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by robonerd 4y ago
I agree that Brave's thing is not a scam. Nevertheless, "all crypto is a scam" is a good rule of thumb that would do most people more good than harm. Generally speaking, I think people should be encouraged to think of all
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by robonerd 4y ago
I think it's one of those liability things like "don't put q-tips in your ear".
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by robonerd 4y ago
Industrial hemp is a jack of all trades, master of none. Anything it can do, other materials can do better. Can you make a tshirt out of hemp? Of course. Is it better than cotton, let alone synthetic fibers? No. Hemp ice cream? Po
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by robonerd 4y ago
These cartridges are sketchy as fuck; I don't trust any of them and I don't think anybody else should either. Do yourself a favor and buy a vape you can pack ground herb into.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> What part of it is a scam, if at no point users are required to put any money or buy anything to participate? That's not a convincing rebuttal. A scam with a "free-to-play" tier is still a scam. Lots of carnies will
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by robonerd 4y ago
"Lee-bray" I don't know if the French would approve of that pronunciation, but it's good enough for me and seems like an intuitively obvious way for me to pronounce it. The word looks obviously French, and monolingual E
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by robonerd 4y ago
I think they're trying to bait Google into a legal fight that would immediately turn into a PR war. Very.. brave.. of them.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Nice for them. But I find general-purpose search engines are becoming worse across the board. They're all so bad now that I find them to be a waste of the time more often than not. I've found myself relying more on the search
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by robonerd 4y ago
> because OpenOffice is the obvious name if you're going for the ideological angle I disagree. I associate "Open" with corporate-interest driven "open source", BSD licensing, and cynically misleading branding (O
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by robonerd 4y ago
Even for monolingual English speakers, like myself, it only takes two or three braincells to make a guess that "libre" comes from a Romance language and probably relates to the word liberty. That gets you close enough to understa
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by robonerd 4y ago
Are courtesy flushes safe?
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by robonerd 4y ago
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teache
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by robonerd 4y ago
Quicker notifications means a tighter OODA loop, e.g. more control.
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Wikipedia tells me the last time a new Wikimedia project was launched was Wikidata, 10 years ago in 2012.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> the US being on 120V Driers, and similar high power appliances, don't use a single 120V phase. They use two phrases, 180 degrees apart in normal residential houses and 120 degrees apart in apartment buildings. Any American cloth
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by robonerd 4y ago
A single dial labelled 1 through 9.
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by robonerd 4y ago
How do you ever decide whether a load of laundry needs 30 or 40? Do you sum up all the laundry labels on each item of clothing then take the average? Personally, I leave my machine set to hot for everything. Hot water is what I use for w
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Your washing machine is the one that should have a printed table of them somewhere. Neither of my laundry machines have any symbols on their control panels, only printed English. The only symbols I can find on them are the Explosio
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by robonerd 4y ago
The idea of using these symbols instead of printed English is that not everybody speaks English, yes? Well, I don't speak Spanish, but I think if all of these symbols were replaced with printed Spanish words, it would be more useful
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by robonerd 4y ago
> For at least the next decade For the next decade? That's like saying there's a wildfire nearby, but my house will be fine for the next five minutes. What about the next century? California is drying up. It's not hap
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by robonerd 4y ago
Central Valley farmers love to deny climate change and blame the government for all their problems. What they don't want to admit is their "perfect" farmland was bone dry a few centuries ago, and is now reverting back to tha
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by robonerd 4y ago
> if we simply stopped shipping almonds overseas, California would have enough water for three more cities the size of LA. Only for a while. Things are likely to dry up a whole lot faster and quicker than you're expecting. Pale
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by robonerd 4y ago
Abortion as a substitute for affordable housing? I propose this: we legalize euthanasia then use that as an excuse to strip you of all other entitlements. You don't deserve a home, that's just luxury because you could get yours
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by robonerd 4y ago
Luxury relative to what, exactly? I think people in America are generally accustomed to one-bedroom-per-child; that's the standard our popular media promotes. I grew up in a family of 5 with a 3 bedroom house; meaning two of us w
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by robonerd 4y ago
> I don't understand why people have to take sides here: both Apple and Facebook are horrible companies who don't care about (You) Corps have gotten very good at exploiting the tribal instinct by encouraging people to view th
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by robonerd 4y ago
Is there any reason to believe reddit didn't/doesn't have this same exact problem? I think Tumblr was singled out and made an example of because they had a narrower user demographic spread, particularly popular with young wom
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by robonerd 4y ago
It's hard not to see it as researchers doing typical ivory tower gatekeeping. If it were only a few of them that neglected to provide simple tools and installation instructions for common people, I would chalk it up to laziness. But
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by robonerd 4y ago
> I don't see why they would be upset. Feigning ignorance. People in or adjacent to the tech surveillance industry (either working in it or having a substantial portion of their net worth invested in the industry) whine about coo
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by robonerd 4y ago
Apple treating the word 'fuck' like any other would "probably trigger a congressional hearing"? Give me a break.
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by robonerd 4y ago
All words have their own categories. There are an innumerable number of categories you can put any word into. Give me a single word that can't be put into a special category; you can't do it.

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