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by marc_abonce 6y ago
It's zero-rating, which is a loophole to go around most net neutrality laws. Governments would have to patch that loophole or enforce a stricter interpretation of net neutrality laws, but then everybody would hate them because they&#x2
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by marc_abonce 6y ago
The French First Republic[1] and the early Soviet Union[2] both briefly reformed their calendars, but in both cases the changes were reverted after a couple of years. There's also a whole bunch of proposed calendar reforms[3], each wit
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by marc_abonce 6y ago
I think most of today's data will be lost way before then, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_dark_age In fact, this already happens all the time when websites go out of business or purge data either by po
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by marc_abonce 6y ago
Why did they break backwards compatibility in a minor release, though? :(
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by marc_abonce 6y ago
Yes. Both PeARS[1] and Cliqz[2] tried to do that. Both got direct support from Mozilla[3][4] but it looks like neither really kicked off. PeARS was meant to be installed voluntarily by users who would then choose to share their indexes only
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by marc_abonce 6y ago
> the sentinelese, a known isolated and uncontacted tribe who have preserved their way of life for 60,000 years of isolation. I don't think they have actually been isolated for 60,000 years though. If I understand correctly, they ch
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by marc_abonce 6y ago
Even though this instrument sounds nothing like contemporary music, Russolo's manifesto describes very accurately the evolution of music genres and people's music taste after the industrial revolution. > This musical evolution
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by marc_abonce 6y ago
There's also that copy in the Arctic. I don't think that Github will remove that one. Edit: On a serious note, though. I just realised that Internet Archive apparently doesn't archive most PRs? ( https://web.archive
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by marc_abonce 6y ago
> But it made 1984, so maybe fine in the end. I have the opposite impression. It is now impossible to have any conversation about conlangs or language reforms without most people parroting 1984 memes, this very thread is already an examp
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by marc_abonce 6y ago
I'm not even epileptic, but that video felt like it would give me a seizure at any moment.
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by marc_abonce 6y ago
Kushites did have writing though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meroitic_script .
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by marc_abonce 6y ago
Where did you go? Because the average Mexican works more hours than every other OCDE country[1]. [1] https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm
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by marc_abonce 6y ago
And of course, there's that relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/610/
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by marc_abonce 6y ago
Yup. At a quick glance I think there are some inconsistencies with the dating. For example, the map portrays Guanajuato as inhabited by Guamares which hasn't really been the case for centuries, or at least there is no recognized group
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by marc_abonce 6y ago
It actually seems to be the same map in both cases. When I click on any territory in OP's map I'm redirected to the page you linked.
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by marc_abonce 6y ago
I didn't know about FacebookTrackingRemoval. I always used facebook_adblock[1] instead, which seems to do almost the same and has worked very well for me most of the time. I'm also seeing other comments here trying to figure out o
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by marc_abonce 7y ago
I haven't tried any of these, but wouldn't most of them leave the .swp file there?
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by marc_abonce 7y ago
I don't think climate change denialists are the target audience for this, though. I think this chart is extremely useful as a way to show people which approaches are more effective at mitigating temperature increase. For example, in my
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by marc_abonce 7y ago
By the way, Ahmia publishes a blacklist with the hashed addresses for every onion URL that they have discovered to host abusive content. You could use that blacklist to filter out those sites so you don't even crawl them and also to pe
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by marc_abonce 7y ago
The point being made is that these areas become more expensive after the rail is built, so even if the rail passed though a lower income neighbourhood, it will gentrify in the long term. > The area around the LRT lines definitely attract
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by marc_abonce 7y ago
> Yet consequentialism involves endorsing not just instrumental harm, but also impartial beneficence, treating the well-being of every individual as equally important. I think that impartial beneficence applies as much to deontology as i
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by marc_abonce 7y ago
It's also Panoramix in the original French, isn't it?
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by marc_abonce 7y ago
I remember having to look up what foobar meant back when I started learning programming. "What do you mean it doesn't mean anything? It has to mean something, otherwise what does this code do!?"
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by marc_abonce 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | Mexico | Remote Technologies: Python, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, HTML/CSS. Résumé: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-abonce-seguin/ Email: marc-abonce @ mailbox . org GitHub: https://git
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by marc_abonce 7y ago
Location: Mexico Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Only inside the country Technologies: Python, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, HTML/CSS. Résumé: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-abonce-seguin/ Email: marc-abonce @ m
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by marc_abonce 7y ago
Hi, I'm the author of SameVideos. SameVideos is a search engine that helps you find copies of a YouTube video. You just paste the URL of a video and you should get a list of near-duplicated videos sorted by similarity. So basically, th
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by marc_abonce 7y ago
Are the photos scraped automatically from Unsplash or are they manually curated in some way? I'm wondering because it looks like that website classifies photos by category (animals, architecture, fashion, food) but that information is
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by marc_abonce 7y ago
It looks like they've also removed PHP's Elephpant. But at least they have Krita's mascot now.