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by ralfd 4y ago
"Unauthorized, your username is not on the whitelist." I can't login with discord?
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> The tainted water source is located in a sublevel which originates from the second floor of the dungeon. The entrance appears as an opening in the wall, and there are several candles nearby. Inside, there is more of the yellow-colored
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by ralfd 4y ago
Bill Gates raising his offer because Andy doesn’t know what to respond is also a great story. And shows how great a manager Bill is with his congratulating letter. Andy was extra motivated to make Microsoft apps work because he felt he pro
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by ralfd 4y ago
> his brother was much, much funnier The ultimate victory in intra-sibling competition: Grinding comedy until you have a Netflix stand-up special and your naturally funny wise-cracking brother doesn't.
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by ralfd 4y ago
We need mineral based carbon removal (weathering) or direct air storage and capture. Microsoft has a nice report what they bought and how long the carbon is captured: https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api&#x2F
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by ralfd 4y ago
Randall Monroe himself didn't know how hard (easy) the task was. The Flickr team released a month after the comic this (sadly offline now): https://code.flickr.net/2014/10/20/introducing-flickr-park-o...
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by ralfd 4y ago
Thankfully that EU initiative failed. They wanted the industry to adopt micro-usb as the standard, which would have sucked and would be worse than the situation today
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by ralfd 4y ago
This is a cool project, but this is a bit embarrassing: > I started building a text recognizer algorithm specifically designed for Impact font, and it was actually working pretty well, but I kind of misplaced the code somewhere. So, unti
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by ralfd 4y ago
The other way around: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/11/30/read-elizabeth-... > For her part, Holmes’s responses are often short. > Balwani: Missing u in every breath and in every cell. &gt
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by ralfd 4y ago
> At some point my then ex-wife (we've since reconciled) Did you marry twice?
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by ralfd 4y ago
https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/rubruck.html I recommend reading his travel report on Gutenberg, I found it fascinating, honest and … unintentionally funny. William is not only a monk, he is nerding ou
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by ralfd 4y ago
Because of this ethical question the freezing of fertilized eggs is illegal in Germany. So cautious people can come to this conclusion. But this is the other extreme endpoint. With "a compromising time limit solution" I meant some
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> A foetus is less developed than my toe. I think much confusion comes from miscommunication and unclear meaning of words. Embryo -> until the ninth week after conception, inner organs are not yet present. Fetus -> from the ninth w
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by ralfd 4y ago
Do you find killing a new born baby reprehensible? If no this is a _very_ minority view you have. If yes what is the difference between the new born to a 9 month old fetus in the womb? Then what about an 8 month old? Most would protect it
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by ralfd 4y ago
> Global PV cell production is about 1 million square meters per annum. I think you are of by a few magnitudes as this is only 1 square kilometer? The largest solar park in India is 56 square kilometers in area (or 10 million solar panel
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by ralfd 4y ago
Is it at yours?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/nethack/comments/adbgzd/yaap_swaggi... > Fountains have a 1/30 chance of summoning a Water Demon when quaffed, this demon has a (80+DL)/100 chance of being hostile.
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by ralfd 4y ago
Relevant: The classic owl meme: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/eccj2/how_to_draw_an... Drawing "The Tick" with a simple oval: https://imgur.com/7HMbY
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https://mathimages.swarthmore.edu/index.php/Rope_around_the_... > Although finding the answer requires only basic geometry, even professional mathematicians find the answer strangely counter-intuitive. I guess the m
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by ralfd 4y ago
From the article: > Since late March, I have publicly warned our clients and the broader Bitcoin community about the impending collapse of the cryptocurrency Luna and its native stablecoin, TerraUSD (UST).
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Less kids in industrialized nations will never matter though, as the missing people will be imported. If eco-anti-natalism were really justified they would be anti-immigration. We instead need to get sustainable holistically and need techno
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by ralfd 4y ago
> and how we do https://langcog.stanford.edu/papers/NF-cogsci2013.pdf Fun fact: Young Children also don't understand negation. There are some parenting theories claiming that is why one should use avoid negatio
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by ralfd 5y ago
From the article: People use it to generate avatars from their twitter bio description. https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1511861061988892675
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by ralfd 5y ago
> But it’s a bad comparison, this is about a tool that is conceptually limited, it’s something art has never had before. We didn’t have paint brushes that wouldn’t let you use them to paint a nude portrait or spray cans that refused to l
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by ralfd 5y ago
Blind children can learn english fine though. And there are areas highly unmaterial (mathematics) which people still reason about.
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by ralfd 5y ago
We used the atmosphere as a free dump for CO2 and look where that brought us. See also smog and other air pollution.
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> That's just not true. Some things in life are abundant and need no pricing and have nothing hidden. Citation needed. What are such things?
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Illuminative comment. > This is one of the things that killed Solyndra (just one of). Non-American here. Why did that kill Solyndra? (a solar business?)
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by ralfd 5y ago
Why? What happens in android firefox?

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