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by riffic 2y ago
it's also a believable affectation.
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by riffic 2y ago
It's a ceremonial plaque, was it always supposed to be the same literal recording but golden?
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by riffic 2y ago
any reason why south philadelphians call it the "IKEA boat"? That doesn't seem to be explained in the text.
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by riffic 2y ago
compensation (it's a psychological concept) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensation_(psychology)
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by riffic 2y ago
at some point the ActivityPub protocol with its open interoperability will develop a sort of critical mass with the mainstream and everyone will need it. So you may be correct now, "nobody needs Fediverse or ActivityPub" but in so
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by riffic 2y ago
it's better than whatever Microsoft Teams makes you use.
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by riffic 2y ago
Original title is "On the Record" not "The Record", absolutely different contexts are being implied here.
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by riffic 2y ago
isn't this a "new yorker styleguide" sort of idiosyncrasy? EDIT: "Languages such as Dutch, Afrikaans, Catalan, French, Galician, and Spanish make regular use of the diaeresis" according to wikipedia.
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by riffic 2y ago
why take the risk.
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by riffic 2y ago
there's absolutely NEVER any justification for blocking firefox except just like, complete hostility. It's Apple though so of course, they get a pass.
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by riffic 2y ago
when a service is free, who is the customer and who is the product being sold?
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by riffic 2y ago
more than 60 years ago actually.
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by riffic 2y ago
perhaps it's time to normalize relations with their government and end the blockade.
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by riffic 2y ago
I actually have a little ambition but maybe one day if I have energy I'll pursue an amateur radio art installation of sorts. The space seems ripe for this sort of energy.
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by riffic 2y ago
did they just enumerate an open web endpoint for it or something?
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by riffic 2y ago
how are turbines cooled? genuine question, no idea how they are supposed to work.
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by riffic 2y ago
There's a conjecture about boy here: https://www.reddit.com/r/etymology/comments/8qdnpu/what_are_...
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by riffic 2y ago
*whose mission
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by riffic 2y ago
Alternatively: the third millennium.
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by riffic 2y ago
they're under a consent decree if I'm not mistaken from a lot of lawsuits that took place in the 80s and 90s. big tobacco also funds organizations like Truth, which put out anti-smoking advertisements that really look and feel lik
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by riffic 2y ago
Did they just expect these aircraft to never crash?
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by riffic 2y ago
there are differences of opinion when it comes to that actually. > One style of headline and title capitalization which doesn't follow the rules is Sentence Case style. https://headlinecapitalization.com/
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The Beginning Was the End (Oscar Kiss Maerth)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by riffic 2y ago
ah just laying the foundation for a lovely despotic future.
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by riffic 2y ago
the book list is fun (I have to remind myself some of you weren't around in the early 90s): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chicken_Soup_for_the_S...
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by riffic 2y ago
no kidding, dude is 93 and outlived Jimmy Buffett. On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone blah blah blah.
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by riffic 2y ago
the company, or the case?
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by riffic 2y ago
doctrine of first sale, it's a really interesting concept in the United States at least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
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by riffic 2y ago
I love how the Hacker ethos has shifted from information wants to be free [0] to this sort of predictable HN (the H stands for Hacker doesn't it) reply. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_
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by riffic 2y ago
The shirtwaists aren't going to triangle themselves now.

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