darkpuma

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by darkpuma 7y ago
Decapitation and gallows with a proper drop height were both designed to be fair, in the sense that everybody killed would get the standard execution experience. It was meant to be an improvement to the status quo of plebian criminals gett
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I'm not saying it's a great system that never goes wrong, but with the seal of approval from PG you're swimming against the tide if you're trying to change how people vote on HN.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "I don't agree with this opinion so I will downvote this comment" If that bothers you, then HN is not the site for you. Downvotes for disagreeing has received the thumb of approval from PG[0]. Upvotes are for agree
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Ongoing is as recent as it gets.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Try creating a new account through Tor, there is a good chance you'll see it then.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Let's say somebody gets served their beverage when they sit down, then neglect it until after they're doing eating. In a cold beverage, I'd want a straw to last at least an hour. I don't think that should be hard to ac
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I can't say I'm a cup expert, but I'm quite sure that paper cups (or straws) can be made waterproof if impregnated with wax.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
They just need more wax then. Cups made from paper work perfectly well; so should straws.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Can you establish that such a "vicious hatred" even exists?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> " like insisting to poorly speak Mandarin on some QA panel with Chinese students and such." That's peanuts; check out this: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/1191
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by darkpuma 7y ago
In that configuration, would your "real" init.el file still exist? Is the org-mode init invoked from the 'real' init.el?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
ReCAPTCHAv3. It will differ from ReCAPTCHAv2 in one important respect: it will no longer ask you any questions, meaning it will no longer give you the opportunity to appeal it's snap judgement of you. https://developers.go
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by darkpuma 7y ago
If demand for alcohol is not immutable then demand for alcohol is not truly inelastic as your "third option" suggests.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The big question is how did 13% of the British public become so naive?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Alcohol as a party drug now competes with other party drugs in many markets. Particularly cannabis. This is one reason performance of advertising bans might differ from region to region. Cannabis as a party drug has a pretty broad adv
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by darkpuma 7y ago
All good points. Furthermore it's easy to consider the possibility that in different cultural contexts the consumer demand for alcohol is driven by different factors. It may be the case that in one region alcohol consumption is driv
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Sugar addict in next plane seat in long haul flight is definitely "second hand sugar". What? How? They can as much sugar as they like, none of it is getting into me. No airline has ever force-fed me sugar.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I have. There are a ton glass packages in my fridge and pantry right now that came from grocery stores. Maybe keep your eyes peeled next time you go to the store and look for yourself. Mustard, olives, oil, beer! , pickles, apple sauce,
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by darkpuma 7y ago
That it doesn't work in Russia is far from proof that it couldn't work elsewhere. Edit: Prohibition on advertising is not prohibition on alcohol. I reject the relevance of this suggested equivalency. There is no risk of organi
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by darkpuma 7y ago
That's simply not going to happen because there is no "second hand sugar" scenario. Even alcohol, which is incredibly destructive to third parties by any measure (domestic abuse, drunk driving, etc), hasn't successfully
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "There's a reason society went from using glass for every container to plastic." We didn't though. Glass is still the standard packaging for a wide range of products.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "I encourage you to go to a flat earth meeting or conference." Selection bias. Of course the trolls wouldn't bother going to such a meeting. The proportion of true believers at a conference says nothing about the pr
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Maybe the execution is shit but the idea behind it is interesting enough that you'll pick up some community developers that will code you something for free. Not applicable in this particular case I think...
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Lots of things come in glass already and it doesn't really seem to be a big deal. Spaghetti sauce, pickles, etc. Nobody thinks twice about any of that.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Wouldn't increasing voter turnout be an upside?" There are better, less drastic, ways of making voting more accessible. Washington state's system of mailing everybody a ballot works pretty well. I usually d
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Presumably it was the principle of the matter. Bait and switch generally being seen in a negative light...
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Something I've noticed is that small bookstores, particularly used bookstores, cram in way more books per square foot of floor space. Books from floor to ceiling, often with so many shelves crammed into the building that you wonder if
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "we want [...] to be able to vote electronically etc." Speak for yourself. I see no upsides.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
If you're open to culling their population, a large bucket filled with water, with bird seed floating on top, is very good at drowning squirrels.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It's not just the upfront cost either, but once you bury the cables all future cable upgrades and replacements will be more expensive too. Burying cables nevertheless makes sense in some places, particularly dense areas. For areas wi

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