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by doe88 6y ago
https://politicaldictionary.com/words/friday-news-dump/
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On friday PM. Classy.
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I guess I'm old school, it will seem crazy for some, but I simply don't use a dedicated podcast player, I track all my podcasts through RSS feeds in a dedicated RSS reader's instance.
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by doe88 6y ago
Agreed, France at least (which I know best, being french) is far from being a model of virtue on free speech. There are numerous laws and ever expanding restrictions against free speech.
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by doe88 6y ago
Are you kidding?!! He is at least very active against gerrymandering [1]. [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/09/arnold-...
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by doe88 6y ago
Exactly. Objectively this is bad. It makes me think of sometimes Youtube review videos I encounter, where the author instead of reviewing themselves the products display images or other bits of videos about the products from elsewhere. I do
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by doe88 6y ago
Technically from 2019 but heard it this year, it's 1984 (the year not the book) [1] an outstanding episode from the excellent Theory of Everything podcast [2] by Benjamin Walker. As bonus you also have an episode about the book 19
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by doe88 6y ago
Sure, I use this one https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/save-webp-as-...
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by doe88 6y ago
I guess I will need yet another new add-on in Firefox to download images as PNG or JPG (as I currently need to do for WebP).
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by doe88 6y ago
I think the real advantage of Apple so far is to have the kind of volumes and margins with iphones to be able to have privilegied access to TSMC fabs and processes, and therefore now it will automatically trickle down on Macs and their new
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by doe88 6y ago
Are you sure the Jam is supported? It seems to me the Sansa Clip Jam != Sansa Clip and the former is not supported at least according to [1]: Sansa Clip Sport / Clip Jam / Clip Sport Go / Clip Sport Plus These
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by doe88 6y ago
> Living in Portland was also the first time I felt noticed for being in a mixed-race marriage. Somehow, I can help but invariably notice the lack of mixed-races relationships in US movies et tv series, even to this day where diversity r
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by doe88 6y ago
What's not well known is that actually are hybrids technologies used in F1, e.g. MGU-H and MGU-K components.
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If I remember correctly, he had written a quite modern webserver in Python for its time et it became the basis of Reddit, or something like that. Anyway, I've always associated Aaron to Reddit, from the start.
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Yes. Compassion above all.
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Everything is nationalistic and/or political. Even the ownership of the Mont Blanc's summit is disputed. Frenchs think it is French, italians think it is Italian.
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Meanwhile the cooperation in the opposite direction doesn't seem so smooth https://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2020-09-10/us-demand...
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Exactly. Yesterday I was listening to this article [1] and not to excuse or legitimate these awful groups, but these are the kinds of overreach I think may directly feed into the radicalization of the young or more disillusioned people towa
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by doe88 6y ago
Is there an official roadmap for NUCs with Tiger Lake / Xe or derivatives?
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What seems to be suggested as bigger point for then and now, is not the fact there are these types of characters ready to lie at every turn to further advance their own selfish agenda - they always will exist - but that us as individuals, c
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by doe88 6y ago
First, I think Lego are right to protect their brand and cancel this release if they think this project will be attacked by some groups. Not worth it. However, on the merit, I think it is a shame, it's a fine piece of equipment, presen
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by doe88 6y ago
On another dimension it's maybe somehow a dig from The New Yorker to the NYT , there seem to be bad blood between them (e.g. Ben Smith's article on Ronan Farrow's writings).
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by doe88 6y ago
Ah! I thought of buying one and using it as bike computer on my bike, do you think the screen brightness would be an issue for this use case?
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I wouldn't fault them for that, I've observed some sites most likely are gaming the system by detecting and providing Google bots with artificially lower prices so that they would appear in indexes summaries and then when you acce
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> Interesting that this rejection came out in the same week, maybe the same day, as the EU opened its anti-trust investigations into the company. Day of reckoning is coming. Monopolistic per se or not I think it's their greed and hu
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by doe88 6y ago
Conscious of this issue I always take time to search (it's not always straightforward) the wikipedia link and click to go to the wikipedia page to somehow not endorse Google's behavior scraping data they do not own and exposing ev
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So if I understand correctly, the kind of attack enabled by this manipulation is to provide a way for non-passport holders to pass custom controls by using the legitimate passport of the person they morphed their picture with. Is there any
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by doe88 7y ago
Magic Radio as well, at least according to this article https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/feb/04/magic-r...
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Corollary: it becomes more and more difficult to open doors and get out of vehicles in shrinking parking spots designed only few years ago (at least where I live in Europe).
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It's like New Yorker profiles and longforms, there is a well established structure to these kind of articles. I can't find it anymore but one time I think I had followed a link on HN to a page explaining this type of writing, it

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