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4y ago
I like to plunder. Gotta pay for the healthcare and schools somehow. Don't you care about the children?
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4y ago
HN is clearly filled with only one of the two.
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4y ago
Do they typically?
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4y ago
How about one where it is widely promoted?
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4y ago
> And then there is Only Fans and sex work. Ten years ago it was still unimaginable when talking about regular people, now completely normalized. Remarkable.
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4y ago
Possibly so. Note I underspecified which times of yore. Does this observation apply equally to 1990s as much as 1890s? Both are in the distant past depending on your vantage point. Must be some crossover point for when the era of the rugged
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> In a city, if you break your arm, you'll be inconvenienced and in pain for awhile, but you'll be fine eventually. > In the middle of the wilderness, a broken arm may be a death sentence. How on earth did Americans manage i
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4y ago
It is <€1500 for the battery and <$1000 for the motor/inverter. People have diy built higher capacity electric ducati-type sports bikes on YouTube for about the cost of this clown car. https://www.youtube.com/watc
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4y ago
What about them? I guess the answer depends on whether those are closer to 1%, 50% or 99% of the women. If you ask the French: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_ban_on_face_covering > let individuals decide wheth
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4y ago
But this is easy to argue against: > No normal, rational human being would want to cover their face. You could say that some women do it willingly out of piety by buying into the cultural mores they grew up in. That from their perspectiv
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4y ago
Sure, for example. Wearing jeans arguably hastened the end of the Soviet union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeans_Revolution Alcohol is haram. I hear the attitude towards Jeans in SA is now more lenient but less than
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4y ago
So, presumably there is a line after all. I'm not sure what we are disagreeing with other than palatable phrasing. I submit that cannibalism is somewhere over the line and I also agree that 'no sane person would want to be eaten
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4y ago
I'd just like to thank you, as a (cannibal) resident of Nukuhiva, for respecting my culture. Everything is just a matter of perspective after all, it is good to keep an open mind.
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4y ago
Why do so many young Saudis change clothes literally at the airport bathroom (witnessed this multiple times) party and act western every chance they get away from such supervision?
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4y ago
I get 12+ hours of battery life on my M1 Air, no longer bother with cables and outlets at coffee shops. What else I could buy of similar weight/size/battery/quality? Even if knew of an alternative, there are other unexpected
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4y ago
Yes and it arrived in Europe by way of the conquistadors. However, it has evolved a bit since. I could be wrong, but much like with bananas the OG version would surprise you in terms of taste/looks.
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4y ago
Budget.
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4y ago
Thank you kindly. :)
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> yet we're talking about the feasibility of a distributed system being able to sustain random bursts of write amplification factor of 100 million across a decentralized database, with ideally exactly-once write semantics even if a
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4y ago
> And iops aside, even just the storage capacity from full inbox materialization (along with necessary indexing overhead) will bankrupt you, especially on that blazing fast storage you keep talking about. The twitter firehose is usually
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4y ago
> Otherwise, every time Obama or Musk tweets, you need to do one hundred million writes. That amount of write amplification is completely ludicrous and would crush any system. I knew somebody would bring that up. Currently there are fewe
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4y ago
Thank you for a moment of unintended candor at least. To this I say: Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. Call it "toxic" if you wish, I find this whole thing hilarious . Especially
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4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_positivity Breathtaking niceness going on from lovely stable people: apartheid profiteer, dictator's asskisser, insecure colonizer, cruel hoarder, mediocre manchild, petty r
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4y ago
Up until recently 100% office work was the norm. It still is for most people. Many employers are quite adamant about it, not just Elon. 40 hours per week is also known as the standard work week . A bog standard j-o-b. Those are not reasona
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4y ago
I'm curios about self hosting for personal usage. An offline google maps, just on my laptop, or hosted somewhere but serving very few users.
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> Source: I work in developing a competing OCR service and we keep an eye on competition (e.g. aside from Google, solutions by Azure, Amazon, Abbyy, Nuance, Cloudmersive, etc., as well as our internal product of course, which is not avai
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4y ago
> Even on this smaller extract, these services already use a large portion of my 1TB SSD (667 GB total). Assuming the usage scales proportionally, I would need around 3.7TB of storage for the entire planet. Not to mention the RAM require
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4y ago
No, it really isn't. It is perfectly normalizable. Every twitterer is a newsletter. Most hardly ever tweet and sporadically at that. The followers are subscribers. They hardly even see most tweets they subscribe to as the whole thing
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4y ago
Appears to be a nice wrapper around Tesseract: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_(software) The demo of course works perfectly on a Mac as this is a
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4y ago
Yes, sorry I should have been less terse: never heard of antidotedb but I figured there is probably a bunch of these projects mature already. I was asking, not stating.
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