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I know people who write with styluses on touchscreens, or take photographs of handwritten notes for just that reason.
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That is what discredits the idea in my view. Illiterate people are not conscious? People in hunter gatherer or isolated subsistence farming communities?
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> One of the reasons why children, teens, and young adults have become so infantalised is because they are socialised mostly around each other, and spend a lot of time being told "no you can't, you are a child". I agree,bu
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I like Fossil, but there are good reasons to use git too. There are many git hosting options, including some for self hosting. its a lot easier to switch to a different version control host than to a different version control system.
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Definitely. I think considerably more. I have seen the ceramic ones that seem to be a design that goes back to Victorian ones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic_water_filter In the Sri Lankan context filters are mo
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I do not know whether this is what they meant, but in many places the biggest threat is now industrial pollutants not infectious diseases.
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To add, thinking about that comment. It is quite offensive. It essentially comes down to "brown people are all the same". I assumed it was the result of ignorance rather than bigotry, but it being the only comment from a new accou
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Its very widely used. Perfomrance might not be great, but adoption is.
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Blender is something routinely recommend by normies. Gimp is not. Blender is a very popular, maybe the most popular, for the tasks its used for. Gimp is not.
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Even the name is self sabotage.
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They are widely used but not liked and net benefits are arguable.
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People from South Asia are not "aka Indians". There are other countries.
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I agree. To clarify I do jot mean alcohol is highly addictive but that highly addictive drugs are more harmful than alcohol because of the difficulty of moderation. Most people I know drink alcohol but have no problem not having it for a fe
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If alcoholic drinks were invented today they would probably taste about as good as junk food so there would be no loss. Can you imagine any business promoting a product that requires years to sitting in precise storage!? Lots of things we e
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Quick estimating (which is a different skill from calculating exact answers using pen and paper) is most useful there. People do carry computers with them these days and they do have calculator apps. Some shops I buy from do have unit price
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whoosh.
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Depends on the specific piece of furniture, and how well you treat it. I have had quite mixed experience. Its not going to last like expensive stuff, but its generally far from the worst.
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Did you read my whole comment? I said some lasts less than a decade, and I have quite a lot of IKEA furniture. I also said its better than most cheap furniture. I even mentioned a specific piece of IKEA furniture I own that is clearly not g
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Its a mistake to take it apart. The problem is made worse because people are more likely to buy cheap furniture if they are likely to move anytime soon. There is no point investing in good furniture that might not suit the next place.
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> Most of the "back in the day" furniture came from tearing down virgin woods. Sorting + shredding-recycling + making new "cheap particle board crap" furniture takes a lot of energy, but not a lot of non-renewable res
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Yes, because big tech has such a great track record of sticking to their ethics over profits. None of them have any sort of history of dishonesty. Their consistently great politics and world outlook is so reassuring too. /s
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How well will their wishes align with the interests of the rest of us?
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Which "drugs"? The problem with highly addictive things is people do not stop at small quantities.
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People from puritanical cultures rationalise their opposition to other people consuming alcohol. Ad hominem arguments cut both ways.
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Its clear from Retraction Watch that people at Cambridge failed to act when they should have. Hilary Cremin and Rhys Morgan knew about the plagarism but decided they did not need to do anything.
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It is possible they are appointing liars willy-nilly. Its amazing no one at Cambridge spotted his lies and took action earlier.
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and everyone else will fall further and further behind
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> An interesting twist to UK constitutional jurisprudence is that until relatively recently the House of Lords was the highest court. In fact, the very origin of Parliament was as a court. Since the 19th century it has been only the law
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Paying for individual publications you like is fine. Paying for all the publications that get articles on the HN front page would be very expensive. Only a minority of people reading HN would have subscribed to any one publication. The re
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National ID numbers will not help with cross border situations like this.

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