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by otherme123 5mo ago
I live in a country that was ruled by the military many times in the past, and the US never looked to me under treat of a military coup. In my country, any political problem real or perceived, and part of the population are already asking f
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by otherme123 5mo ago
It doesn't sound that conspiratory: someone of the millions of subscribers of Veritasium watches the video and thinks that is good content suited for HN, but instead of linking the video itself (rarely video links raise upvotes here) i
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by otherme123 5mo ago
Reminds me of a casual conversation with a 1%, maybe a 0.1%: "we [meaning he and his wife] are not wealthy. All of our friends own a yatch, but we don't".
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by otherme123 5mo ago
OTOH, a celulose factory near me, built in the 1950's, got their permits fast and with little regard to environment. FF three decades, and their entire surroundings are destoyed for everyone else. Trials go nowhere, because they have a
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by otherme123 5mo ago
Are you a sophist? This thread is about how the US has lost all their political leverage, built for almost a century, since Trump got in power (no longer a trustable ally, losing contracts, etc). You keep mixing up pre- and post-Trump event
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by otherme123 5mo ago
El inglés es la lengua franca de la ciencia. Hasta no hace mucho, la lengua franca era el latín, tan recientemente como que Newton (inglés) publicaba en latín. No basta con que los chinos tomen el liderazgo para que el chino se transforme d
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by otherme123 5mo ago
Point 1: "The Russian Federation., the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the CSCE Final Act, to respect the
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by otherme123 5mo ago
Mi experiencia con Excel con las fórmulas en español no puede ser más decepcionante. Todo lo que sabes del Excel en inglés ahora tienes que añadirle saber cómo se le ocurrió al desarrollador traducir esa función al español. Si buscas algo e
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by otherme123 5mo ago
> Like 6H to 9H. You'll get a much lighter line to erase later. It'll also hold a finer point for longer. With 6H you get lighter line, but only in colour. It can be actually harder to erase, because you naturally tend to push
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by otherme123 5mo ago
What do you use to erase pencil? The words "Using an eraser and a light touch" suggest a gum or a vynil eraser. I make a ball with the kneaded eraser and roll it with the palm against the paper.
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by otherme123 5mo ago
I was once downvoted to oblivion in reddit for answering a question with "If you asked google instead of reddit, you will already have the answer". I remember the question being something like "Who is the CEO of Facebook?&quo
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by otherme123 5mo ago
I have a machine that has been Fedora since twenty-something to current 44, and upgrading yearly is a breeze. Three commands, and just wait for a download and the reboot. The only thing that breaks if you forget that the upgrade needs atten
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by otherme123 5mo ago
Some years ago, answering "just google it!" was considered rude in some forums. It was asumed that some people didn't have enough googlefu, so googling for them was considered a good help. Also, almost all StackOverflow could
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by otherme123 5mo ago
When I first read this, I thought Fender was after anything S-shaped, like the superstrats that makes Ibanez. Then I went to some of the makers, like LSL, and they are making not just strato-shaped guitars but almost exact copies including
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by otherme123 5mo ago
> Ads for chainsaws on a chainsaw Or what Google is doing for years: a wall of ads for "Black & Decker" chainsaws when you specifically search "Husqvarna" or "Stihl", sending the results you want to the
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by otherme123 5mo ago
Nowadays exercising might mean walk at decent pace. People acts like they are asking you to run 90 minutes daily at marathon record pace, when they are actually saying to walk briskly for trips less than a mile, or take the stairs instead o
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by otherme123 5mo ago
It is even better: we grew cheaply by polluting freely, even doing absurd things like adding lead to gasoline knowing that lead is toxic. When we got rich, we leveraged that wealth to reduce some pollution, sending the worse industries to t
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by otherme123 5mo ago
You might be confusing Renault with Peugeot, that is indeed Citroën with a lion (or is Citröen a Peugeot with two angles?). Anyways, Renault is actually half-merged with Nissan and Mitsubishi.
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by otherme123 5mo ago
Lets not forget that in the US not only opioids get legalized, but they were given to people as a substitute for aspirins. And then retired without mercy. Did you get addicted? Well, you are on your own now, go get some fentanyl under a bri
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by otherme123 5mo ago
Maybe recently, with impulse responses and Fractal Axes-like machines, you can get any sound from silicon. But in the 90's the difference between silicon guitarrists (Dimebag Darrell or Chuck Schuldiner) and tubes was clearly noticeabl
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by otherme123 5mo ago
They don't say "proven", they say "we have high confidence that the actor likely leveraged an A.I". Do you find that assert too different from your "it is quite likely that an AI model was used to speed up the
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by otherme123 5mo ago
> And this was a topic on TV shows with several experts alerting of this FOR MONTHS before the blackout. "Experts" that now are being proved wrong. In Spain we have a good share of "experts" that are practically hired
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by otherme123 5mo ago
Nuclear was working as usual the day of the blackout and the previous days. What does it even mean to "protect the nuclear"? Give them free money for the sake of it? They are already facilities being paid to keep the system in syn
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by otherme123 5mo ago
It is what I usually use for its sorting, but some people don't want to leak time info.
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by otherme123 6mo ago
We will never get that the cranial volume is not the same as inteligence/brain function, or whatever you might call it. Reminder that Einstein brain was smaller than average, and female brain are smaller than male. Phrenology will haun
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by otherme123 6mo ago
Afaik, Cloudflare are asked to block an IP, to which they answer that is not a valid IP, but a shared one, please be more precise. Being more precise takes effort and time, so they opted to ban the IP at ISP level, and they don't have
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by otherme123 6mo ago
Sure I can: whatever hosting service they are using. Find where they are hosted, e.g. AWS, and ask Amazon to bring a zone down for Spain for 5 hours.
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by otherme123 6mo ago
Also, clients of the streaming sites are quick to find and spread workarounds, mainly VPNs. But the small shop in the same IP selling to middle/older aged lose business and look unreliable to their clients, that can't even spell V
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by otherme123 6mo ago
Prostitution isn't illegal, is a-legal (the prostitutes register as waitress or similar). Pimping is illegal.
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by otherme123 6mo ago
Not true, they just proxy the pirating sites to their true host. They have about the same responsability as the ISP themselves. Maybe you want Cloudflare to decide what to proxy and what to block without a judge ordering it.

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