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by livueta 3y ago
> what gave you the idea that you're entitled to consume for free content that other people payed to produce and host? The fact that their HTTP server replied 200 OK. If they want to put up a paywall or use a different protocol they
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by livueta 3y ago
What? > Tiegs argued that “100 percent” of sex work is human trafficking He's completely upfront about conflating all sex work with human trafficking. I genuinely don't understand how you could read this and not get that the po
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by livueta 3y ago
> By being able to argue for/against Kritiques, you gain the ability to quickly call out the fucking bullshit and go straight to the meat. This! I actually laughed out loud at the following line from tfa: > A Public Forum debater
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by livueta 3y ago
> protected time to cross As a road runner and bike commuter in the before times who's been run over a couple of times, crosswalks are a shit idea that cause far more harm than good, full stop. Fuck crosswalks. This is actually a go
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by livueta 3y ago
Yeah, I think it'll be a lot like how Vocaloid hasn't destroyed the market for real vocalists. If anything it's the exact opposite, where people get into the medium via it and end up as actual vocalists, like Reol with No Tit
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by livueta 3y ago
Paranoia Agent really is a masterpiece. It works incredibly well. Every time it comes up, I have to shill Kuuchuu Buranko as something anyone who enjoyed Paranoia Agent should watch. It, along with Tatami and Paranoia , are my pers
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by livueta 3y ago
Maybe I'm getting tinfoil-y here, but I think the horribleness is the point: consider how eager Apple in particular is to get people fully enmeshed in their services ecosystem. You're a lot less likely to try to roll your own back
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by livueta 3y ago
You're accurately describing the status quo, but I think the parent's point is that a lot more people, me included, would be interested in defending these frequency allocations as a public good if they were more practically usable
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by livueta 3y ago
To add to all of this great info, to any prospective dispersed campers: please use high-quality, recent, ideally official maps of your choosing to ensure you're on the sort of land you think you are. Boundaries can change and notes on
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by livueta 3y ago
disclaimer: lapsed typesetter/scanlator/vn patcher Your and the parent's statements are actually congruent: they're not saying ripsubs aren't shit, which they are, but that they're good enough to minimize the
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by livueta 3y ago
I have most of my best ideas, both work and personal, while running, so I like having a phone on me in order to reference stuff and take good notes before the thought is lost in the ether.
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by livueta 3y ago
Yep: http://www.tlmc.eu/2018/01/tlmc-v19.html > remixes True but also kinda sells the whole phenomenon short a bit. I think "arrangements" is the most common English language description. Touhou douji
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by livueta 3y ago
"Most" might be hard to prove, but they're at the forefront of using new-ish technologies like TPM/SGX to ensure their non-retention policies are workable in practice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by livueta 3y ago
That's completely untrue, though, because I was part of communities that migrated from SwiftIRC to Discord upon launch. Basically everyone who played the first few years of OSRS at a serious level used Swift heavily. https:/&#x2F
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by livueta 3y ago
> Only users who report bugs bring value. While bug reports are great, isn't this fairly trivially untrue? Consider something like firefox, where size of userbase directly translates into practical usability w.r.t. webdevs having to
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by livueta 3y ago
Yeah, probably the #1 reason I use (de-googled) Android over anything else is easy access to the filesystem coupled with allowing background work. I can have Syncthing or Nextcloud passively slurp all my photos in the background while keepi
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by livueta 3y ago
SwiftIRC (as it existed a decade ago) would like to have a word.
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by livueta 3y ago
As a kid bootstrapping online funding, I used prepaid debit cards available from many retailers. AFAIK there still isn't any kind of point-of-sale age check, and while some providers who use CC info for age/location verification c
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by livueta 3y ago
Sorry, as down-thread, I phrased that terribly - not 200m all, just 2277 and ~1b total xp, though I guess I was top 100-200 overall/ehp when I was playing. My distribution of xp is unique enough to identify me, so sorry for not naming
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by livueta 3y ago
Not all, just 2277 + buyables/easy ones, but still well north of 20k hours (including rs2, so not just since 2013) all told. If it actually were 200m all I'd probably feel differently. And no, not really. One, it was a lot of fun.
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by livueta 3y ago
"Runescape 2" is doing a lot of work in the original comment. The GE was originally introduced as a key aspect of restricted trade - the game system disallowing unbalanced exchanges of wealth, either through trade or PvP to combat
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by livueta 3y ago
I haven't played since maxing and finishing my 200ms circa 2016, but at least at that point your meme was pretty true of the efficient skilling community. A surprising number of high-ehp players held down professional jobs while legiti
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by livueta 3y ago
What do you all like to do for security key backups? I use yubikeys wherever I can, but I've got to admit that fetching all 5+ keys from their various locations and then replacing them every time I need to enroll in something gets old
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by livueta 3y ago
One interesting thing about this is that standoff from direct body heat matters. A layer of space blanket in a jacket is an improvement over nothing but not particularly effective. Purpose-made material like https://fibrotexusa.c
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by livueta 4y ago
I really don't know if I'd say that, even as a mid-2000s m-muh soul obsessive (big fan of stuff like Kuuchuu Buranko, Gankutsuou, Haibane Renmei, Texhnolyze, Hidamari, Paranoia Agent, Aria, Standalone Complex, YKK) who's freq
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by livueta 4y ago
This is a real question, so I apologize if it comes off as sophistry: Is the work of judging the accuracy of a summary not just the work of comprehending the non-summarized field? For example, a summary could be completely correct and cite
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by livueta 4y ago
Yeah, I find it utterly believable because I've seen the exact same dynamic, down to the increasingly lazy redaction and bizarre lack of opsec, in a different context: low self esteem gamer gets hired by game studio, but most of his fr
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by livueta 4y ago
https://archive.is/Pz87w
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Why so many Russian tanks fall prey to Ukrainian mines(economist.com)
5 points by livueta 4y ago|1 comments
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by livueta 4y ago
I don't think that's always correct. Quoting from the cost basis portion of one of my combined 1099 packets: > Note: This information is not reported to the IRS. It may assist you in tax return preparation. They give me a 1099B

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