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by hnzix 9y ago
This is just the latest iteration of how any website is only 7 Kevin Bacon clicks away from rotten.com. The net is vast and infinite and funnels the human id. Autotegenerated content will never be a clean feed until machine learning evolve
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But it could force autoinstall from the website and autoscan your drives then preupload your nudie pics and tag them with your name. How convenient! If all your friends are using it then it must be safe right?
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Plus flasbacks to school and angry teachers throwing the duster at you for daydreaming.
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I don't like any programming language that's not Assembly because it attempts to solve a problem that does not exist. Assembly was sufficient to enable us to go to the moon, all in 16-bit for the most part. It has a proven histor
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Anecdata: as a first time Oz home buyer relying on a bank loan, I was consistently excluded from house sales by foreign investors who could pay cash up front.
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> I also think it's unlikely that a future society will allocate resources to revive these people If society could re-animate a Roman citizen from 1000AD, historians and social anthropologists would be climbing over each other to
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Confiscation of property and cash seems to be a big problem.
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Sinologists have a long running debate as to whether the CPC should be praised for the Chinese Economic Miracle™ or if the Cultural Revolution just set the bar really, really low. Either way the "iron rice bowl" was as a genuine p
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by hnzix 9y ago
Until someone uses a gravity well projector to write "BURMA SHAVE".
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Corporate and government SOE machines are often running versions 7+ years out of date. I'm still EOL'ing XP machines for government clients. Seniors are another group who often run, well, senior versions. If your Uber-for-toothp
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Not even "probably" right. Eg Quantum Physics is more complex than Newtonian. OcRaz is a heuristic that advises that simpler hypotheses should be tested first. It's not a magic SCIENCE! gun.
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Occam's Razor doesn't make the simplest explanation automatically correct. Occam's Razor means you test the simplest hypothesis first. While I doubt it's psychics, if I were to assert that as fact I'd have to dis
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I knew you were going to say that.
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Marbles. Hula Hoops. Water bottle flipping. Yo yos. These fads have spontaneously manifested since at least the 80s with no central control or in some cases marketing campaign - you can't even sell a product with water bottle flipping.
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Marinated roo steaks are pretty good. The marinade balances out the extreme lean-ness.
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I would say language learning is treated as a hobby, like painting or salsa dancing. It's certainly not part of the cultural DNA.
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Australian middle schools almost always teach a foreign language, the problem is that it's more or less random - Japanese, French, Italian and Indonesian are pretty common. Depending on the school you can elect to keep studying a langu
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And some Buddhist and Hindu sects consider mushrooms to be meat.
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> In traditional Catholicism the rule against meat on Fridays didn't apply to fish Beaver meat is also a-ok! https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/once-...
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by hnzix 9y ago
This study indicates that skeuomorphic buttons provide better visual cues than ghost buttons. None of your analogies seem to dispute that finding.
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by hnzix 9y ago
> Elixir seems to be promising, but I don't like the language Here is an interesting /r/clojure thread about Elixir vs Clojure: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/6wn6t5/new_clo
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> Remember the glasshole problem. Back when mobile phones were new, people made disparaging comments when eg a businessman would take a call in public. And there was a trope in comedy where people would pretend to take a call just to s
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by hnzix 9y ago
I have lactose intolerance and struggle to gain healthy weight. Off-brand Vegan soylent has changed my world. So, like, speak for yourself buddy.
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It's also discussed in "The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test". Ken Kesey gatecrashed the place and the Pranksters decided Leary's crew were a bunch of boring squares. Kesey also had heavy police surveillance at his property a
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Doxxing, human flesh mobs, griefing, swatting and attacking livelihood are very much risks for online publishers of all cultural stripes. This is not a solved problem. >Asking the (potential) victim to change their behaviour TFA explic