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SFO bans sale of water in plastic bottles(sfgate.com)
2 points by comboy 7y ago|0 comments
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by comboy 7y ago
Now I want to listen to it. Why not put it somewhere on the Internet? Maybe it will bring some joy to a few more people. Worst case scenario it will get ignored (it will get one listen from me though).
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by comboy 7y ago
Why use sail then? You can just shoot your photon the opposite way.
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by comboy 7y ago
This kind of technology had been demonstrated many years ago and many people around the world had been watching it at the time[1]. 1. https://i.imgur.com/VL0Q9hT.gif
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by comboy 7y ago
You seem to be defending PK cryptography instead of OpenPGP.
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by comboy 7y ago
It may not matter to you, for me it represents more than 10 years during which I've put thousands of hours into it. Apart from that, an internet forum doesn't seem like a ridiculously obscure edge case.
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by comboy 7y ago
If I had a website about programming and it had a forum part is it purely personal? What if is it just comment section? What if I had ads to cover server costs vs when I don't have them now? I closed the website because I don't kn
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by comboy 7y ago
Not really. If you have a personal website with analytics (even your own), suddenly you need to display some cookie warning. If you allow comments all of a sudden you need to follow GDPR. Understanding it may require more time that you were
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by comboy 7y ago
Sidechains allow you to migrate to a completely different system without losing the storage of value property.
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by comboy 7y ago
I'm usually coding for probably even shorter time periods because I'm taking some breaks, but when I'm consumed by something that's all I'm thinking about even when doing some other tasks (eating, shower, groceries
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by comboy 7y ago
> I haven't figured out what to optimise for People are optimization functions. Trying to define it as happiness or whatever other complex formula won't work because it quickly goes meta. Its output becomes just one of your inp
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by comboy 7y ago
Do the thing that is more interesting to you than anything else.
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by comboy 7y ago
0.06
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by comboy 7y ago
I should have written "period".
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by comboy 7y ago
I'm too late, but yes, it is not easy but it definitely seems doable: http://comboy.pl/wot.html I'm sorry it's a bit long, TL;DR you need to be explicit about people you trust. Those people do the same an the
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by comboy 7y ago
It is used for several purposes, the most frequent of which is to mark the end of a declaratory sentence. (why are we doing this?)
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by comboy 7y ago
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by comboy 7y ago
Sure, but there are different kind of mistakes. Surgeon can make a mistake, but it's a different kind of mistake if instead of a surgeon, a plumber cuts the patient with a kitchen knife. I agree it's a difficult problem and it&#x2
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by comboy 7y ago
> unless you're sure you that can afford making these kinds of mistakes, don't provide a service on the internet DOT sounds good
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by comboy 7y ago
It's a different thing but I've had some fun with https://tonedear.com/ training my imperfect pitch.
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by comboy 7y ago
It's relevant also if you are interested in creating music and not specifically in synths because it very clearly explains many controls that you will find in popular music software.
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by comboy 7y ago
Lack of language improvement. Sure, you can do anything with macros, but then when you open some random open source library it may be using different macros (or macros that are named the same way but act differently) than those that you use
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by comboy 7y ago
I don't understand, can you elaborate? What difference does it make if a duplicate is spotted by a human vs by a machine?
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by comboy 7y ago
> But as the weeks went on, the video continued to reappear in his queue (..) They kept reposting it again and again and again. Seems like it should be pretty "easy" to spot similar videos and audio (even after some modificatio
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by comboy 7y ago
Huh, indeed, factfulnessquiz.com seems to be selecting wrong answer as correct even though they list correct answer correctly on http://factfulnessquiz.com/answers Pretty serious given that there are only 13 questions and t
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by comboy 7y ago
Oh, I didn't realize it shows answers right away. Previous version didn't do that. 9/13 would have been a great score. edit: I've changed the link to a test that doesn't mark correct answers right away, previous lin
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by comboy 7y ago
Poverty decrease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility Well it's a simplification. Better education also correlates with lower fertility. And yes, I'm not showing causation. But anti-conception
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by comboy 7y ago
Related to that, I highly recommend Factfulness[1]. You can try to answer 13 a/b/c questions here[2]. Most educated people score lower than if they would have just chosen answers randomly. It's really hard to discuss populati
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by comboy 7y ago
I can't imagine reaching those without "applying torque to the steering wheel" (or straight blocking it which is much worse).
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by comboy 7y ago
It would be more expensive to make and I doubt many people are willing to pay extra to have less functionality that's not upgrade'able and more expensive to maintain. Knobs and switches are really (relatively) expensive, not even

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