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721.
by forinti 3y ago
Someone will deepfake a scandal. There will even be a fake celebrity magazine with racy pictures.
722.
by forinti 3y ago
I upvote stories that are important to me; those that are just interesting I rarely upvote.
723.
by forinti 3y ago
This is how the militias started in Rio de Janeiro. It will get out of hand if nothing is done.
724.
by forinti 3y ago
I find it interesting that house ads don't yet include a topographic map or simple elevation indicator, but I really do expect this to soon become standard. I know I wouldn't buy a house without checking this out first.
725.
by forinti 3y ago
LinkedIn positivity seems a bit artifical to me. Everybody is passionate about their jobs and seems so happy to be laid off on Christmas Eve because it will lead to better things. Of course it's just personal marketing, but I still fin
726.
by forinti 3y ago
Acorn MOS allowed an extra 16 banks of sidways RAM, so you could get up to 256KB extra RAM, but you would need to buy an extra board. The B+ models (64/128KB) also had an extra 32KB of Shadow RAM, 20KB of which shadowed the address spa
727.
by forinti 3y ago
America kicked away its own ladder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha-Joon_Chang#Kicking_Away_the... I think Reagan and Thatcher started to believe the stories the central economies told the peripheral economies.
728.
by forinti 3y ago
The US did allow the Yugo to be sold on their soil, but probably because they knew it was crap and couldn't compete with the locals.
729.
by forinti 3y ago
I have a personal anecdote on this subject. A long time ago I worked at a bank and I had to calculate a large number of accounts regarding agricultural loans. These were state sponsored loans. When I finished my task (this was a Java job),
730.
by forinti 3y ago
I don't get this love for old PCs either. I can understand the love for an 8 bit or an Amiga, but old PCs are just dull. To be honest I didn't even like them in the 80s.
731.
by forinti 3y ago
I once got a dressing down for clearing someone's browser history. Instead of using bookmarks, this person relied on the browser's history.
732.
by forinti 3y ago
Manufacturers make things difficult to repair, use nonstandard components and tools that you can't get from a third party, they glue things together in such a way that you have to have break it to get inside, they take away your warran
733.
by forinti 3y ago
I have a 2016 Fit and had a first generation Fit before that. They are the most reliable cars I've ever had. I'm a fan of the Toyota Yaris too. It's such a shame they were discontinued.
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by forinti 3y ago
A big monitor (27") is better than two monitors.
735.
by forinti 3y ago
The best method I found was listening to youtube videos about philosophy, especially Kant. And rain videos also work.
736.
by forinti 3y ago
It's one thing to rob someone, it's quite another to ask for five bob to get out of the way.
737.
by forinti 3y ago
It's in Portuguese, though: http://alquerubim.blogspot.com/2016/11/o-caos-imposto-pela-o...
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by forinti 3y ago
A few years ago I wrote a short story on how people would force cars to stop in order to extort money from the passengers. I thought such a thing would first happen in Rio. It's inevitable, whatever the reason: if the car won't ru
739.
by forinti 3y ago
No, but the financial loss can be just as bad and sometimes many times larger.
740.
by forinti 3y ago
They still hadn't had to ponder the possibility of it being illegal to hack stuff (you think) you own. The law expands to allow capitalism to grow.
741.
by forinti 3y ago
Surely he must have published articles in English.
742.
by forinti 3y ago
I always disable rsyslog too. Tell me about tmpfs: where do you use it?
743.
by forinti 3y ago
The voting is not done online. When voting stops, the machines are taken to an office and the votes are copied to the tallying system.
744.
by forinti 3y ago
If you get a normal cat, not on of those weird breeds with short legs or flat faces, they are great athletes and terrific hunters. I have a couple of cats that are quite old: about 16 years. The male spends most of the day on the bed, but h
745.
by forinti 3y ago
In a way, they have, especially Disney, through IP laws. They have been granted protections which are not really fostering innovation and have just turned into rent seeking.
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by forinti 3y ago
> It’s rude to put someone in a position where they have to say no to you This made me think about a small aspect of Brazilian culture. If someone is selling something expensive like a house or a car, they will probably get mad at you fo
747.
by forinti 3y ago
One thing about Spinoza I find incredible is his description of how god must be a substance that permeates all nature and how god always and everywhere behaves the same way. It takes right to my Science class in school: the laws of nature a
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by forinti 3y ago
That's the Law of Large Numbers working. A friend of mine won a small but not insignificant amount in a lottery and then "reinvested" it in the lottery and, as expected, lost it all.
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by forinti 3y ago
Not a "win" in the financial aspect of the game: "... they matched just two balls on three of the tickets, the reward being three lucky dip tries on a subsequent lottery, each of which came to nothing. Since a ticket costs £2
750.
by forinti 3y ago
The first thing I ever wrote in Perl was a CGI script that printed out a form in Postscript. I wrote ps to draw boxes and fit the text the user had entered. It wasn't pretty to mix perl and ps, and I don't think I have ever writte

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