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by nicky0 8y ago
Do you think the entirety of Russia's efforts to destabilise the US amounts to a few Facbook ads?
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by nicky0 8y ago
You're not seeing it because you are trapped in a class guilt, social justice seeking, identity politics bubble.
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by nicky0 8y ago
Because the "gain empathy" argument is condescending and insulting.
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by nicky0 8y ago
A better reason would be, so as not to say hurtful things. I think all people should feel free to use whatever words they want to use as long as they are speaking truth.
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by nicky0 8y ago
Generally you have to find the code to the lock, to open the cabinet, to get the key, to open another door .... A sequence of puzzles which unlock the next step. Puzzles like the code lock may be numeric, you may find a clue to the code as
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by nicky0 8y ago
The summary of it is "So that you have something you are not allowed to do, which will give you a better idea of what it is like to be black." I'm not convinced this is the best reason.
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by nicky0 8y ago
She did, but later bought another hammer (I think it was a screwdriver actually) because she realised that it did in fact spark joy by virtue of being useful.
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by nicky0 8y ago
I'm trying to figure out if you didn't mean that literally literally or if I should buy the book to find out more....
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by nicky0 8y ago
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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by nicky0 8y ago
There is a opportunity for regret in the short moments after kicking the stool away.
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by nicky0 8y ago
I usually start by deciding what trousers to put on and take it from there.
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by nicky0 8y ago
Patreon doesn't run advertising.
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by nicky0 8y ago
> myself who support fundamental rights would be rightly pissed that a hard-to-avoid service such as the Visa network was making a decision on what I can or cannot do with my money. But that is exactly what is happening. Visa is saying
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by nicky0 8y ago
But the content in question was not on Patreon or even linked via Patreon. The ban was for comments made on an unrelated third party recording.
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by nicky0 8y ago
The "wouldn't rape you" tweet is crass but the first, longer quote is a perfectly reasonable point of view.
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by nicky0 8y ago
Surely in Germany robocallers woul call people in German.
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by nicky0 8y ago
No because Facebook's valuation is based on its value to its advertisers, not its users.
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by nicky0 8y ago
I think you could say it was a niche in an existing broader market, which had previously been covered by Illustrator and Photoshop. Sketch came along with a focused tool which did it better than the general-purpose tools. But it's not
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by nicky0 8y ago
I can only speak for myself. The popuips are the bigger problem. There's a lot of hand wringing about tracking but what harm does it actually do?
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by nicky0 8y ago
That makes me feel better because it is roughly what I had come up with too. Thanks for the reply.
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by nicky0 8y ago
I know you are being sarcastic, but honestly yes. I'm not too bothered about being tracked and having targeted ads. It doesn't negatively affect my experience. My ad-blocker takes care of most of the ads anyway. These intrusive po
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by nicky0 8y ago
Just to help me out (I don't doubt you, I'm just struggling to work it out) can to tell me what that trivial bijection from the set of infinite bitstrings to [0, 1) is?
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by nicky0 8y ago
I wish browsers had a "do track" option which told every website: yes I consent, do what you want, just don't show me a popup. These cookies banners and GDPR popups have ruined the web.
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by nicky0 8y ago
Are you referring to the replacement of the hyphen with a comma?
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by nicky0 8y ago
I think there is some confusion of terminology going on here. What you are calling "uncountable" is what is also known as "countably infinite".
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by nicky0 8y ago
*infinite?
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by nicky0 8y ago
> buying a t-shirt, coming to a concert Aren't there also middlemen, credit cards etc, involved in those too? I'm sure a big part of ticket sales goes to the venue, and of t-shirt sales goes to the manufacturer.
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by nicky0 8y ago
As a coder I do a lot of my best work with a beer or two.
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> What is simpler to read quickly, 0.000123 or 1.23e-4? 0.000123
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by nicky0 8y ago
Another quote, from Tony Blair, I saw today.... felt is should go here: "For the first time in my political memory, parliament is operating like a shadow government. It has taken effective charge of the process surrounding Brexit throu

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