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Either the impulse to load up on candy is so strong that one needs a $1,000 / month weight loss drug, or we are just that weak-willed. It doesn't matter: We, as a species, are comically embarrassing sometimes. The point wasn'
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> 1) You have a supermarket and not a shitty dollar tree Assuming that means "dollar store", fair. I live in a country where supermarkets are within walking distance for most of the population and vastly outnumber random conven
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2y ago
> Who are you, random internet weirdo, to indict seven billion people I'm one of those people, which makes me as qualified to say "we suck" as it makes you to claim the opposite. > You couldn't even be bothered to
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2y ago
> And most of the most addictive foods are the cheapest. Healthy and fresh unprocessed foods are more expensive than other shelf stable options. I've heard this multiple times, yet I get the opposite picture at any supermarket. Buyi
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2y ago
The fact that people who are spending too much money on food would spend even more money to buy a weight-loss drug rather than get their food-intake under control, saving money, is an indictment of our species if I've ever seen one. At
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2y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if they had that. They also could've added a clause that Facebook now owns your house, and it'd probably be roughly as interesting to a court. The fact is that many things buried in EULAs and whatnot a
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2y ago
Language features are superseded by better ones all the time. Nobody gets language design correct on the first try, especially when requirements change over time and by application. If you look at the history of languages like JS or B/
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2y ago
In Firefox you can shift+rightclick to bypass that (disables the event), or completely disable the event by changing "dom.event.contextmenu.enabled" in about:config.
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> Untargeted ads pay less than 5% what targeted ones do. Even assuming that is true, companies are bidding for user's attention and against each other. What do you think will happen to prices for context-based advertising if targete
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2y ago
> Building a competitive search engine [..] requires VC investment. > VC investment requires a vibrant startup ecosystem, well crafted regulations and a risk-tolerant culture. Yandex, Baidu, and many other lesser-known local-only sear
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2y ago
Are you just counting on others being too exhausted to bring yet another moot argument to its predetermined conclusion? I'll finish it to save everyone some time: A: how much of gdp is facilitated through the search abilities of meta a
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2y ago
The site is broken right now, but I read this when it was first submitted some time ago. Contrary to what the title would suggest, it's about finding a mundane JS memory leak in moment.js by attaching the chrome inspector to node. Ther
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2y ago
There's a reason pretty the majority of electronic addressing uses that second format***. It's just easier to follow, and in fact you can start executing before the sentence is finished - as well as discard any specifics you don&#
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2y ago
It's accepted for parents to not be reasonable where it concerns their children. Unlike other instances of a person's judgement being impaired, it's not the norm to let another person be reasonable for them - or for them to s
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2y ago
Very. These companies pay good money for 0 days and invest considerable effort into finding their own. Also these attacks are aimed at individuals and executed by state actors. They likely already knew what phone, OS, and browser the MEP wa
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2y ago
Sounds more like it missed. They sent him a link, and he was wise enough to not click on it.
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> What if a couple cores are busy If you don't pin them to cores, the OS is still free to assign threads to cores as it pleases. Assuming the scheduler is somewhat fair, threads will progress at roughly the same rate.
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> can cause physical degradation of the chip in some cases. Not in some cases. Chips always physically degrade regardless of voltage. Higher voltages will make it happen faster.
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> Does cocaine temporarily boost intelligence? I thought it boosted the feeling of being intelligent. For people who lack confidence or an ego, this may very well be the same thing. Just the urge to prove myself got me far in life. Somet
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2y ago
Whenever you have to ask that question, it is often a better idea to sit down with a nice cup of tea, and take some time to reconsider what the person you are replying to was intending to do with their comment. The comment pokes fun at peop
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> A bunch of Floridians who are, or are descended from, folks who had their land and businesses seized during the revolution are holding grudges They should've learned from the French making sure there's nobody left to hold a g
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If NASA accepts the delivery of those things and doesn't check for & report defects*, then outside of willful deception on the Infineon's part, it's not the Infineon's problem anymore. It is the responsibility of the
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There's no "consumer rights" in B2B transactions. Unless contractually specified otherwise, it's generally up to the buyer to check the delivered goods for defects and report those without undue delay*. If this is not do
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2y ago
More than half a billion USD in revenue but can't break even with a digital-only product. Amazing.
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First off you're making the mistake of equating ads with tracking. You do not need tracking for ads - context based advertising is widespread on YouTube already. Secondly there's nothing special about these services except their m
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>Where do you live and whic places do you think smartphones are a requirement for? Try getting anywhere in China without a smartphone to run WeChat/Alipay. There's a reason they have phone charging stations everywhere. Maybe 0.
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I should add that if is not mandated, then it is illegal to do under GDPR and other privacy laws beyond what is necessary without obtaining explicit consent. Even if it was mandated, the telcos still could not do with the data as they ple
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> Germany has one of the shorter retention periods at 10 weeks, but they still have to keep those records. No they don't, because it's "suspended" by the federal network agency until courts are through with it. In fac
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If it wasn't for the courts and a decent de-facto "constitution" (collection of treaties really), governments would absolutely love to expand the amount of data they (police, spy apparatus, etc.) have access to. That they a
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I believe you are correct. That's what I was referring to with "illegal in many countries". Most judgements on this issue predate GDPR, but before GDPR, many countries already had similar laws and attitudes. For example artic
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