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by sellyme 5y ago
They can see the Union Jack design from close range whenever they're near their car, it doesn't need to be lit up.
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by sellyme 5y ago
I'd say 90/10. The positioning of the light in relation to the road is usually going to be a very good heuristic. However if that light was a freaking arrow I'm going to think "oh, it must be one of those 10% of cases,
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by sellyme 5y ago
> The third sentence indicates that they would know if there were any possible concerns because they own a Mini. It indicates that they're used to that because they own a Mini, and by the first time that it actually matters they&#
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by sellyme 5y ago
Because most humans are functional enough to understand the concepts of metaphor and allusion. No rational person would read this headline and assume that some cosmic force prevents you from coding Dwarf Fortress unless you have a math PhD.
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by sellyme 5y ago
Users who don't wish to learn markdown can simply spend two seconds hovering over a "Markdown guide" tooltip at the bottom of the textarea whenever they want to do that. They'll still end up saving time from the UI actua
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by sellyme 5y ago
> Israel had a ~80% vaccination rate. My source shows them at 64.4%, where are you seeing 80%? > Had the world's highest daily infection rate last week. And the world's ~50th highest death rate. The point of the vaccine isn&
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by sellyme 5y ago
> It's really hard to buy this notion. 3 days is not long enough for symptoms to manifest after infection. So in your previous comment you alluded to the idea that infections can creep in to a community where it has been previously
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by sellyme 5y ago
This is a genuinely good comment that touches on a lot of issues I could write whole essays on, but I've tried to keep each point relatively brief here. I will note that most of these points are in the context of March 2020. With vacci
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by sellyme 5y ago
> And by the way the cost is not just economical but also social, pedagogical (remote learning is still in a joke stage), psychological, sentimental (like marrying without proper event) and those are hard to quantify yet are the salt of
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by sellyme 5y ago
> I suspect the moment it started shadow-banning [...] no one would tolerate it here HN has been shadow-banning accounts since at least 2012 so I'm not too sure about that one.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> I also think that the argument you’re putting forward here shows close to zero regard for the welfare of other people. Perhaps the lockdowns are inexpensive to you, but they are life-changingly devastating to others. So let's mini
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by sellyme 5y ago
> What is the exit strategy going forward for Adelaide or NZ? Right now the magic number for Australia is getting 80% of the population vaccinated, at which point the current COVID-zero approach will be abandoned. I believe New Zealand h
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by sellyme 5y ago
I find IMDb to be more convenient than RT/MC/Wikipedia for finding release dates of movies - nearly every other website lists only the American release date, maybe one or two others if the movie was disproportionately popular in c
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by sellyme 5y ago
> 1) Neither the SMS protocol nor any phone I've ever seen has any mechanism to file messages in "folders". My phone (ROG Phone 3 w/ Android 11) automatically flags spammy texts into a "Spam & Blocked" f
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by sellyme 5y ago
> If you believe that it is the governments duty to extend lifespans and prevent illness at literally any cost I do not. The cost of fast and strict lockdowns is very minimal. It's when you wait to enact a proper lockdown that it
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by sellyme 5y ago
> I'm actually astonished people still believe "fast and strict" lockdowns work, or that they actually happened anywhere. I live in Adelaide, a city of over a million people that has done two strict lockdowns (at 17 and 6
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by sellyme 5y ago
Yep, and I'm also 100% in support of legislation aiming at reducing tobacco consumption, such as plain packaging laws and advertising bans. I'm not sure if Japan are already doing those or not though.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> is doing fine without it. 17,000 deaths may be a lot better than some other countries, but I certainly wouldn't describe it as "doing fine" compared to the near-zero death counts in regions that imposed fast and strict l
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by sellyme 5y ago
> When did being against lockdowns become harmful? Around March 2020, for most countries. A bit earlier than that in Japan, China, Italy, South Korea, and Iran.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> I don't want to live in a world where the criminalization of everything that ever happened that you didn't like means that I'm always breaking the law. You'll be fine as long as you're not in the habit of doing
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by sellyme 5y ago
As others have pointed out, that map is from last year, and additionally only one of the six states there were in lockdown at that time (Victoria). Right now only two states are in lockdown (NSW and Victoria), with Queensland being the only
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by sellyme 5y ago
> Do you see any issues with this? Yes, in that you're just ignoring the comment you replied to and repeating the same incorrect nonsense. Disagreeing with a law does not require breaking that law. You're perfectly welcome to d
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by sellyme 5y ago
> If your phone began analyzing your local photos for child porn, you'd probably be upset, no? Yep. "local" here is the key word, though. If a service I uploaded photos to began doing that, I would not be upset. And inde
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by sellyme 5y ago
> This is patently false. You might mean, the highest reported death count. Certainly possible that India has more deaths, but given that you've just described their death count as something which there is "no feasible way to
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by sellyme 5y ago
> This crowd has largely driven the COVID response as well - which went well past "flatten the curve" and turned into "stop all deaths no matter the cost", ignoring all externalities and consequences along the way. Th
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by sellyme 5y ago
> an armed population is a necessity against tyranny in America. Why are we comparing to Afghanistan? You can look much closer to home - at America - and see that this specific armed population just spent half a decade doing absolutel
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by sellyme 5y ago
> The act of analyzing my data is what is the violation. So to be 100% clear on this: if you tell someone information, and they think about that information, that's a violation of your privacy? I've definitely always assumed th
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by sellyme 5y ago
In that case no-one has violated your privacy - your wallpaper is private, so friend A didn't, and you invited friend B over, so they definitely didn't. I would entertain the idea that friend A is being a bit of a douchebag by pai
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by sellyme 5y ago
> I don’t understand what you’re attempting to achieve with this. I was hoping to achieve a "yes" or "no", to at least one of the two questions. I don't know what GP thinks "scan" means when describing
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by sellyme 5y ago
> You don’t see the difference between “seeing an email” en transit vs [...] extracting values like when will your airplane depart, when is your vacation, etc I do not see any difference between these parts, no. If a human read my email

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