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by marci 6y ago
I think the "going from famines and plagues to riches within a few hundred years" was referring to what happened in Europe. As far as I know, those were not issues in most of the former colonies (before colonization).
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by marci 6y ago
And if you want to test it in current Firefox, in the about:config page, search for avif and enable it.
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by marci 6y ago
> The Romans also had mechanisms to, in practice, suppress the political power of descendants of slaves; in practice almost all freedmen went into one of the urban tribes (the very wealthy could buy into a rural tribe), making their vote
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by marci 6y ago
If we resume the finding this in term of skin color: "some middle-aged people (mostly 'white') have higher pain sensitivity than other middle-aged people (mostly 'white') From the article: > About 0.4% of partic
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by marci 6y ago
> you have a hammer and everything looks like a nail. Actually, that comment made me see things differently on a project that had me scratch my head for the last couple of weeks, so thanks a lot! Don't know if it's related but
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by marci 6y ago
I understand, it was mostly or the-in-the-future-maybe-have-a-web-function-to-sync. I also suggested Couch because outside of western countries, you seldom find laptops or desktops (outside of cities), but smartphones with a recent browser
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by marci 6y ago
something that will work in 5 years on ancient windows7 and ie7? couchdb there's nothing to manage. On Windows, you install couchdb.msi or whatever, installed as a windows service, it automatically boots at startup time. Start IE7 go t
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by marci 6y ago
> use-basically-I-wanted-to-have-independent-JSON-instead-of-SQLite-so-in-the-future-maybe-have-a-web-function-to-sync solution sounds like you should use CouchDB, it a database/webserver, so you could make a simple html form on loc
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by marci 6y ago
I'm currently listening to Bernie Sanders Filibuster (Millennial/LoFi edition) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm6qy_9E0rY , it sounds so close to what you wrote (but extended) that I read it with Sanders' vo
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by marci 6y ago
I don't know what's up with their website. The link redirect to a page about covid-19 as of now ( https://www.mobilewalla.com/blog/fighting-covid-19-with-loca... )
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by marci 6y ago
The wording + the way the article is layed out may blur the information. I think the source is a little bit clearer. https://www.mobilewalla.com/about/press/new-report-reveals-d...
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by marci 6y ago
Ethnicity Distribution: A substantial majority of the protesters were white, in the cities where the data was gathered, with the highest percentage in Minneapolis (85%), followed by Los Angeles (78%), and Atlanta and New York (both at 76%).
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by marci 6y ago
I wonder if the "humour" in switching the scale of well know songs will make sense to you : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYVzAFzmjW8
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by marci 6y ago
It reminds me of how tuning can depend on the era. Sometimes even on the composer. When you're used to hearing something in a particular way, the slightest change can be jarring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyQaSFgn
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by marci 6y ago
I wasn't saying that's how it happened (regarding the article). It was to expand on: > and tails uses tor browser which doesn't support webrtc. and how (in other instances than the situation in the article) the WebRTC fla
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by marci 6y ago
This is just part of it, but may give an idea. The majority of people of African decent alive today have either lived through, or have parents/grand-parents that lived through the civil-rights movements(US)/decolonisation(Africa).
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by marci 6y ago
But you can install WebRTC enabled browsers in tails. Depending on how tech-savvy someone is, they could be motivated to install one of them.
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by marci 6y ago
Side note: WebRTC is disable on TorBrowser[0], but you can use a browser with WebRTC enabled (Vanilla Firefox and others) on the Tor network inside Tails OS[1]. [0] https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/876/does-
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by marci 6y ago
Did you know about GfxTablet* (limited to Linux)? Any thoughts? * https://github.com/rfc2822/GfxTablet
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by marci 6y ago
If you haven't yet, maybe take a look at NetSurf: - HTML 4.01 and CSS 2.1 - PNG, GIF, JPEG, SVG, and BMP - HTTPS Latest release earlier this week http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
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by marci 6y ago
here's how trivial it can be: https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255 ("Big list of http static server one-liners")
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by marci 6y ago
1. There's a Dr. House episode* about this phenomenon. * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox6HWOjbDSI
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by marci 7y ago
Open the https://euvsdisinfo.eu/contact-us/ page without noscript/adblock, there's a google map embedded. Couldn't see it at first as well.
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by marci 7y ago
"Bags? Where we going we don't need [dropping nonexistent glasses] bags." https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2010/08/the-art-and-scie...
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by marci 7y ago
For those who want Elm + Erlang/Elixir, there's Elchemy http://elchemy.neontree.pl/new
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by marci 7y ago
Also a matter of context. Brown is orange and grey can be red. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJBfn07gZ30 Here's a part of a documentary talking about the cultural aspect of how we perceive colours and the power of na
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by marci 7y ago
Now, how long before this* isn't a parody anymore? * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbCWYm7B_B4 (Enhance, Enhance, Enhance | NTSF:SD:SUV | Adult Swim)
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by marci 7y ago
Maybe the other one had an undetected handicap (?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTGdWZ-X7B0
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by marci 7y ago
Would you call torture human guidance? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcs-H5p-MYw It's an extreme situation that created this, but I think if you take species in which empathy has been observed, and put them in a secu
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by marci 7y ago
> Also there are size limits on disk-based tables which are a bit limiting There's now mnesia on leveldb https://github.com/klarna/mnesia_eleveldb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcJw3RYFWUM

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