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by jowea 3y ago
Technically speaking yes. It's complicated.
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by jowea 3y ago
I just opened it and it seems to be a simplified version of the app lacking a lot of features like stops and groceries. Curiously I just realized it's the same view I get from the app on my phone a lot of the time due to some kind of e
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by jowea 3y ago
Is most of piracy still this style of downloading torrents?
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by jowea 3y ago
At least py3 runs on the same hardware.
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by jowea 3y ago
> Torrents require you to own a PC (there's no way to torrent on a phone or smart TV AFAIK), Usenet requires you to have some tech knowledge, same goes for Plex / Jellyfin. There are some piracy subreddits you can look at to ge
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by jowea 3y ago
I wonder if mandating content licenses being non-exclusive and separating media distributors from producers would help.
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by jowea 3y ago
Did this not work because Netflix didn't want to or because the producers decided they wanted to do distribution themselves?
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by jowea 3y ago
The part about Titanic being split is a joke, right? Right?
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by jowea 3y ago
But why? Increased awareness that piracy is an option? Feeling that the punishment risk disincentive substitutes the moral guilt disincentive? Or just the power of contrarianism and risk-seeking?
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by jowea 3y ago
You're saying media industry groups finance anti-piracy ads in an attempt to counter-intuitively increase piracy and also counter-intuitively indirectly increase sales?
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by jowea 3y ago
I've seen argued that this is deliberate when the tobacco industry is funding the anti-smoking ads, but I don't think that's the case here.
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by jowea 3y ago
I can't help but think that any species insane enough to use Orion drives in the first stage probably already found a way to blow itself up before it gets to that point. And maybe I'm taking Terra Invicta too seriously but maybe t
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by jowea 3y ago
Spacefaring would be much easier if we were Martians but going up, then down to colonize Mars just to start launching rockets back up from there seems mostly pointless? Isn't it much easier to colonize some asteroids, or Mars' moo
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by jowea 3y ago
I understand the logic of that claim for when he's supposedly visiting occupied areas, but why do this when meeting another head of state?
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by jowea 3y ago
Stupid question: but why does video monetize so much better? Is it because of sponsorships that are harder to skip than just jumping a text paragraph? Or it's the normal ads?
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by jowea 3y ago
IANAL and it depends by jurisdiction but I don't you can stick whatever you want in those sort of shrink-wrap contracts. And according to this site[1] there's at least one (Finland) where surprising terms specifically are not allo
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by jowea 3y ago
Just use the classic "this statement is false"
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by jowea 3y ago
At least there would be an integrated payment system that works for microtransactions. Maybe we wouldn't have had the adweb.
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by jowea 3y ago
Will we get the next steps of gold to gold certificate money to fiat too?
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by jowea 3y ago
Isn't "do the needful" standard Indian English?
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by jowea 3y ago
Or just HN Gold
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by jowea 3y ago
I guess we could solve the "is it DD/MM/YY or MM/DD/YY?" problem while we're at it, but ISO8601 already did.
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by jowea 3y ago
And just in case you need more proof this is just the current year edition of an old thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzzword_compliant#Examples
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by jowea 3y ago
About understanding, we're used to it but you can't trivially know whether 02/05/2026 is a Monday. Even remembering whether July has 30 or 31 days can be a chore. Irregular months also can have some small annoying effec
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by jowea 3y ago
No comment on the other half but why would that make you worse at investing?
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by jowea 3y ago
I mean, haven't governments always taken an interest? Lots of countries had and still have sodomy laws. Polygamy has been fought for centuries in the West. And I think most Western governments have fought the church over oversight over
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by jowea 3y ago
People complain about that in the English Wikipedia but I guess it can be even worse in the smaller ones? Weren't a few of them basically captured by the local far-right propagandists? Is this group you're talking about political
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by jowea 3y ago
> The "not notable enough" is in place in part to try to limit the amount of pages that need curating. As someone who leans inclusionist I wondered about that, but I think it also has to do with the existence of reliable source
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by jowea 3y ago
> Their (public school) teachers senselessly already tell them to avoid it. :-( Weren't they doing that from the beginning? I get the feeling this feeling has gone down not up. >I don't think Wikipedia will die for any speci
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by jowea 3y ago
> an app that everyone uses Wouldn't that be the "everyone app"? And in any case, I assume Elon would want both.

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