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by coffeecat 5y ago
> To me it looks like it’s just marketing that those 2 are popular. And that's the killer feature! Librem/Pine have managed to build a community around their hardware. In theory, I could buy a Meizu phone and pick up its PostMa
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by coffeecat 5y ago
The newest car I've ever owned was a 2005 model, so at the risk of sounding ridiculous: Why do cars have cellular radios built-in? Just for the GPS, or for actual communication?
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by coffeecat 5y ago
> Not sure how a subset would work in practice. What I'm imagining is a specification, defining which subset of HTML should be included, together with a <meta> tag which indicates a document's intention to be compliant wi
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by coffeecat 5y ago
Can any Gemini proponents explain what its benefits are compared to just adopting a minimalist subset of HTML? The goal of bringing back the early web (hyperlinked text documents without all the other junk) is great, but making it incompati
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by coffeecat 5y ago
I assume the parent comment is sarcasm, but unfortunately, it's the internet and therefore Poe's law applies.
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by coffeecat 5y ago
> The problem is the government allowing private corporations to poison the environment to benefit the bottom line of the corporations. I disagree with the notion that regulations are inherently harmful to corporate profits. Foreign comp
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by coffeecat 5y ago
I'm not sure I follow your logic; if you're concerned with buying a house now, then prices from years ago are irrelevant. You can speculate that prices have risen too quickly and that they'll revert back to their earlier leve
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by coffeecat 5y ago
My parents had an ozone-producing air purifier when I was a child. I liked the smell, and I thought the ozone was healthy (nobody ever told me otherwise!), so I had the habit of turning the ozone knob all the way up, sticking my face in fro
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by coffeecat 5y ago
> If chromium is open-source, why not strip it from telemetry and other “badness” and use it as a base to build a browser That's exactly how qt-webengine is packaged. And qutebrowser (based on qt-webengine) is fantastic for a volunt
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by coffeecat 5y ago
Building on my previous comment, I think it's more useful to say not that we caricaturize opposing viewpoints, but that we compress them using our own internal, lossy compression algorithms. And the original viewpoint is inaccessible t
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by coffeecat 5y ago
It's impossible for us to understand the beliefs/priorities/values of others from any perspective other than our own. Actually, my conjecture is that the only way to see things from another perspective is to internalize some
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by coffeecat 5y ago
In Warren Buffett's case, I'd say there certainly is value in scouting out profitable, well-managed companies and giving them access to a large centralized pool of capital. Probably not $100 billion worth of value, but I do think
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by coffeecat 5y ago
Reviews and anecdotes can be misleading in some cases. I bought a cheap secondhand Xerox Phaser printer, which has some horrible reviews online, and its previous owner was getting rid of it because of network connection issues. The network
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by coffeecat 5y ago
> UBI is not fixing the underlying problem. I disagree entirely. The practical and moral reason why it's difficult to fire workers is because it generally results in the worker losing his income and healthcare, leading to personal a
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by coffeecat 5y ago
I believe this is incorrect. Systemd-networkd handles layer-3 routing and some amount of layer-2 stuff (MAC addresses, etc), but it doesn't handle wifi connections. Wifi connections are handled by wpa_supplicant (the older, and still m
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by coffeecat 5y ago
I hear the term "gaslighting" used a lot nowadays. Its textbook definition is a specific form of interpersonal manipulation that occurred in a movie. But I've never been able to connect the dots between the term's textbo
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by coffeecat 5y ago
I'd be interested to learn how many biological neurons it takes to approximate one artificial neuron. Mathematically, over some finite interval, approximating y=sin(x) using a Taylor series, or approximating y=x**n using a Fourier seri
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by coffeecat 5y ago
Where's the auto-playing video that you can't get rid of, and which jumps into the sidebar and moves down along with you when you try to scroll past it?
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by coffeecat 5y ago
I think a healthcare system based on the following model could work great: * Federal government provides public health insurance to all taxpayers. * Every healthcare provider submits a list of tests/procedures they offer, and the price
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by coffeecat 5y ago
> (Life built from phonon "particles" in a planet-size crystal, anyone?) It seems unfathomable to me that life could be composed of bosonic particles, since Pauli exclusion seems to be one of the most important reasons why matt
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by coffeecat 5y ago
Everyone loves to mock the flat Earthers, but I believe the theory deserves more respect. For the typical person, who roams around on some small patch of the Earth's surface, but who isn't launching rockets or traveling between co
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by coffeecat 5y ago
I think you're on to something! Personally, after a short amount of mindfulness meditation (perhaps about 10 hours cumulatively; never more than 30 minutes per day), I began to struggle with uncontrollable awareness of bodily sensation
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by coffeecat 5y ago
What other ways do you have in mind?
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by coffeecat 5y ago
If you want your monthly payments to be low initially, and you intend to pay off the mortgage debt fully within 5 or 7 years, then a 5/1 or 7/1 ARM can be a good option.
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by coffeecat 5y ago
> Progressive people believe that society is not fair but could be. Conservatives believe it is not possible, and it's silly to even try. Having recently decided that I dislike leftist politics and that I align more with right-wing
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by coffeecat 5y ago
> I do not consider polyunsatured oils edible, and read labels to avoid them. You avoid refined oils specifically, or any foods containing poly-unsaturated fat? How about omega-3?
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by coffeecat 5y ago
> In your case, we have detected invalid traffic or activity on your account (Publisher Code: pub-********) and as a result it has been disabled. Because of this, the ability to serve and monetise through all products which depend on AdS
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by coffeecat 6y ago
If private companies can't compete with the government-run enterprise, this implies that the government-run enterprise is more efficient. And if the government-run enterprise is more efficient, why exactly should the private competitor
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by coffeecat 6y ago
Not exactly a 1-3 year timescale, but Elon Musk tweeted something about Signal earlier this month, causing SIGL (completely unrelated to the messaging service to which he was referring) to spike from ~$0.50 to $40 per share. Three weeks lat
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by coffeecat 6y ago
As a TA, I'm well aware that the students getting As are mostly collaborating and that the "lone wolf" students tend to do worse despite putting more effort in and possibly having a better understanding of the material. And I

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