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by sellyme 6y ago
> Income equality tells you nothing about the conditions of the middle or lower class. There's a graph in TFA showing that, after adjusting for inflation, the per-individual wealth of the middle and lower classes decreased by 20% an
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As the article mentions there's extensive records of the climatological effects in the Middle East and China, and there's also recordings of drought affecting populations in South America at the same time.
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Fortunately for Americans the shots are no longer being called by someone from reality TV, so governmental responses to future nationwide disasters should be marginally less pathetic.
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by sellyme 6y ago
Extreme weather events of 535–536 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26598570 - March 2021 (87 comments)
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by sellyme 6y ago
I'm firmly in the "If your advertising materials are systematically designed to trick people, you should be in gaol" camp. These are not necessarily mutually exclusive viewpoints.
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> Automobile leases, apartments, and the like are listed with monthly rates Where I live it it is illegal to display this without also including the total amount over the entire contract period.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> it's not an endless amount of content you enjoy Hard disagree. There's an endless amount of that too. It's just filtering it out from the rest that's the difficult part.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Just a little too subtle IMO. Direct quote from the linked page: > As we all know, adding blockchain to a problem automatically makes it simple, transparent, and cryptographically secure.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> And, to the degree it is, how many other large countries have the same sort of distributed large population centers? Despite Australia seeming like the perfect candidate for this due to having approximately five cities of note, all spr
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by sellyme 6y ago
Obligatory link to the Frink data file: https://frinklang.org/frinkdata/units.txt Any source code where the simple declaration "candela := cd" comes with a 171 line comment ranting about the inadequacies of v
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by sellyme 6y ago
I was born in 1996 and have never used a fax machine. Unless you live in Japan, you are being extremely conservative with not being comfortable predicting that until 2030.
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Depends which country's side, I guess.
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> So why do you use any websites that have ads/tracking? Because it's extremely easy to disable the ads. > Surely you could avoid them and stick to your high quality paid options? I don't want to avoid the websites, I w
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> The original prediction was that most people and most businesses would stop using landlines but he concedes his son might still use a landline in an office some day and yet still considers the original prediction to be correct. For wha
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> If you block all the ads on an ad-supported website, how will it survive? If the only thing that website provides of value is a billboard, it doesn't deserve to. I'm perfectly happy paying for high-quality ad-free services.
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Also, unlike torture, it would work.
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> There’s no reason a command line program couldn’t do something like this in theory. Which makes it all the more infuriating to the user that they don't.
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by sellyme 6y ago
I've encountered a surprising number of people who think that posting your email address publicly is a security risk.
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> Maybe it's still happening but we no longer hear the names We do hear the names, it's just difficult to recognise which ones are going to be the names that echo for generations. I would be completely unsurprised if articles l
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> Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. Not quite in the same weight class as von Neumann, but Matt Parker's "There's a trick for dealing with that in mathematics, called &#
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Selected "recommended project", that will default over to Yahoo! Answers as soon as the project has been tested enough to push to all of the Warriors.
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> Aren't you also providing 100% of the resources if they are using your IP 100% of what resources? Bandwidth, yes - you need to download the answers and then upload them to the archive. Fortunately it compresses fantastically so th
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> I think not since I've never heard of them and I've read tech news daily for the last two decades. That's weird, because they seem to have quite a lot of coverage in major tech news sites: https://wiki.archive
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> Naming yourself after a well known org They're named after the concept of archiving things, as the entire point of the group is to archive things. Archive Team itself is extremely well-known and has been the primary force archivin
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Archive Team is probably one of the most reputable organisations on the internet at this point. Being careful is great, but when you yourself linked to a page that provides an extraordinary amount of information explaining exactly who they
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Am I being overly cautious or is there a genuine risk? You're being overly cautious. There is no legal risk in viewing a Yahoo! Answers page (or any other ArchiveTeam Warrior recommended project for that matter).
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> If someone asked you to pick your favourite three...? HyperRogue, Hollow Knight, and LOGistICAL.
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Do you have better data sources that you're not sharing or are you just making things up and asserting it as fact?
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I've 100% completed about 2500 of them, so I don't have a great completion rate but it's not like they're just there for show. I've probably played around 6000 total. A very large number of them I would not have bou
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> You are in a teeny tiny minority Minority? Probably. Tiny? Absolutely not. Here [0] is a breakdown of 70 popular Steam games by the source of purchase for their reviewers as of a year ago. About 28% of all Steam purchases happen outsid

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