callmeal

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by callmeal 5y ago
Not in chrome. You can only set the startup page to be about:blank. New tabs do not follow that startup page setting.
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Still hasn't answered my question: has he said anything that goes against the teachings of the gospels?
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>Right now we have a Pope who I do not agree with. His philosophy is flawed and not anything I agree with. I'm assuming you're American, because otherwise I find it hard to believe that anyone could thing the philosophy that co
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>There was some controversy in the previous year because apple tried to deprecate the firewall hooks and allow their junk passed the replacement they offered. Funny how framing something that's true (allowing apple software to bypas
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>Ive been using macs for 11 years, probably half a dozen in that time. Ive never had a problem with crashing. And the usual uptime is months. If I stick to web browsing I can have uptime in months too. But as soon as I start up xcode and
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>don't have the power of life and death over you Actually they do. See this for just one of the many ways they have that power: https://www.mercurynews.com/2007/12/21/teen-dies-hours-after...
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>If you have a service like Gmail or a service that supports wildcards you just do `name+[blahblah]@` or `name.[blahblahblah] you can also add extra periods in your name: so something like na.me.blah@gmail... will aso work.
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>I've yet to see compelling evidence that social media itself is a problem in and of itself You might be interested in this: https://www.wired.com/story/jargon-watch-rising-danger-stoch... stochastic terro
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AWS Lightsail instances are pretty affordable ($10/mo and up)
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It's not that simple. Modern (just-in-time) practices have created a situation where a single change in customer demand leads to widespread supply shocks. Take a look at the beer game[0] for a smaller version of real life. That's
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> "I don't think most people want to live in a world where you can only post things that tech companies judge to be 100% true," Zuckerberg said during a nearly 40-minute speech at Georgetown University. I would like to liv
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>Facebook became the town square, probably Town squares don't record people and play them back to random passers-by based on how much rage is generated.
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>Colin lie is inexcusable, but Iraq war was a good thing for Iraq. Well, citizens of Iraq tend to disagree with you. https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-what-life-in-iraq-was-... Not to mention all the destruction of p
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>Do you really believe that Facebook is actively tailoring posts to create a false narrative They have done something similar before[0]. So any denials on their part now will necessarily be taken with a truckload of salt. In a stud
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>But that's not the case, there simply are not enough employees right now. Anecdotally a few of my neighbors have quit their minimum wage jobs for higher paying ones. There are enough employees at those wages. I know two people who
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>There's not enough supply or labor for the bipartisan "bridges and roads" bill. There's not anywhere near enough labor for the partisan social bill. Actually there is enough labor. What there isn't is a fair (in
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> This looks like lack of product-market fit, very common with a lot of communist products. IOW, communist products were not planned for forced obsolescense?
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>Did the promise of free money for doing nothing not seem slightly too good to be true to you? Isn't that the entire premise of stock index funds?
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> From https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/border-patrol-hai... Ratje said he saw a Border Patrol agent swing his horse’s rein in the air while migrants were in the river. One migrant who was holdin
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>If Merck makes a boatload of money off of this, the taxpayers will indeed be taking a cut. Merck's effective tax rate was 15% in 2019 and 20% in 2020[0] They make boatloads of money by underpaying their taxes [1]: In 2004 Merck
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>What specifically caused this sudden spike over the last 3 months? Looks like it's because ships are leaving empty for China so the unloading has slowed since the available warehouse space is taken up by outbound shipments (which a
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>You're making the reasonable-sounding (but incorrect) assumption that the cost to the hospital of a drugs is the same for every patient. Why shouldn't it be? How hard is it for a hospital to project their annual aspirin/p
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>Genetics has a huge influence on what someone is predisposed to and what they can achieve. That is not true. We've known that since the 80s. See https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/30/hungarian-educati
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>What about COVID caused the shortage? Is it shipping speeds? Change in demand? Less efficiency down the supply chain due to health requirements? Trade changes? Take a look at "the beer game". One of the lessons from that game
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>Because I physically can't hold up 3 fingers and my thumb without the pinky going up to, when I do 3, my thumb is holding my pinky down. laughs in piano I think I can move multiple fingers independently and concurrently thanks to
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>I bloody adore how they restrict the apps Well, they only restrict apps for us peons. Companies with money can use undocumented apis no problem. Case in point: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/05/09/zoom-ipa
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>To me it's absolutely mind-blowing to think that this entire process developed on its own, in dark, Richard Dawkins has a very good explanation for this in The Blind Watchmaker. >and is mindlessly progressing along so effectivel
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>But there is significant real data that the side effects from Moderna were significantly worse (but, again, not severe, and time-limited) than a flu shot. It's all relative. The side effects from a flu shot are mild compared to the
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>As currently implemented, iOS will only scan photos to be uploaded to iCloud Photos. If iCloud Photos is not enabled, then Apple isn't scanning the phone. Except for the "oops, due to an unexpected bug in our code, every image
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>Telling consumers to cut back on X is essentially passing the back and making consumers feel bad without actually addressing the bulk of emissions. That's not quite true. Individual action leads to societal change. Climate change w

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