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by rolleiflex 5y ago
I would consider the Turkish Republic a newborn at 1923, not a continuation of the Ottoman Empire from 1299, mostly because it was a switch in cultural codes and a reset in wealth. OE bequeathed very little wealth to TR, so this is the firs
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
Imamoglu appears to be making much more headway into the conservative circles than any other secular leader, so it’s not obvious to me that he would lose if he tried. However, he is also a new name in Turkish politics, and only Istanbulites
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
Turkey’s adolescence is full of trials indeed. Hopefully one day we’ll be able to look back at this and call it life experience.
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
There are elections coming in 2023 (as scheduled) and possibly earlier if the opposition manages to force it due to current low confidence in the government. All prior ‘this is critical’ moments were either local elections (cannot affect th
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
The only other type of thread design I know of is Reddit-style threads in a chat app. The negative of that is that the threads cannot be directly incorporated into chat itself after creation because they become things of their own, just lik
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
As a Turkish person, we are reminded of this pretty much every day. However, it’s also important to avoid the cult of personality: Ataturk’s reforms did not come out of nothing. Turkey at that point had been a cosmopolitan society of many c
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
Mind that this is not Nokia producing this phone, but a company called ‘HMD Global Oy’ as visible in the cookie warning and the space below the footer that the cookie warning covers. They’re just licensing the Nokia name. Considering this p
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
I’ve found that this way of phrasing it helps people click: Speed of light is infinite*. What we call speed of light is the speed of reality. * not actually infinite, because reality itself propagates at a finite speed (I’d love to know if
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
The issue with these is that the other side of the output is hyper-salty brine, which kills pretty much any life it encounters, and that brine does get dumped to the ocean. The ocean has more than enough capacity to absorb the hit, but it s
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
In your case, I think he was possibly just curious about your passport. In the general case, bouncers do this to not seen as slacking on the job by their peers or manager.
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
Not a lawyer, but my understanding is that the answer is yes, in theory. In practice, the primary people that could legitimately make that argument would be the observatories of universities or the like, people with substantial and well-doc
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
That is correct. See here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18048893/
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
The cheap SPO2 devices are calibrated on fair skin. If you have a darker complexion there is a known measurement error. If you are at 91% and feeling fine you are probably fine. Your body has a better SPO2 sensor than anything man-made.
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
I chuckled at this. Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1217/
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
Yes, these are all different kinds of logic that can be executed, and none of them are ‘right’, it just depends on personal preference and situation. We call that user-selectability ‘subjective moderation’, but it’s basically a client-side
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
Yeah, quadratic voting is one of the potential solutions to this, but ultimately that removes the ‘fraud load’ by mostly moving it to another place, to number of accounts. That is arguably worse because it incentivises the malicious users t
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
> For example, if the #1 person believes something is being said that is really damaging in some way, they could put at stake the entirety of their karma and downvote it, which would pretty much obliterate the comment. We are building a
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
I think yours is the widely agreed upon definition of Creative Commons. I am likewise bewildered by their interpretation — it seems that they are suggesting anyone that reads this document is forever poisoned and thus cannot design or imple
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
Good idea, I just corrected it. Thanks.
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
Since this is a long article, here’s a summary for fellow readers — it’s mostly about the negative side effects of meditation that the author believes is under-documented or under-reported due to the ‘hype’ of meditation as the 21st century
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
I think they’re problematic because they’ve reached ungodly amounts of storage and I don’t think most non-technical people fully understand how much of a loaded gun a non-regularly-backed-up 2TB external HDD is. As a real world example, I’v
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
They do, but only to read, not write. I think the current up to date recommendation for cross-OS compatibility on external drives is to use ExFAT, though I believe the concept of the ‘external drive’ itself should be deprecated.
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
I know as a matter of fact that this does not work. This is regularly checked and municipalities are on top of it. When I worked at FAANG the company was fairly direct about this, with the internal communication about this being in the form
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
This is such an underrated idea. It is possible that at the logical conclusion of the current trend of machines getting better at previously human-only things, it might turn out that all we can really do that a machine cannot, is to want t
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
I’m still not sure what Starship Troopers even was . Was it a comedy, satire or just a flat, wide-eyed warning about war and nationalism in the vein of WW1? It’s a movie that starts in a regular high school, dating, and (spoilers ahead, NF
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
My experience has been cyclical, as long as you stick to IPv4 with good SPF and your reverse DNS works it will work 95% of the time. The remaining 5% appears to be completely random however. It’s possible that my issue was too low a traffic
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
Great work, and as somebody who self hosted my own email from 2013 to 2021, I don’t envy you. What broke me down was Google starting to spam my emails that were replies to conversations that I did not start — even with a stellar domain repu
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
It’s editing the genes of the cells of the liver, so presumably when those liver cells divide and multiply, the change would also be copied along as well. What isn’t clear to me is that if this is targeted at the liver cells in particular,
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
I’ve bought a clone of Toto Washlet for a few hundred bucks on Amazon when I saw the writing on the wall for toilet paper shortages. It worked great for reducing my toilet paper use to 1/10 of what it was, and it’s objectively more hyg
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
I spent about $750 on a Rancilio Silvia, about $550 on a DF64 espresso grinder and some several hundred here and there for other small equipment at $20-30 apiece. I then paid about $750 or so to a coffee roasting machine, and I started to r

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