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imgabe
8mo ago
If they were going to bankrupt you with a legal fight, how would posting the video on Tiktok help? Do you think Tiktok is going to assume the liability for what you post? Because they aren't.
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imgabe
8mo ago
You flooded yourselves with bullshit. The people yearn for bullshit. Always have.
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imgabe
8mo ago
100,000 protestors and not a single one can upload a video to a CDN and throw up a static page with an HTML5 player? Sucks to suck, I guess.
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imgabe
8mo ago
Of course, because TikTok is the only way people in the US can access information.
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imgabe
9mo ago
For affordability reasons, just build more housing. It doesn't matter how many houses anyone owns if you just build. more. housing.
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imgabe
9mo ago
In terms of a standard, it would be nice if "reader mode" were standardized to request a text-only minimal formatting version of the site.
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10mo ago
They give several well-considered criticisms of the question - it leads people to focus on socioecomonic status, it doesn't correlate with other measure like whether they report experiencing joy recently, etc. It's not much of a d
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10mo ago
Why is it necessary to have a flood of foreign money to operate the university? Universities in the past operated without an influx of wealthy foreign students paying outrageous tuition. Today they are bloated with administration that is no
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imgabe
10mo ago
The current status quo of Hollywood has extremely narrowed what culture is created and promoted, it is only now starting to open back up.
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10mo ago
It's just focusing on different things. Sure they had wood and metal tools, but they also had literal snake oil, watered stock, and people selling you the Brooklyn Bridge.
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10mo ago
For certain tasks for me, having a movie running while I'm working is more productive. It gives something to take your attention when you have to wait for something without getting sucked in to endless scrolling.
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imgabe
11mo ago
But then McDonald's could just buy the information. They don't need an app on my phone to get it.
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11mo ago
> A company will know that you just got paid and so charge you just a bit more for your chicken nuggets than they do when you haven’t been paid in two weeks. I know there's various data apps can collect. On iOS at least it seems lik
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11mo ago
It's in the article. > The debt facility is being made through the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO), which was formed under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to foster the growth of clean energy technologies. > The I
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11mo ago
It sounds like this is the actual problem and instead of paying exorbitant salaries or fixing the entire US education system Ford just needs to face reality and accept how long repairs actually take and pay for that time. That and/or r
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11mo ago
This is one of those things that, for some people, will be simple but not easy. If you grew up with an emotionally erratic parent or caregiver, who might suddenly explode with anger at unpredictable times, that’s probably why you’re unwilli
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11mo ago
Everyone in the military should be trained with weapons. If it comes down to it, even the guy who mops the floors is going to need to pick up a rifle if the situation is dire enough. It helps if he held one before at least.
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11mo ago
My data was exposed in one of the Facebook leaks and it turned out I had an old email on my Facebook account with a domain I had since let lapse and abandoned. Someone else registered the domain and tried to take over my Facebook account by
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11mo ago
"happy" seems like a temporary state. It's a reaction you have to an event. In base state without any input, you would be neither happy nor unhappy. Then something happens and if you like it you're happy about it for a w
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1y ago
A power company builds a generation plant of a certain size. That plant is going to run whether there is a data center or not. Maybe there is some incremental additional water usage if it is running at 85% capacity instead of 75% capacity b
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1y ago
There is an honest way to count and that is to count the water directly used by the person or process in question. There are many other ways to count to make big scary number for clickbait article. I suppose we could also count all the wate
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1y ago
> noted that it would be harder to reach its internal target if its calculations included “secondary” use—water used in generating the electricity to power its data centres, according to the document. Ok, when we're considering how
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1y ago
Anyone can have an opinion, I never said or implied otherwise. Having an opinion does not make one an expert, hence the scare quotes. The headline is misleading because when there is news about experts saying something about technology, one
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1y ago
The "experts" in this case are > Dr Corinne Cath-Speth, the head of digital at human rights organisation Article 19 Dr. Cath-Speth has a PhD in cultural anthropology > Cori Crider, the executive director of the Future of Tec
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1y ago
If the incoming radiation can pass through, why can't it pass through on the way out?
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1y ago
nothing makes it impossible, but they already have Excel installed on their computer and they learned how to use it. Depending on where they work they may not be able to install Python or R or a database.
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1y ago
I agree spreadsheets are amazing, but they are not databases. Much grief has been caused by trying to make them be one.
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1y ago
> paying by the gallon only happens in the United States It does. In other countries they pay by the liter and it's also much more expensive unless you're in the middle east.
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1y ago
The thing with a boarding house is it's not targeted specifically at people who are currently homeless. It's just for anyone who wants to save money on housing. Maybe people who just moved to a new city and haven't found a pl
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1y ago
In reality, you choose the speed of the conveyor belt. You choose what expenses you take on and therefore how much you need to make each month. To a large part, you can slow the belt down if you like. Options like boarding houses would allo
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