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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
Until recently, Black Friday didn't exist at all in the UK, and I only knew of it from American TV. It's suddenly become a big thing here within the last ~5 years. This makes me said. (It's not our first American cultural imp
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
So in this brave new world, if someone manages to steal a single piece of my data (my private key) then they can have unfettered access to my phone, bank, email and social media accounts? And none of those services have a customer support t
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
What problem does this solve? What's wrong with the way I currently do "identity management"?
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
So if vaccinated people can still spread the virus, what is achieved by preventing the unvaccinated from eating in restaurants?
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
"Things are already bad, therefore it's okay if they get worse!"
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
Any reading recommendations re: web3? I still don't really understand what it is but I've been meaning to do a deep dive.
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
"cultural appropriation"? Whose culture is being appropriated exactly?
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
Tangential: why not? Microsoft is a huge, enormously influential tech company that everyone has heard of, with a revenue of $160 billion (more than 10x that of Netflix) and nearly 200,000 employees (more than any FAANG except Amazon, if Wik
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
Brb - starting a company whose name begins with "B"
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
What is your web utility, if I may ask?
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
Two words: regulatory capture.
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
> If they were taking down information about a doctor challenging Health Authorities in a very Scientific manner, that would be something else. YouTube has already done exactly this: https://www.wsj.com/articles/yout
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
Nothing against FIRE, but they're an American org and this incident is taking place in the UK. Some UK organisations in the same general purview: Counterweight, Academics for Academic Freedom, the Free Speech Union.
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
Some of them do - look up how much the voice actors on the Simpsons are paid.
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
The book Everyone Loves You When You're Dead has some interesting thoughts about this. It's a collection of interviews with rockstars and other celebrities that the author did throughout his career at Rolling Stone. One of the c
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
This post is great. It made me realise that not only do I not want to be famous, but that I want to live as privately as possible. I'm now much more wary about (say) using my real name online or making it easy for strangers to find out
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
Much more likely*
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
I often find this gives better results. Eg I'm much likely to find what I'm looking for if I search for "(query) site:reddit.com" than if I use reddit's own search feature.
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
So you'd have no problem if your neighbours turned their flat into a brothel and a meth lab? Because that's the logical extension of your argument.
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
I stand corrected.
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
I'm not sure the Vietnamese word comes from Chinese, even if the meaning is the same. Your link says that the Vietnamese word that's a cognate of the Chinese one is thanh not xanh . Vietnamese is from a completely different lan
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
Ever heard of Blackwater?
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
The Biden administration openly admits that they work with Facebook to identify and remove "misinformation" from the site.[0] Which is to say that Facebook effectively acts as a government agency (maybe they could call it the &quo
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
> others have a default aquamarine and specifying "blue" or "green" is kind of like when we specify "navy blue" or "sky blue" One specific example: the Vietnamese word "xanh" means "
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
Congratulations, you've proved that someone somewhere has written a book that argues for open borders. There's also a book called "Nobody Died at Sandy Hook", which argues that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax staged b
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
If this is true then maybe the fault lies partially with the bad-faith legislators who have stuffed the bill with a Christmas wish-list of items that suit their agenda but have nothing to do with climate change, thus making it harder for th
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
Has anyone ever told you that your company name sounds like how someone from northern England would say "(for) fuck's sake"?
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
Also: more and more job interviews are happening via Zoom. It's far easier to find a new job when you can do it without booking a day off from your current job.
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
I'm skeptical of Wix's engineering principles because I've used their product and it's hot garbage, or at least it was 10 years ago. (I'd forgotten Wix existed.)
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by hihihihi1234 5y ago
No, if I use your product it's because I'm in your audience . If I'm merely in your target audience then there's no guarantee that your shots will hit the target.

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