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by icepat 2y ago
Yes? I don't understand what is so outrageous about that. Most business decisions are not made by the CEO, and the ones we know are directly a result of him have been poor.
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by icepat 2y ago
Zuckerberg, as always, is well known for making excellent business decisions that lead to greater sector buy in. The Metaverse is going great.
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by icepat 2y ago
ToS can change. Companies can (and do) act illegally. Data breaches happen. Insider threats happen. Why trust the good will of a company, over a box that you built yourself, and have complete control over?
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by icepat 2y ago
This is an old law that was changed recently. It's no longer needed that you adopt an Icelandic name to obtain citizenship.
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by icepat 2y ago
Yep, myself as well. I've heard non-English programmers who've worked with non-English codebases call them "very weird".
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by icepat 2y ago
They've been progressively losing seats in elections for years now. In the November 2024 election, they came out with zero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Icelandic_parliamentary_e...
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by icepat 2y ago
No, the debt crisis is long over and sorted.
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by icepat 2y ago
> The sinking of the elephant into snow - how deep is too deep? Should there be snow on the elephant or would it have melted from body heat? Should some of the snow fall off during movement or is it maybe packed down too tightly already?
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by icepat 2y ago
The revolution will not be in the Microsoft Store.
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by icepat 2y ago
Can you explain what in this particular explanation is clickbait?
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by icepat 2y ago
Reminded me of this existing https://dayssincelastrustmcserver.com/
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by icepat 2y ago
Odd, I distinctly remember gas prices on some machines behaving that way in 2012 or so.
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by icepat 2y ago
All transactions, actually. They're rounded to the nearest 0.05
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by icepat 2y ago
> Given that this will initially be a niche product, the price will be quite high It really becomes self defeating when this is your target market. If I can't tell what it is, why would I earmark money for it in the future?
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by icepat 2y ago
Yes, the title there really confused me for a moment.
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by icepat 2y ago
No, it does not imply that. Ignorant simply means "lacking knowledge". You're implying the separate term "willfully ignorant" means the same thing as ignorant. If it did, then willfully ignorant would be redundant,
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by icepat 2y ago
Yes? I don't see a problem with this line of reasoning.
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by icepat 2y ago
> Whereas on Telegram, I'm having fun I guess I fail to see the need for having fun in a messaging app. Signal covers all my major requirements, Telegram, while fun, does not.
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by icepat 2y ago
Nor I, I actually live in a country where Amazon mostly does not work. It's how most, if not all major publications talk about Amazon. I see it as part of a narrative of "oh no, anyway", and an attempt to ensure apathy to the
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by icepat 2y ago
What's in Telegram that you don't see in Signal? Honest question, I only use Signal rather than Telegram.
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by icepat 2y ago
> Based purely on the responses, who would you hire? Who would you consider for a manager role? Do you even believe this is the same person? > The altitude of your communication signals your seniority and experience. It's not men
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by icepat 2y ago
No, Reticulum does not require a blockchain. My understanding is that Reticulum solves this by allowing network redundancy.
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by icepat 2y ago
This confused me as well, and made me lose interest. Intentional non-answers like this are rather grating.
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by icepat 2y ago
Consumer protections in Canada are terrible, but in the very least they're not anti-consumer.
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by icepat 2y ago
Yes, because in Canada at least, if you terminate your contract, you have to pay out the phone. That's how it's done. Really, it's not a complicated solution.
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by icepat 2y ago
> There also exist a few stop motion animation films There's also a stop-motion TV series for kids, with someone who's always doing some sort of handy man task that gets completely out of hand? What's that one called again
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by icepat 2y ago
Czech children's TV is something else. I've seen some of it too and, to my North American perspective, it feels like a feverdream.
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by icepat 2y ago
Well, one solution to this would be to include bulk Markov chain generated content on your website. I'm starting to think the only way to fight back against AI scraping, is to make ourselves as unappealing a target as possible. If you
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by icepat 2y ago
Indeed, MCO has a special place in my heart.
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by icepat 2y ago
Same story for me. Water in the ear feeling for several days, except it was a punk concert and I was just young and didn't realize. Persistent low ringing in my ears ever since. Now I wear earplugs any time I'm at a concert. I do,

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