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Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1172/
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There are a lot of similar games on the same website: https://neal.fun/
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> Seems to me most people never started doing paintings like Michelangelo did, most likely because they were not capable and recognized their own limitations. It’s a bit more complicated; Michelangelo was not a random artist painting a
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> Our European visitors are important to us. Apparently we’re so important that "this site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area". Is there some way to read it anyway?
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Nitpick: you’re talking about contemporary art, not modern art. Contemporary art is like contemporary music or anything we currently live in: some things may be good, other not, and we don’t know yet what will be remembered as “good art” or
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> For Ford, $0.02 per click is millions, which is all I said. Yes, and that’s peanuts compared to the money they make from these clicks. > I see this for a tiny local food truck and accidentally click their ad instead of first result
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Thanks!
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> $0.02 per click is not cheap for your own name, and this protection is more like protection in the mafia sense of the term. This is something you have to pay only if someone else is bidding on your own brand. Otherwise you’re already
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> Firefox has several extensions that do exactly this and don't sell your data. Pocket is owned by Mozilla.
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> And if the user is wanting to visit something like Ford.com, Google can charge Ford millions over time to be the first result, pitting them in a bidding war against Chevy for the top result (with tiny ad disclaimer) for a search for &q
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Small note: there's a typo in the FAQ under "What am I paying for?": "entrepeneur". I’m not sure I understand the pricing: the FAQ talks about a "free tier" but the Pricing page shows only a $12/mo ti
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> And if so, why is it now impossible to start a taxi business again now that Uber decided to triple their prices? If you ask OP for a proof of what they say, please at least do the same for your own claims.
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Wasn’t the whole point of this "space" to offer delivery for restaurants that didn’t have it? Outside of pizzas, I’m struggling to find another kind of restaurant that offered home delivery before UberEats/etc.
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> No one except the business owner should be able to edit the Google Listing. Or something in between: you should be able to "suggest" an edit and then when enough people confirmed it the information would show up but with some
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> For example, in countries bordering Russia, science nobel laureates are missing, but racist pseudoscientists and UFO theorists are listed. Maybe those pseudoscientists and UFO theorists are more "well known" than the Nobel la
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> People could upload and share courses similar to Anki. If it’s not curated it can be a mess. Italki has a feature that lets people make their own language quiz and it’s like this: some quiz are great, a lot of them are average or repet
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> Can you hear that noise? That's the noise of a million Italians crying. Because of you. Learn to make 'mother sauces' straight away guys! They're simple and flavorful. You don’t need to know how to make a bechamel t
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GitHub recently added a feature where you can organize your stars in lists, so you decide what they mean. My lists include for example "useful CLI tools", "languages", and "projects to contribute to". Outside o
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> emoji have their own font That’s not true. Emojis are Unicode characters just like `a` or `ß`. When I type <an emoji character> on my computer it doesn’t magically change font in the middle of the sentence; it’s just a character.
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[meta: This should have (2021) in the title.] If you don’t care about having the same font on all devices, what’s the point of this: > font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, avenir next, avenir, segoe ui, helvetica neue, helveti
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We can make a generator: "Study shows that X who see themselves as Y, aren’t always Y."
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I guess that OP is talking about having the IDE/compiler/etc binary on their computer and not having to rely on any external service to work.
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The art world has always been about novelty, but what was considered novelty centuries ago is now considered as "classic". There are countless examples of artists that didn’t get much recognition because what they did was too &quo
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We already know how to create consciousness, it’s called "make babies" ;)
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Indeed; all the responses are already in the JS file: https://thisimagedoesnotexist.com/static/js/main.dddea102.ch...
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Some examples, especially the one about the "English" possessions in 1154 vs. elections results in 2022 vs where Brits are living in 2020 look very fishy. You have to try really hard if you want to see (or invent) a correlation be
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It’s written in the article: > Incentivize written communication and by all means use synchronous meetings when necessary, but don’t default to it.
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Have you tried Jekyll? I don’t know Hugo; I like Jekyll because it’s very simple with very little abstraction. My blog is just some hand-written HTML with liquid templating. I like how you can add any metadata you want to a post/page a
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You can also see it on Google Street view as it has some imagery from 2014.

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