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by owisd 2y ago
According to the article the 1/4e10 circumference definition came second
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by owisd 2y ago
It's a different kind of ugly, but you can use the Visitor pattern to get the same exhaustiveness checking at compile time without a library.
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by owisd 2y ago
The problem is the subjective definition of "succeeded", it's never going to succeed on all counts because the problem rent controls is dancing around is not enough supply, and so the solution it's offering is just to ch
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by owisd 2y ago
When you take away the government's monopoly on power you get what subsequently happened in Russia, a handful of oligarchs who have all the power instead.
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by owisd 2y ago
Not sure if it applies in this case, but yes the exact typesetting is a separate copyright.
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by owisd 2y ago
Seems like they're getting around the complaints about the previously overturned laws by just going after the feed order while not banning access to the underlying content via conventional means.
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by owisd 2y ago
Lots of people have never experienced depression but don't feel the need to claim that means it's not real.
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by owisd 2y ago
It's a classic lazy narrative that if you don't understand someone's reasoning behind a position it must be because they're just bad people.
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by owisd 2y ago
You need to be back at your Mac to install a new profile to circumvent the whitelist, you can't do it from inside your phone. Yes the whole of Safari can be white/blacklisted, although the way I have it set up if you're in an
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by owisd 2y ago
It's going to keep coming back for as long as social media makes it easy for adults to find kids' they don't know's accounts.
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by owisd 2y ago
It's designed for in the road/track, not the vehicle. For train tracks in the UK the recommended max jerk is 0.35 mm/s/s/s. The jerk is limited by using 'Euler spiral' sections to join up the straights and
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by owisd 2y ago
Google is an ad company, listed on Fandom's GDPR notice, they're not going to block a site that is sending them a ton of user data in favour of the official wiki that isn't.
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by owisd 2y ago
Shout out for "Apple Configurator" for Mac, if a dumb phone appeals to you but can't because there are some apps you really need, I hardly ever see it mentioned in articles like this. It's designed for IT departments to
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by owisd 2y ago
The problem with 'the content' on 'the phone' specifically is that you always have it with you so (a) it's always there for a dopamine hit at a moment's notice whenever you're bored and (b) creates the soc
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by owisd 2y ago
Unlike social media/smartphone usage, divorce rates don't suddenly spike in 2010 to match the spike in childhood mental health problems. Despite social media companies best efforts, there is no reasonable alternative hypothesis fo
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by owisd 2y ago
If you've got a Mac to hand, Apple provides a free tool "Apple Configurator" that can be used as a more powerful but less slick version of this.
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by owisd 2y ago
Would that more governments set up app development companies with broader remits under a PSB model to act as a break on enshitification.
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by owisd 2y ago
> The US doesn't have a history of oppressive government largest prison population in the world, slavery, Manzanar, Jim Crow laws, McCarthyism, police brutality…
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by owisd 2y ago
I’d say it’s more analogous to the debate over whether cigarettes or leaded petrol are harmful.
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by owisd 2y ago
It’s not just hysteria because previous hysterias were from a position of ignorance, whereas with TikTok, etc. everyone has experienced the negative effects of social media, and secondly no teens ever said that their listening to rock music
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by owisd 3y ago
Researchers use “Artificial General Intelligence” to mean what you’re talking about. AI has always been a bit of a nebulous term with moving goalposts that tends to be used to mean “something that humans were significantly better than compu
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by owisd 3y ago
Doesn’t seem like regulatory capture is the issue, if the market was totally free to new entrants and you brought in a low fee card with no rewards then it’s going to fail in an unregulated environment because merchants won’t go to the hass
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by owisd 3y ago
Property rights in general are a thing made up by people, we're just arguing over where to draw the line.
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by owisd 3y ago
asteroid - something that looks like a star, rule checks out.
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by owisd 3y ago
Intel is a product of Shockley, which was a product of Bell Labs, which was a product of “punishing” AT&T for “being American”. AT&T would have zealously guarded the transistor patent and never have licenced it out to Motorola, TI,
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by owisd 3y ago
You can just leverage the “second brain” crowd — for every vaguely well-known non-fiction book someone has written up a summary for themselves and posted it on their blog.
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by owisd 3y ago
Seems like an odd comparison to make rather than looking at the value of the electricity * total throughput over the life of the product. Tesla Powerwall would break even within the warranty period. Pumped storage has a similar number of
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by owisd 3y ago
I agree tribal echo chambers is more of a problem than moderating to keep conversation on topic, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say it was censorship because the people in these echo chambers still have access to opposing viewpoints if they
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by owisd 3y ago
Seems obvious that we would want a way to distinguish speech that is completely suppressed for all platforms vs speech that’s outside of the parameters of what’s expected on a particular platform but that you’re free to conduct elsewhere. I
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by owisd 3y ago
AT&T had shareholders, but they also had a public interest mandate imposed on them by antitrust regulations, so couldn’t operate on the modern notion that shareholder value is all that matters.

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