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by chicob 7y ago
It could make sense, but I would definitely not do it the way he did. He left a family behind, and his business, and no explanation for his decision. I talked to some local people about it, and it seems his disease was treatable. I don&#x27
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by chicob 7y ago
"Opening up every document for editing by anyone over top-down control of documents." Does anyone want to comment on this? I don't feel qualified to judge, but isn't this throwing the baby out with the water? Can'
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by chicob 7y ago
I am a farmer and a physicist by training. Alentejo, the part of the country where I work, has the greatest suicide rate in the country (~28 suicides/100k in the coast region, 19 suicides/100k in the interior region, when the nati
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by chicob 7y ago
I thought of something like that, but then the user could kill it as a precaution since an auto-update utility or any other secondary application can be temporarily disabled. Killing "Safari", on the other hand, would terminate ev
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by chicob 7y ago
Someone I know would constantly leave a macbook unlocked, so I prepared a script that would turn down the volume, whisper the owner's name, open weird sfw pictures online and other mildly annoying things, but not very often (like once
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by chicob 7y ago
Downvoting the comment does not downvote the CEO or the practice. The idea is interesting, and it could've been puppies or some other corny wallpaper that did the trick.
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by chicob 7y ago
Not that I am aware of. Perhaps deterring people willing to show them to the press, or avoiding class actions.
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by chicob 7y ago
I can say you are wrong, but I won't say anymore!
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by chicob 7y ago
That argument is not very cogent because the idea of owning a person is too outrageous. But if you change it sligthly to owning copyright over some dog breed, that emotional objection would dissipate in my opinion. So if someone were to cro
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by chicob 7y ago
It was a seed multiplication contract. I'm pretty sure I cannot name the company or plant, or any other specifics. NDA's are useful for signing contracts with neighbouring farmers so that they cannot argue against differential tre
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by chicob 7y ago
Simply put, no one has the right to simply take your onions. They must pay you a fair price. But what they do with it afterwards is not your business.
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by chicob 7y ago
Emphasis on poor, as in "poor enough not to stand a chance in court".
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by chicob 7y ago
This is the kind of bullshit that infuriates me as a farmer and the only reason for me not to use GMOs and whichever patented cultivars. The rights of farmers to resow has (and must have!) precedence over intellectual or property rights. Th
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by chicob 7y ago
I use it regularly for both personal and professional use. I now use the pm.me domain for my professional account, since it is easier to share (e.g. phone calls, SMS).
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by chicob 7y ago
I guess that to the average users, every single incremental step seems innocuous. The complete picture, however, is not foreseeable to them. If the full scheme of Facebook's business strategy (and other companies' as well, for tha
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by chicob 7y ago
I suspect that plastic degrading microbes would result in more CO2 being released into the atmosphere. Unless there is some sort of carbon sink in the process, I believe carbon in plastic form is less damaging than CO2.
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by chicob 8y ago
Why is the European Commission doing this? When I recognized Carlos Moedas I immediately skipped to what mattered. The reason why he was ever appointed as Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation is, to me, more remote than the bla
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by chicob 8y ago
Some grease nipples on my Kubota are really hard to reach, but other than that most maintenance is pretty straigtforward. At any rate, I'm not expecting to see them last as long as my late grandfathers' Fiat 640, that still works.
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by chicob 8y ago
What about Conrad?
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by chicob 8y ago
Fibromyalgia has been reported to affect twice as much women than men.[1] Now I wonder whether this has to do with pain tolerance during diagnosis or some biological difference affecting epidemiology. [1] https://doi.org/10.
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by chicob 8y ago
That always seems a good idea for those not living in the interior. It is an urban myth to imagine one can easily move to the interior and then, by means of instantaneous willpower, cope with the most ruthless solitude. I've heard my s
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by chicob 8y ago
What strikes me as odd is the objective of making the interface more human-like in some dimensions but less in others. Like you say, no one's talking to a human, but a thing. Users should be aware of that whichever the case. And I shou
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by chicob 8y ago
I vote for Jeeves.
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by chicob 8y ago
I was expecting something sounding like whispering, or Wookie, or maybe a child. It sounds a lot like a woman to me. Perhaps in the lower frequencies it sounds like an older male teenager. To be quite frank, I think the goal is quite dehuma
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by chicob 8y ago
MSc in Physics (Plasma Physics diagnostics). I am currently a farmer, but I hope someday I can get back to developing electronics, hopefully something related to farming and/or meteorology.
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by chicob 8y ago
I also wonder how drugstores manage all the patients' data. For my part, I pay in cash, and never give personally identifiable information unless strictly necessary.
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by chicob 8y ago
This is really neat. But for me, if typing on a keyboard becomes just as functional as writing, I would still choose paper and pencil for two reasons: no power is required and it effortlessly autosaves.
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by chicob 8y ago
You're right, I misread that.
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by chicob 8y ago
I agree this is smart, because it's a win-win for Warren: either the ad remains online and it does its work, or it gets taken down and that's a forced Streisand. But I don't think this is an overreaction, specially because th
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by chicob 8y ago
I didn't mean people should pay attention to flat-earthers and such, but that I know people who do actually believe that.

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