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by frenchy 6y ago
> For example, because of his bullshit aws certificates, this person will have the feeling of being part of a special club, and a sunk cost incentive to push for whatever possible aws solution to any problem instead of anything else. I h
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by frenchy 6y ago
Your partner might not like what that does to the apartment walls.
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by frenchy 6y ago
Part of the problem here though, is that many people don't want to pay for software if there is a free alternative, so market forces work such that anyone who tries to attempt such a thing often gets sidelined by someone else who relea
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by frenchy 6y ago
If you can devise a way of synthesizing gasoline from CO2 in the atmosphere that doesn't require a huge amount of solar energy and/or a few million years, you'll be a very popular person. It's a matter of fighting agains
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by frenchy 6y ago
> If you generally live by your own values, and act according to them Maybe you're different than the rest of us, but I imagine that most people do things from time to time that don't align with their values, either because of
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by frenchy 6y ago
Well, for one thing, the marriage party can be a lot of fun (but I agree that many people spend way too much thing). I think the event (because it is a point in time) can bring some sort of "closure" to the parents, though this is
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by frenchy 6y ago
Nature also had the luxury of not even having to try. If the creation of life on Earth had failed, we wouldn't have known about it.
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by frenchy 6y ago
The first item of your list should be KHTML, Konqueror is a browser, the rest of those are renderers.
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by frenchy 6y ago
I think a big part of the problem here is that the vast majority of the time, nobody wants to pay for security. The end result is that you end up with 2 kinds of players in this market: - "small" players like Mozzila who don'
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by frenchy 6y ago
unishark's comment was about people with minority viewpoints, not people who are part of a visible minority. For example, a woman might be the only female in a programming team, and therefore a visible minority, but her views on what g
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by frenchy 6y ago
While I think you're right in the sense of "semantic interfaces are our best hope for driving inovation", I'm not optimistic this will happen. Everything I've seen in popular desktop UX has been migrating away from
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by frenchy 6y ago
The short of it is that lighthouse is a tool produced by Google to indicate the sort of things they might penalize you for in search results. Its results might be arbitrary, but for some industries, when Google says "jump", you sa
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by frenchy 6y ago
When people talk about social media, they imply "mainstream social media as we know it today". We don't have the right words or categories to describe what we're talking about, but there's a big difference between Y
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by frenchy 6y ago
Personally, I get around this by only using apps off F-Droid. I'm sure not everyone would be happy with that solution, but it works well for me.
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by frenchy 6y ago
I think the author is suggesting that necessities of empire building in the 17-1800's were a significant driver in the adoption of modern medicine. It reads very much like a just-so story though, so I'm not sure how valuable it is
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by frenchy 6y ago
I think it's very natural to find this topic awkward if you come from a privilaged background. Basically, you've grown up being treated in a certain way, and you internalize that and think you're a valuable person because peo
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by frenchy 6y ago
Yeah, I suspect the more important function of a hotel is to isolate visitors from residents. In that case, your hotel probably (mostly) worked.
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by frenchy 6y ago
Particularly in this case, because `-v` sometimes means "print out the version number".
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by frenchy 6y ago
Not American, but we have a similar situation here, just with less political extremism. I think a part of this is that many of the issues that are important to techies are either unimportant to most voters, or the voters don't understa
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by frenchy 6y ago
That's kind of the point though. Whether you believe that decisions ought to be made by the people, or by whoever has the most money is sort of an axiomatic thing. It's not like we have any good way of testing which one is "b
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by frenchy 6y ago
I think the jist was that BrainInAJar believes that most people who get super rich do so, not by simply providing value, but by exploiting vulnerabilities in how society works so that they create a need for the value they are going to provi
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by frenchy 6y ago
It probably depends a lot on where you're from. I would be amiss to forget that this hasn't changed for a lot of people, probably the overwhelming majority of people. However, for people who work in the tertiary sector of the econ
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by frenchy 6y ago
I think this experience is surprisingly common. Modern society affords us a lot of mobility, but I don't think we realise how much it costs us in terms of stable friendships. I have a young kid, and he's still too young to really
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by frenchy 6y ago
Are there no restaurants in San Fransisco?
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by frenchy 6y ago
> Open source is hosed because a bare license is revocable at any time by the licensor. I haven't the slightest clue what you're taking about. You can change your license on future versions, but you can't retroactively cha
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by frenchy 6y ago
> Yes, morality is an opinion. Quite frankly: no, unless you subscribe to the sort of philosophy that that believes there is such thing as morality. It's an attractive philosophy, but nobody I've met has ever actually behaved t
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by frenchy 6y ago
> Strange to see the American Revolution called leftist The American Revolution was absolutely leftist in the traditional sense right as "support of the monarchy" or conservative and left as "royal abolitionists" or p
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by frenchy 6y ago
> only if you hadn't travelled and realised that everyone thinks that, but doesn't agree with you For what it's worth, I don't think this is true. There are a good number of places in the world were people of differen
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by frenchy 6y ago
So I read those, and at least according to the WHO document, it seems to be the case that while viral RNA is detectable in a non-aersolized state in the air, they haven't been able to find any cases of this causing infection (See secti
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by frenchy 6y ago
Unfortunately, you can't just magic something from a waste product into a resource, particularly something like CO2, due to the second law of thermodynamics. Carbon fixation is endothermic. It requires a lot of energy, and very specifi

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