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by gilrain 10mo ago
> were literally worth their weight in gold (or silver, copper, bronze, whatever), so it was probably easier to pay with foreign currency than we might assume Are you sure you know what the coin paid you is made of? A merchant of the tim
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by gilrain 10mo ago
It’s a natural extension of the older term. “A [whatever] dropped right in front of me” conveys the original and new meanings just fine. “A [whatever] was dropped in Japan. Where is [whatever]?” “In Japan, for one.”
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by gilrain 10mo ago
> Anyway, sorry for triggering you with the first bold statement! Do you imagine someone to be triggered any time they correct you? Like, a sort of trigger you respond with whether accurate or not?
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by gilrain 10mo ago
> Not only they make my browsing experience a LOT worse No, I did (metaphorically, for the websites I control). And I did it because otherwise those sites are fully offline or unusable thanks to the modern floods of unfilterable scrapers
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by gilrain 11mo ago
How does this compare to standard ABC? More capable, presumably, but a comparison would be useful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation https://abcnotation.com/
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by gilrain 11mo ago
Search for “residential proxy”.
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by gilrain 11mo ago
> You're guaranteeing I have a job because you refuse to acknowledge the very obvious thing that's happening. I’ll take that bet.
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by gilrain 11mo ago
You’re also not correct even if it were a decimal marker. Three dollars and fifty cents requires no half cent.
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by gilrain 11mo ago
Succinct to share ideas. Florid to share feelings.
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by gilrain 11mo ago
> The idea of someone rating me, or rating someone else makes me anxious. But not enough to avoid, as you’re here.
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by gilrain 11mo ago
Is there a particular brand you buy? Mine always fail after about 5 years… and I try a new brand each time. Not cheap fans, either; usually $15-20 per 120mm unit.
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by gilrain 11mo ago
> Without strict birth control and population planning Education, financial security, and personal liberty are actually proven to work… but they also result in economic gains for the state and increased QoL for the populace, so litera
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by gilrain 11mo ago
> If the company gets too weird for me I can just effortlessly use a different search engine / browser. So, I encourage them to try weird stuff while they are small and have a small footprint. I actually don’t think there’s a search
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by gilrain 11mo ago
I think the founder just misses Belgrade and wants to hang out there. Vlad gets odd passions and just does stuff.
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by gilrain 4y ago
> the fact that a culture has used a substance for a long time does not somehow preclude the notion that it could have toxic effects It doesn’t preclude it, but it absolutely suggests that a reasonable default assumption is that it is sa
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by gilrain 4y ago
Thank you! Now that you’ve provided sources, I can evaluate your claim. You’ll have to forgive me for treating you as unscientific — you began this debate by being “pretty sure” about something which was a chronological impossibility. That
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by gilrain 4y ago
> Despite this, the effects in humans were estimated by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to be similar to risks posed by breathing indoor air or drinking municipally supplied water. https://cpdb.thomas-slone.org/
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by gilrain 4y ago
What source made you pretty sure about that? It was banned due to its supposed hepatotoxic effects in the 1960s. Can you find MDMA regulations that far back? I imagine the MDMA connection helps keep it banned, sure.
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by gilrain 4y ago
I want to note that this didn’t initially bother me because of fake root beer. Instead, it bothers me because scientists destroy their credibility by uncritically repeating the misinformation. In this case, I found that many native food pla
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by gilrain 4y ago
For instance, many culturally significant sassafras products and their derivative safrole are still illegal on the basis of overly-broadly applied mouse studies. It was later discovered the harmful metabolite does not occur in humans. But t
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by gilrain 4y ago
This is like changing the input to a hash function by just one and being surprised the output is so different. That said, your confusion probably originated with Splenda’s “tastes like sugar ‘cause it’s made from sugar” marketing, which was
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by gilrain 4y ago
> To the down voters - sarcasm!(I need to mention this explicitly:(.. Or it just wasn’t funny.
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by gilrain 4y ago
It’s only antitrust if it’s anticompetitive.
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by gilrain 4y ago
restic backing up to B2 works very well for me, and it’s really cheap. The restores I’ve tried so far have been acceptably fast, albeit in the gigabyte rather than terabyte range.
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by gilrain 4y ago
I would be surprised if the 200 accounts they lost were losing them money on average. Many of the complaints seemed to be from customers who simply want peace of mind, rather than to calculate their average usage and determine subscription
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by gilrain 4y ago
I think requiring a future paid invoice technically makes it a “late adopter” flag.
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by gilrain 4y ago
I received this early this morning. No corresponding blog post. I’m surprised they ask me to sign back up and pay another month in order to get the Early Adopter flag. All the paid months that I was an actual early adopter don’t count? Nah,
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Important Clarifications and Apology Regarding Kagis' Pricing Update(pastebin.com)
3 points by gilrain 4y ago|10 comments
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by gilrain 4y ago
I jumped on Kagi with multiple family members due to their grandfather promise. The lie hurts all the more because they aren’t a big company. If they’re already “altering the deal”, what will they do when they’re big?
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by gilrain 4y ago
Their costs have been soaring as they add more and more features which are literally meaningless to me. I didn’t care about that, because they promised me my reasonable plan was grandfathered forever. That was a lie, so I canceled. Cause an

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