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by rozab 5y ago
Pushing overpriced useless junk to emotionally vulnerable people? No. There is a necessary service of digging a hole and putting a corpse in a box into it, but the whole business of $10k coffins and embalming and such is both unnecessary an
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by rozab 5y ago
Why on earth should the patient choose whichever drug put money into advertising, rather than the one their doctor deems the most suitable? How could that possibly be beneficial? edit: reading further down the article, there is an advert fo
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by rozab 5y ago
Hatris has nothing on the fourth installment, which is called 'Faces... tris III'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faces_(video_game)
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by rozab 5y ago
echo "rnfl fcbvyre gntf!" | tr a-z n-za-m :)
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by rozab 5y ago
>Bitcoin the network, of which there is only one 4 by my count. There's also Cash, SV and Gold.
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by rozab 5y ago
I think it would be hard to make sense of these results without comparing to trans women. A decrease in depression and an increase in social confidence seems likely to occur in both groups.
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by rozab 5y ago
Very good Mustard video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDN7PPW4AE8
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by rozab 5y ago
It seems like this type of lens has been available since the 1920s, and there would have been nothing stopping, say, the German Expressionists from using this sort of technique? I love seeing this sort of thing, it's part of why I find
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by rozab 5y ago
Great summary, thanks
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by rozab 5y ago
How many times has the wheel been reinvented with these phonetic word list schemes? Loads of crypto apps use them, e.g. for bitcoin wallet recovery. Do they all roll their own scheme? Someone should attempt to make a standard if none exists
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by rozab 5y ago
People don't leave a bad review because they realise they don't need or aren't very interested in an app. It's because they need or want to use the app but are prevented from doing so by bugs or other issues.
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by rozab 5y ago
I think the reason it was posted was more to point out that the BBC was running this article on the homepage, rather than the content itself.
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by rozab 5y ago
That's a huge false equivalency since that number of decimal places gives your location to 1cm accuracy
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by rozab 5y ago
There was a website called something like whatthreewordssucks.com which laid out all the many problems with it. The fact that it's actually been adopted by emergency services proves to me that the world is insane. There is no upside to
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by rozab 5y ago
That sounds great for Sony's bottom line and terrible for everything else. https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/30/21042871/sonos-recycle-m...
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by rozab 5y ago
This seems to be about supply and demand, not linguistics.
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by rozab 5y ago
Similar things have happened[0], but no other new world crops made it across. What use is a seed which grows in warm climates to a trader in Alaska? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tiny-blue-beads-eu...
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by rozab 5y ago
There has been a common theme in this thread that the justice system should just sort it all out. Leaving aside all the issues of jurisdiction and citizenship that make a prosecution vanishingly unlikely here, the criminal justice system is
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by rozab 5y ago
Anecdotally, people in solitary confinement become desperate for even the most mundane of social interactions. This implies there is some psychological need for them.
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by rozab 5y ago
This is also the reasoning for blowing on a cartridge/connector
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by rozab 6y ago
Everything in this comment is verifiably false. Like, easily.
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by rozab 6y ago
I mean, this is the whole point of linguistic determinism, the concept under discussion here. These folks believe that our ability to think in recursive terms (as is necessary when dealing with numbers) is acquired through language. I don&#
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by rozab 6y ago
There is a huge market for unofficial sets (MOCs) which Lego has always allowed to exist. Distributing instructions is definitely fine. https://buildamoc.com/
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by rozab 6y ago
I think one of the most interesting YouTube channels about is Syrmor, this guy who talks to people on VRChat about their life experiences. I've long felt that complete anonymity and lack of context on the internet can lend itself to pr
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by rozab 6y ago
And how can you tell the difference between a high pitched male voice and a female voice? It's resonance, and it has a big effect on audibility especially in environments where the lower mids are crowded. https://youtu.be&#x
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by rozab 6y ago
Apparently they asked Everett to teach them basic numeracy skills (counting to 10, 1+1=2, etc) and were unable to grasp it even with months of study.
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by rozab 6y ago
https://archive.is/imRsd
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by rozab 6y ago
>cyber criminals almost always use credentials as soon as they compromise them. There's still the problem of breaches in unrelated services, which must be considered as part of the attack surface when users can just use a single pas
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by rozab 6y ago
Their API is first class to be fair, I have a tiny dynamic DNS script in a cronjob
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by rozab 6y ago
>Six years earlier, Copernicus had proposed a heliocentric universe in his Commentariolus. Maybe the Earth wasn’t flat after all? This is the point where I stopped reading properly. How can anything else the author says be taken seriousl

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