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by fiblye 6y ago
It’s not as useful because without a charger I can only use it until the battery dies. It’s like selling a car without tires, saying it’s a big savings for the company while not changing the price.
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by fiblye 6y ago
This is somewhat common throughout east Asia. Setting a phone or purse down to reserve a table is something I've in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and even Vietnam. There's less of an idea that criminals will be deterred from crime because
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by fiblye 6y ago
I mean, taking steps to deter a country from annexing or triggering a war makes sense. But the sanctions against Iran are mainly based on old grudges. Pretty much nobody even knows why they exist beyond “they’re bad.”
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by fiblye 6y ago
Is “risking” the right word here? It’s like saying jumping in a volcano has a risk of death. It’s going to happen. It’s just a matter of how soon and painful it’ll be.
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by fiblye 6y ago
>Were you discussing high politics in the 5th grade or something? Yes? We talked about the news and recent events in class around that time. It wasn't anything profound, but our classes definitely talked about it. This was also in t
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by fiblye 6y ago
Now imagine how much worse it'd be if more people were homeschooled and not exposed to opposing views. If their only source of information was a parent who believed in strange conspiracy theories and only associated with friends and fa
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by fiblye 6y ago
Every single thing in this lengthy article comes together to make one clear point: they had no plan at any step of the way and just tried to BS it all, and they've done it several times around the world. Blaming this on lazy Americans
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by fiblye 6y ago
So this might be an extreme example, but if the people running CatTalk become legally liable for the content, would they be held responsible for someone planning and carrying out a crime on their site? Because that seems like an easy law to
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by fiblye 6y ago
Most of the time, information shutdowns like this are targeted at antivax, flat earth, and holocaust denial claims.
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by fiblye 6y ago
With things like quantum tunneling where particles cross barriers that they probably shouldn't, and distant objects in space moving faster away from us the farther they get, one idea I've had is that naively implementing the unive
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by fiblye 6y ago
> What are they supposed to do? America's, and particularly the west coast's, homeless problem is uniquely bad. It'd probably be worthwhile to just scrap whatever they've been trying these past few decades and adoptin
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by fiblye 6y ago
> Vietnam has the lowest rate of adult obesity yet is the 8th most sedentary population in the world. I'd like to see a citation for this claim and how it was measured. People in Vietnam seemed much more up and active than people i
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by fiblye 6y ago
Do you keep it inside a purse or in a pocket with keys? I got mine on launch and have zero scratches. I've even zoned out at work and started writing on the screen with a pen a few times, but it's still perfectly smooth. I grabbed
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by fiblye 6y ago
I think it's reasonable to patent the method of producing the nanobots from scratch. But if those things get loose and manage to reproduce on their own, how is the patent enforced? Is it reasonable to patent something that's self-
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by fiblye 6y ago
All farmed food today was selectively bred. Corn and wheat weren't always as palatable as they are today. Fruits are all bigger and juicier. At what point do we decide some life capable of naturally and spontaneously reproducing is pat
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by fiblye 6y ago
> They spent twelve years breeding this strain, it would suck for someone to steal it. First we need to decide whether a naturally occurring biological and agricultural process that forms the basis of human civilization is "stealing
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by fiblye 6y ago
I've dealt with this so many times. On Chrome, no captchas. On other browsers, I've literally gone through 5 minutes of fire hydrant selection with no end in sight. Sometimes it'll simply reject it and tell me to start again
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by fiblye 6y ago
I'm not too knowledgeable on the process of glass manufacturing, but I know glass takes a pretty high temperature to melt. Mega operations needed for mass manufacture might be different, but smaller scale ones usually heat things up in
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by fiblye 6y ago
I think it’s just the way American movies are produced. 80s and 90s movies are no problem for me. Starting around the 2000s I can’t pick up half of what they say. I have American friends who use subtitles for the same reason. I have no trou
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by fiblye 6y ago
I'm American and watch movies with subtitles. The audio balance is generally fucked up and there's some weird fuzziness to the sound or people suddenly start whispering only to have massive explosions and metal being torn apart 5
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by fiblye 6y ago
There's a "Show Path Bar" setting accessible from the View menu in Finder. You can see the file's path right from the Get Info menu and drag and drop it into a terminal or whatever and have the path immediately available
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by fiblye 6y ago
It’s been decades and computers still come with bloatware. Phones will likely have garbage for decades as well. If there’s a few pennies to make off doing it, companies will just do it and not leave many options.
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by fiblye 6y ago
The article is about contexts for racism differing between countries. It’s not about saying “x country is super racist.”
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by fiblye 6y ago
I don’t think trying to argue against racism while lumping an entire country of tens of millions of people together is productive.
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by fiblye 6y ago
HN gets more activity than most reddit-likes, but it stays pretty tame compared to most others. But it also lacks the general appeal that reddit has.
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by fiblye 6y ago
I've been waiting for a new alternative for over 10 years now. Loads of "new reddits" have popped up pretty frequently since then, but they've all crashed and burned. Either they can't sustain activity, or they get
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by fiblye 6y ago
So then if that claim is true, immigration is unnecessary.
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by fiblye 6y ago
Those countries have declining birth rates too. Why keep kicking the can down the road when in 50 years or less virtually no countries will be above their replacement rate? Solutions, not bandaids, are what need to be invested in.
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by fiblye 6y ago
I'd be very surprised if some grammar wasn't taught at all. Formal writing in the UK would be in an absolute state of disarray if this were true. The US teaches most terms. It's pretty important to know what prepositions are,
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by fiblye 6y ago
The argument of this article is basically "The problem with plastic waste in the ocean isn't as obvious in countries with lower population densities. Other countries make more. That means plastic is fine and it's just a 1970s

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