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by gruez 2mo ago
"International rates" aren't a thing anymore since the advent of VOIP. It doesn't matter whether you're connecting from France or Fiji, with VOIP you pay the same rate.
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by gruez 2mo ago
>You need it more and more to run apps. Realistically nobody is developing apps for linux phones, so the options are android or no apps at all.
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by gruez 2mo ago
They don't seem to put much effort in proactively blocking residential VPNs though?
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by gruez 2mo ago
The first paragraph sounds a bit too much like AI and sure enough, pangram rates it as 81% (most of the article, save one pargraph) AI generated.
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by gruez 2mo ago
>I don't think it's necessary to have wants or plans in place when you point out this kind of thing. It does, otherwise what are you arguing for, that financial crises are bad? >You should also be careful about taking imagin
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by gruez 2mo ago
>4) In spite of that, the median American household needed only 2x their salary to buy the median house. That number is 5x today, and after taxes the ratios are 2.2x then vs 6x today, when two adults are often working rather than one. So
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by gruez 2mo ago
>to the point where raising a family on a single income is not a realistic goal for most people. Was this ever true? During the 1950s, (the perceived heyday of American middle class wealth) the female labor force participation rate was 3
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by gruez 2mo ago
>AI will be the one to cause the next financial crisis. So what's the implication here? It sounds like you want AI canceled or curtailed, and if you apply the same logic to the internet in the mid 90s, you would have correctly calle
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by gruez 2mo ago
Works for me with VPN enabled. Might just be your IP is blocked.
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by gruez 2mo ago
>The list is pretty endless. Did you check your own sources? The first three articles you linked cites the same youtuber as in the gp. I'm not going to check any more.
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by gruez 2mo ago
That's a bit misleading given that it's a subset. 404media cites "at least 60".
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by gruez 2mo ago
I scanned the post on pangram and got the same result. Also, I'm not sure about you, but using AI tools for AI detection seems more rigorous than people going based off counting how many em-dashes there are and similar vibes.
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by gruez 2mo ago
>the arc of history to bend towards non-fascism. From wikipedia: "Fascism [...] rose to prominence primarily in Europe of the interwar period" So what were humans doing for all the thousands of years after the advent of recorde
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by gruez 2mo ago
That's not too remote of a possibility given that street foods like currywurst exist, and sausages are theoretically supposed to be sold encased in bread (ie. hot dog) similar to beef patties.
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by gruez 2mo ago
>>Not being from Toronto, never in a million years would I even think of that as a visitor. >I grew up in another country where Jamaican patties were popular [...] Have you considered the possibility that Jamaican patties aren&#x27
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by gruez 2mo ago
It's almost certainly cheaper to synthesize nitrates and vitamin C separately than to farm celery seeds. >possibly also from celery seeds It's not. Like MSG (the white crystal kind), vitamin C is produced by microbes. https:&#
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by gruez 2mo ago
>The culture of trying to re-engineer life is not it. What does this even mean? Cured meats (via nitrates or celery seeds) is already an engineered product.
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by gruez 2mo ago
>I’m stating that the naturally occurring vitamin C in celery seeds is the key difference between natural and synthetic nitrites The original comment was about products being misleadingly labeled "nitrate free". The fact that c
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by gruez 2mo ago
>Do you have an encyclopedic knowledge of which terms are regulated and which ones aren't? Do you have an encyclopedic knowledge of which professions are regulated and which aren't? If not, should we get rid of professional lic
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by gruez 2mo ago
>it’s not compatible with marine life and would in fact cause an ecological disaster And this can't be solved by dilution?
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by gruez 2mo ago
From cbc: >In 1985, the Canadian government tried to stop Jamaican bakeries and restaurants from using the term "beef patty." >At the time, Canada's Meat Inspection Act classified a beef patty as what goes in a hamburge
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by gruez 2mo ago
That just sounds like it's a knee jerk reaction from regulators. For decades their reaction to pollution was "yeah just dump it in the ocean", then we figured out it was bad. So now the pendulum swung the other way where we c
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by gruez 2mo ago
>celery seeds contain vitamin C which acts as an antioxidant that converts the nitrites into harmless nitric oxide whereas the synthetic sodium nitrite is converted into harmful nitrosamines. This just sounds like post hoc justification.
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by gruez 2mo ago
They can't actually label it "nitrate free", only a superficially sounding term like "no nitrates added", with the hope that people (like you) think it's the same as "nitrate free".
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by gruez 2mo ago
Right, because their responsibility is for increasing shareholder value, not falling on a sword when there's a PR snafu.
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by gruez 2mo ago
Of all the controversial stuff that WMF does, "funding photographers to take royalty free photos for use on wikipedia" seems fairly low down the list.
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by gruez 2mo ago
>I think there's a fee Seems to be only in the EU (because they're being forced to), and some other sources say google is offsetting the fee through revenue sharing back to the OEMs. In any case the original claim of "the
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by gruez 2mo ago
>that pay Google license fees Source? I thought it was free for OEMs?
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by gruez 2mo ago
>What is this garbage? Registries realized they can capture the value from premium domains rather than letting domain speculators profit.
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by gruez 2mo ago
>Moreover, this extension does not try to override the protections that Firefox uses, e.g. in the case of limits on the presentation of the amount of available RAM. This seems contradicted by the screenshots, which lists options for &quo

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