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by hjek 5y ago
I'm vegan and I think it's important to avoid using oppressive language.
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The Ketamine Secrets of ‘Ecco the Dolphin’(vice.com)
2 points by hjek 5y ago|0 comments
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by hjek 5y ago
Yes, to vegans and vegetarians.
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Ecco the Dolphin's creator wants movie for the alien-fighting nature-loving hero(syfy.com)
1 points by hjek 6y ago|0 comments
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by hjek 6y ago
I hope so. The examples sounds so much better than Espeak. Edit: Oh, I see this project uses Espeak. Interesting.
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by hjek 6y ago
Also, like it or not, the anti-vax pro-corona[0] movement is relatively large here, so using a vaccine that has possible fatal side-effects may give momentum to that movement, even if using it could save lives from a utilitarian point of vi
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by hjek 6y ago
WhatsApp have been focusing on payments lately[0] so it only makes sense for Signal to put efforts into that, too. [0]: https://blog.whatsapp.com/send-payments-in-india-with-whatsa...
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by hjek 6y ago
> BSL is open source software but you cannot "free"ly use it (to make money) To nitpick your nitpick: That wouldn't be open source but source-available software [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by hjek 6y ago
> it doesn't really matter whether you use an existing PoW coin or a new one. MobileCoin isn't a PoW coin.
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by hjek 6y ago
Yes, there are[0]. We call them tyttebær. [0]: https://www.raavareguiden.dk/frugt/tyttebaer.html
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by hjek 6y ago
> Monero or ZCash would have gotten the job done, Those cryptocurrencies have a large energy consumption. I assume that part of the reason to go with MobileCoin is because it's less power hungry.
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by hjek 6y ago
And way less energy consumption, according to their website.
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by hjek 6y ago
> Author [...] probably hasn't deployed something to a 'production' environment I think you're wrong about that. The blog post author is also author of Meson, the build system.
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by hjek 6y ago
Okay, so when you write that this blog author, who made a post arguing how environmental variables are global mutable state, is quite toxic and resorting to snide comebacks instead of having thoughtful conversation, then that is just you en
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by hjek 6y ago
> If the same program is behaving differently between two systems - it can -only- be the environment that’s different. Yes, but the entire problem is that "the environment" is massive as it includes all hardware and software
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by hjek 6y ago
> Attacking something so well established because of personal reasons feels so wrong from my PoV. That is a mischaracterization of the post. The author is making a clear technical point about how environmental variables are global mutabl
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by hjek 6y ago
You don't have to be heterosexual woman to be the wife of someone. Obviously.
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by hjek 6y ago
Not having a Facebook profile or not having been on the news before does not mean you don't exist[0]. There are a good few people named "Shaun Cromer" on Facebook. It could well be made up but in my view the domain name and t
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by hjek 6y ago
> Why you would live in the EU, vote for Brexit and then cry when leaving the EU to return 'home' is beyond me though. I was going to hastily comment that surely the Brits living abroad were not the ones voting for Brexit b
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by hjek 6y ago
To add some context, the author, who is a Libreboot developer, is running a transgender support group[0]. This is interesting because a significant part of the accusations against RMS have been around transphobia[1] for refusing to use &quo
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by hjek 6y ago
Thanks for explaining. I was wondering who was responsible for the last third. Aliens?
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by hjek 6y ago
> “He literally used to have a mattress on the floor of his office. He kept the door to his office open, to proudly showcase that mattress and all the implications that went with it. Many female students avoided the corridor with his off
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by hjek 6y ago
Except that Depp did get convicted of abuse: > A High Court judge has ruled that actor Johnny Depp subjected his ex-wife to domestic abuse on twelve occasions. https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/54784429
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by hjek 6y ago
The article mentions other chemicals: > Families living closer to fracking wells also had higher levels of chemicals, such as 1,2,3-trimethylbenzene, 2-heptanone and naphthalene, than families living further away.
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by hjek 6y ago
That is how indentation is implemented on HN!
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LazyCoin: A System and Method for Ceasing Normal Work Activities(lav.io)
3 points by hjek 6y ago|0 comments
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by hjek 6y ago
> Not the best headline, but I think it's a great app idea. I agree. It's not the guilt that's the problem, it's the catastrophic climate change .
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by hjek 6y ago
Veganism. Bicycling, no car, no airplane travel. Joining protests. Help block coalmines. Going to prison for lorry surfing a fracking lorry. Watch Youtube videos in the worst quality. But we're f*cked.
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Pure Maps(flathub.org)
2 points by hjek 6y ago|0 comments
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by hjek 6y ago
Wonderful! I love the "crack" progress bar running through the directory tree. bpytop[0] in cool-retro-term[1] looks quite similar while being genuinely useful. [0]: https://github.com/aristocratos/bpytop [1]

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