iamalizard

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by iamalizard 4mo ago
I'd also like an answer to why it's good, but also to why it's horrible or "worse than being nuked". I admit I know nothing. :)
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
Interesting, I assumed most regular taxes (like another comment said - police, fire, schools) would be from income taxes or other taxes collected from businesses. > but a lot of places garbage collection is privatized in the US. Closed h
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
What kind of expenses are covered by that? I can only think of garbage collection and collapses of the street that affect your property. Where I live I pay rent on a relatively small ~150000 $ house and have no idea how much the property ta
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
Why would you care if they're licensed if they're doing yard work or replacing faucets or cutting down trees? I understand wanting some assurance for whoever will wire your whole house or will make major plumbing repairs but not f
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
I'm not from the US but I find some of these numbers ridiculous. $515.50 per month for property taxes? That seems soo high. What does this cover - garbage collection, what else? > Cut down trees that were too close to the house: $2,
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
I strongly disagree and think all forms of gambling should be legal. Sadly, from my point of view, you're right that right now going after the on/off crypto ramps would be enough to dissuade most people from using crypto gambling
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
Most of the adult smokers I know, including myself, are very well aware of the health risks and don't consider it cool and never have - what does that even mean?
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
Finished the first 2 episodes. Quite entertaining, thanks again for the suggestion. Reminds me of the 3 Cube movies about people stuck in a deadly puzzle. I don't remember them so well (or at all) so I might as well rewatch them at som
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
How does it compare to other countries, though? 4000 is high, but it's out of 1400000000.
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
> The answer isn't binary. It's both. Governments are us, and we use that tool to manage collective resources like roads and sidewalks. Definitely, that was my point, too. We should strive for change but accept when change hasn
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
Having soon a lot of real gore from a relatively young age, I may be calloused but in a good way - when something really fucked up happens that actually involves gore, death, violence or really scary, unpredictable or urgent things, I am qu
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
Can someone tell me what actual technical issue do identification providers solve that couldn't be solved with a public key cryptography or even a password and 2FA? The whole sector seems like it was created out of corruption and short
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
Or have a button that makes the text left-aligned for easier reading.
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
Seems fun, downloading it now. Hopefully it has subs. :) I saw a clip of what you're talking about but without subs (I don't speak Japanese) - when they were around a table and some of them started dissolving after guessing wrong.
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
In some countries they scan you ID and likely keep it some database when you buy drugs or enter bars or clubs. In others they just look at your ID card if you don't look old enough. The first example is bad, the second is tolerable. Bu
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
No such mandates should take place at all.
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
Both scar(r)ing them AND telling them to make eye contact seems better to me. People don't appreciate low-likelihood or abstract risks. I bet children appreciate them even less than grown-ups. They've never witnessed someone being
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
It won't increase their visibility, obviously. It will make them think twice before going on that crosswalk. Maybe they'll wait for a car that slows down after they've taken only 1 step on the crosswalk, maybe they'll wa
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
Consider the risk compensation theory where people take bigger risks when they feel safer. Not sure how true it is with regards to bike helmets, though. I saw there are a few studies but don't have the time to read them. I usually wear
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
I'm almost 2 meters tall and was crossing a street at a crosswalk with my bike yesterday, walking and pushing it at normal walking speeds, like the law requires. There was a car about to turn left from the lanes going left. There was a
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
I think some people just aren't wired to love doing something over and over, especially something so monotonous. Basket weaving or bonsai gardening is much more monotonous than solving difficult crimes or difficult science problems or
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
> Microsoft Bing bungles quotation marks so hard (???). DDG was never good at quotation marks so I forgot to mention it also sucks at these. > Have you noticed, not if you misspell a proper noun? I haven't but I'd really pre
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
My take is that a random number is far from a round one, much closer to a prime one. As a last digit: 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8 are even, so they're out. 5 is out since it makes the number divisible by 5; a semi-even number 1 and 9 are closer t
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
People think Google removing "Don't be evil" means Google somewhat implicitly told everyone they'll be evil from now on. That doesn't make much sense. It was likely a marketing decision since having "evil"
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
In my experience, DDG brings up relevant results, maybe a bit more so than Google does. But often I'm searching for a phrase inside quotation marks and DDG hasn't crawled enough sites and gives me 0 or 1 result while Google gives
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
I saw a few YouTube videos about one vs won. Some pronounce them the same. Some say they pronounce them the same, but when they use an example sentence, "won" is clearly more o-ey, more closed, than "one". Some videos pr
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
I played Flash games 10-15 years ago on a 15 year old computer. I've tried HTML5 games on a 5 year old computer with a good CPU and lots of RAM, yet the experience doesn't compare at all. I doubt I'm looking through things wi
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by iamalizard 4mo ago
What about a distributed way of doing search, does that exist? Different people/bots scrape the net and add it to a distributed database optimized for search. Each query could cost a crypto micropayment to avoid DDoS. Or maybe a slight
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by iamalizard 5mo ago
Why are HTML5/JS games so much laggier and buggier than Flash games? Maybe it's not due to differences in the technologies used. I can imagine it's because less people make these games and spend less time per game to optimize
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by iamalizard 5mo ago
While the screenshot from Google's SERP is obviously broken, the from Bing employs a ridiculous amount of white space. Google will eventually fix that bug but Bing's one seems intentional.

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