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by pilaf 8y ago
I couldn't see any spheres at all so I was confused by your comment, which led me to realize WebGL wasn't working, which in turn reminded me I had disabled hardware acceleration in Chrome long ago because of some bug which made br
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by pilaf 8y ago
What about "Spanish language Wikipedia also shuts down in protest at proposed EU copyright law"?
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by pilaf 8y ago
Translation of the shutdown text: Dear reader, On July 5, 2018, the plenary of the European Parliament will vote on whether to proceed with a proposal for a directive on copyright. If approved, this would significantly damage the open Inter
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by pilaf 8y ago
I think it should be noted that this is the entire Spanish language Wikipedia, not Spanish as in "from Spain", so this shutdown affects a lot of people (estimated 350 million native Spanish speakers worldwide). I haven't seen
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by pilaf 9y ago
He probably meant something like this on the second case: Ember.assert(`calling set('${inspect(keyName)}') on a destroyed object ${inspect(obj)}`, !obj.isDestroyed);
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by pilaf 9y ago
In Argentina and some other South American countries bidets are standard and found in almost every bathroom. They're usually not integrated into the toilet as the Japanese type, they're a separate fixture, but serve the same purpo
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by pilaf 9y ago
Funnily enough Yahoo! is still one of the top websites in Japan and still looks like it did back in 1999: https://www.yahoo.co.jp/
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by pilaf 9y ago
> could care less Bait?
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by pilaf 9y ago
There's a very well put together video about the history of Tokyo street fashion and music from the 70s till today on YouTube. Worth a watch for the visuals alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmsxWmKz-B8
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by pilaf 9y ago
> #111135 -> LILIES That's really stretching it.
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by pilaf 10y ago
At least in Argentina (not sure about other Spanish-speaking countries) "handy" is used for walkie-talkies, but not cell phones. I wonder if it comes from the German use of that word, or if both languages borrowed it from somewher
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by pilaf 11y ago
Similarly, Mitsubishi's Pajero means "wanker" in Argentina and other Latin American countries, which is why they renamed it to Montero in those locations.
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by pilaf 11y ago
Not mainstream by any stretch of the imagination, but we still have the strongest Bitcoin userbase in the region, with Brazil in close second.
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by pilaf 12y ago
Thanks for the tip, I'll look for it next time I'm in Germany.
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by pilaf 12y ago
Perhaps more surprising is that this was attempted in Argentina in the mid-2000s by Coca-Cola. They introduced a soft drink named "Nativa" based off mate with a huge ad campaign to go with it (the slogan was something along the li
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by pilaf 12y ago
That's true of Argentina too (and most likely anywhere where mate is drunk), it's called mate cocido: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_cocido
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by pilaf 12y ago
Simply touching it is no big deal (in Argentina at least), but god forbid you stir the yerba, then you're in deep trouble.
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by pilaf 12y ago
If AIs were taking over left and right we'd still expect to see some kind of evidence of their existence. Since they'd only be replacing biological civilizations I don't think it would count as the Great Filter, not in the co
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by pilaf 13y ago
4-digit PIN for login.
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by pilaf 13y ago
Most bitcoin transactions include what's called a "miners' fee", an arbitrarily small amount put there as an incentive for miners to include your transaction in the blockchain, therefore speeding up the verification of s