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by lopis 4y ago
And this case is successful, we might see real repercussions this time around, instead of a wave of cookie banners. On the other hand, we might also see way more websites willing to straight-out block EU users from accessing them. And they
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by lopis 4y ago
"Closed as duplicate: how to draw a donut."
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by lopis 4y ago
Plant-based never meant the same as vegan, unless you're only talking about food. Plant-based is rarely used outside of food.
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by lopis 4y ago
So is your rotary phone.
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by lopis 4y ago
Then why would you recommend a device that breaks and the company offers no support for repairs?
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by lopis 4y ago
I don't understand why people don't understand this. Telegram is already full of spam. If it was possible to sign-up with just username and password, Telegram would die overnight.
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by lopis 4y ago
CTRL + Z for undo in QWERTZ keyboards is just absolutely impractical.
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by lopis 4y ago
> You know what makes more database queries than sorting by date? You seem to be forgetting the scale of these "databases". Lots of data these huge companies hoard is stored in slower, cheaper, storage. They know roughly what d
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by lopis 4y ago
When bacteria eat anything, they produce CO2. But instead of energy you get compost. It's not clear to me that one is better than the other.
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by lopis 4y ago
The feeling of wood spoons running on my tongue and lips send shivers through my spine. It's a very unpleasant sensation. I understand the need to stop single-use plastics but I rather not eat icecream if I need a wooden spoon to eat i
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by lopis 4y ago
Came to the comments to note the same. And to add that several has very poor color contrast. They look great, but I would warn developers to use them as inspiration but not as-is.
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by lopis 4y ago
I don't think the problem is the part locking and phone home. Is what that tech is being used for. Right now you are not able to buy a defective iPhone from a willing seller to salvage some of its parts into your phone, even if the pho
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by lopis 4y ago
> legitimate anti-theft and anti-fraud implications of part locking Here's how they could solve that: - If your iPhone gets stolen, you report it to Apple. iPhone gets locked and unusable. Serial numbers of all phone parts get mark
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by lopis 4y ago
These companies operate int he UK and in the EU. Naturally, they must follow local laws and abide to local rulings, otherwise they are not allowed to operate. This is nothing new. GDPR is mandatory to all American companies that want to ope
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by lopis 4y ago
When you are the gatekeeper to the biggest mobile market, the rules are different for you.
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by lopis 4y ago
Or just use a GPS mocking app on your phone.
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by lopis 4y ago
The homeless don't have money but they have value in a system that allows using homeless as cheap/free labour, and when you receive state funding proportional to the number of people you're hosting. Incarcerating millionaires
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by lopis 4y ago
It's really uncanny. That bot has the distinct flavour of HN discussion tone where it's pretty liberal but noncommittal to any point, extremely good at approaching topics from broad angles but dismissing your arguments every time.
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by lopis 4y ago
I have to agree. As a tool that adds a little more value than a slack extension, I can't justify 6$ per user. As another comparison, Miro is 8$ per user. Heck, Slack is 7$. On the other hand, this is free for a single team.
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by lopis 4y ago
https://glouwa.github.io/d3-hypertree/
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by lopis 4y ago
If the dotted image has a mixture of different hues and brightnesses, your brain only sees noise, while a color blind person doesn't see the different hues. The number is shaped only in brightnesses arrangement. However, I've been
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by lopis 4y ago
My favourite XKCD "Workflow" [0] is very relevant here. Unfortunately, because people function that way, there's a lot of pain ahead for those to learn to rely of obscure uses of software. Sooner or later those pathways are d
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by lopis 4y ago
Do you know what we call countries where you need to be really rich to live in peace, safety and health? Developing countries...
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by lopis 4y ago
> The article addresses health care. Did you have a rebuttal to its specific points? Does it? All it says is how awesome and universal health care is in the US without going to any details. How about this for rebuttal: - Insurance is tie
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by lopis 4y ago
The author of this comment piece seems to boast about America's "energy independence". There's more to energy independence than reliance on other nations. If your network is so terribly managed that a bit of unexpected c
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by lopis 4y ago
Clearly the end game for Google is to, also, become TikTok. 100% algorithmically sorted original content.
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by lopis 4y ago
Depending on where you live, legislation will also eventually ban you from driving inside cities using ICE cars older than 10 years.
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by lopis 4y ago
I already do this organically. When friends tell me a season of X or Y is coming I pay for Netflix. I imagine if enough people do this, companies will counter-act by making certain shows only available to loyal users. "This is a Platin
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by lopis 4y ago
I think before lab meat, we're going to see an explosion in both volume and diversity of plant-based meats. Discount chains in Europe and NA are jumping on the bandwagon and creating all sorts of plant-based products and bringing the p
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by lopis 4y ago
I thought he meant the German ICE trains and I was really worried for a second.

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