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   by jfk13 4y ago

   Yeah, that was not an accurate choice of terminology... as it says in the "more info" box, > Resistant to Optical Character Recognition (OCR), most laypeople will need to print+rescan to OCR If print+rescan (or equivalently, sc
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   by jfk13 4y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party
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   by jfk13 4y ago

   > Pay property taxes and still told what to do with YOUR property? Yes, of course. There are plenty of things I'm not allowed to do on my property; that's part of living in an orderly society. Where I live, for example: it&#x27
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   by jfk13 4y ago

   I don't think you're being at all realistic. Have you tried an international, inter-cultural move, while disabled and broke? The post mentioned "I live with family", so I don't think selling "that expensive USA
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   by jfk13 4y ago

   A couple of decades ago, when I was young(er) and (more) foolish, I several times did the drive between Columbia, SC and Dallas, TX in a single day. It was just a touch over a thousand miles. Idiocy.
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   by jfk13 4y ago

   I'm sure aerodynamics play a part, but insect population decline is a very real issue. You (and your dog) may think you have a "bug problem" where you live, but the wider picture is grim. https://www.nhm.ac.uk&#x2F
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   by jfk13 4y ago

   According to https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/a-rogue-r... , this was "the first known event of its kind". So I guess we don't have much to compare with...
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   by jfk13 4y ago

   The Register 's style is to use every bad pun, innuendo, or corny joke they can find. They'd do the same regardless of the nationality involved.
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   by jfk13 4y ago

   It's The Register . If there's a bad pun somewhere remotely within reach, they'll use it. I don't think it reflects an anti-Chinese bias, just a deliberately irreverent style.
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    > balance is ultimately more important than having good roads ...or ever-increasing numbers of humans living an ever-more-consumerist life.
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    Ah, but how many lives would you sacrifice to maintain your privacy? (And whose lives would you be entitled to sacrifice?)
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    And then what will the next president from the other side do...?
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    A slightly different situation, but it reminds me of the classic election-day crossword, which was cleverly constructed to support either outcome: http://www.alaricstephen.com/main-featured/2017/7/3/the-c
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    Hah, to me it looked like an ASCII-fied version of the Swedish word verb meaning "forgive". "Jag förlåter dig" = "I forgive you".
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    > In English, "viola" is the name of a stringed instrument. Or a flower.
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    Sounds like you're basically reinventing SRI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subresource_Integrity One issue with cross-site caching, though, is that it may enable timing-based attacks on privacy.
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    > I think Firefox uses Courier New on Windows as the default monospaced font Actually, it was recently changed to use Consolas: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607913
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    Thanks.... though note that Cf also includes things like the bidi directional-override code points, which you might still prefer to exclude.
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    > For example, we have a 'London Road' which starts in the middle of Brighton, and takes you to London, which is 50 miles away And naturally enough, at the London end (e.g. in Croydon), it's named 'Brighton Road'
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    Unfortunately, your "text safe" definition appears to exclude text in languages such as Persian (among others), where Zero Width Non-Joiner is required to write some words correctly.
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    Sounds a lot like ZeroStableCoin, discussed a few days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31714556 .
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    I'm not familiar with undo.io's products; would be curious to hear people's thoughts on how they compare to rr-project.org.
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    > interesting and valuable work I suspect we may not share the same idea of what's "valuable".
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    I suspect ideas of what is "sensitive" vary greatly. Whose definition counts?
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    And maybe that wouldn't be such a bad thing. How many of us are doing things that in a broad sense serve to benefit humanity, and how many are basically pushing ads and social-media addiction?
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    How many people can reliably identify "sensitive data", do you think?
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    > When it’s a close vote and circumstances are changing rapidly, I’d say pretty often And if you hold the vote every 2-3 years, and the result alternates between Yes and No, at what point will you say "stop, this is a final decision
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    I have mailboxes with tens of thousands of emails in them, and it works pretty well for me.
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    Indeed; see https://tether.to/en/fees .
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    Just a guess: maybe it is designed to serve English only to specific English-speaking regions such as the UK and USA, and defaults to German otherwise.