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by mewse 5y ago
> Though this would require agreement by these platforms who operate these services. If it requires agreement by the platforms, then how do Web3 or cryptocurrencies help the situation at all? Isn’t this something that the companies could
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by mewse 5y ago
Is there? Can you point it out to me? I’ve looked, but haven’t been able to find it. I imagine it’d be somewhere on this page, in section 107 or later [0], but I haven’t actually found a clause which looks like it either has the intent
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by mewse 5y ago
The apple pie was delicious, though. Totally worth it.
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by mewse 5y ago
I was able to get the answer to that test question pretty quickly and comfortably. ...but then it took me more than a minute to figure out why the test wasn't responding no matter how many times I clicked on the answer, and then other
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by mewse 5y ago
“Bad faith” is a common, normal term that has a well-accepted concrete legal meaning [0]. In this context it basically means posting a rating or review which doesn’t match your actual opinion. For example, crowd-sourced vote brigading (whe
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by mewse 5y ago
Ah yes, for example the “Axis of Bad” [0] that then-President George W Bush famously named shortly after 9/11. Yes, that prohibition on the Government declaring things to be ‘evil’ is absolutely a real thing that exists in the real wo
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by mewse 5y ago
What about when it’s in your employment contract that you can be fired for “being evil”, and that you’re expected to speak up if you perceive the company “doing evil”, and then you’re terminated for speaking up over perceived “evil” actions
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by mewse 5y ago
Yes; the joke I was going for was that decimal one half would be written as 0.1 bar when converted to ternary. And then multiplying that value by 2 gives you 0.2 bar. Which is equal to ternary 1, in the same way that decimal 0.9 bar equal
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by mewse 5y ago
> But 0.9 bar isn't equal to 1. Oh! I see what you did there! This is a foundational problem in our anthropogenic decimal system of math (which we only use because of the evolutionary accident of a modal (n.b.: not average) human ha
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by mewse 5y ago
A couple decades ago, I used to keep backups of my desktop computer on DAT tapes. I had several different tape cassettes that I rotated through to keep many separate backups of all my data, and I thought of them as different devices until
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by mewse 5y ago
> this is quite something else In what way, specifically? From your original comment: "imagine something like steam profile avatars/pictures etc. tied to your identity that you can use on any page that implements it." Tha
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by mewse 5y ago
> It what sense does a Moon share give you any ownership over any part of the moon? If someone else goes up to the Moon and builds a lunar base on "your" piece of the Moon, does your Moon share give you any way to stop them? In
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by mewse 5y ago
Gravatar has been a thing since 2007.
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by mewse 5y ago
Some folks like to make a technical argument that no, it's not; the buckling spring on a model m keyboard isn't what actuates the keys on the Model M and similar keyboards; instead, the springs are mounted on top of a fairly tra
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by mewse 5y ago
Really? That doesn't seem to work for system tray icons for me. Are you certain?
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by mewse 5y ago
Grab it with your mouse, drag it off the dock, done. I guess I’m not really seeing what I’m supposed to be outraged about, here. Modifying the stuff in the dock on OSX isn’t difficult or unintuitive at all? Just grab the stuff you don’t w
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by mewse 5y ago
As a point of interest.. Apple requires new developer agreements rather frequently. I had to accept a new set of agreements just a couple of days ago; they wouldn't sign any Mac packages until I'd done so. This happens about ev
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by mewse 5y ago
But the whole point of Psychohistory (as it’s presented in the books) is that there aren’t any “Chosen Ones” at all. Sure Salvor isn’t one, but Gaal isn’t either; no one is. That’s the entire point. Under Psychohistory, it shouldn’t matt
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by mewse 5y ago
This study is examining correlation, not causation, and it doesn’t appear to provide any evidence to support the article title’s claim that changing one’s sleeping habits will change one’s college grades. The study provided evidence that pe
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by mewse 5y ago
I mean, I'm obviously intensely skeptical that such a thing will happen at all, much less within ten years. But I guess we'll find out eventually! And if mine does become the "640k ought to be enough for anybody" quote
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by mewse 5y ago
I’ve never understood the value proposition for Copilot. In terms of difficulty, writing code is maybe on average a two out of ten. On average, maintaining code you wrote recently is probably a three out of ten in terms of difficulty, and m
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by mewse 5y ago
Minor correction: There were actually more than a thousand people who took James Randi’s “One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge” between 1964 and 2015, many of them live on stage or broadcast on live television. No one ever successfully
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by mewse 5y ago
For what it’s worth, I’ve been using their bluetooth addresses to track my flatmate’s and my Apple watches for about the last eighteen months (obvs with knowledge and consent from both of us), just to determine whether we’re inside or outsi
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by mewse 5y ago
We do now. The problem was when Netflix first opened here and the vast majority of people were still on ADSL links or even slower, and our NBN infrastructure was still just starting to come together (which I'm not going to go into det
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by mewse 5y ago
Agreed; if you’ve accepted a job offer, reneging on that deal because your current employer made you a better offer isn’t a great look. It’ll be remembered by the hiring company and the individual who made the offer, and that can follow y
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by mewse 5y ago
Ethically, if someone is quite clearly using the user agent string to function as a lock restricting access to their IP, does it really matter that it’s an objectively terrible lock? I mean, since you’ve brought ethics into it.
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by mewse 5y ago
That’s a good first step, but.. I mean, I can’t be the only one here who has daily driven a single phone for longer than four years, right?
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by mewse 5y ago
If “it doesn’t last more than a day or two”, then I feel like what you’re describing isn’t the same level of burnout being discussed in the article; you’re noticing it and dealing with it before it spirals out of control. Which is a good
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by mewse 5y ago
That's not the "same" spot, though. It doesn't consist of the same photons; the spot in the "new" position consists of photons which have been traveling in a straight line from your flash light at (assuming va
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by mewse 5y ago
I mean, apart from cells and etc dying and being replaced as we age. ;) Truly, the Ship of Theseus was inside us all along. (Which is super convenient, considering how often we step into the same river twice!)

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