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by owlmirror 6y ago
But does it really disposes the plastic in a form that does not cause more harm? That's the entire argument. It's just as bad for the environment as it would be if you'd just dump it on landfills. But than you can dig out lan
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by owlmirror 6y ago
Her sex and nationality does not make it less of a problem that such a product is a bad idea because of the lasting and irreparable pollution it will cause. You don't need to have solved a "real-world" problem, which I'm
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by owlmirror 6y ago
These are the studies I'm talking about. And we are talking about minor influxes of outside gene flow from the Arab invasion and slave trade. But the bulk of the ancestors of modern Egyptian are ancient Egyptians.
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by owlmirror 6y ago
I've worked as a waiter during my university time and tips were the best thing in the world for someone that did not need any real qualifications. My wage alone would have barely covered my expenses but with tips I paid all of my livin
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by owlmirror 6y ago
there are genetic studies that sample ancient populations with the current population which point strongly at a continuity of the people with only minor outwards influence
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by owlmirror 6y ago
that's something I don't understand. the Dev tools in Chrome and Firefox make it really easy to test through every resolution without problems. every UI change I make I view in all possible resolutions and its quite obvious of som
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by owlmirror 6y ago
I really don't know about this. There are certainly fringe groups active on Facebook but at least in my immediate circle it's mostly a tool to connect families, friends and communities. I really don't see it as a forum for id
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by owlmirror 6y ago
freenet comes to mind but it's manyyears ago that I've looked into it. the experience than was rather lacking. other means might be an .onion site but I'm sure that a high traffic site is another beast
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by owlmirror 6y ago
Github sure contributed to the popularity, but I remeber distinctly as Git came out and how it took off like rocket. Git was a "killer app" from it's day of inception and everyone I knew switched their source control to it in
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by owlmirror 6y ago
German dialects are rarely written and if they are they are written different from Standard German. The written German language is very phonetic and if you know the rules you know exactly how a word is supposed to be pronounced.
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by owlmirror 6y ago
oh, I'm certain Over ear headphones were popular long before beats came along. as an example from the top of my mind I'd like to point to the 1999 music video "Freestyler" and I myself a teenager then was sporting them i
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by owlmirror 6y ago
If it's a private project, like a Personal CRM, you don't have to maintain anything, just run it in a VM or container make access only possible over a SSH tunnel and forget about it.
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by owlmirror 6y ago
There is no reason why you could not run any of the (self hosted) solutions you've mentioned in fifty years. Your data is still yours and it's easy enough to transform the database with simple tools in any format you like, if you
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by owlmirror 8y ago
When you look at natives of the Levant they pretty much look like the depictions of an Mediterranean Jesus you will find most commonly in churches around the world. Fair skin and light eyes are not a unheard of trait in that region either.
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by owlmirror 8y ago
The study categorized everyone who ate below 40% of their calories into the low carb group. That's a lot of people who simply eat SAD. It would be much more interesting if they grouped the subjects into more categories. But I suspect t
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by owlmirror 8y ago
Alphabet is not only Google Anymore, it's a conglomarate with a portfolio of a very diverse range of industries.
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by owlmirror 8y ago
I think it was a terrible decision to have no authentication as default from the MongoDB people, but it was literally one of the first things the documentation made clear. And even without documentation, just setting up the connection shoul
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by owlmirror 8y ago
what means of production even are there in hippie communes? how can you compare a tiny circle of friends with an economic system? all their goods resources and infrastructure is produced and distributed through a market economy. they are ju
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by owlmirror 8y ago
What do you propose to do with them? You can't release them, through breeding these foxes are not suited for the wildlife. They are not as afraid as wild foxes and will become a danger to humans. Raising them is not sustainable. And wh
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by owlmirror 8y ago
In my opinion you should still have complete control over your health data. I'd rather propose that everyone is responsible to get all diagnostic data on their own health, especially if they plan to procreate. I dream of a world were i
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by owlmirror 8y ago
well, I always found it a hassle to select texts in web documents for that reason. want to search a word in a hyperlinked headline? meh, the browser decides to open the link. even worse on touch enabled devices. double clicking stuff to ope
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by owlmirror 8y ago
And plumping is not badly paid either. But it's a trade that you can learn in relative little time and it's a field that you don't constantly have to readapt your approach. someone who learned plumbing 20 years ago is not out
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by owlmirror 8y ago
This is absolutely not confined to free products. I did security audits for companies and part of that job was giving a go ahead before we allowed people to install software on their devices. Free software behaved much better than paid soft
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by owlmirror 8y ago
>Today's cars are so much more complex than old cars. Yet almost all of them are much more reliable than old cars. That's debatable. Evey person who owns a vintage car, pre electronics area will tell you that. I'm sure the
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by owlmirror 8y ago
>But what if test and evaluation prove they are more reliable than tires filled with air? That won't happen. Just the fact that there are so many moving parts, controlled by microcontrolelrs, all with multiple independent fail point
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by owlmirror 8y ago
How does androgel affect your natural production of testosterone? What I mean is, can you safely stop using and your body keeps producing testosterone on your own? Since this is a major issue with enhancing yourself, which effectively stops
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by owlmirror 8y ago
Right. I recently had to debug an official app to a quite expensive enterprise application and was shocked that everything you do in that app is logged with Google. When I brought this up with the company they were furious. I think they for
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by owlmirror 8y ago
If some part of the gap in achievement is genetically determined (which by all measurements is the case.) than there is no way to close that gap. Children from poor parents stay poor, poor communities can not move up etc. What's propos
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by owlmirror 8y ago
That's exactly what they are doing. It's not even a secret or anything.
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by owlmirror 9y ago
Troll?

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