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by sb057 3y ago
I've been playing the leaked version of TotK at 4K 60 fps for several days, and with only extremely minor visual bugs (example: when switching abilities, the background turns black rather than out-of-focus). It's honestly less jan
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by sb057 3y ago
The reason large cars are popular in America is because Americans want to and can afford to buy them. This is due to a number of factors beyond this "loophole", including advertising, cultural norms, the fact that a third of Ameri
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United States vs. Miller(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by sb057 4y ago|0 comments
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by sb057 4y ago
They should introduce a similar scheme for groceries in order to reduce obesity.
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by sb057 4y ago
>the $10 per month unlimited search plan was not financially sustainable for us The correct response to realizing your business model is unsustainable is not to double down on it.
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Reticulum Network(reticulum.network)
2 points by sb057 4y ago|0 comments
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by sb057 4y ago
See also this (in)famous scathing review of the Beatles by Piero Scaruffi: https://scaruffi.com/vol1/beatles.html
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by sb057 4y ago
It's worse than that, there are still works that predate the founding of the United States of America that are still under copyright: https://www.techdirt.com/2012/09/19/what-public-domain-why-l... Origi
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by sb057 4y ago
>Stack Overflow >People realized that they could simply ask a bot their question and that it always had an answer. >Turns out the answer is sometimes completely wrong. To be fair, it's already achieved parity.
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by sb057 4y ago
An image file format with a maximum resolution of 8193x4320 (without hacking pieces together) can never win a format war, let alone one in 2022 for pete's sake.
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by sb057 4y ago
WebM, VP8/9, WebP, and for that matter MP4, MP3, and the original JPEG weren't used anywhere until there was support for them.
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by sb057 4y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33797476
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by sb057 4y ago
>A problem is that (at least some parts of) America has pretty absurd "stand your ground" laws (absurd from a EU POV). You're confusing "stand your ground" (wherein one can defend against an attacker regardless o
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by sb057 4y ago
The kingdoms that are united are England and Scotland. It was originally: the United Kingdom of Great Britain then after Ireland was formally annexed: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland then after (southern) Ireland broke off:
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by sb057 4y ago
The problem with countries that don't extradite to the U.S. is that assassinations tend to be woefully easy.
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by sb057 4y ago
"Cultural Revolution" is actually a very apt name for what happened. One of the core concepts of it was the destruction of the "four olds": old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits. They were horrifyingly effi
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by sb057 4y ago
As far as I'm aware, Microsoft has never been transparent with what exactly is sent to them as part of the telemetry, which cannot be turned off in consumer versions. However, they added the same telemetry updates to Windows 7 and 8, s
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by sb057 4y ago
Are you going to have experts examine the hardware of 1 million+ voting machines in the United States? And are all of those witnesses going to be infallible and trusted by the public?
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by sb057 4y ago
Google shutting down products every few weeks is getting a little tiresome.
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by sb057 4y ago
FWIW I have pretty much given up on trying to use any sort of online banking or other financial website because I do not have cell service at my home, and practically every financial institute requires SMS 2FA these days.
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by sb057 4y ago
What, specifically, is poisonous about them?
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by sb057 4y ago
Answer: they're all terrible places to live and the residents are relatively easily able to move to one of the greatest places to live (the continental U.S.).
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Monster Energy wins $293M false-advertising verdict against rival Bang(reuters.com)
4 points by sb057 4y ago|2 comments
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by sb057 4y ago
>So all players in the market are just selling everything across the market to the tune of -1.4% because FedEx is having issues? FedEx's issues is that their volume is down massively. High (nay, accelerating) rates of trade are the
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by sb057 4y ago
Web 2.0/3.0 was a mistake. https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
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by sb057 4y ago
>July 4th is only celebrated in the US of A. Not entirely! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebild_Festival
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by sb057 4y ago
As of 2002, Ireland consumed 3.4 tons of fertilizer for every ton it produced, that is to say it is extraordinarily reliant on imports. Keep in mind that the limited domestic production is itself heavily dependent on energy, the vast majori
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What does Google say about “1 liter to gallon”(google.com)
1 points by sb057 4y ago|1 comments
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Residence of Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Set on Fire(twitter.com)
10 points by sb057 4y ago|0 comments
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by sb057 4y ago
>some 5k inhabitant village I'd never heard of Chicago and Los Angeles were ~5k pop backwaters before becoming railway hubs.

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