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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
I don't think the problem is whether Twitter is readable. The problem is whether it is advertisable for Twitter: whether advertisers will complain about being placed next to a tweet.
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Caveat: when booking directly you still need to confirm your reservation by phone. I have twice had Wyndham hotels book for earlier dates than what I had input on their website when making the reservation. (After it happened the first time,
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
> We’ve heard from regulators and the general public that we need to focus more strongly on security to ensure that we’re taking all the steps possible to make sure people don't use Stable Diffusion for illegal purposes or hurting p
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
If these politicians are supportive of invasive surveillance, then "You first" is a decent rebuttal. Let the politicians make ALL their phone OS and data open, then we can talk about letting them install bugs into our phones. So p
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Thank you. This is the first time I've seen a true steelman of the pro-GoF poisition.
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
The core idea is that pension funds should only invest in companies which are socially responsible. In order to achieve this, pension funds/large investors assign (or outsource the assignment of) scores to each companies based on each
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Seoul has been 'modernizing' bus stops. The route information, which used to be printed on posters at 1200 dpi, is now visible on large screens at 300 dpi, but the graphics have not been updated. As a result it is very challenging
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
This is doubly annoying as a tourist or immigrant: no, I don't have a local phone number, I don't have a bank account here, and I don't want to install $APP that is ubiquitous in your country but controlled by $Evilcorp. Exam
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
> Like how more people know English in China than in North America. This is definitely false. China has ~3x the population of the US, but far less than 1/3 speak English well enough to give directions on the streets of the major ci
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
> BBC staff in London sent TikTok gifts worth $106 from another account. At the end of the livestream, the balance of the Syrian test account was $33. So you think this is because of quantization at the level of cents in the unit of acco
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Foreign exchange fees, perhaps?
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
I found some numbers: according to Statistica, Europe has 275 mental health 'hospital admissions' per 100,000, whereas the Americas have 41.8. That could be entirely enough to explain the difference in prison populations, but of c
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
The US also doesn't have mandatory inpatient mental health care (or at least this has been severely downsized since the 1970s). How much of the numbers can be explained by other countries have higher rates mental health care institutio
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Isn't this why companies love Delaware, Hong Kong, and Singapore? AFAIK the courts in these jurisdictions are fast and uphold the rule of law (contract law included).
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
There have been some really interesting studies which showed that in order to get colorectal cancer you have to accumulate 4-6 deletrious mutations in the same cells. People with genetic predispositions are born with 2-3 of those mutations.
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
I really disagreed with the Iraq war at the time: it was obvious that it was Bush's revenge and Cheney's wallet that was the motivation, not concerns about WMDs or revenge for 9/11. (If 9/11 is the motivation, invade Sau
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
With the advent of the internet, one can pick and choose copious examples to cast either political party as hypocrites. This is because political parties are formed of lots of people, and most of their leaders will not live by their claimed
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Gmail allows users to generate 10 one-time use 2FA codes at a time. Even if you are not going to become homeless, you should generate these and write them down somewhere secure. You never know if your phone battery will suddenly die.
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Fig. 1(c) and Fig 2 show error bars, which is very useful. It appears that the excess deaths really didn't start having a significant (error bars not overlapping zero) Republican bias until November and December 2021, which is a lot la
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Would the voters in Republican-dominated areas stand for that?
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Yup. Here the government is not really maintaining a stockpile as conventionally imagined, but paying industry to rotate inventory through a buffer which is the size of the desired stockpile. Seems like this strategy would have avoided the
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Intechopen is not peer reviewed at all. They publish anything that claims to be science, from quantum to traditional chinese medicine articles about qi and energy flows.
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Au contraire, the US is so wealthy and efficient at food production that to waste food is much more efficient than to spend the manpower to allocate or recycle it properly. (Most food waste goes into sewage and trash, which is efficient on
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
The susceptibility of the SD card to data corruption is a big showstopper. The only digital files I've had corrupted were stored on my phone's external SD cards (after 3 to 7 years). When I looked into it, it seemed to be an issue
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Don't forget that if there are many different people calling you out for telling lies, it's obviously targeted harassment.
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
That depends a lot on the specific gig and market. To use taxi services as an example, in some metros Uber has completely taken over the market and can thus reduce driver compensation or add fees for drivers. Hidden fees in particular are c
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
This is because antitrust laws in the US have been reinterpreted by the courts to only apply where there is an adverse impact on consumers. In order to punish anticompetitive behavior that negatively affects workers in keeping with existin
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Realistically speaking, if it weren't the monarchs wasting tabeloid inches it would be the equally inane antics of Hollywood celebrities. It's good for the UK to have homegrown entertainment, and nice that it has a historical foun
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Sure, but every barrier to movement reduces transmissions, makes contact tracing easier, and buys more time for vaccine distribution.
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
However much of an injustice they were, the US closed its internment camps (via constitutional balances) without the need for coersion by foreign powers. That to me makes them much more forgivable than Jim Crow or Gitmo.

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