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by grawprog 5y ago
>Your data is valuable. Yet again though we're being asked to give it up for free... >But for too long, online services have pilfered, swapped, and exploited your data without your awareness. Privacy violations and filter bubbles
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by grawprog 5y ago
The teachers who marked us knew where the specimens came from...
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by grawprog 5y ago
Not OP, but a happy hour is usually a period of time when bars serve discounted drinks and such. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_hour It's illegal in several States. It was only made legal here a couple of y
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by grawprog 5y ago
When I was in school, one of our midterms for wildlife biology was to take a tooth or some bone fragments and describe as much as we could about the animal's habitat, food sources, overall health before death, roughly how old the anima
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by grawprog 5y ago
Not to get into a pedantic argument about grammar and such, but seeing as writing is a form of communication, does writing rule of thumb vs rule-of-thumb provide any more or less information to the reader? I would pronounce both of those th
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by grawprog 5y ago
>Most movie companies require viewers to invest 90 minutes or longer to absorb their theatrical works in the way they were intended but this method of presenting a story is reportedly being undermined. >These are heavily edited copies
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by grawprog 5y ago
>The people who are more financially stable and on the same page seem to have the easiest time. In my experience it's been the opposite. The people I know who are financially secure seem to struggle more to have kids. They'll g
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by grawprog 5y ago
Nah, better to just stick to the walled garden and let Almighty arbiters of all that is safe to install guide us.
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by grawprog 5y ago
That's how they get you. First you sideload one app, you think you can stop with just one, then next thing you know you've got F-Droid on your phone, your sideloading left and right. Then before you know it, all your money now bel
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by grawprog 5y ago
I could be wrong, but sifting through that utterly terrible corporate buzzword filled whatever the hell that was... I think it's what Apple's calling their new Augmented Reality platform...I think...or what the author is calling w
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by grawprog 5y ago
I think you and the parent poster missed the intention behind what I was saying. Not that we should have a nihilistic approach, but that the baseline for these conversations should be to assume suffering is a universal part of life and we s
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by grawprog 5y ago
That sort of implies trying to blow up the universe wouldn't be a fruitless effort in and of itself. You'd have better luck just waiting for the heat death of the universe at that point I think.
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by grawprog 5y ago
>So when plants consciously grow edible parts to themselves in exchange for seed dispersal, Depends on the plant and the kind of life cycle they have, in some cases, yes they slowly die after. Even if they don't, think of human preg
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by grawprog 5y ago
I'm never really sure what the point of things like this are. I've grown enough plants in my life to understand they're at least 'aware' in some way when bad things happen to them. But in the end, it's a basic
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by grawprog 5y ago
I have to ask, how realistic has it been to do such things in most places over the last year? I mean WFH or not, most places, governments have not allowed people to do any of those things for the better part of a year.
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New clues suggest people reached the Americas around 30k years ago(sciencenews.org)
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China Establishes Digital Yuan as the Official Coin(entrepreneur.com)
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by grawprog 5y ago
Thank you. That was amusing to read and I never actually realized there was so much about the pronunciation, I've heard a few different ones. but I always took it for regional dialect differences not something done intentionally. I may
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by grawprog 5y ago
Leave it to HN to explain grammar, some history and a bit of etymology in response to a childish joke comment. And, that's why this place is great.
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by grawprog 5y ago
Well, sure if it happens, i just meant in that whole inevitable no matter what doom scenario thing. I just mean, worrying about that or being scared is not really worth it. If it happens it happens. There's better things to dedicate th
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by grawprog 5y ago
I've always figured there's no point in worrying about giant planet destroying meteors, if one comes and we can't stop it, well we're all fucked. What can ya do at that point? If it can't be stopped and it can'
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by grawprog 5y ago
So pretty much between Saturn and Uranus.... Even as an adult that still always makes me chuckle. I can't help it.
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by grawprog 5y ago
I read through the whole discussion on github. I understand the author's concerns and point of view, but his response to the NixOS maintainers and way of dealing with the situation was completely unreasonable. The NixOS people seemed w
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by grawprog 5y ago
Not just within the body. Life itself is layers upon layers of interconnected systems from a micro to a macro to a global level. Humans have a very surface level understanding of the our internal systems that make our bodies work, we know n
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by grawprog 5y ago
Super Metroid is another game that did the 'invisible' tutorial thing well. https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/HugoBille/20120114/90903/The... That's actually one thing Nintendo devs in gener
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by grawprog 5y ago
When I worked at my old shop I blew out 3 different CD changer stereos and two sets of speakers. One of them even ended up slightly catching on fire...well it was smoking anyway...The machines were really loud, you needed to crank that shit
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by grawprog 5y ago
From that post it doesn't sound like Atmos itself is the problem, but either the mixing engineers or the source material. >I compared Spatial Audio tracks to their HD equivalents on Amazon Music and I found exactly what one writer s
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by grawprog 5y ago
Four 10 hour days was always preferable for me to five 8 hour days every time. The extra two hours ends up barely noticed. You miss rush hour after work so travel time is almost halved at the end of the day meaning you get home not much lat
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by grawprog 5y ago
It's not a myth. Your post just confirms this. The reason why beans and rice are combined is because they form complementary proteins. The combination of the two are a complete protein taken together. This was my response to the parent
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by grawprog 5y ago
>The idea of combining foods, like beans and rice, turned out to be a myth. No it's basic high school biology... https://ic.steadyhealth.com/what-is-complete-protein-and-why... >Proteins are vital for making enzy

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