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by maratc 3y ago
> A politician called out publicly Not a politician but a journalist... > the following phrase: “Gas chamber for President Duda and Premier Kaczynski.” ... except he wrote it in Polish, not English, using the word "komora" t
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by maratc 3y ago
> The Nazis committed genocide againist multiple groups at the exact same time using the same people, same locations, and same methods. You seem to not understand the term "genocide", thinking it means "mass murder".
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by maratc 3y ago
Holocaust is one thing, Nazi persecution is another thing. Persecutions are a terrible thing — and Nazi persecution especially so — but it (and others) just fall short on the scale of atrocities, when being compared to the Holocaust. Either
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by maratc 3y ago
> Furthermore, the majority of victims of the holocaust weren't Jewish The Holocaust is defined in the first sentence as "the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jewish men, women and
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by maratc 3y ago
There are no "OTA firmware updates" for Sonicare toothbrushes. There are no other firmware updates either.
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by maratc 3y ago
There's a $35 edition of that toothbrush today, I got a similar one at $25 (iirc) on some Black Friday. $10 heads are an issue when $5 toothbrushes exist.
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by maratc 3y ago
“Arms” has the same two meanings as in German (see e.g. the College of Arms — hint: it’s not a place where they teach weaponry). “Coat” in this context refers to the actual coat worn by heralds representing the sovereign. The modern word fo
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by maratc 3y ago
While widely used symbols like “eagle displayed” or “lion passant guardant” are really well defined, the more you get to the esoteric stuff the more you find there are really no standards. Try “importing” such thing as “octopus proper”. Her
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by maratc 3y ago
You might look into a completely a-political media outlets, like Discovery Channel on TV, or Tom's Hardware on the net. Is it a complete and utter crap compared to what it was 10-20 years ago? Absolutely. Was there any "government
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by maratc 3y ago
You might be mixing between "giving people what they want" and "giving you what you want". The media is in the former, not latter, business.
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by maratc 3y ago
> The truth is, journalism has cratered. There's an old quote addressing exactly that: "When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you g
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by maratc 3y ago
I wouldn't want to fall a victim to a nirvana fallacy, but a person who wants to get a knife into a school could throw the knife over the school fence and pick the knife later. No kind of security scanner can really help in this scenar
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by maratc 3y ago
Tangentially related question: What is the [recommended|best|most used] iOS KeePass client? The KeePass site recommends MiniKeePass that's been archived for a couple of years already.
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by maratc 3y ago
What else is there in the 35-hour battery life/$300 range? Apple Watch SE starts at $249 and frequently goes on sale at $199. A regular Apple Watch of a previous generation can be bought at $299. Last-generation Apple Watch is $399 but
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by maratc 3y ago
eSIM device does not usually have a phone number, and it can't send (or receive) SMS.
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by maratc 4y ago
ProxyCommand may help you; see [0] [0] https://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/articles/transparent-mulitho...
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by maratc 4y ago
Pro tip: if you used ssh to get into host A and then another ssh to get from host A into host B, to break the A-B connection you need to issue `~~.` ("control up-arrow Q" song playing in the background.)
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by maratc 4y ago
If your "GPT-3 Enabled Robot Therapist" is not licensed anywhere to perform therapy (as I think it isn't), you could get yourself into much trouble, and very fast.
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by maratc 4y ago
Maybe these people just don't know how to properly calculate the expected value?..
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by maratc 4y ago
The amount of money someone needs to spend on a lawyer to actually have "a perpetual right to call it back at ten thousand" will most likely be above a hundred.
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by maratc 4y ago
If we're valuing a thing that will turn out to be $0 with 99% certainty, or $1M with 1% certainty, then "a hundred bucks" is not a good proposal. 1% of $1M and there might be something to talk about.
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by maratc 4y ago
> Even ChatGPT 3.5 can give you a comprehensive answer to "what are the best cash back credit cards?" Is this a new version of "google it"?
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by maratc 4y ago
You might be overlooking into what I wrote. One truck can deliver about 8 m3 of concrete. If you need 100 m3, that's about 12 deliveries. This can be done if 4 trucks make 3 deliveries each, or if 3 trucks make 4 deliveries each. The s
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by maratc 4y ago
If it's a railway project they have likely booked several trucks already, doing several deliveries, so one of them having an accident is not likely to matter.
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by maratc 4y ago
A better example would be owner saying “actually, I want a 5-level underground parking below my building”.
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by maratc 4y ago
"There is no dark side in the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark. The only thing that makes it look light is the sun."
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by maratc 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_(book) is from 2001 and it may give you a good indication of what the term crypto was referring to back then.
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by maratc 4y ago
Did you ask the kids whether they would rather be educated with a teacher in the company of fellow same-age kids, or with "technology" and "multimedia" without any chance to raise a hand, ask a question, get a slow answe
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by maratc 4y ago
So, replace teachers with Linux servers and javascript?
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by maratc 4y ago
> Imagine someone stole something from you, that you value at 100 USD. Now reverse it and imagine that someone accuses you of stealing something from them that they value at 100 USD. They say they have witnesses and video surveillanc

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