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by kace91 6y ago
Wikileaks is an institution as well, with a reputation attached to it, and (presumably) a bar one must clear for information to be declared worth publishing under their name.
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I'm starting to get fed up with TV shows (netflix or otherwise) for that same reason. It seems you only have two choices: - first season doesn't pull enough viewers, it's cancelled. - first season pulls enough viewers, season
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by kace91 6y ago
sorry, a bunch. Autocorrect is shitty sometimes when you've got several languages active at the same time.
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I see some issues there: - Is keeping a magnet near my credit /public transport cards safe? Can't they be damaged by magnets? - all of those cards are contactless in my country. Will I have to take them out to use apple pay, to av
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These creative video transitions are soo much better than live events with awkward cheering and applauses...
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Fair point on the second. About the first, while we've always had places where content is reinforced (mass for churches is a great example), it's not something we compulsively check every 5 minutes. There are orders of magnitude o
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Depends on the language and what you'll use the name for. Some names change capitalisation when the last name is used by itself vs full name for example. In some languages a name affect the words around it in a sentence (for a random e
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Disinformation always existed, but: - it could never be targeted with the precision it is nowadays - its effects could not be measured with the precision they can nowadays - you couldn't plant information in a way that it seemed to com
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by kace91 6y ago
My team doesn't write long format commit messages and it's never been an issue. When we need to track down changes we use the corresponding mr, which includes a description as well as a link to the relevant cards. I personally lik
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Internet advertising also lives in the YouTube apps, social networks like instagram, or pop ups in free apps, to name a few. And those are way more annoying, since they're baked into thected by ad blockers...
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by kace91 6y ago
I just made one of those online speed tests and it came up at ~45mb/s. Not sure if that's representative, but the important answer is that it's good enough that I never feel it's a bottleneck. As for price, I've got
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by kace91 6y ago
I've wondered for a while if it would be possible to train an AI to create visualisations of dinosaurs and extinct animals. We've got sample data from living creatures and their skeletons, so if we could somehow traing a model tha
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by kace91 6y ago
I've got unlimited mobile data for a great price in spain as well. Honestly, I hope the us catches up at some point because software still doesn't even consider it an option - I have to actively fight all my settings so I can get
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by kace91 6y ago
I don't fully buy the idea _that sideloading solves this potential abuse_, not that the abuse exists, I thought that was clear. I'd hate it if the big players got to take decisions against human rights under the excuse that an alt
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I don't fully buy this idea, because I've never seen an app become successfully widespread through side loading. The technical friction is just too high for non technical users. I agree that we need a solution to monopolistic app
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That sounds awesome. Does the reduction have to be in blocks of days? or can you just work, say, 5 hours a day instead of 8 ?
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are all of those used? I'm not American, but here tinder seems to be the only option whatsoever (aside of the lgtb alternatives).
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You make an interesting point: what would a social network of limited range look like? Something where you couldn't have more than a set number of connections, things didn't spread more than two nodes in the graph, and resharing w
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by kace91 6y ago
grab a piece of paper with text on it. place it in your hands as if you were about to read it. Now flip it so a mirror in front of you can see it. The text is right to left, isn't it? Now notice that, in order to "show it to the m
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by kace91 6y ago
Beyonce filled a stadium with capacity for 100k people a couple of years ago. Not sure if you'll count that or you refer specifically to rock as a genre; if it's the second I'd say it's natural for the mainstream popular
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I remember that being a plot point in Asimov stories: people from earth are eventually treated as inferior because they are potential carriers of sicknesses that don't exist anymore in colonised planets, and for which the habitants no
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The idea of specific group names for different animals is kinda weird anyway, coming from a non-native speaker. What's the point of having so many? It doesn't provide any extra semantic meaning over just having general "herds
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Through the wonderful glasses of hindsight, of course.
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and it holds potentially less important data. I know many influencial people including first line politicians in my country that use whatsapp on the daily, while I really can't see any of them sharing confidential information on instag
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This might be me being overly cautious here, but I would be wary of the political implications of the study. It's from an open University that's a project for lifelong learning funded as a public service in Catalonia - promoting t
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Badly designed caches for example. Though I have no idea what happened in this particular case.
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> It's really time for a good alternative to Reddit to arise. They are ready for disruption. Counteropinion: We don't need a good alternative. I've learned a lot on reddit, but honestly, I've spent so many hundreds of
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by kace91 6y ago
It was felt very strongly here in Spain, too. I have a giant Mafalda compilation book on a shelve next to me, I practically learn to read with those strips since my parents already had them by the time I was born. Along with Les Luthiers re
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You can't overstate how useless auto generated captions are. I'm not an English native speaker, so I sometimes need captions for people with particularly strong accents, slang, or people talking quickly over each other. Those are
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I love hacker news, but visiting the "new" section from time to time and seeing what gets flagged away it's sobering. So many things are killed way before the majority even glances at them...

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