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by quink 6y ago
Markiplier has 27 million subscribers. He asked people to post emoji to vote in the chat. Users that did were banned without appeal. Reinstated, but only after massive outcry. The risk grows exponentially with each Google product one uses,
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Miyazaki kind of did Heidi instead not long after Pippi fell through and that became an absolute cult classic in multiple regions while Pippi has a real-life classic already, so noteworthy for sure, but very far from a complete loss.
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(minor clarification: not too wrong in the linked article, but definitely on the side of very wrong in those past statements)
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Quick bit of recent background on the author, I don't think it's an ad hominem as it's at least peripherally relevant to the matter of what's being discussed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_
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Not sure about South Korea, for instance, being at 202nd place for affordability there when unlimited plans for even pre-paid tourist SIMs are a thing.
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Likely, but Australia might have a bit less of that because all the big cities are very distant from each other. A Starlink satellite with a view of Perth, for example, is going to have close to absolutely nothing else on its horizon. Above
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It’s “Telstra Velocity”. It just got a special exemption to not make it operate like the NBN renewed because, and I paraphrase the federal government’s words: “because they couldn’t be arsed and if we didn’t renew it they’d turn off the Int
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I am with one of the world’s biggest telcos, Telstra, on a fully owned and operated fibre-to-the-premises network. I live in a decade old estate half an hour from the centres of the third and sixth largest cities in the country. The maximum
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Does it matter if Apple loses this? Worst case they are trading a tiny bit of reputation and money for being in the news as a company that is deadly and ridiculously serious about its brand image. #2 on Hacker News. And so far all that’s be
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Yet the Liberals threatening their own MPs with ending their careers if they vote their conscience wasn’t playing politics? And you do know that there was real damage done through the process? Gay people got messages of hate and exclusion a
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I know, I love it. It's there, but it's so bad that it's not keeping me from the eBooks for any appreciable amount of time, the actual intent behind the device.
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I agree. The original Kindle was revolutionary. But it's been completely stagnant since then. The level of innovation to drive forward doesn't have to be that large. After a lot of time thinking about the problem, the sweet spot f
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Yes, the left blocked holding a voluntary postal survey to enshrine basic civil rights because it’s dumb on its face, but the Liberals threatening to end the careers of the people who would vote isn’t? All the Liberals would have needed to
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Thanks! Probably something Beatles too, not least of all to honour Liverpool's hatred with the fury of a thousand suns of The Sun.
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Wasn't it a Labor prime minister that called the Senate 'unrepresentative swill'? > A conservative party would fundamentally not do this. Experiences in Canada, Austria, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Neth
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Just another point of interest for our international friends and because 'Ctrl-F' for 'Costello' hasn't brought up anything either: Peter Costello was, until 2007, the deputy leader and treasurer of the federal gove
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How is introducing a regressive tax that removed other duties, levies and taxes "left-wing"? How is being the only major party with MPs voting against same-sex marriage despite the public plebisciting for it "left-wing"?
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Mr Sims here is ACCC chairman Rod Sims. The same who rammed through so many terrible decisions around the NBN, just as one example, including the POI decision which in one fell swoop eradicated all bits of ISP competition that had arisen in
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The main benefactor would be News Corp Australia. Apart from some snippets of tolerable local coverage it's all a big pile of shit that stinks from Uncle Rupert's ugly head down. Misinformation and conspiracy theories are what the
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And all deliberations of the Federal Council are kept secret, partially to reduce partisanship. But with all parties in there, transparency is at at least adequate levels.
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99.9% of the email hacks was uninteresting. 0.1% was nothingburger. That wouldn’t stop it from dominating in the media, especially with a trickle feed strategy. Google the whole ‘Spirit Cooking’ thing as a good example. Completely nothing.
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Here's my suspicions. I may well be wrong, but this is what it feels like... I was wondering what kind of thing some actors (possibly state-based) were going to do this election cycle since the 2016 one (hacks of Republican and Democra
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Cargo can accept an hour or five refuelling in Anchorage or be half a day late. And cargo planes fly far fewer hours each day than passenger planes, leading to fewer movements per plane. OTOH the fact that the MD-10/MD-11 has a second
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I’ve been following Gough Lui for a while, there’s plenty else worth checking out on his blog, btw.
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AltDrag · https://stefansundin.github.io/altdrag/ Does both traditional <Alt-left click-drag> and <Alt-middle/right click-drag> to resize as known on X11. Edit: Whoops, Windows only, sorry. But the sam
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And a quick search for an old Netgear manual: https://www.manualslib.com/manual/298986/Netgear-Nd508.html#...
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I know precisely the kind of style you mean. I just googled <random technology> and 1997 and found this here cover pretty immediately: https://www.amazon.com/Cisco-IOS-Configuration-Fundamentals-... Probably not what
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Fun fact: Array(1, 2, 3) someList(0) array(0) = 23.42 map("name") = "Joe" All of this is valid MUMPS syntax and does what you'd think. I'd loooove to hear the author's thoughts on the
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What I did to merge cells but keep the headers the same was to just suppress rendering via if (isFakeColumn(cell.column.id)) { return <React.Fragment key={cell.column.id}></React.Fragment>; } And then ren
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> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-au/windows/win32/winprog64/app...

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