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by dictum 7y ago
If you want jail time, insurance fraud is probably a tad quicker.
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by dictum 7y ago
Here's a certainly not contemplative answer which would suit HN best: If money is no problem and you've correctly narrowed your problems down to your looks (here's where you might be wrong), plastic surgery is very effective.
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by dictum 7y ago
Isn't the average server more likely to sustain 100Mb/s for 5 seconds than 1Gb for half a second?
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by dictum 7y ago
This can work for smaller areas. Tourists get to see the result of preservation because can experience almost the full extent of the territory. However, for a larger area of which most parts are boring, unsafe and hard to reach, it's h
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The Ravaging of Amazonia(nytimes.com)
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by dictum 7y ago
Paywalled (FT) https://www.ft.com/content/f791bbc6-c2c3-11e9-a8e9-296ca6651... > “The fact is that laws and regulations that were enacted and used for the past 10 or 20 years were too restrictive to the development
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by dictum 7y ago
The Minister of the Environment of Brazil tweeted the same article. https://mobile.twitter.com/rsallesmma/status/116526244201383... (Yesterday, he said the Amazon should be monetized . With no other business plan
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by dictum 7y ago
Of ads in documentation and installation messages, I have the same opinion as ads in websites: performance, resource usage (network, computing, memory) and tracking are what bother me; subtle, non-misleading, generic ads don't. I'
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by dictum 7y ago
> perhaps Brazil should be paid from a global fund to not cut down the rain forest It used to be. Bolsonaro called it "bribery", and said Merkel should mind her own business (Germany was the main benefactor). https:/&#x2F
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by dictum 7y ago
This long form article goes into way more detail than anyone not related to Brazil might care. It's gaslighting as a political strategy: https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/materia/the-environment-as-an...
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by dictum 7y ago
Sickle cell anemia wasn't imposed via law.
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by dictum 7y ago
I'm particularly puzzled by why so many electric kettles are made of plastic. Unfortunately, the non-plastic one I bought two years ago has already died, so maybe there's something to the casing.
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by dictum 7y ago
It takes a rare degree of micromanaging to run a $10b startup (for an appropriate comparison to Domino's) and worry when it's sued for some accessibility issue.
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by dictum 7y ago
> For me, a teo liter bottle of water, frozen and stood in a bowl Well, now I know another person on HN who's done that.
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by dictum 7y ago
I haven't read the study so I'm just going with a hunch: could it be that the people polled understood "Democrats" and "Republicans" to mean representatives and other politicians holding office?
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by dictum 7y ago
I'm in the same demo, and I wasn't aware of ellipses being seen as an habit of old people. Biden's (or likely, his team's) usage is atypical; ellipses are usually only used when you're citing somebody, to indicate u
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by dictum 7y ago
Where do politics belong?
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by dictum 7y ago
Talent isn't inherited, money is. Inheritance usually starts from birth, as children are raised on their parents' money, so they get superb schooling, opportunities to fail and learn, and entry to reserved clubs/credentials&#
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by dictum 7y ago
Though my metaphor is hyperbole, I can't stop thinking that this is the same as raising the standard of living of two homeless individuals by paying a small amount (perhaps charged per distance) and asking them to carry you around to
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by dictum 7y ago
32GB workstations are the exception, not the norm. I'd wager most people are using Slack from computers with 8GB RAM (e.g. every 13 inch Macbook Pro that isn't built to order) and at least one browser open at all times. (I'm
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by dictum 7y ago
They're side effects, but not entirely unintended . If the head of that state (and party elites etc) don't meet the requests of the sanctioning states, the ensuing poverty can mobilize the impoverished masses. This can backfire a
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by dictum 7y ago
Except for children and the infirm nobody is owed food prepared by others, but I find it hard to reconcile the need to live as frugally as people who went through the Great Depression with the idea that we're in an age of unmatched pro
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by dictum 7y ago
Poor people experience even deeper existential crises, but they usually don't get to write novels or essays in influential publications. If given the opportunity to do so, the words and metaphors they'd choose would be alien to mo
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by dictum 7y ago
You point to a hypothetical alternative: "instead of everyone". The underlying assumption is that, when you (and characters you do not object to) were portrayed in mass media entertainment, everyone was covered too. The target a
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by dictum 7y ago
Assuming the companies involved do not give a damn (I'm not sure exactly about what , so I'll assume LGBT and non-white people and/or rights), they (and their friends and families) still find themselves represented in a work
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by dictum 7y ago
I can't use `--ProfileManager` or launch a new instance with a named profile (`-P 'ProfileName'`). Instead of opening a new window with the requested profile, it opens a new window of the same profile that's already runn
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by dictum 7y ago
"Insulting" is the best bang for the buck as far as non-denial denials go: unlike "absurd" or "ridiculous", it comes with an implicit request for an apology from the other party.
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by dictum 7y ago
I agree on principle, but as an end user, I must selfishly disagree. I find life after Cloudflare to be better than before it. There's a Cloudflare location right next to me, and that improves latency across many of the websites I use,
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by dictum 7y ago
One of the hallmarks of privilege is being so far removed from a problem that you cannot empathize with the people who suffer from it.
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by dictum 7y ago
> post-modernist, nihilistic garbage This argument predates postmodernism by two centuries. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_trap If anything, postmodernism wouldn't acknowledge a way to classify peop

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