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by rosybox 7y ago
I use Bing regularly, I made it my default search engine just for kicks about 2 months ago just to see how terrible it was and for the most part I can't even tell the difference. Sometimes I can't find what I want and then I searc
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by rosybox 7y ago
I don't really like the idea of abandoning people suffering from "rare" diseases. ALS sucks so much. It is a horrible thing to be told you have ALS, you'd wish you were diagnosed with cancer or cardiovascular disease ins
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by rosybox 7y ago
Yes I had a typo, I can't edit the post now. I'm glad promising treatments are on the way.
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by rosybox 7y ago
I'm happy for all the progress being made with cancer. I wish we would also make progress on diseases that attack the nervous system for which we seemed to have made next to none. Alzheimer's, ALS, MS, Parkinson's, Hunnington
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by rosybox 7y ago
So Java is basically getting structs. Seems awesome.
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by rosybox 7y ago
Based on my experience in the military a lot of seemingly useless not very interesting things are marked as classified. Of course lots of interesting things are classified as well.
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by rosybox 7y ago
It also says it's the same length as the one everyone has seen. It may be higher resolution, but I doubt there's anything new here.
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by rosybox 7y ago
How do you determine which tenured professors aren't pulling their weight? How do you pull your weight as a professor of some non-employable field of learning? Higher learning isn't vocational training, it's about creating an
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by rosybox 7y ago
The absence of evidence doesn't make an idea more plausible, it makes it less plausible. I can't disprove that a celestial teapot is circling the sun between Earth and Mars, so how do you know it isn't? https://en.
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by rosybox 7y ago
Products I wish existed: a cure for neurological disorders like ALS, MS, Parkinson's, huntington's disease, small and large fiber neuropathy. There's nothing. Absolutely nothing out there to help people survive these widespre
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by rosybox 7y ago
This is article went off the rails when it talked about evidence for past civilizations on Earth being undetectable: > The only real evidence after a million or more years would boil down to isotopic or chemical stratigraphic anomalies—o
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by rosybox 7y ago
I'm pretty sure bullying could still lead to suspensions. The new law doesn't ban suspensions for rules the school creates, just for disobeying a teacher. Also why are we suspending 1st through 5th graders? Children in those grade
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by rosybox 7y ago
I know this is supposed to be good news and we should feel good about this, but as a generally healthy person all my life reading this I'm just shocked by the horrible diseases and illnesses that happen to good people just trying to li
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by rosybox 7y ago
> if a site owner receives a DMCA notice and believes the content is not infringing they can just do nothing and / or tell whoever sent it to get bent, sender may escalate to the courts The site owner in the case of TF receiving the
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by rosybox 7y ago
We don't seem to understand much about any of diseases that affect the brain or nervous system. MS, Parkinson's, ALS, Huntington's disease, alzheimers, not even essential tremors or BFS. All these futurists thinking longer li
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by rosybox 7y ago
There are no ads on Google News and I think it would be hard for Google to monetize other news organizations' content in their own news app without being sued for it.
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by rosybox 7y ago
If you still want this kind of UI you can have it with a Gnome or KDE linux desktop.
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by rosybox 7y ago
They could be sites for work, for government business, a school website, or their doctor's website that is broken when they needed to schedule surgery or something and they wont have any idea it was ublock that broke it and wont think
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by rosybox 7y ago
Will your family members know how to deal with sites that break because of ublock? I've learned to not "help" people in this fashion, even people I care about, because unless they understand the software it turns out that thi
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by rosybox 7y ago
> - Regional versions of films with anything from chunks of dialog ("I'm from X") up through entire cityscape backgrounds changed depending on the theater location. With CG, even things like character appearance (e.g. race
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by rosybox 7y ago
So those people working hard at the bank, making a living doing honest work, helping people deposit money, deserve being whipped. Got it.
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by rosybox 7y ago
I imagine the bank tellers who were robbed and afraid for their lives probably don't feel that way.
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by rosybox 7y ago
This article escalated quickly from dots on a photograph to discussing the viability of Dyson spheres.
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by rosybox 7y ago
> I think the studies are looking at this backwards. Physical activity should probably be looked at as the natural state of humans and ask why lack of physical activity affects the brain. I wonder if there's a selfless gene in human
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by rosybox 7y ago
> There is no normal height. There more certainly is a statistically average height. > Out of 4,063 pilots, not a single airman fit within the average range on all 10 dimensions. This article is comparing 10 dimensions of variability
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by rosybox 7y ago
I'm 6'2" and my knees used to be painfully squeezed into seats and everything was incredibly uncomfortable on flights. At the time I weighed 275lb. I've since lost weight and I was surprised how much more comfortable fly
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by rosybox 7y ago
Not fundamentally changing the design is a plus for usability and accessibility. It would be a disappointment if I had to relearn a UI I've been using over a decade just because I upgraded my software. I don't have time for that.
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by rosybox 7y ago
> Visual FoxPro (1992-2007) Tell that to the thousands of businesses still using it. https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=foxpro
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by rosybox 7y ago
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
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by rosybox 7y ago
Alphabet and Google being a separate company makes even less sense now.

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