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by riffic 3y ago
wait until I what about?
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by riffic 3y ago
a signal of competence, by fundamentally understanding how domains work.
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by riffic 3y ago
the term predates the company https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/facebook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book
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by riffic 3y ago
it's still closed source software? previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18571139
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by riffic 3y ago
lol that trope is about 50 years old as well and it just means you need less to get high (self-titration). https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/weed-limit-pot-prohibiti... > Bowers' claims of higher THC content
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by riffic 3y ago
Italy is secular republic, while the KSA is an absolute monarchy. I'm still failing to see which one is a "Catholic country" unless you are somehow conflating Italy with the Holy See, another absolute monarchy.
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by riffic 3y ago
what is a "Catholic country"?
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by riffic 3y ago
"accident" is a word specifically mentioned by George Carlin as a soft language euphemism for crash or collision. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37976566
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by riffic 3y ago
I don't know why providing basic context is so hard for some submitters here.
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by riffic 3y ago
there's more but it's interesting that multiple people replied here with the same piece (Willendorf): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stone_Age_art
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by riffic 3y ago
It's interesting that I don't usually see policies written with the words "Please don't".
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by riffic 3y ago
many people already ride the bus and many more would do so if the right conditions were met.
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by riffic 3y ago
how do you effectively shame people into doing the right thing here, as opposed to just letting them do the wrong thing at an alarming scale?
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by riffic 3y ago
Aspergillus nidulans has been genetically engineered by researchers to produce carminic acid. No bugs needed. Can still cause allergenic reactions unfortunately.
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by riffic 3y ago
not the dye made out of crushed up insects it seems. that is labeled natural red 4, C.I. 75470, or E120 (per wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine )
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by riffic 3y ago
well luckily WordPress would be interoperable with Mastodon and maybe Threads if they stick to their commitment to federate with the ActivityPub protocol. Bluesky insists on building its own protocol and is making empty promises ( https:&#x
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by riffic 3y ago
gonna name and shame geneticaffairs.com here for this appalling practice: https://geneticaffairs.com/faq.html > Genetic Affairs is able to retrieve DNA matches for several DNA matching companies. To download DNA matches
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by riffic 3y ago
there are a lot of really valid use cases for genetic testing but to address your point you (these customers, etc) really should be aware of the risk and privacy issues that may occur if that data was compromised.
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by riffic 3y ago
There are some genealogical services out there that do Leeds-Collins charts that to my knowledge work by asking their users for their 23andMe credentials, much like some third party banking services that work by asking their users directly
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by riffic 3y ago
there's a parable of a Nazi bar, that was made famous ironically with a tweet. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nazi_bar > From an anecdote shared by Michael B. Tager (@IamRageSparkle) on Twitter in July 2020. In
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by riffic 3y ago
microwaves emit RF, heavy concept right?
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by riffic 3y ago
lactofermentation is an ancient and widespread practice.
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by riffic 3y ago
there isn't a single Mastodon server. It's a web application (like Wordpress which frequently gets hugged to death when linked here).
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by riffic 3y ago
TIL 22 war department clerks were killed in the theater in 1893: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congressional_Jo...
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by riffic 3y ago
the site has been previously known to be the work of Edward Hasbrouck ( https://icannwiki.org/Edward_Hasbrouck ) His name still seems to be on the author byline in this post.
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by riffic 3y ago
glaring misuse of it's in the title
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by riffic 3y ago
also I wanted to make a dig against cops
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by riffic 3y ago
Intellectual dishonesty; I already admitted my own mistake.
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by riffic 3y ago
if a hacker wanted to be Sony's Jenkins admin, they should've just filled out a job application
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by riffic 3y ago
It's so funny how this was almost my same exact (deleted) comment. There is a certain level of intellectual dishonesty in leaving your comment up, knowing it is mostly not your words. It would be fair to tell your comment was mostly a

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