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grawprog
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>but seeing how much someone makes by being naked in front of a web cam vs a software engineer salary is kinda sad. >some of the only fans users makes in a month what a plain SE would make in a year I'm sure if you could think of
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Has he gotten better live? I remember his older live shows he could be a real drunken sloppy mess compared to the album recordings. I was fairly disappointed seeing them live.
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Why? It's a disease with a 97% survival rate. A huge majority of cases are asymptomatic. As in zero symptoms, zero negative health effects, none. Why does it even matter either way? 3% of the population is severely at risk from this. 3
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Well, dunno if I should explain my reasoning but here goes... For the same reason I never got a rabies vaccine until having to work in close proximity with rabid animals. Up until that point, my chances of dying from rabies were pretty slim
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>One of the most critical to-do items for the American democracy movement over the next four years will be to more effectively counter domestic anti-democracy disinformation. If possible, it should be done on both the supply and demand s
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Thieves target Russia's nuclear war ‘doomsday’ plane
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I clicked the learn section after, like what you said, learning nothing from the landing page. After reading through the learn section, it looks like a clone of facebook or instagram's story feature or whatever that will appear on goog
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6y ago
The lightbulb never gets changed. It's still there buried under layers and layers of improvements meant to work around the limitations of the dead lighbulb including several other partially finished lightbulbs and an array of mirrors t
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>So what do we do? From where can we possibly derive knowledge? We all have brains capable of thinking. The idea is to examine objective facts as best one can, this means yes overcoming personal bias, which can be difficult and assessing
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>If you think it is, then why are you asking? hartator answered this pretty well. >If you're not sure, why are you asserting it (and suggesting that a party is equivalent to a government because some of its members are part of th
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>This is roughly the equivalent of the yelling "fire" in a crowded theater problem I don't see the equivalence. One of those has the potential of causing very immediate panic and potential injury or death as people rush to
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https://www.engadget.com/youtube-election-misinformation-dem... So, i'm kind of curious how it's reasonable a political party can ask for partisan censorship. >YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki received a letter on Tu
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I've still got a couple. Got rid of one last time I moved. Haven't used any of them in around 10 years now. ETA: Wait, I used the CRT monitor on my desktop server sometime about 5 years ago after a power outage and I needed to res
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Honestly, I grew up playing those games on CRT screens, i'd prefer to play them upscaled on my phone screen than go back to CRT's. >Some mediums allow a lot of interesting things, for example when Donkey Kong came out, Nintendo
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>Even in the more nefarious case of ad-tech, I'd personally prefer more relevant ads than generic non-relevant ones. Personally, i'm the opposite. Every time I see an obviously targetted ad based on something i've done, wa
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>FWIW, I strongly prefer square grids for tabletop games. I agree mostly, though i prefer hex grids for war games and square grids for rpgs/roguelikes. Hex grids allow for more units in a given encounter, plus, i'm likely biase
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>Roads were absolutely, definitely the issue, and the article slides that in while pretending to refute it - bicycles 'called for improved roads' not because they didn't need them, but because they did. Ever try to take a
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6y ago
I don't think guitar music's dead. Guitar centric music may not be popular anymore, but you'll find guitars in a lot of places these days. There's also a trend towards guitarists that play with samplers and loopers and p
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I wonder how much of this is because of copyrights. Look at the way a lot of older music has been preserved in modern times, through the use of sampling, covers and other things. The Beatles, Elvis, even Dylan played a lot of covers of old
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I dunno, the first one sounds like random dissonant noise to me, the second one is a bit less grating to listen to still not what i would enjoy though or what i would really consider music. Not quite what i had in mind.
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Hmm, i play and make music, but i can see a place for randomly generated music, or at least randomly generated music as a tool for creation. But, like with a lot of randomly generated video games, it's easy to make them suck. I think s
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My experience, i don't program java, i learned there was a way to compile dlang apps for android. Download android sdk, download android ndk, try and build program to no avail. Study android sdk and ndk, realize it's probably not
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This article is really great. Thank you to the author for writing all this information up in a nice organized and clear way. Like the author, i've only seen most of this info scattered around various videos and articles hidden in with
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Yeah...and the article in the op is saying we shouldn't rush to attribute excess deaths to the new vaccine. Yet all year it's been the opposite with covid. Why have we been attributing every excess death to covid but we shouldn&#x
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>Specifically, if you take 10 million people and just wave your hand back and forth over their upper arms, in the next two months you would expect to see about 4,000 heart attacks. About 4,000 strokes. Over 9,000 new diagnoses of cancer.
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>I'm curious about how significantly this will upend the industry due to direct competition from classic films. My guess, not much. If they started having to compete with classics and were losing, I imagine the classics would just v
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Compare that to the estimated $2.7 billion that the cocaine industry in Columbia is assumed to be worth though. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45578492 That $800 million's a drop in the bucket by com
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Dengvaxia Controversy
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No idea I don't have Spotify or use any google assistant stuff, but i'm guessing it's supposed to make it so if you try to open google play music using a voice assistant, it'll instead play that album from Spotify. Maybe
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I didn't say there was zero value, my statement also came with the assumption that upon starting this service, google never made it clear it would be temporary. I may be wrong about that. Also, not everyone can afford to re-host their
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