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by rewq4321 6y ago
> Lets not pretend that ads help people with less money. Who's pretending? Ads naturally and quite effectively price-discriminate, and so they do make internet content cheaper for people with less money. You may have problems with e
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by rewq4321 6y ago
> Maybe but if most vegans are not healthy It's well documented that vegans, on average, live longer than omnivores (even controlling for exercise level, smoking, etc), and I don't think there's any evidence that vegans ar
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by rewq4321 6y ago
This is cool! Would be ever cooler if it could record a video clip rather than just images. You wouldn't have enough space in localStorage/IndexedDB, but you can use File System Access[0] (currently available in Chrome and Edge, s
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by rewq4321 6y ago
+1 to the food diversity point. I've never felt the need to supplement protein, but I've always been a big peanut butter eater, that probably helps. I've also really started enjoying tofu and tempeh recently.
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by rewq4321 6y ago
Basically all B12 supplement brands know this (it's their job) and so they have something like 2000% RDI (or whatever) to account for it.
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by rewq4321 6y ago
> I thought it was env friendly It is.[0][1] > And then I figured that I was not only b12 border line deficient You "figured" that you were deficient? Were you supplementing B12, or eating fortified foods (e.g. most soy milk
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by rewq4321 6y ago
Security researchers can easily get $500 per hour on consult. The author should "charge" based on a percentage of the value that this bug fix gives to google. I'd argue that for such a huge platform this bug is worth tens if
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by rewq4321 6y ago
For the time-pressed: The relevant "call to action" starts at about 2 mins. He's basically screaming a few minutes later. I don't think democrats are immune to this sort of thing, but I agree that this has really gone wa
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by rewq4321 6y ago
Gab broke/removed the code for federation several months ago, so they're no longer part of the fediverse. See my reply to your GP for more details.
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by rewq4321 6y ago
Gab left the fediverse quite a while ago now: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/ie49qp/is_gab_sti... https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/ie49qp/is_gab_
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by rewq4321 6y ago
> Gun regulation is mostly to stop stupid people act stupidly with a gun they already lawfully own If you make guns easier to get, you end up with more of these cases. You also end up making it easier for people to unlawfully get access
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by rewq4321 6y ago
I was thinking the same thing, but then, what's the reasoning behind moving the barricades out of the way? "There are too many protestors, we need to help them move the barricades" doesn't make sense. They then turn thei
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by rewq4321 6y ago
Did you read the full post? What sort of missing information could possibly redeem them? They've built an almost-exact clone and are filing trademarks for his game's name all around the world. The information given in the post has
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by rewq4321 6y ago
Yeah, the cricket protein thing is a fad. Anything that can be produced by an animal, can be produced by a (potentially genetically-modified) plant or yeast more efficiently. Animals are above plants trophic-level-wise, and their feed conve
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by rewq4321 6y ago
The GP was referring to specific, widely reported-on instances of Facebook dropping the ball on moderation - one which Zuckerberg has apologised for.[1] It was absolutely a failure that could have been averted with better management and pla
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by rewq4321 6y ago
This is moving the discussion into "whataboutism" territory. It's certainly true that there are problems with other social media platforms, but that doesn't really detract from GP's point.
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by rewq4321 6y ago
The occasional viral instance of poor enforcement would do the trick. I don't actually think there's a majority in the "COCs are evil" camp - not even close, but there's a very vocal minority group that has a lot of
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by rewq4321 6y ago
I know this, but as judge2020 pointed out, that's irrelevant to my point. That said, it is relevant to the whole anti-trust thing because Apple has a stranglehold on browser features (such as PWA stuff).
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by rewq4321 6y ago
> This isn't some gotcha Do you mean that Apple's policies on cloud gaming aren't a specially-crafted edge case? Because if so, it seems like you're wrong there. They allow browsers on the app store, which can access
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by rewq4321 6y ago
You missed the most cringe part of that comment: > homeopathic traditional meds That said, if you think that lower meat consumption isn't correlated with increased life expectancy, then you should read this: https://en.wi
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by rewq4321 6y ago
I'm plant-based, and your comment is embarassing. > homeopathic traditional meds Jesus. Really? The is no evidence that homeopathy is effective at treating anything. On the other hand there's a mountain of evidence that people
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by rewq4321 6y ago
If you could grow and kill with a small fraction of the suffering that farmed animals endure today, then eating meat would be mostly fine (other than environmental issues, perhaps). Unfortunately that's impossible for all but a very sm
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by rewq4321 6y ago
How could it be competitive with GPUs in terms of price-per-unit-performance? Seems like GPUs are expensive only because you can't rent a small portion of a GPU? But shouldn't that be possible with GPU virtualisation? Or is it the
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by rewq4321 6y ago
> That data is literally given away to everyone but some people or organizations can't have it? It's often a question of quantity. LinkedIn probably doesn't care about you scraping a few profiles, but if you're harves
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by rewq4321 6y ago
Interesting! Deno's official module registry stores immutable tagged versions of open-source projects, but there's a project called Nest.land[1] that takes the immutability one step further by putting modules on the arweave[2] blo
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Stadia uses a web app to bypass Apple's policy on cloud gaming apps(extremetech.com)
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by rewq4321 6y ago
I don't think we disagree. I'm not pro-bad-enforcement, and I'm sure the phenomenon you point out does exist to some extent, just as we see in law enforcement. The "the evil mediocrities that enforce COCs" comment t
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by rewq4321 6y ago
> the evil mediocrities that enforce COCs Most "people who actually create things" like communities with an explicit, reasonable code of conduct. This is of course not to say that mistakes haven't ever been made in enf
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by rewq4321 6y ago
To add another data point for you: I have had one of my websites brought down by Yandex bots before. There are also dozens of no-name bots (often SEO tools like ahrefs, semrush, etc.) that can sometimes cause troubles. For me it was a probl
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by rewq4321 6y ago
> It's strange to me that Deno seems as if it could decide overnight to be a drop-in replacement The 1.0 announcement post the team mentioned: > For some applications Deno may be a good choice today, for others not yet. It will d

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