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by exergy 8y ago
It's a shame what this world has come to. A part of me wanted to dive right into the witch hunt and hoped that the BBC would have posted the actual name of the academic, but then I realized that I was getting sucked into the exact same
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by exergy 8y ago
> Every time I opened up a meal delivery service meal I just felt like I was killing the environment. As you well should. How the fuck have we gotten to the point where chopping up vegetables is a task too onerous for the "I'm
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by exergy 8y ago
That's a really good point. While I would like to see the online platform/publishers be held more accountable, in this instance I don't see how the EU can do that without inevitably leading to the scenario that you talk about
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by exergy 8y ago
I cannot conceive of a "stronger" explanation for what the GP stated. What kind of good faith argument could possibly be assumed in that guy asking that maybe reexamining Redline laws isn't the worst thing. It's a vile
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by exergy 8y ago
Not at all. It wasn't a comment on how well they manage it but both Mint and Ubuntu seek to work "out of the box" to the greatest extent possible. In my opinion, they do it much better than any other distro.
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by exergy 8y ago
> But none of these seem to be different enough from the other great choices available as Ubuntu flavors Yep. "Gets out of the users way" is what a lot of Ubuntu's goals are about already.
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by exergy 8y ago
I'll take the armchair anthropologist bait. It's rampant because there are so many of us. If you see a homeless man rotting away, your heart goes out to him. If you see ten thousand of them, then...meh. Human empathy is finite unf
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by exergy 8y ago
First of all, I disagree that people _want_ to put furry cases on their phones. Too many people have walked around for too long with giant cracks on their screens that they've realised it's better to slap on a case, even with the
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by exergy 8y ago
Did you read the rest of the article? It's very well explained, and makes some really good points. Of course they're biased towards one factor above all else: repairability. It's right there in the name of the company! But ca
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by exergy 8y ago
Trouble is there are many people, me included, who would never just walk into a store and buy something. If I'm about to buy something (and there are no limits to how trivial that thing may be), chances are I've done some research
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by exergy 8y ago
Well stated. I do not see how prosecuting individuals can be a bad thing. There _must_ be a critical point of individual prosecutions becoming commonplace enough before engineers being forced to play dirty say "Fuck you motherfucker&qu
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by exergy 8y ago
Umatrix does a significant portion of what you desire. You can set global rules, so I always block Facebook. I have a separate browser for stuff like banking where I don't want to break the websites by blocking JS. As to your second po
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by exergy 8y ago
Except that it does. He mentions that the budget is the official budget, ie the on paper budget. The unaccounted for spending is 54 times that amount. It's just not on the papers
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by exergy 8y ago
Yep, like all the actions at the bottom of the screen where you could most easily reach them, unlike iOS which places the back button (gesture notwithstanding) at the top left ! One of the Windows Phone's designers had a really insigh
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by exergy 8y ago
What a myopic comment, and dripping with unwarranted vitriol. The world absolutely _should_ work that way. Companies _should_ have half a brain to realise that selling bottled water is bad for the environment, that fracking causes earthquak
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by exergy 8y ago
Holy shit, never thought I'd see Rocket Roberts on the front page of HN. I loved loved loved following him. Him and October Sky were two things that gave me a final push to take up engineering at uni. His backyard observatory is still
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by exergy 8y ago
What's with the snark? At worst, OP can reject the suggestion and choose for himself. At best, he sees a different perspective. I didn't get any negativity from the parent's comment, just a suggestion.
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by exergy 8y ago
How would you propose we do both simultaneously, though? All else being equal, I'd very much want to have both. I try to avoid big companies in all kinds of walks of life. But if I have to choose between the two options, I'd ver
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by exergy 8y ago
It's not a shell script that you will write each time a user asks for a deletion though, would it? It will be a carefully tested and automated procedure. It certainly sounds like the possibility of deleting all your users might actuall
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by exergy 8y ago
I used to work for an automotive company. The EU pollution standards were always the strictest. So we made multiple versions of our vehicles, with the cleanest ones for the European market. Even though it only saved us a few cents per vehic
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by exergy 8y ago
While I'd love to say I sympathise, I do not. The end goal is not to make life easy for small businesses. The end goal is protecting the consumer. All your remaining points seem more easily solved than the backup bit, but I do not unde
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by exergy 8y ago
Thanks for those numbers. I'm a card-carrying /r/childfree member.
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by exergy 8y ago
ublock's "content rule" feature gets a lot of use out of me for this exact reason.
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by exergy 8y ago
I'm saying we're already so far fucked up the ass that there is no hope. Nature will herself tell us it doesn't work, just like it tells people that smoking causes cancer. I wish I could be the Bill Gates brand of optimist bu
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by exergy 8y ago
> A new technology This attitude in the general public is our death knell. The only, and I do mean ONLY, solution to not fucking up the environment beyond repair is the concept of less. Less SUVs, less air travel, less fast fashion, less
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by exergy 8y ago
Sounds like he read Jeff Atwood's Programmer Bill of Rights. May his tribe increase.
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by exergy 9y ago
I do not get discourse. I've only ever come across it on Jeff's own blog, but it seems no different to Disqus. And both don't load with uMatrix without manually activating them. I don't want more Javascript in my life. I
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by exergy 9y ago
The counterbalanec to it is that Europeans, generally speaking, know how to temper it with an active lifestyle. Few people I know sit at home on the weekend in front of the TV. People are out running, cyclicing, taking part in spartan races
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by exergy 9y ago
I cannot stand his delivery. He seems awkward beyond belief, has the same exact inflection of voice at the end of every sentence, and speaks so quickly that he is almost tripping over his words and slurring his enunciation.
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by exergy 9y ago
It's a crass kind of life achievement if all of his life has lead up to adtech. I refuse to believe that there is no middle ground between what facebook is doing and what the average user would like to see them doing.

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