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by callmeal 3y ago
kbin.social Checking if the site connection is secure This check is taking longer than expected. Check your Internet connection and refresh the page if the issue persists. well, looks like it's a non-starter.
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by callmeal 3y ago
>Buying things on the internet, for instance. This was laughed at for quite a while, while a few people and companies were committed to the idea that it was the future. Pretty much every developer (and reader) I know jumped on the OG ama
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by callmeal 3y ago
The headline overstates things. It's not a prediction of a loss, just a different way of measuring: To compare the different methods, we calculated the difference between the two numbers on all ice shelves within the study. We ob
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by callmeal 3y ago
>These moderators could, if they organised together, kill the site in a matter of days. That's not quite true. Reddit has the power in this relationship. See for example what happened when /r/NoahGetTheBoat tried to rebel
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by callmeal 3y ago
>Some people don’t want to work. Good. It's preferable that people who don't want to work stay home and do other things, rather than coming into the office and not working.
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by callmeal 3y ago
It's a big merry-go-round and someone is clearly making bank. NY -> Hawaii https://nypost.com/2019/10/26/nyc-homeless-initiative-sends-... WY -> UT https://www.deseret.com/utah&#x2F
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by callmeal 3y ago
That ("fossil fuels were a limited resource") is only true if the fossil fuel oil producers have to pay the cost of cleanup. Take a look at how a new superfund site is being constructed: https://archive.is/AMt7I B
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by callmeal 3y ago
No, I want knowledge-base style documentation and faqs. Something slightly better than this single question: https://docs.bigcapital.ly/docs/faq
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by callmeal 3y ago
Real time chat in general and discord in particular. Discord cannot be self-hosted, so any support message history will be completely reliant on the goodwill of discord. Another problem with using a chat channel for support (slack has the s
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by callmeal 3y ago
>unchecked greed at the hand of a 70% tax rate. The CA tax rate is closer to 25% (15% excise tax + whatever sales tax is applicable at your address). Where are you getting that hyperbolic number from?
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by callmeal 3y ago
>Imagine if you bought a car from somebody, and they secretly kept a spare key and periodically used your car to run their personal errand. It's worse than that. It's like you bought a house from somebody and they secretly lef
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by callmeal 4y ago
>This is exactly the one use case where cryptocurrencies do work, ... Doing non-centralized transactions is what it excels at. Isn't it backwards? If I have a few (officially issued) colored pieces of paper in my pocket, I can give
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by callmeal 4y ago
From the github issue, "it would be a fair bit of extra work for us to read robots.txt", so clearly tracking commit hashes would be even more work.
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by callmeal 4y ago
I would add: delete the slack app, and use it from a browser. Then you'll only get notifications when the browser is in the foreground. (Of course assuming you've disabled browser notifications). This way you can leave slack runni
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by callmeal 4y ago
Well, I'm not sure you can put "responsible company" and "facebook/meta" in the same sentence.
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by callmeal 4y ago
Company over Country right?
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by callmeal 4y ago
Assuming half the taxpaying households in the US did that - 80 million x $31.5 = approx $2.5 Billion a year. Wow. That is something amazing - just goes to show how wasteful our society is.
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by callmeal 4y ago
It looks like it's self-hostable using docker, so a no-go for me.
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by callmeal 4y ago
At first glance, looks like the apple version of COM/COM+/OLE.
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by callmeal 4y ago
>I don't know anyone who hates or wants to disable Chrome updates That would be me for one. I hate it when google sneaks in privacy reducing preferences that are automatically turned on. I like to occasionaly go through settings to
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by callmeal 4y ago
>If we had Spotify for eBooks, would that solve problem for everyone? Something like Kindle Unlimited but not limited to just Amazon? Count me in!
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by callmeal 4y ago
>I challenge the blowhards here to like, name one substantive harm someone has experienced from ad ID tracking on an iPhone. How quickly we forget/forgot this proof of concept: http://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-
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by callmeal 4y ago
Tc is the high temperature for superconductivity. I noticed this about google a long time ago - they started "dumbing" down their search results. Don't blame them because that's where the money is, but it is annoying wh
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by callmeal 4y ago
My guess would be a monetary justification. After all you can't just have developers working on year old laptops and devices when you can make them buy new ones by making this one simple change.
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by callmeal 4y ago
>Unlike the Greeks, they did not leave the world a better place at the end of their power than they found it at the start. > >Many see them as violent and bitter enemies of scientific truth, and there is some foundation for this vi
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by callmeal 4y ago
>Most of these customs prohibitions are not to protect people eating it -- it's to protect disease from being spread to local agriculture. It's the other way around - these prohibitions are to prevent the unsanitary conditions
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by callmeal 4y ago
>I haven't talked in real-life to an Eclipse (or anything else) user Ahem. We like to stay out of these wars because Eclipse is not a text editor with extensions but a full-fledged IDE. That said, I haven't looked into IntelliJ
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by callmeal 4y ago
>To give an example, slot machines in Nevada must pay out a minimum of 75% of the take. Machines plural - which means a machine that just paid out (in a casino with a large group of machines) can theoretically pay out again before a mach
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by callmeal 4y ago
Yeah - all you need is to accidentally use the wrong side of the scrubber and it's "hello scratch".
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by callmeal 4y ago
That's actually a pretty bad comment - they commentators have no idea what they're talking about, and one of them even says "... assume it's the same under the US law" and goes on to disrepect the " ... judge,

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