6y ago
4th amendment to the constitution? > The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable ca
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by buzzert 6y ago
> You can kill yourself with alcohol and nicotine is one of _the_ most additive substances we know. Should be prohibit these as well? I understand this is a relatively extreme viewpoint, but yes. I believe nicotine should be prohibited.
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by buzzert 6y ago
I really don’t understand how someone could walk around the streets of San Francisco and think that we need _more_ drugs in our society. With a nearly 6 times as many people dying from overdoses versus COVID-19[0], it absolutely baffles me
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by buzzert 6y ago
I wonder what subset of that is folks who are afraid of the virus and “don’t feel safe” taking public transportation or human driver-based ridesharing.
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by buzzert 6y ago
Yes. The population of Australia is about the same as the greater Los Angeles metro area (25.36 million vs. 23.86 million)
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by buzzert 6y ago
Presumably the "other nations" are the tiny island nations (New Zealand, Singapore) who implemented extremely strict measures to re-open sooner. An extremely unfair comparison, in my opinion, considering the population difference,
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by buzzert 6y ago
Soldat was a really excellent game for LAN parties back in the day! Really fast to install, small download, and loads of fun.
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by buzzert 6y ago
Some demoscene hacker filing a copyright claim against this would be incredibly lame though.
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by buzzert 6y ago
My personal theory: Article IX of their constitution[0]. During WWII, the Japanese were absolutely brutal and persistent. Having your constitution rewritten to forbid a society like that from having a military could lead to some… extremely
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by buzzert 6y ago
If Tesla just made a sedan version of the Cybertruck, it would look just like a DeLorean.
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by buzzert 6y ago
> The real Satoshi (assuming they're one individual as CSW is essentially implying) took care to maintain their anonymity, and is almost certainly aware that they would be the target of intelligence agencies around the world, in add
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by buzzert 6y ago
Playing devil's advocate here; if you take many steps back and try to look at what's best for the country, you might want to look at citizens with great potential who are currently under lock and key. I don't think anyone is
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by buzzert 6y ago
It sounds like what you’re describing is an addiction to news. This leads to a terrible burn-out cycle: news addiction leads to reading more news (which routinely manipulates your emotions) -> less time spent actually working/readin
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by buzzert 6y ago
> I'm currently looking to put the same thing in place for a read-it-later usecase: we havevthe tools for fetching content and formatting it, and for pushing it in an IMAP account. If you set up a Mail server that uses sieve, I wrot
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by buzzert 6y ago
What happened with the developer of Mastodon?
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by buzzert 6y ago
Works great with JavaScript disabled.
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by buzzert 6y ago
But it sounds beautiful in Italian, so thanks for sharing :)
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by buzzert 6y ago
I too am an identical twin, and it's actually quite the opposite for us. My brother has nearly the same personality, skills, and medical ailments. In my experience from meeting other identical twins in high school, you're either b

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