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by goblin89 5y ago
True to a degree. Still, I typically see tags listing fabric composition of clothing and am able to choose to wear e.g. near 100% cotton or wool. Also, at least a fabric is normally in use by the final consumer/wearer for some time. Th
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by goblin89 5y ago
Among the uses of plastic, external packaging and disposable utensils have the benefit of at least being obvious. Not so with insides of aluminium cans, paper cups, receipts (I bet this one is even BPA still), cigarette filters, and so on.
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PII leak in Lemonade has been discovered “accidentally”(twitter.com)
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by goblin89 6y ago
I know it’s a flawed analogy, but considering the influence China has on Bitcoin, on some level buying into Bitcoin seems not unlike shorting the US dollar.
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by goblin89 6y ago
Feel free to speak for yourself, but don't make it seem like everyone is the same. There are shareholders buying parts of companies purely for personal gain. They may not care if the business is shady, as long as the stock technically
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by goblin89 6y ago
I enjoy this page’s typography on a smaller mobile screen. Line lengths, line spacing, font size, everything seems great for a medium-length read. HN is great too: an assortment of pieces of text, having varied lengths and organized into a
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by goblin89 6y ago
That’s nice progress since FSX. I recall reading that new MSFS is compatible with FSX aircraft, which made me think they must rely on the same lookup tables at least as fallback. While I stand corrected on lookup tables, the author does mak
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by goblin89 6y ago
“Seem” is the key word here. I’d be fine if they stopped at the scenery, but this quote is just outright misleading and makes it look like a paid hype piece: > “All aircraft have been reviewed with professional pilots who have many hours
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by goblin89 6y ago
If it is a joke, the README does a poor job of conveying that. It is a bit funny at first but then gets relatively serious and recommends the project for use with up to 20 containers, with the beta caveat. Either way, setting aside the laud
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by goblin89 6y ago
I’ll rephrase. Here’s the part I disagree with: > seeing a person's body and face forces you to acknowledge their internal life, because the shared physical experience forces it. That's why it's a much higher barrier to bu
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by goblin89 6y ago
> I think texts/video calls/etc. isn't social media, it's much more like conversation. > That's why people (in general) are not nearly as mean or rude on a voice call or a 1-to-1 text chat. This doesn’t have t
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by goblin89 6y ago
To clarify the headline and possibly save someone a click: the mechanism used to implant a memory in this experiment was “talking to the subject”. (Not that it necessarily makes the paper less interesting.)
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by goblin89 6y ago
What? If they sell verifiably the same physical prop, then what's the difference? Jack's tweet doesn't become counterfeit if Hjfrf sells it, it's non-figuratively and verifiably the same exact tweet.
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by goblin89 6y ago
> Graham Linehan is one of the most doctrinaire anti-transgender individuals, anything he writes on the subject should be taken with a very large pinch of salt. Aimee Challenor advised an LGBT rights charity called Stonewall from 2015. S
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by goblin89 6y ago
There’re two aspects to the “master” vs “main” debate: (A) the negative connotation that “master” acquired during slavery in parts of the English-speaking world; and (B) the fact that “main” is objectively clearer, benefitting newcomers and
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by goblin89 6y ago
I’d be curious to know which services are confirmed to have solid 2FA reset practices (i.e., you can do it if you lose your keys; no one else can do it). These would probably be smaller businesses that earn their revenue directly from payin
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by goblin89 6y ago
Extrapolating the objection a la “this tool is too advanced!” to AI-generated art is a curious thought exercise. Yes, that art might be created by a black box unconscious neural network, but there’re still minds who: developed algorithms, h
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by goblin89 6y ago
I’m not a celebrity, but I can’t sustainably gain weight. I don’t eat much (or at all) less compared to others who have larger bodies. I know this isn’t limited to male population, too. My sister has a similar body type and never had to res
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by goblin89 6y ago
I imagine it’s a fantastic skill, but I also believe I’m not alone in foreseeing such a massive grind to get there from scratch that I write myself off in advance, not having the persistence and intrinsic motivation as an adult—considering
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by goblin89 6y ago
Nicely put. I’d stress the importance of the (allegedly, I’m yet to try it myself) faster payoff from the copy technique. You have to start somewhere, and without basic practice of visual perception/fine motor skill coordination the in
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by goblin89 6y ago
I didn’t downvote but I object to this part, especially for beginner learners: > The litmus test for someone who knows truly how to draw is to ask them to redraw whatever object they drew but from a different angle or perspective. Most p
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by goblin89 6y ago
> All I know is, i've had a lot of great conversations that started with me or someone else asking. > 'Hey, where are you from?' Once in Hong Kong I asked a taxi driver of Indian descent where he’s from, and felt awkwar
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by goblin89 6y ago
Presuming you’re in software, what could work is looking for remote gigs, losing location dependence and moving out at least for a while (there may be options if you’re willing to be frugal). Freelancing marketplaces can get you usable lead
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by goblin89 6y ago
If you want to get your photos out of iCloud but not using Photos, there’s a neat cross-platform Python CLI tool called icloudpd[0]. It uses iCloud API, supports 2FA, and has a variety of options to control what’s downloaded (e.g., by album
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by goblin89 6y ago
I noticed the trend of switching from eating out to getting delivered meals in pre-pandemic years in countries like mainland China and South Korea. I’m not a fan of it, and perhaps there’s more to that than just the subjective “oh no, thing
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by goblin89 6y ago
Nice examples. On one hand, once etymology of a word is old enough, it becomes forgotten and not many people are offended; on the other hand, once that etymology is brought to light, continuing to use that word may become an ethically quest
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by goblin89 6y ago
Seems relevant. How did you feel about that term? Did it trigger slight unease deep down? I do suspect that the fact that the US doesn’t have a recent history of being oppressed might discount it a little (if one is considered a dominant po
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by goblin89 6y ago
I believe for this experiment to be fair it requires an inborn, unalienable physical trait with particular cultural baggage that resonates with the negative connotation of the term. This combination isn’t that easy to come by, and might be
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by goblin89 6y ago
Do a thought experiment and imagine that there was a negatively tinted term in software engineering with %YOURCOUNTRY% or %YOURNATIONALITY% or %YOURPHENOTYPICTRAIT% in the name. E.g., if you’re from the US, “American pointer dereference” or
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by goblin89 6y ago
Even with a single mind having the final say over the design, it is still easy to violate conceptual integrity in software if it directly or indirectly touches the end user or “real world” in general. In this case, requirements or their und

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