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2y ago
Water is also toxic.
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2y ago
Yes, why don't the poor just eat cake when they can't get bread?
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2y ago
It specifically says on the Apple page [1] "sculpt your sets directly from Apple Music before you perform ... for DJs at any level ..." That can only realistically mean that you're paying for something to perform with. Otherw
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2y ago
Am I reading right, a new product has only 'burn to CD' as a way to listen offline? Haven't had a CD player in the house for a decade or more. Why not just cut a wax cylinder?
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2y ago
Have you considered having slides that teachers have refined uploaded back to the system and made available to use? If suggest keeping only the best, you and the refiner could get a royalty. Essentially, attract them with the AI, retain the
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2y ago
>I pick "true" and get... This is almost exactly like a training experience I've had at work where it wasn't AI generated! Weirdly, like how social media content games engagement, the wrong bits can help retention (fo
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2y ago
Surely they ship [components of] the syrup because otherwise they have to ship the raw coca leaves? Is the global supply of coca extract processed by the Stepan company in USA? Profits move the other way through IP payments at least.
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2y ago
Surely they ship [components of] the syrup because otherwise they have to ship the raw coca leaves? Is the global supply of coca extract processed by the Stepan company in USA? Profits move the other way through IP payments. We can cut off
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2y ago
But, AIUI, usually the profits get exported via IP payments to the parent companies host nation.
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2y ago
I've not seen large companies advertising "from Europe" despite this now being something a lot of people seem to be looking for (hard to tell with social media). Perhaps they fear losing USA sales? It's going to take tim
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2y ago
>You can't make long-term plans when every 4 years Well, Trump did promise to make it so people would never have to vote again.
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2y ago
>Large companies aren’t driven by opinion/ethics/politics except where there’s a branding incentive The USA tech corps are falling in with Trump, presumably so as to get favourable tax situations and such. That makes them subje
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2y ago
>It being unsafe and expensive to count rural populations Means they would be estimated, surely. Something simple like count the dwellings, match to a similar community that had been counted. Estimation wouldn't necessarily be under
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2y ago
Most censuses have sampling of responses to verify and have post-enumeration surveys. If that were a widespread activity then it would get found (assuming political/administrative will to do so).
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2y ago
>The Supreme Court and judicial review is anti-democratic The elected legislature make the laws. The judiciary is there to ensure the legislature don't bypass proper democratic procedure. If the judiciary decide that something is no
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2y ago
It seems to me the bill tried to charge royalties on maths and that a result would have been state sanctioned calculations would contradict the value of pi. The Wikipedia article notes that the redefining of pi was specifically not an aim o
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2y ago
A common science demo in UK used to be exploding a cloud of custard powder - ostensibly powdered sugar and cornstarch. https://youtu.be/aGBT5pwxThU?si=ay9fm_ZaYImIeNK8 is similar to how it was done.
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2y ago
His gesture was _exactly_ like Hitler's. A gesture he repeated. The gesture was quite different to that he'd used previously for 'giving people his heart'. He's known to be a white supremacist. That is apparently hi
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2y ago
Because the media tells them to. When train workers demanded inflationary pay maintenance the highest train driver pay was splashed all over the media in an attempt to get workers to hate one another and ignore the execs and shareholders wa
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2y ago
The website says "buy"!
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2y ago
What do you mean by 'screw up'?
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2y ago
You see the contradiction between this and your previous post? Here you say we can't eat/shelter better with GDP increases because they aren't distributed; there you said that [spending on] ability to eat/shelter was wha
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2y ago
The ability to look up the correct contact details for a commercial enterprise on that enterprise's website is a good thing imo. It is (or was) part of the EU requirements for commercial websites (anything selling, giving purchase advi
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2y ago
Do you mean Opera Unite, that had p2p file sharing and a 'wall' (I think it was termed the fridge door, all your verified users could leave you notes/images on it IIRC). I blogged about it back in the day (15 years ago), htt
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2y ago
You read raw Slashdot!? You must be a connoisseur of copypasta and frosty piss. To me that's like 'I love doughnuts, I buy one every day, but the paper bag bits do get stuck in my teeth'.
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2y ago
Thankfully, Natalie Portman setup a Beowulf cluster with hot grits to handle my memes! I quite like(d) that silliness - but your could always choose to downgrade and hide 'funny' posts. I still miss the post/comment visibilit
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2y ago
I read that mites can't survive temperatures above 60C, and wondered then about just a big plastic bag around the item then fill it from a hot air source (hair dryer, fan heater)? I think the problem would be temperature control, as yo
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2y ago
Then you find {imagining scenarios} that the bruising causes some effect that 'inoculates' against heart disease, or the feather carries a pathogen that later induces dementia??
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2y ago
Not unrelated - OneNote 'copy text from image' has started producing lots of incorrect OCR results, but they're all non-words. For example, from a clear image of a printed page (in a standard font), it will give me 'corn
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2y ago
Google are producing a tool to block adverts (spam)? Only ones that haven't paid them, presumably.
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