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by fruffy 6y ago
I only use Thunderbird on all my devices for all my different email addresses. No other client. Happy with it. Also works nicely for dual-booting and sharing a config between Windows and Linux. One feature I miss is sync. Something like Fir
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by fruffy 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity#Mechanics I would like to avoid devolving into an argument about semantics. My original point is that nothing about the original throwaway line is wrong per se or indicates t
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by fruffy 6y ago
Stop this please. Herd immunity is not a well-defined term [1]. Their definition is just as valid as yours. "i.e. the point at which the rate of new infections is stable" is a perfectly fine assessment of herd immunity. [1] https:
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by fruffy 6y ago
This is great, thank you for sharing. I really treasure this game.
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by fruffy 6y ago
I do not know why this writing is always upvoted. I find the blog insufferable. It has this kind of style which makes grand narratives about minor nuisances and seems to warp what really happened. HN loves it for some reason.
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by fruffy 6y ago
It's a simple calling and messaging app without the baggage of Facebook integration. That is all people wanted. It is now redundant but that was not the case 10 years ago. People just stick with it since there is little incentive to ad
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by fruffy 6y ago
The founder has some controversial views on how to develop the product, this includes more cloud integration. https://old.reddit.com/r/git/comments/59j0yq/gitkraken_is_no... On top of that GitKraken is c
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by fruffy 6y ago
GitKraken has been a godsend, I have been really spoiled by it. Managing big repositories has become a breeze thanks to the visualization techniques it uses. If only the company behind it weren't so questionable about their privacy and
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by fruffy 7y ago
I had to make a comment because I disagree so strongly with this sentiment. I am biased of course because I do not like Twitter in the first place, but I genuinely believe Twitter has made this crisis worse than it is. Twitter naturally &qu
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by fruffy 7y ago
Yes, I was not born when the original German translations were released, so I cannot comment on the reactions in the time. But I can also not recall any media controversy around the comic other than the initial publisher mishap, that is why
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by fruffy 7y ago
I think you are talking about the first publisher who tried to insert controversial elements into Asterix. He was somewhat of a nationalist. His license got pulled and the comics got re-released in the normal format. Those were two differen
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by fruffy 7y ago
>or at least a very us-centric view Exactly. Also the black characters in Asterix were not "black", they were Numidians or Nubians. They were characters with agency like any other, the Mansion of Gods comic is the best example.
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by fruffy 7y ago
There are still subcultures around, too. At least on reddit there is /r/LTB_iel which is a spoof of /r/me_irl: https://old.reddit.com/r/LTB_iel/top/ There are a lot of jokes in those that
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by fruffy 7y ago
That's funny, I am German and that comic book was always one of my favourites. I never made the connection that it was supposed to be demeaning or that there was a controversy around it. I always took it as being cheeky like Asterix in
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by fruffy 7y ago
I also loved the Spirou comics. Le Petit Spirou was very "educational" as a kid. Agree about the comic book culture, the only people I meet here in the US that have read Belgian comics seem to be other Europeans. But on the other
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by fruffy 7y ago
I rather consider Wuhan to be the textbook case of a mass-panic in the face of an unknown virus. What I am primarily concerned about is the people's reaction and the economic effects which seem unprecedented (at least in recent decades
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by fruffy 7y ago
Where? Or how?
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by fruffy 7y ago
>The economic damage is the damage caused by the reaction, not by the virus itself Exactly. I wonder what would have happened if this entire virus was treated similarly to the seasonal flu.
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by fruffy 7y ago
I do not think I have ever witnessed a reaction so extreme to a disease that is comparably mild (I understand that the elderly and immunocompromised are at higher risk, I am referring to young, able-bodied people). This applies to Germany a
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by fruffy 7y ago
What do you mean? Gucci Gang is a pretty well known hip-hop track liked by the "youth". I am not surprised it was recommended to your son since most of his peers probably have watched it.
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by fruffy 7y ago
>yet mysteriously waffles on the actual value they provide in exchange I honestly cannot really think of one. For example, conferences organized by ACM still cost an enormous amount of money to just attend and largely break even by accep
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by fruffy 7y ago
There is a stark difference between the lifestyle in American and, say, European cities. There are less public places or specific establishments for people to hang out. Sidewalks are small and restaurants rarely offer seating outside where
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by fruffy 7y ago
Well, the problem with anecdotal evidence is that it is unreliable and often subject to bias. It is just not very useful to a reader because they are missing both the context of the experience and the political predisposition of the writer.
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by fruffy 7y ago
I always wonder about the person that is responsible for designing these kind of schemes. What is their daily job like? What are they thinking about their work? It might even be fun because you are essentially competing against ad-blockers
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by fruffy 7y ago
As another person to whom poetry does nothing this is also a good example. I listen to a lot of Hip Hop, but the lyricism was never part of the appeal for me. I view the rapper's voice as merely another instrument. This includes the fl
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by fruffy 7y ago
I do not know. Those are hardcore players so that was expected. A lot of people are looking for the community feeling and a slower playing pace which does not focus on min-maxing. Classic can definitely give you that.
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by fruffy 7y ago
My bad, I mistook the character transfer with the faction change service. Still, I remember there being a push for it which seems to be confirmed by the wiki: "initially, there was a 6 month cooldown between character transfers. In lat
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by fruffy 7y ago
I'd disagree that Wrath of the Lich King was pure Blizzard, in fact I'd claim the final patches of Burning Crusade marked the beginning of the end for many players. IIrc, monetization efforts such as faction transfers[0,1] and pet
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by fruffy 7y ago
I was not able to find concrete sources but I think that has more to do with the expensive pricing of iPhones and Apple's former image as a somewhat invasive and consumerist company. I remember there being a decent amount of distrust a
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by fruffy 7y ago
I have a Spotify subscription but still download music because I prefer owning a library instead of just renting it. However, pirating is becoming harder and harder. Because of Spotify and other service participaton in piracy has declined

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