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by nisegami 5y ago
Using solar panels to generate electricity is nominally illegal here actually. I know other Caribbean islands use solar water heating pretty extensively, but it's never been a thing here. I suspect it's a matter of lack of Governm
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by nisegami 5y ago
Though not directly related, this does remind me of an idea I once had. I live in the Caribbean. My house effectively has a few heat pumps running most of the time (split air conditioning units) as well as a dryer and a water heater. Why ca
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by nisegami 5y ago
Did you consider getting a white noise generator?
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by nisegami 5y ago
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29936237 (6 days ago)
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by nisegami 5y ago
Although I don't agree with his broader proposition, I've always wondered if Julian Jaynes' idea of the Bicameral Mind had some basis in the same mechanisms as intuition. In my personal experience, I rely very heavily on intu
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by nisegami 5y ago
In my adult life, I have seen two small niches completely explode the instant the underlying patents expired: mechanical keyboards and 3D-printing. In the former, companies like Kailh started off producing copies of existing Cherry designs,
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by nisegami 5y ago
You aren't wrong in a technical sense, but this is far too reductionist. The type of calories and the way you consume them can't change the thermodynamics, but they can and do change your hunger, satiation and other bodily sensati
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by nisegami 5y ago
Linked page says they use Zapier to post in slack when GitLab is mentioned on HN.
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by nisegami 5y ago
Knowing what little I do about the UK government, I expect "VPN" to be considered a term "associated with cybercrime" as well.
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by nisegami 5y ago
>The initiative being rolled out by the NCA to over 2,000 primary and secondary schools in the UK, ahead of going live at further schools and colleges across the country, will see students who search for terms associated with cybercrime
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by nisegami 5y ago
Technical trust is one thing, but I think the trust GP is referring to is more of a trust in the company's commitment to the business model. Password Managers aren't sexy. There isn't a ton of disruption possible in the field
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by nisegami 5y ago
MusicBee was one thing I looked over in my switch to Linux a couple months ago. In my head, I could simply find any other music player for Linux and be on with my life. But I found that MusicBee had so much ancillary functions that had made
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by nisegami 5y ago
The stickied comment on the post clarifies that you can block moderators and it will work as it does for other users unless they post a distinguished comment. That seems very reasonable to me. Your frustration is more with the decisions of
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by nisegami 5y ago
The brand of Activision-Blizzard strikes me as downright radioactive. However, I think there's a lot of potential in their IP. So we'll see I suppose.
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by nisegami 5y ago
Note that this was a settlement and the case never went to trial. However, it sounds like VPN Unlimited advertised using their service to access torrent trackers, probably making themselves vulnerable to the same arguments as in MGM Studios
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by nisegami 5y ago
The JWST was not designed to be serviceable. It's not impossible, but it's not in the plans right now.
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by nisegami 5y ago
The ones I've seen here don't feature a monthly fee. I'd also like to extend your point 4 (or perhaps add a point 5), that some of these people aren't even aware they're pirating content or that they're breakin
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by nisegami 5y ago
Coming from someone who relates a lot to the idea, but manifests it in vastly different ways, I'm not convinced that society needs to be "for" everyone. Some people just can't exist within it.
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by nisegami 5y ago
The main users of such devices in my country: 1. lack access to credit cards or internet-purchase enabled debit cards (or banking altogether). they can purchase those devices with cash; 2. simply don't understand how it works or that i
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by nisegami 5y ago
As long as the Visa/Mastercard duopoly exists and continues to police what I can and can't spend money on, I will continue to support the ideology behind cryptocurrencies. I lament what they have become, but the initial logic behi
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by nisegami 5y ago
As I understand, stuff like this is typically called "source available" rather than "open source".
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by nisegami 5y ago
If you don't bother to click, the linked phones are the Google Pixel 6/Pro with Graphene OS and some (optional?) hardware modifications. I know it's probably not in their best interest, but I really wish they specified the so
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by nisegami 5y ago
With git, the command git bisect provides a mechanism for using binary search on a range of commits.
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by nisegami 5y ago
I think GP commenter was replying to your remark that ketamine infusions cost thousands of dollars, not your remark about mushrooms.
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by nisegami 5y ago
I want to imagine that lakes might be a good starting point for this comparison. For example, 600,000 km^3 is roughly 50 Lake Superiors. This is still context dependent, but I can at least pull up a map and look at the size of Lake Superior
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by nisegami 5y ago
This is a constant source of disappointment for me. I recently came across a twitter thread where an artist living in South East Asia was banned by PayPal (they were doing NSFW commissions IIRC) and felt had no real alternative ways to get
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by nisegami 5y ago
Yes. Firstly, I understand all the reasons why sharing salary information gives more power to employees. However, as someone living in a third world country with serious crime problems, sharing my salary makes me more of a target than if it
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by nisegami 5y ago
In a democracy, I strongly disagree. The masses have a tremendous impact on the society that your geniuses have to live in.
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by nisegami 5y ago
>In the server room of a state government agency
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by nisegami 5y ago
In cases like these, I'm a strong proponent of turning it off and seeing who yells.

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