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by mrec 8y ago
Shakespeare ain't exactly ancient.
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by mrec 8y ago
And I think you're arguing that the disappearance of mortgages would have no effect on real estate prices. IMO, and that of many others, loose credit has been the major factor driving up property prices to their current insane height
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by mrec 8y ago
Polls aren't always about matching reality. They're often used as ammunition in an argument - "Look, the majority supports my position!" The classic example is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA
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by mrec 8y ago
Pollsters normally have a good idea what answer their customer wants to hear. Those who deliver that answer get more business.
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by mrec 8y ago
I'm surprised you've never seen it before, it's been pretty common for a long, long time. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_socialism
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by mrec 8y ago
Isn't that just the 90-90 rule? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-ninety_rule
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by mrec 8y ago
> As a black employee I'm very plugged in the EMPLOYEE RESOURCE GROUP
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by mrec 8y ago
1. Yes, but if the "women" stats only come from a question about self-identifying as underrepresented, your "automatically" doesn't kick in. If women don't check that box, you don't know they're there
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by mrec 8y ago
The "Do you consider yourself a member of an underrepresented demographic in technology" result is interesting - 92.06% No, but a total summing to 156.3%. Assuming this question was phrased as "either No, or check all that ap
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by mrec 8y ago
> There's a trough of uselessness in vacations – 14-21 days is the minimum in my experience Can confirm. I haven't had more than two weeks off in one block in the last ~20 years, and the results have been exactly what you&#x2
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by mrec 8y ago
So? I don't use any of them.
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by mrec 8y ago
The only subscription service I use is Netflix, which doesn't have ads and is cheaper than the TV license. I wouldn't pay for anything that did have ads, and I don't see why "some people spend a lot on ad-infested channe
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by mrec 8y ago
I'm a Brit, vehemently anti-ad, but am not a fan of the BBC, and don't support it (financially or otherwise). It may have made some sense back when it was the only broadcaster, but now that it's one of many, and there are p
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by mrec 8y ago
> I love the pricing model. I'm sure it's lovely, but where is it? I can't see any mention of pricing in the blog entry, or in https://meta.sr.ht/ , and the top hit in Google for "sr.ht pricing"
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by mrec 8y ago
Yeah, but (presumably) at least you only had to install it once.
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by mrec 8y ago
Oh god yes. Back before hard disks (Amiga A500+ in my case), trying to play an N-floppy game on a 1-floppy system was... character-building.
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by mrec 8y ago
> The actual effects of the UK's exit are not yet known (the post-Brexit UK might even grandfather in some EU law like GDPR) By default all existing EU law is grandfathered in, as a new legal category of "retained EU law&quot
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by mrec 8y ago
> I wish someone would https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redox_(operating_system)
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by mrec 8y ago
Happens with IE too - suspect it's caused by a corp-installed Symantec extension. I'll try again from home. Thanks for checking!
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by mrec 8y ago
I'm getting NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID with Chrome - am I the only one?
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by mrec 8y ago
I read Revelation Space many years ago and it made no impression whatsoever; can't remember a single thing about it. I do like the (early) Culture novels, although their most striking novelties (like the the interesting temporal stru
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by mrec 8y ago
Egan IMHO works better in short stories than novels; he's at his best when everything serves to illustrate a single idea. Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies is still one of my all-time faves. Haven't tried 3BP . Haven't
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by mrec 8y ago
Parent is not kidding about the bleak. Peter Watts is very proud of getting rejected by a Russian publisher for being "too dark". It's a great read though; I can't think of many SF books that can hold a candle to it for
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by mrec 8y ago
> (possibly in contrast to the rest of the UK) From polls I've seen, I think most of the UK is pro-immigration. The disagreement is over uncontrolled immigration, which is a bit different. Edit - I'm also in London, and hav
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by mrec 8y ago
Really? I live in the UK (London) and had never even heard of it. This is starting to feel a bit like China Mieville's The City & the City , two worlds inhabiting the same space but never interacting...
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by mrec 8y ago
Eh, I'm old, I can remember watching VHS and doing graphics at 320x256, my eyesight's not what it was, and I'm playing these things on a 7-year old laptop. That "terrible picture quality" does me fine.
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by mrec 8y ago
I'm not saying the BD rips aren't bigger, just that they're nowhere near as much bigger as the resolution and quality improvements might suggest. So BD averages maybe 2.5 GB, and DVD averages maybe 1.5 GB, while a BD frame
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by mrec 8y ago
No, I'm comparing re-encoded rips to mp4 from both DVD and BD, both via Handbrake, both using H.264.
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by mrec 8y ago
Blu-Ray rips from Handbrake etc aren't the raw on-disc encoding, and aren't actually that big. ~2-3GB is typical with decent quality. Often the filesize is surprisingly close to that from a DVD, presumably because the DVD one is e
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by mrec 8y ago
This looks nice; I'll have a play when I have some time. One thing that's not immediate clear from the examples: how (if at all) are you avoiding Flash-Of-Unstyled-Content on initial load? Might it be better to put the markdown in

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