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Don't Fast Charge Your Phone Before Watching This Video(youtube.com)
1 points by semanticist 3y ago|0 comments
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by semanticist 3y ago
You might be remembering Derren Brown's "The System": https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/derren-brown-the-system/
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by semanticist 3y ago
I think you're conflating someone's job with a protected characteristic in the context of anti-discrimination and hate speech law. If a cop gets special laws to prevent people smirking at them, or 'being a cop' is consid
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by semanticist 3y ago
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport I set an alias in my shell so this is just 'airport', lets you interact with the wifi settings - I
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by semanticist 3y ago
This feels like a very American-centric perspective, this happened in Sweden. For a bunch of reasons policing outside the US is very different to policing in the US.
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by semanticist 4y ago
Think of it as more like email. You have an account on a specific server, but can send or receive emails from anyone on any server.
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Entitlement in Open Source(mikemcquaid.com)
189 points by semanticist 4y ago|188 comments
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by semanticist 4y ago
> Some of the money is used to fund the maintenance of highways, though. Only in the sense that some of all tax money is used in that way - VED just gets pooled with all tax income, none of it is 'ring fenced' for any specific
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by semanticist 4y ago
MicroSD cards - about the size of a fingernail - absolutely come in sizes up to 1TB, that's not controversial or dodgy brands selling fakes. There's many brands selling cards at 512GB, ten times your BluRay example. Portable flash
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by semanticist 4y ago
To really do anything, you'd need to know which specific emails/interactions broke the rules, which would give people trying to find the very edge of acceptability useful information. "You're being TOS'd because you
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Teaching a Computer How to Drive – Super Mario Kart: Under the Hood Episode 1(youtube.com)
1 points by semanticist 4y ago|0 comments
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by semanticist 4y ago
50 Shades of Grey was Twilight fanfic with the 'serial numbers filed off'. I don't think Twilight itself has fanfic in its origin.
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by semanticist 4y ago
Haymarket Station in Edinburgh has a platform 0 that was added to the side of platform 1 during an expansion. It's the only platform/track that terminates at the station, all the others go through the tunnel to Waverley Station.
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by semanticist 4y ago
My employer was doing those kind of numbers pre-covid, having been profitable from year one. But we’re not really ‘a tech company’, except in as much as we have a website. We did outlast companies in our sector that expanded like startups,
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by semanticist 4y ago
Those companies don't have people worshipping them like they're a collective of geniuses. Musk's companies certainly aren't any worse than those companies - but they're no better either, and he's no Messiah.
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by semanticist 4y ago
Context is important: this was a piece for the BBC's 'Working Lunch' business news programme which went out at lunchtime on BBC 2. This is before 24-hour news channels and endless competition for attention. In 1996 there are
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by semanticist 4y ago
Possibly the important missed part here: the effective dose for paracetamol is alarmingly close to the dangerous dose. Dosage rules allow for 4g/day, 5g/day can cause liver damage. It's also common to find paracetamol in mult
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Google has removed k9mail_app from the Play Store [ ](twitter.com)
37 points by semanticist 5y ago|17 comments
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by semanticist 5y ago
It sounds absurd, but it's true, here's the Wikipedia on the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars of the 1980s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Ice_Cream_Wars These days it's the local taxi companies they have t
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by semanticist 5y ago
What if the person 'stealing' the bitcoin didn't 'hack' or 'phish' the private key, but instead guessed it? There's been documented cases of coins being sent to wallets generated with empty-string see
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by semanticist 5y ago
I mean, maybe, if that guy wanted to stay around to try and improve his country. Maybe not if he valued his life. But that doesn't change the fact that it was a crime, does it? Remember, the comment I replied to was saying that Chelsea
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by semanticist 5y ago
Just because something is morally/ethically sound doesn't mean it's legal. The part of 'choosing the break the law to expose things for the public good' that makes it heroic is 'choosing the face the consequenc
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Bitten by the 90 day exercise window(abar.tech)
20 points by semanticist 5y ago|30 comments
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Dec Mini, a lovely 3D-printable retro computer(decmini.com)
4 points by semanticist 5y ago|0 comments
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by semanticist 5y ago
HobbyKing and Hobby Lobby are completely different companies. HobbyKing are based in Hong Kong and don't have retail outlets in the US (or anywhere, I think).
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by semanticist 5y ago
Amazon does this - in the UK there's companies like John Pye who do 'remaindered goods auctions'. There's a John Pye warehouse less than half an hour from this specific Amazon warehouse. But they've not been able to
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by semanticist 5y ago
In the UK a lot of the Amazon returns end up on John Pye auctions, which haven't been running at the same volume during the pandemic. I wonder if Amazon are having to dispose of more items this way because their usual liquidation dispo
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by semanticist 5y ago
That only works if you read the comment to be meaning that people in Texas - Texas, mind - consider 'conservative states' as being 'evil places of hate'. I think that the 'cultural reasons' they're referri
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by semanticist 6y ago
Here's one with a UK Mac layout: https://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard/uk-va109mac-pbt-backlit-... I'm currently dithering between buying that or the Das as my own A1243 is slowly dying, but at least that one l
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by semanticist 6y ago
Scotland. Not everywhere in the world has coyotes.

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