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by scratcheee 5y ago
I don't have faith in true (aka direct) democracy. It relies on the average person being well informed enough about everything involved in running the government to make good decisions. It also relies on every person in the country act
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by scratcheee 5y ago
Yes, certainly would have been a better angle. I suspect bad/limited data played into that, but it does seem like a fairly obvious direction to go in nonetheless.
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by scratcheee 5y ago
That's a fair point, although in this case drawing attention to the shortage would have made it even more newsworthy, and might have made the few greedy profiteers more fervent in their desire to buy up all stock, even as the average p
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by scratcheee 5y ago
This may be unpopular, but I'm actually fine with polititians manipulating the truth in that scenario (_if_ we accept as a starting point that the shortage of masks was already unavoidable, and the best option for public health was to
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by scratcheee 5y ago
That would be the problem if 1. firefox only had a _literal_ handful of users (rather than 100s of millions), or 2. if any browser was _that_ good at anti-fingerprinting. But at the moment which browser you use is nowhere near as powerful i
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by scratcheee 5y ago
If it's crashing your computer you can pretty squarely place the blame on the driver, not the browser. Without bugs in the driver, even bad behaviour from the browser shouldn't bring the whole machine down. Graphics drivers are sa
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by scratcheee 5y ago
This has very little to do with qos tags, which frankly don't work well for this use-case, even if everyone involved suddenly decided to support them. This is about how the router handles traffic flows when congested. The naive (and al
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by scratcheee 5y ago
I'm curious how it would work out if you updated the projection center to match the view center in zoomed out maps? I can see a value in having a "stable" map that doesn't twist around as you move, but I think that would
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by scratcheee 5y ago
India is currently undergoing the inflection point of development. There's a _lot_ of very poor people in India, vastly more so than in a "fully developed" nation. But at the same time, India's recent economic growth is
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by scratcheee 5y ago
Mozilla have been losing market share when the barrier to entry is "install this free alternative to your existing browser" the chance that they could succeed with "buy this paid alternative to your existing browser" is
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by scratcheee 5y ago
I agree it's very cool, but I have found it to be surprisingly poor in certain scenarios. A "faint" circle will often score worse than 2 high-contrast parallel lines that happen to be the right distance apart, since the lines
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by scratcheee 5y ago
>[big endian] Binary dumps look more in line with how humans with left-to-right scripts expect to read numbers. Maybe I'm just dumb, but surely the actual language order is entirely irrelevant? If hypothetically we wrote in English
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by scratcheee 5y ago
At the current rate (approximately linear over the last 10 years), in just 30 more years we'll have 100% adoption. Realistically adoption will slow down if nothing changes, everyone willing to put the effort in for zero immediate rewar
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by scratcheee 5y ago
The bookworm could have moved right to left from volume 1 to volume 2. Assuming the spines are facing out, the books are right-way up, and volume 2 is on the left of volume 1, then the answer would be 44mm.
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by scratcheee 5y ago
Assuming volume 1 is on the left and the books have their spine facing out. Reasonable assumptions, but relying on implicit knowledge nonetheless.
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by scratcheee 5y ago
copyright is automatic and implied, if someone somehow got a legal opportunity to see it, and managed to copy the work (or indeed if the publisher who originally refused it decided to publish it from their records), they would be breaking c
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by scratcheee 5y ago
Ah yes, I remember loving that feature in Netscape at the tail end, when it was just an altered clone of Firefox. I got used to losing it eventually after switching over, but I do remember it being a painful transition for me too.
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by scratcheee 5y ago
There's multiple extensions that claim to provide a shortcut to the duplicate tab option, fwiw