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by jfk13 6y ago
Not for me. (I suspect the details of this vary between system versions, and they certainly depend on settings chosen in System Preferences / Keyboard / Shortcuts.)
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by jfk13 6y ago
So is Calvin and Hobbes, kinda... https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/02/11
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by jfk13 6y ago
It's a shortcut to an Edit menu item within the application, so whatever shortcut the app gives it; e.g. in Firefox it appears to be simply Cmd-<space>. But wait... that doesn't actually work (it just switches to the next in
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by jfk13 6y ago
Not always; that's app-specific, not a system-wide setting.
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by jfk13 6y ago
So the two-word title here already failed? Hmm.
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by jfk13 6y ago
> The research topic isn’t blockchain related, isn’t based on buzzwords, isn’t Twitter driven, etc. Well, one of the criteria appears to be "the potential to positively impact Ethereum", so it's hardly unrelated. > The
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by jfk13 6y ago
So instead they were able to get grants on the basis of....what? Knowing some key people involved with Ethereum? Telling a persuasive story on Twitter? Having the right buzzwords in their bio? Sure, "the academics politics game" m
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by jfk13 6y ago
Quite a bit of discussion yesterday in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26403614 .
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by jfk13 6y ago
I had that problem with rail tickets in Germany, too... stations with machines that would only accept the local kind of bank card, not my Visa card. Weirdly, at the main station in Bochum (for example), there were some machines that would
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by jfk13 6y ago
Security perhaps (if you're sufficiently careful how you use it), but I would have thought stability was also pretty important if you're thinking in terms of lifetimes. Bitcoin doesn't show much sign of offering that.
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by jfk13 6y ago
They may have truly sold more rooms than the hotel has... just not all for the same night.
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by jfk13 6y ago
I gather you're in the States?
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by jfk13 6y ago
And that's before you consider that much of what appears on reddit isn't "real experiences of real people" anyway, it's self-indulgent, exaggerated or downright made-up rubbish posted for meaningless "karma&quo
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by jfk13 6y ago
> I'm too old to vote now There are places with a maximum voting age?
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by jfk13 6y ago
I'm not sure "make a killing as the first mover" is the best choice of wording when the topic is self-driving cars.
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by jfk13 6y ago
> Yes, I am implying that a typical bookstore shouldn't have Mein Kampf for sale. And as a matter of fact, I think a typical bookstore doesn't have it. Really? Trying the "check availability" feature on https:/&
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by jfk13 6y ago
Are you implying you don't think a typical bookstore should have Mein Kampf on the shelves? Why? Or are you just trying to suggest that Dr. Seuss is somehow comparable to Adolf Hitler?
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by jfk13 6y ago
> We could probably have a mostly self sustaining colony in caves on Mars within ten years Even if that's true (which I highly doubt), a "mostly" self-sustaining colony won't last long if a catastrophe cripples human
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by jfk13 6y ago
Perpetual growth based on an ever-increasing population is a recipe for eventual disaster. The earth's resources are not infinite. We may not be able to say precisely what its carrying capacity for humans is (and the answer would depen
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by jfk13 6y ago
In which case the layout may survive, but I expect the "labels" that appear when the icon font fails will be cropped to their first couple of letters or so: not a great fallback in terms of helping the user understand what they&#x
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by jfk13 6y ago
I see they promote the ligature approach: <span class="material-icons">face</span> where the font is expected to ligate the characters 'f', 'a', 'c', 'e' into a sin
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by jfk13 6y ago
I'm curious where you can find a 1.57% overdraft rate? Looking at https://moneyfacts.co.uk/news/banking/revealed-the-cost-of-n... , for example, lists (arranged) rates in the range of 15-40%.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Isn't that what flashlights are for?
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Amazon rainforest plots sold via Facebook Marketplace ads(bbc.co.uk)
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by jfk13 6y ago
Should've just repackaged the US butter, labelled it as "packaged in New Zealand", and resold that to the Russians at a hefty markup.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Just FYI, the landing page seems slightly broken in Safari (the right-hand half of the footer is cut off). I suspect this may be a bug in Safari's handling of CSS Grid layout, but you might want to try and work around it.
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by jfk13 6y ago
According to the BBC article at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56149894 , "Boeing has recommended grounding all 777 aircraft with the same type of engine". So this isn't just a few airlines o
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by jfk13 6y ago
Note that it's not just United. "Boeing has recommended grounding all 777 aircraft with the same type of engine".
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by jfk13 6y ago
> identifying the president from the deluded I'm guessing you might have meant "prescient" there? Then again, perhaps not.
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> You're right - we are a 'socially cooperative species', and we're good at it. Leave us alone to cooperate and don't invoke some government authority. Isn't "some government authority" exactly how

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