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by ljcn 8y ago
Swedish too.
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by ljcn 8y ago
A trade war is a funny way to go about that.
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by ljcn 8y ago
I was agreeing with you. You wrote yourself that modern usage is synonymous, so I thought it would be interesting to look at the etymology too. For the record the full OED favours the latter root for bravery ( bravo < Old Italian braid
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by ljcn 8y ago
It seems to me that the "Hollywood bravery" you nicely describe really is bravery - Oxford Dictionaries says the word comes from French braverie or Italian braveria (boldness), based on Latin barbarus (c.f. barbarous). Alter
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by ljcn 8y ago
Not really, sonder is the realization that every other person alive today is living a life "as complex as one's own". The gp is about the number of lives in one spot through time. They're sort of vertical slices vs. hori
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by ljcn 8y ago
> I laugh when people say cycling is healthy. Not in London. Not according to this Cambridge study two years ago. They found the health benefits of cycling in London always outweighed the risks. http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
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by ljcn 8y ago
Not surprising as he grew up in Scotland, and that's how Britons today still pronounce Graham. Perhaps Graham was widely pronounced that way in Canada and the USA at the time too? I don't know.
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by ljcn 9y ago
Er, China for one. Also France, Canada, UK, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Thailand, ... Over 30 according to a quick look at wikipedia.
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by ljcn 9y ago
Good luck representing Japanese (kanji especially) in 8x16 pixel dimensions. Edit: Apparently I'm wrong - 8x8 is acceptable as long as context is given https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/16669/lowest-
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by ljcn 9y ago
Some research yes. To answer your final question directly - more like hourly. Google did a big study in 2009 [0] and found error rates between 2.4E-11 and 6.7E-11 errors/bit-hour, or, in more familiar units: about 1 error per 2-GByte o
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by ljcn 9y ago
That's pretty rare in the modern world - most people chronically consume too much salt. This recent (Apr 2017) interview[0] with Prof. Graham MacGregor[1] is really interesting on the topic of salt consumption. He says most people need
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by ljcn 9y ago
Try uMatrix, you'll probably love it.
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by ljcn 9y ago
Exactly. I'm a huge uMatrix fan but I have some grounding in web dev. It's not really aimed at or suitable for anyone else. The trouble is that selectively blocking scripts gives the greatest benefits to the user (removes ads, ann
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by ljcn 9y ago
Free content needs paying for somehow. At present it's by advertising, which has a variety of problems (see rest of conversation). Brave's idea (AFAIK) is for the browser to pay the owners of the pages viewed directly for time spe
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by ljcn 9y ago
As others have said, now is actually a really rich time for ad/tracker-blocking browsers: * Brave * Firefox Focus * Ghostery to name but three.
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by ljcn 9y ago
Interesting, but requires location to be on, which is also a battery drain and privacy issue. (I have location on only when needed.) I wonder which is better - WiFi always on and location off, or location on and WiFi sometimes off?
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by ljcn 9y ago
It shouldn't make much too much difference unless you like to listen to them really loud (damaging-your-hearing levels). Two things come to mind though: voltage/current delivery of your amp, and damping ratio. The first depends on
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by ljcn 9y ago
Interesting, I didn't know that. Note you can put a bang anywhere in the query, not just the start or end (but your trick about putting it at the end to avoid typing the space is nice).
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by ljcn 9y ago
Exclamation mark first. See https://duckduckgo.com/bang
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by ljcn 9y ago
Try r:uk or click the toggle for the UK (or whatever country you select/it gets from GeoIP).
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by ljcn 9y ago
This is true. For a sister search engine that doesn't use Google or Yahoo see https://ixquick.eu/ Source: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic...
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by ljcn 9y ago
I switched to DuckDuckGo years ago. I use it in my work as a software engineer and find it satisfactory the vast majority of the time. On the occasions that it isn't I either append !g, !s, or !sho to redirect the query to Google, Star
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by ljcn 9y ago
Block scripts at one level or another. On that particular page, it goes assets.bwbx.io -> cdn.gotraffic.net -> imasdk.googleapis.com which introduces some XHR from hopx.cedexis.com and (a subdomain of) akamaihd.net, and the video play