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by fouc 5y ago
I think it's more about the fact it was such a new market, people could have a lot more fun with it and "mass appeal" didn't matter nearly as much. It was still fringe, not everyone had a computer at home or in their po
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by fouc 5y ago
You missed the part how it was about the conflict of interest. "We're on the same side" wasn't really true. Especially at the higher level, Mozilla was complicit in accepting money from a competitor. Make no mistake, th
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by fouc 5y ago
I assume a lot of that is from people that already got rich with crypto in the first place.. Also, the average price is based on the current value I'm guessing rather than the value at the time of purchase?
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by fouc 5y ago
cryptokitties is from before NFTs came about isn't it?
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by fouc 5y ago
I have a strong suspicion that aristocrat homeschooling would still beat out public education system in many ways.. For example, public education system doesn't particularly touch on social skills, etiquette, rulership/leadership,
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by fouc 5y ago
I struggle to use Discord precisely because of the UX. and I say that with years of IRCing in a terminal with a black background. I vastly prefer Slack's theme. Discord's dark & light themes are too hard on my eyes. They feel
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by fouc 5y ago
I imagine the macbook keyboard is fine in this situation because ctrl key is still directly below the shift key.
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by fouc 5y ago
> Thus, the Lindy effect proposes the longer a period something has survived to exist or be used in the present, it is also likely to have a longer remaining life expectancy. Makes sense! I was also thinking there's a related rule -
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by fouc 5y ago
I do my ad blocking at the /etc/hosts level. Pihole is also good too.
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by fouc 5y ago
If we can enable it for our own purposes then that's big. Doesn't need to be on by default.
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by fouc 5y ago
Stop supporting Mozilla. Stop supporting Chrome or any Chromium-based browsers. What now? I'm already using Safari but it's not cross-platform.
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by fouc 5y ago
Just a reminder - seeking the lowest O doesn't always improve performance. Sometimes the startup cost for a lower O algorithm is too much.
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by fouc 5y ago
If the real work is done remotely then the work done at office isn't as important.
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by fouc 5y ago
Does anyone happen to know how to stop firefox from deleting failed/incomplete downloads?
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by fouc 5y ago
To be clear, I'm talking about the places that are visibly on the map. You can scroll around and find cafes and hotels that simply don't get returned the moment you send a search query. Places that are visibly there but not retur
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by fouc 5y ago
Interesting bits: * “the Russians have the ability to expect and endure a tremendous amount of suffering”.. “they have made suffering a virtue” * “global recession is not really a problem to Russia since they are in a recession all the tim
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by fouc 5y ago
Enjoying the notion of cartels as protostates. Makes a lot of sense!
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by fouc 5y ago
I notice this especially in Google Maps. Sometimes I want to search for things like "cafe" or "hotel" and get a list of all the actual matches nearby. Even for buildings that show up on the map itself when you zoom in.
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by fouc 5y ago
I find this the easiest variation to read: return isA && A || isB && B || isC && C || D; Am I weird?
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Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review(cold-takes.com)
1 points by fouc 5y ago|1 comments
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by fouc 5y ago
How did you avoid eating more to compensate for missing out on the other 2 meals a day?
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by fouc 5y ago
video TL;DW: seems like it's basically safe to make an assumption that the reported calories in food could be 10%+ higher than expected, especially among packaged food. Larger restaurant chains like McDonald's and Subway seem to
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by fouc 5y ago
People that maintain a low weight throughout life and eat 3 meals a day probably eat smaller meals than your 2 meals.
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by fouc 5y ago
I've always understood "Father of <some industry>" to be fluid, and usually there's more than one possible figure. Turing, or Babbage, or Shannon, etc could all be called that. One organization thinks Turing is th
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by fouc 5y ago
How is that possible? Leadership already steal from their citizens anyways.
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by fouc 5y ago
Sanctions are a step down from going to war. Are you advocating that sanctions should be skipped, and we should just go straight to war? Sanctions are just one of the few tools in the toolbox that can be used to punish a country's lea
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by fouc 5y ago
2 week notice is common in US & Canada. I usually give 1-2 month's notice but I've been told it's generally not necessary.
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by fouc 5y ago
In addition to that, it's a serious abuse of power & breach of trust on the doctor's part. Doctors are relied on to be ethical.
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by fouc 5y ago
It wasn't that it was too many words.. it just sounded patronizing. Less words would've avoided that issue.
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by fouc 5y ago
Why not just say "Wow! I'd like to hear more!" ?

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