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by caf 5y ago
I ask because "believe a majority of the statements are correct" can mean as little as "more likely to be correct that not" - it's pretty weak tea.
482.
by caf 5y ago
Is an honest belief that there's a bare 51% probability that my statement is correct really good enough?
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by caf 5y ago
We really, really need legislation that says advertised features can't require an ongoing subscription. All that is needed is for the advertising to be required to make it clear which features require an ongoing subscription. I don&#
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by caf 5y ago
The first (and only!) time I used Europcar, I'd been using Avis for years and was used to their way of doing business, to the point where I didn't even bother to do a cursory handover walk-around anymore, because I knew they weren
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by caf 5y ago
Perhaps for the first, or second, or tenth instance - but surely at some point, if certain senior people at Hertz know, or ought to know, that their system has a track record of making incorrect accusations, and they continue to use it anyw
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by caf 5y ago
In Australia some are one way (eg. Europcar, which does the "bill every millimetre-long scuff" thing) and some are the other (eg. Avis, who don't seem to care as long as you return it with four wheels and a windscreen).
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by caf 5y ago
A month's YouTube Music sub would be well within the jurisdiction of small claims, that'd cost them at least some lawyer time to respond!
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by caf 5y ago
I don't think Budesonide is a biologic, is it? As far as I'm aware it's an expensive steroid that often has many fewer side-effects.
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by caf 5y ago
Bet the artists still end up with fuck all.
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by caf 5y ago
I guess the USA's information operations are on Vkontakt and Weibo.
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by caf 5y ago
There was, however, ingots of aluminium among the French crown jewels for a while.
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by caf 5y ago
I was around at the time, and webrings were useless from the start. Mailing lists, usenet and IRC were fine but they were just as viciously combative and abusive as any social media we have now. You're looking at the past with rose-t
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by caf 5y ago
In the Deadlines for Everyone story, isn't part of the joke that the prisoners have the possibility of parole, but the engineers don't?
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by caf 5y ago
By "your work" I mean "everything you have authored". - The parts you've written can continue to be available under the permissive license (as can any parts you've copied from elsewhere under a permissive licen
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by caf 5y ago
If I'm writing a program under BSD, and I want to incorporate a component with a GPL license, I can't do that and continue to license the entire program to my users under the BSD. That's the difference, and surely that'
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by caf 5y ago
Smart contracts can only depend on something happening in the real world if it's accurately reported by an oracle - ie. a trusted third party / middleman.
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by caf 5y ago
It seems that bitcoin can be too. https://www.usmarshals.gov/assets/2020/febbitcoinauction/
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by caf 5y ago
Bitcoin needs even more fresh meat than the average "purely financial" scheme because there's an unavoidable amount of value leaving the scheme every day just to pay for electricity to keep the whole show rolling.
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by caf 5y ago
You mean a trusted third party / middleman?
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by caf 5y ago
How does Bitcoin solve the "can't trust the other party" problem? If you send bitcoin to someone to buy some fine pharmaceuticals and they just don't send the product, what recourse do you have?
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NTSB Drops Probe into Fatal 2020 Crash Involving Tesla Model 3(insideevs.com)
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by caf 5y ago
Same if they pass on the card costs to the customers though - card user doesn't want to pay the true cost of using their card, they can choose to shop elsewhere.
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by caf 5y ago
Isn't this just going to teach people not to use their crummy search box, if it opens things in the browser that they don't want to use?
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by caf 5y ago
Go for Earl Grey then to get your bergamot and tea at the same time.
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by caf 5y ago
and probably works for trucks. Maybe for freight trains too, since you can build the battery into a battery tender carriage, and railways have 150+ years experience at swapping carriages on and off trains.
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by caf 5y ago
The device is called a tempering valve. It's already necessary if you want a child-safe temperature in the bathroom, because such a temperature is below the leigonella-inhibiting temperature of the storage.
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by caf 5y ago
I say that because, IIUC (and that's a real question), quantum mechanics treats the time dimension as symmetrical, which contradicts observation, at least to this point. As far as I'm aware, the weak force is known (and experime
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by caf 5y ago
Modern-day privateers?
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by caf 5y ago
That screen was just telling you whether the switch was on or off, though - the logic to decide what to display was just a series of jumpers in the case front. That's why some were configured to read |_| | | | | and | _
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by caf 5y ago
Why can't they launch a civil action against the possessor?

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