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by calibas 4y ago
Google removed domain forwarding the day after a certain authoritarian government started blocking their cloud services back in 2018. Amazon removed domain forwarding a couple weeks later. Much like back in the 1930s, various major corporat
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by calibas 4y ago
That's "blue-green algae", a type of bacteria, that produces neurotoxins. Way different than the kinds of algae they're talking about here.
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by calibas 4y ago
Currently: >There are currently 1200 people in front of you. Please keep this tab open! >Estimated wait time: 16 hours, 40 minutes
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by calibas 4y ago
Not surprising, the US telecommunications industry spends over $100 million per year on lobbying. They must be getting something in return. https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/lobbying.php?cycle=Al...
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by calibas 4y ago
Just send me $49.99 and I'll teach you my fool-proof method for how to steal $49.99 from an unwitting dupe.
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by calibas 4y ago
FYI, I regularly interact with people who actually understand blockchain and cryptocurrencies, so your assumptions are a little mistaken. None of those people are telling me to buy Bitcoin though, so I don't count them among "Bitc
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by calibas 4y ago
All the "Bitcoin advocates" that I've ever talked to couldn't tell a merkle tree from an oak.
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by calibas 4y ago
I read it sometimes, but I'm getting sick of the click-bait "joke" articles, like the recent "Python 3.14 Will be Faster than C++".
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by calibas 4y ago
Appears to correlate with smoking rates and longitude.
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by calibas 4y ago
AI/ML is a poorly understood, but very well-hyped technology. Much like blockchain, it's being falsely promoted as a kind of panacea for all of mankind's problems.
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by calibas 4y ago
What if the stock is owned by a spouse?
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by calibas 4y ago
It's not ideal, but phone numbers already are how we verify identity online and sometimes offline. There's been other methods proposed, but they've generally been rejected because of concerns over privacy. I'm not propos
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by calibas 4y ago
Potential solution, the Obamaphone program keeps using the same phone number for an individual instead of totally new ones every time they lose a phone.
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by calibas 4y ago
If melanin protects against ionizing radiation, does that apply to humans as well? And does that mean darker-skinned human beings are better suited for space travel?
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by calibas 4y ago
That? Looks like swamp gas to me.
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by calibas 4y ago
Some of the videos aren't working in Firefox. Here's the error: > Can't decode H.264 stream because its resolution is out of the maximum limitation
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by calibas 4y ago
I'm not a big fan of Adobe. Many years ago, I spent about $600 on their Creative Suite. A few months later I bought a new camera only to realize Photoshop didn't support the RAW format, and I needed to purchase an upgrade to the l
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by calibas 4y ago
Generative art produced "decent results" 20 years ago, it just took a skilled artist instead of typing the right prompt into Midjourney.
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by calibas 4y ago
> Brasil, also known as Hy-Brasil and several other variants, is a phantom island said to lie in the Atlantic Ocean west of Ireland. Irish myths described it as cloaked in mist except for one day every seven years, when it becomes visibl
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by calibas 4y ago
No wonder we're running out of IPv4 addresses.
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by calibas 4y ago
Widely attributed to Laozi but actually from "Jimmy R": https://books.google.com/books?id=7QNk4eNvS44C&pg=PA175&lpg=...
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by calibas 4y ago
It's only 8kB compressed.
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by calibas 4y ago
The index of an array is an integer, and integer values start at zero, so it seems like an obvious choice as to where the starting point should be. It's only outside of computer science that it seems to be counter-intuitive.
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by calibas 4y ago
When I first heard the term "thought leader" I thought it was purely in jest. It seems so ridiculous and full of hubris that I'm amazed people can use it in serious conversations.
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by calibas 4y ago
You can improve website performance by replacing jQuery with vanilla JS. That's a statement of fact, not a "jQuery bashing thoughtpiece". Several years ago, jQuery was practically a requirement, but now vanilla JS offers many
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by calibas 4y ago
Does anybody have an example of when __subclasshook__ is truly useful? Something that can't be accomplish more coherently with a simple function? Personally, I'd prefer that isinstance() and issubclass() have predictable behavior.
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by calibas 4y ago
He's not just funding "conservative causes" he's funding people who are contesting the previous election. He's giving money to people that believe the current government is fraudulent, so yes, that is a threat to ou
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by calibas 4y ago
Gawker was certainly trashy journalism, but I think the only lesson anybody learned from that whole experience was "Don't fuck with Peter Thiel". The lesson should have been that Thiel and other billionaires have such enormou
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by calibas 4y ago
I'm not a conservative, nor am I parroting some meme, so almost nothing you say applies to me. My comment is based off reading the travel advisory the WHO put out claiming "no significant human-to-human transmission, and no infect
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by calibas 4y ago
> Human to human spread was confirmed before any international case was found. Technically true, but very misleading. It was discovered that it was already in Italy before China acknowledged human-to-human transmission. Also, nothing in

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