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by rozab 5y ago
Maybe I just missed the tone then, it doesn't seem obvious to me with the surrounding context that it's supposed to be hyperbole. And I don't think hyperbole is very useful with politically charged topics either.
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by rozab 5y ago
>It does seem to me to be the worst decision in peacetime any country in the world has made in a thousand years. I don't even know what to do with this. Anyone, at ANY place on the political spectrum, can name many more catastrophic
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by rozab 5y ago
Can you give the site where your example actually comes from? We have this discussion a lot, and rarely is any actual evidence dissected.
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by rozab 5y ago
My torrent client (deluge) gives the option to check which files in the torrent I want to download when I add it. So bittorrent already has this facility, and it's probably how this situation arose in the first place.
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by rozab 5y ago
Cookies should be controlled by the client anyway. Just disable them globally, you'll only ever need them for a couple of sites
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by rozab 5y ago
Where in Asia? I've heard bad things about transfers in Japan, for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbS6JrBcQ4M In the UK transfers are free and near-instant, and contactless is ubiquitous.
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by rozab 5y ago
I understand it has pretty good glide characteristics, MUCH better than the space shuttle, allowing for abort at basically any stage of the flight. Also they actually get given parachutes, unlike pre-Challenger STS missions. The space shutt
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by rozab 5y ago
When I first tried out TikTok a while back, the initial set of videos I was 'seeded' with included a great deal of really shocking animal abuse videos (dogs that had been buried in mud or concrete and are 'rescued', lots
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by rozab 5y ago
I think some people have misunderstood this change. It's been active for me for about a week, I suspect most others without accounts just haven't noticed. Clicking on a linked tweet still works, it's only when you then click
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by rozab 5y ago
This evidence is clearly irrefutable. It's fascinating how a well respected scientist could make such elementary mistakes when fabricating data.
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by rozab 5y ago
No, that's what I meant to link. Melee damage was accidentally doubled for 2 whole weeks and not and nobody noticed. Those players play extremely close attention to stats and such. The post goes on to talk about how and why many change
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by rozab 5y ago
A thread from 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28204948
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by rozab 5y ago
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28210113 Doesn't HN scan for exact dupes?
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by rozab 5y ago
Am I missing something or has this comment slipped in from another thread?
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by rozab 5y ago
All of these walks move one key at a time, as if typing with one finger. When I've had to use such passwords in the past I've always done patterns like "yuihjknm,"(descending triplets), which require very little energy t
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by rozab 5y ago
Aeroplanes are also all of these things. And things go south a lot quicker when they get hijacked.
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by rozab 5y ago
German Zeppelins were essentially invincible until the British invented incendiary ammunition. Their conventional rifle rounds would harmlessly punch through the gasbag. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomeroy_bullet
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by rozab 5y ago
The best bit is this excerpt from the standard library (2019): fn download_file(url, out string) { // println('\nDOWNLOAD FILE $out url=$url') // -L follow redirects // println(&
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by rozab 5y ago
This is one of my favourite websites, and I share it all the time: https://www.onezoom.org/life.html/@=111445?img=best_any&anim... (hopefully that links to the right place)
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by rozab 5y ago
Those witnesses were absolutely not found to be lying. It's just that Salmond was not found to be guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
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by rozab 5y ago
How could psychiatric evaluations conclude that anyway? There is no test for somatic symptom disorder, the diagnostic criteria are just that the symptoms are not adequately explained by physical causes. It often happens in people who are co
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by rozab 5y ago
Does anyone have any fasting advice from a reputable health authority? For some reason the NHS doesn't really have any online, even though a sizeable proportion of the population observe Ramadan. They usually have good, well-cited arti
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by rozab 5y ago
Possibly a deliberate choice to reduce VR sickness?
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by rozab 5y ago
How many throways do you get through each day? Can you go attempt to fan the flames of culture war somewhere else?
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by rozab 5y ago
I suppose this sort of thing isn't common in France? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-57814894
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by rozab 5y ago
When people refer to natural or alternative medicine, they're not usually talking about common sense lifestyle changes universally endorsed by the medical establishment. That's just regular medicine.
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by rozab 5y ago
No, that's the point he's trying to make. He's commenting on the label being used by a certain group of people as an explanation/justification for their lack of social skills and contact. If you go on the r/introver
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by rozab 5y ago
This isn't very HN friendly content and certainly is not meant to be taken at face value, but here's a vid that kind of captures the zeitgeist of the introvert trend: https://youtu.be/ikw4V_x-CFI
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by rozab 5y ago
If trained soldiers were instinctively doing what they have done before in video games, we would have FAR bigger problems than this
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by rozab 5y ago
Deviant Ollam's talks are always first class. I also love this one, about physical pentesting in general: https://youtu.be/rnmcRTnTNC8

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