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by jddj 7y ago
You have a typo in the overview (exsiting), [1]and another in Features (psudeu). I can see how this could be useful though. Might be nice to have a single endpoint for encryption-at-rest of logs, database fields, etc. [1]Edited to add
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EU migrants no extra burden on taxpayers in more generous welfare states(theconversation.com)
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by jddj 7y ago
Typically it's more like thin but with poor muscle definition. Not overweight but not fit. But assuming the gp was exercising with weights etc, they might mean that they felt they weren't overweight but were carrying excess fat in
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by jddj 7y ago
I'm suspicious of that figure as you've presented it, but I'm not all that familiar with the trial either. If it weren't for Android, how many fewer people would be using Chrome as their daily mobile browser? How can we
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by jddj 8y ago
The premise is as presented by the title is clearly ridiculous. That said, the article itself touches on some vaguely interesting points. I enjoyed the image of early humans taking down antelopes through a combination of persistence and eff
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by jddj 8y ago
Me either. The comments in this thread to the tune of "anything is better than being dead" actually kind of took me by surprise. I can conceive of a point where technology and society has developed to a place where bodies are repl
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by jddj 8y ago
I held this mindset ("I never click ads, and hide them whenever I see them. The whole industry is a giant bubble") for a long time. Then instagram started showing me ads for small live music events featuring artists I regularly li
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by jddj 8y ago
Anecdotally my experience would suggest that they are important. As someone living in one European country where English is less frequently spoken and occasionally traveling for work to others where English is more prevalent, I always felt
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by jddj 8y ago
The Australian govt. have timed this well. The passage of this legislation has further closed the window for the big tech players to make the appropriate amount of noise about the anti-encryption legislation. The opportunity was there a few
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by jddj 8y ago
From what I've seen over the last few years, the metal detectors in many airports also serve the purpose of randomly selecting for body scans and/or explosives checks. I imagine it's an attempt to reduce discrimination and bi
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by jddj 8y ago
Psychopath? That I would rather that all the terrible things in the world emerged randomly rather than being a part of some grand plan, or some supernatural game of Good Vs Evil? I think you might be reaching for a label when you could have
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by jddj 8y ago
Ha, yeah, all of the awful shit is better this way as well.
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by jddj 8y ago
If a universe bubbled into existence, stars exploded and cooled and a bag of atoms were to self-organise and develop the capacity to experience its own relative concepts of pleasure and suffering over millennia, I don't think it would
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by jddj 8y ago
That's the million dollar question. What's the alternative to declaring our UI using pseudo-html elements and string-matching on css class proxies from the currently-in-favour CSS framework which sits on top of the javascript fram
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by jddj 8y ago
Yeah, right? Maybe they lost the specifics of that pesky Paladin contract as collateral damage from the hackers' actions.
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by jddj 8y ago
Hmm, is this a recent change? I mean, I know there have been recent changes in apple's attitude towards enterprise certs, but I've been able to sign internal ad-hoc apps with a developer cert which would last one year (i.e until t
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by jddj 8y ago
The idea that adjectives can only apply to humans is pretty novel. Wait, can I say that? Can statements be considered ridiculous? Or is that just people too?
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by jddj 8y ago
Huh, I thought it was well-known that many borders were drawn arbitrarily. India / Pakistan is one example. Lots of middle Africa. Basically anywhere where colonialism played a major role and there wasn't an ocean or giant mountai
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by jddj 8y ago
When someone puts sugar in my tea or coffee it genuinely ruins it for me, but I eat sweet things faily rarely and so haven't developed the tolerance and/or addiction to that flavour. Could it be that not eating sugar isn't so
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by jddj 8y ago
Australia and Canada have universal healthcare. Poor purchasing power / stagnant wages is a problem across all sectors (except finance?) in the UK, not just healthcare.
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by jddj 8y ago
The expectation of bipartisanship on 'national security issues' definitely makes the average citizen feel powerless, which is particularly worrying because all of the privacy/centralised control overreaches are easily framed
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by jddj 8y ago
Admittedly I'm not from the US , but regardless I get the feeling that you might be seeing government subsidies for public services as more bizarre and infrequent than they actually are. Does public transport ever get subsidized at the
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by jddj 8y ago
Ah shit, that's totally fair. Sorry for coming off as tone-deaf, I got stuck in my filter bubble for a moment. While international development hopefully isn't a complete lost cause (on long enough timescales), I can definitely see
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by jddj 8y ago
I was going to write a long comment detailing what I did on the way to Spanish fluency, but I realized that the main thing I wanted to say was this: There's a podcast called Language Transfer which focuses on understanding other langu
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by jddj 8y ago
I recently moved a fair sum of money between two countries where no EU-style agreements exist. I used regular money and went through a fairly well-known fintech company who specializes in this type of thing, and I think the whole process on
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by jddj 8y ago
The irony for me is that if a company wanted to construct a strong profile of me to sell me ads, I'd have to imagine that Feedly (I switched to Feedly when Google Reader was retired) would now be one of the best placed to do that. I s
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by jddj 8y ago
I agree 100%. Reading On The Road first is essential, but Big Sur for me was the best example of that sharp, cynical ennui which for whatever reason was exactly what I was looking for during that period of my life when I read as much Keroua
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by jddj 8y ago
Yeah ok, I don't have anything to point to which refutes that. An analysis of the breakdown of the contributors to the Australian housing bubble in 2018 would be cool to see, though. Probably some kind of even split between significant
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by jddj 8y ago
This seems pretty unlikely. The handout mentioned was a one-off 900 Australian dollars per individual earning less than $AU100k, and a one-off "back to school" bonus per school-aged child. 900 dollars, or even $2100 for a small fa
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by jddj 8y ago
Something which I have found helps me when I'm in one of those motivation funks which last longer than a day and which I can't seem to shake is to spend a bit of time consuming impressive work that other people have done in fields

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