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   by kranner 6y ago

   Michael Pollan's book The Botany of Desire has this and a lot more on apples for anyone interested.
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   by kranner 6y ago

   There are many examples of fascists who were self-made men. It doesn’t have anything to do with democracy at all.
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   by kranner 6y ago

   While we're doing jokes, here's mine: I paid for the whole monitor, I'm gonna use the whole monitor!
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   by kranner 6y ago

   Great writing too! If I remember a chapter title correctly: "The best optimizer is between your ears!"
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   by kranner 6y ago

   In the latest bizzare example of government abuse of the arbitrary and slow legal system, a person who turned off the police's water cannon which they were using to spray farmers in a protest has been charged with attempt to murder. &q
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   by kranner 6y ago

   Thank you, dang :)
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   by kranner 6y ago

   Another instance is a spate of recent 1-star reviews on Amazons with comments like "Great product, works as described and value for money, but I'm giving it 1 star because it's made in China". Seems to me Amazon is letti
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   by kranner 6y ago

   > You know, sometimes less is more, if the game world is just about detailed enough that you can make out what things are supposed to be, you have to let the creative part of your brain do much more work to fill in the blanks, which ulti
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   by kranner 6y ago

   I think that is as intended. People who are no longer students should select the Professional membership option, which is what I did.
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    by kranner 6y ago

    For anyone in India, the cheapest way to get a Safari Books subscription is via an ACM Professional or Student membership. It’s only INR 1500 per year.
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    by kranner 6y ago

    > Fair access is not provided by the official website. When one clicks "Book" and then suddenly get an Internal Server Error in network logs (while UI shows in-progress icon) or gets logged out - where is Fair Access? Inept as
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    by kranner 6y ago

    Thanks! As the book (from 1922) seems to be out of copyright, here's a link to the PDF copy I found on archive.org. https://archive.org/details/einsteinstheorie0000bird
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    by kranner 6y ago

    > I found it quite surprising that they were capable of reading that I have some IDA Pro experience, because it's in the fine print of my profile and not at all readable when you skim it. Wouldn't searching profiles for "I
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    by kranner 6y ago

    > For the bathroom, I (a man) peed sitting down. I’m not ashamed to admit it. I've never understood why it is considered un-masculine for men to pee sitting down. Or even if it is, why so many men pee standing up just to play along.
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    by kranner 6y ago

    David Allen, the inventor of the popular Getting Things Done (GTD) task/time management system, stressed the importance of a "trusted system" in keeping one able to relax and focus on one thing at a time, even as a grown-up w
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    by kranner 6y ago

    Sarno's book didn't help me either. I wasn't even sure what the point was, until I watched a documentary called "All the Rage" (available on Amazon Prime in the US) on Sarno and his method, which at least clarified
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    by kranner 6y ago

    Sorry, my mistake. Turned out I was signed in via Apple ID.
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    by kranner 6y ago

    > You can't work 365 days in a year and neither should your stomach, it needs a rest. These analogies are often misleading. Your heart for one definitely needs to work every day.
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    by kranner 6y ago

    They don't the next day. That seems to be more the point.
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    by kranner 6y ago

    I use it without an account.
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    by kranner 6y ago

    You'll have to account for increased rates of smoking in both Muslim-majority countries and Muslim populations in non-Muslim-majority countries. From https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1360407/
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    by kranner 6y ago

    At least with Kindle books, you can run them through DeDRM and back up the DRM-free files. With Audible audiobooks, I’m not aware of a method other than to play them back and record the audio in real time.
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    by kranner 6y ago

    > You can still find the ad blocker extension here. However, you will not be able to run it. Chrome made changes so that extensions cannot be side-loaded without an enterprise profile. You can currently sideload extensions in Chrome by t
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    by kranner 6y ago

    VWs available in India are far safer than Japanese cars, if for no reason other than the all steel construction. VWs are heavy too; you'll need more than one person to push if the battery runs out and you have to push start it. You&#x2
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    by kranner 6y ago

    What about the psychological stress of a massive AWS bill because of a misconfiguration by you or someone on your team?
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    by kranner 6y ago

    From the employee handbook of a Polish law firm [1]: > Generally, an employee cannot refuse to work overtime, because it is part of the employee’s duties. The PLC imposes the obligation on the employee to work conscientiously and to foll
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    by kranner 6y ago

    Is it really illegal? At least in the US cracking DRM for personal backup is not infringing AFAIK. https://gizmodo.com/its-perfectly-legal-to-tell-people-how-t...
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    by kranner 6y ago

    Very amusing except for your connection troubles. I also had intermittent disconnection issues with the same ISP that they fobbed off with "maybe your WiFI is bad/has interference" or "you may be running other processes
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    by kranner 6y ago

    GP's comment was about the probable capability of currently performed bots, not the SOTA performance of bots that may be deployed in theory.
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    by kranner 6y ago

    Every couple of weeks one of my internet connections (here in India) slows down dramatically. I used to call and complain, and my ISP would say they would "reset my account" which always brought things back to normal. For months I