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by netsharc 9mo ago
So, out of the 2 countries situated north of Mexico, whose leader has taken a huge deviation from these "shared values"?
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by netsharc 9mo ago
Here's a fascinating video of what the sun does at 90S: https://vimeo.com/208466944
723.
by netsharc 9mo ago
> bag ends Never seen "cul de sac" in English before...
724.
by netsharc 9mo ago
I heard the unofficial motto for BlackBerry from friends, something along the lines of "make distant friends be nearby, and nearby friends distant"
725.
by netsharc 9mo ago
> The issue won't come to military action. How can you be so certain with that diaper-filler in chief? Deploying troops looks like an attempt to dissuade invasion by highlighting that the optics of US troops capturing (hopefully not
726.
by netsharc 9mo ago
Some friends flew eastwards from New York to Singapore on a direct flight (it's one of the longest flights). I wondered what their experience of sunrises and sunsets were (they departed 10PM), I've noted down the times but haven&#
727.
by netsharc 10mo ago
[Original comment redacted] With your sort of mentality I'm surprised you're comfortable mentioning your sexuality... You know there's a lot of homophobes around, no? And they're just getting more empowered under Trump,
728.
by netsharc 10mo ago
This is my first guess too. There's some stat that says more people die from falling while they try to frame a selfie compared to dying because of shark attacks... (Ok death by shark is actually quite rare)
729.
by netsharc 10mo ago
Yeah, the government's idea is moronic. But making it the victims' responsibility ("don't share your number indiscriminately") is depressing too. How about make it easier to prosecute the unsolicited sending. How ab
730.
by netsharc 10mo ago
Come on, even knowing this, you have to admit there's probably a lot more unsolicited than solicited ones...
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Pre-cock.
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Related, 2640 points yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579864
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by netsharc 10mo ago
The recipient will be required to fill a form to confirm desire for the dick pic, and the ministry will issue a dispensation allowing the taking and sending of said dick pic. Please allow 3-4 weeks to process the request.
734.
by netsharc 10mo ago
It's probably Microservices(TM)... The black box responsible for rendering the HTML is some other black box to the UI or whatever. The UI offers you locale options, but the renderer that fetches video titles hasn't been configured
735.
by netsharc 10mo ago
Burnie Burns of Rooster Teeth made a massage appointment with the head of Xbox programming (luckily Siri was not that competent that it said "Mr. Appointment" in the invite) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r499DeN7
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Sarah Chayes studies corruption: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/19/corruption-rev... In her book she writes how in Egypt, to get a job as police, you need to bribe your boss and pay a monthly
737.
by netsharc 10mo ago
You mentioning the concept of pi containing every substring makes me think of Borges' Library of Babel. Ha, next: a compression algorithm that requires the user to first build an infinite library...
738.
by netsharc 10mo ago
"Dear Email Recipient, I am a South African Billionaire with friends in powerful places..."
739.
by netsharc 10mo ago
Not criticism, just explaining a problem I noticed and would make a fun exercise in CSS, or JS: When a letter appears at the end of the line, the reflow (to make sure the whole text is centered) is not smooth, of course it isn't becau
740.
by netsharc 10mo ago
Ah, luckily the climate doesn't mind that oil was extracted, a phone case was produced out of it, shipped from China, to end up not even being used but just as a "greeting card". Why yes, I am fun at parties.
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by netsharc 10mo ago
It doesn't even respect the locale of the user interface, but uses IP geolocation and sends you HTML containing the video titles in the language it "knows" you want... And there is no setting to change this.
742.
by netsharc 10mo ago
These Japanese YouTubers decided to play a game, they got off a station earlier than their home and to walk home from there, but whenever they pass a Conbini they'd have to pick 6 items and roll a dice and buy that item from the 6. The
743.
by netsharc 10mo ago
Are you writing from e.g. 2008? In 2010 Russian forest fires caused grain shortages and the price to go up, creating the Arab Spring and including the start of the Syrian civil war. That caused a wave of refugees that peaked in 2015. That c
744.
by netsharc 10mo ago
Heh, some of them invaded Congress and were hunting down Mike Pence on Jan 6 2021...
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Semi-related: Windows EXE files are runnable in DOS (at least when DOS was a thing, so for Windows 3.1x or 9x), but most of the time the DOS part just prints "This program requires Microsoft Windows." and exits. An exception is re
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by netsharc 10mo ago
I think his idea was to make a very close copy that costs very little compared to the finished product, to e.g. save cost of your own consumption (in the video it says he made a mixture that can be mixed with water and sugar to create 5000
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Jeff Epstein, the New York financier? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKfHcas_cZg
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by netsharc 10mo ago
I'm sure grandparent meant to modify it so they'd just have to click "Backup to cloud" on their iPhone and instead of the iPhone sending their files to Apple's servers, it sends them to a local backup server...
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by netsharc 10mo ago
So what if you have masked emails... Whoever it is, they just entered your Instagram username in the "To recover your password, enter your username, and we'll email you a reset link" field...
750.
by netsharc 10mo ago
I use Facebook with the email address that I use for many things, like online shops. Some years ago FB allowed "check what data we have on you" and I learnt that these online shops upload their customer data to FB, so they can tar

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