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by kalupa 3y ago
had to think about this a bit. It doesn't directly affect it, but it adds to the problem of global warming by increasing the temp gradient between the higher elevation interior and the cooler, lower elevation coast. This can cause more
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by kalupa 3y ago
and they're called by-laws when set by a condo or strata, too! (in Canada)
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by kalupa 3y ago
Speak for yourself! Everyone I know personally have left and re-founded the sources they followed there elsewhere. Anecdotal? Sure it is! All we're going to get from X is anecdote or lies about usage anyway, so why not lean into it, hu
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by kalupa 3y ago
oh dear, I thought that was common only in my own marketing-in-tech career! My solution was to move away from the agency and to the agency's vendors, instead. Worked so far, a decade on!
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by kalupa 3y ago
I think you make a mistake and assume "predetermined" is the opposite of "free will"
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by kalupa 3y ago
proof is overrated when you want to believe
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by kalupa 3y ago
half the iOS developers I've known were making software before the App Store existed ... but to your point about "iOS class", wasn't there any more general "this is how you use C/C++" classes? Objective-C
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by kalupa 3y ago
would that be true for providers that aren't Fastly? why would there be a different implementation for non-fastly? or are they the sole providers for private relay?
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by kalupa 3y ago
which society to do you mean?
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by kalupa 3y ago
you may be seeing a "guilt based society" trying to use a "shame based society" mores, here. we don't live in a shame based society, so it fails to do it's work pretty quickly ... but then there's the rise
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by kalupa 3y ago
AFAIK, and I'm with you on this, that bars that have tvs have to at least pretend to pay the rights holders for playing sports on their tvs, which in turn brings people in to spend money on drinks and/or food. I can't imaging
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by kalupa 3y ago
this is a better review of the laptop than I would have gotten from the real review!
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by kalupa 3y ago
Sadly, I don't see Amazon deciding to turn a profit center into a cost sink
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by kalupa 3y ago
I suspect there's still plenty of much, much easier to access trees. The macro-economic effects of the wars, and covid, often causing gasoline prices increases (which is used a lot in forestry) that are still adding pressure to almost
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by kalupa 3y ago
while this sucks for commercial property owners and the plethora of businesses that have supported the office work life for so long, time for them all to adapt and move on. SF is a boom/bust town, they're used to it, right? <&#
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by kalupa 3y ago
discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37774580
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by kalupa 3y ago
All the money and effort is spent on convincing people they _need_ it, rather than figuring out what people actually _do_ need.
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by kalupa 3y ago
Wait, planing authorities don’t plan roads?
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by kalupa 3y ago
you sure bro
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by kalupa 3y ago
granted the crypto export restrictions were on information, not physical chips ...
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by kalupa 3y ago
pseudoephedrine is still available over the counter in Canada, too. Despite pressure from the USA, that fact hasn't changed. I literally just bought cold meds with it as an ingredient just yesterday. Not just limited to "store bra
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by kalupa 3y ago
cold medication has, as far as I've personally seen, never claimed to treat the problem, just relieve the symptoms. The marketing definitely deviates from this, though.
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by kalupa 3y ago
having witnessed this escalation in a family member, it's completely the same description I'd have used. I can't imagine how annoying it was to have a constantly stuffy nose, yet the only relief is ever-increasing nasal spray
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by kalupa 3y ago
sorry, I got totally distracted and remembered a strange scene/gag from The IT Crowd ... "The Shoes!" but also this whole comment is probably way more telling of the fact that folks are expecting friendship to just <poof&g
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by kalupa 3y ago
"somehow" is due to their different income model from google. their customers are their search users, not advertisers, so it's not surprising they serve the people that pay them. I'm a very, very happy Kagi user due to t
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by kalupa 3y ago
in to boost this thinking. "correct" is only relevant for profitability of the advertising stream
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by kalupa 3y ago
but will this strategy give them more advertising impressions or clicks? if not, then why bother? Google dropped it's desire to be user-friendly quite a while ago, when it became clear that it didn't matter if they were serving an
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by kalupa 3y ago
this might be unique to your experience. I can't say the same about my own a decade ago. it was due to the employer I was with at the time. they valued "attendance" and "billable hours" way more than quality or even
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by kalupa 3y ago
does "personal computer" also overlap with what we still call "phone"?
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by kalupa 3y ago
only if you want to charge things one by one ...

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