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by shiroiushi 2y ago
If Hertz can't handle a simple rental transaction correctly without calling the police and resulting in a false arrest, I'm certainly not going to trust them to handle a car sale correctly.
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
Sounds like a good way to go to jail, when Hertz sells you the car and then reports it as stolen to the police. Hertz does this very, very frequently to paying customers.
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
You could say the same thing about assembly language.
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
Why would anyone be bitter about family members getting cancer? If some big company polluted the water in their town with hexavalent chromium and that caused the cancer in all the family members, I could definitely understand bitternes
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
>They had debates about how often it was reasonable to force a servant or a convict to eat lobster. Did people eat shrimp or clams or other shellfish at that time? What was so different about lobster? Personally I'm not a huge fan
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
If we use up all the oxygen, we'll have solved every social or political problem that currently plagues humanity. I think it's a good strategy.
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
He was in jail for a month, all because some idiot thought he looked like the killer. He could have gone on trial, and much worse, if he didn't have solid evidence proving it wasn't him. Countless people have been imprisoned an
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
It's not dramatic at all. Without proof of his innocence, it could very well have gone to trial and resulted in a conviction, thanks to people's belief in the reliability of "eyewitness testimony". This case alone shou
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
>It’s one of the many arguments against capital punishment. It can’t be undone. Neither can time spent behind bars.
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
>Because JSON is fucking horrible for humans? It's better than XML at least.
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
Insects don't sound too appetizing to me, either. However, as I mentioned in my previous post, one huge difference I see between insects and lobster/shrimp/crab is that with the latter, we don't normally eat the shell.
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
Since a peninsula is just an extension of a larger landmass, isn't the exact line dividing the "peninsula" from the rest of the land mass somewhat arbitrary? It seems like it's arguable whether Andorra is on the peninsu
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
The Linux kernel has changed a lot in the last 10 years. Having all the code in it that's >= 10yo become public domain would only mean you'd be able to run an ancient kernel on old hardware without worrying about the GPL licen
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
Why should the user care? No corporate employee is worried about other employees figuring out their passwords. If that happens, the employer has bad security, and they'll suffer the consequences anyway. Why should the user put up wi
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
What ever happened to that project to build automated mosquito laser zappers? Didn't Bill Gates's foundation have a project to do this, by tracking them based on their wing-flapping frequency (which apparently is very particular t
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
>The richer oxygenation of the Earth's atmosphere in a previous geological era favoured the development of very large insects. Some wingspans attained 70cm! This makes me wonder: what did these insects taste like? Notice that humans
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
Yeah, I left out the price aspect. Forget a 43-inch CRT: how about a 85-inch CRT? You can get an LCD (or better yet, OLED) TV this size easily for not that much money. But it's basically impossible to even make a CRT this size, and
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
The only really good reason I can see to use a CRT is because you want to fix/rebuild one of the old 1980s vector arcade games (like Tempest or Star Wars) and want it to be a truly authentic reproduction.
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
>I expect the DOJ to hit them harder than they did MS in the 90s given the bullshit they are pulling and the drag on the economy they are causing. It sounds like you're expecting extreme competence from the DOJ. Given their history
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
More cynical take: this would be a bad strategy, because Intel hasn't shown much competence in its leadership for a long time, especially in regards to GPUs.
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
There's no need for this. If you want to make sure consumers don't want to return to CRTs, all you have to do are the following: 1) point out how heavy they are. Give them a facsimile to lift to show them, after making them sign
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
>Japan's really ill situated for industrial museums. Land is at premium, summer steam is brutal, disasters are routine, and public support is weak. This makes absolutely no sense. Japan is full of museums of all kinds, including re
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
Japan isn't any farther north than the US. The northernmost island, Hokkaido, is indeed pretty far north (I think roughly the same latitude as Oregon, and also southern France), but most of the rest is quite a bit farther south. Toky
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
>They only eradicated it in the US, where it is an invasive species. Last I heard, the type of mosquito that attacks humans is also an invasive species in most places outside Africa.
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
I really liked my last Brother printer before I had to sell it in a move. However, Brother is anything but new; it was started in 1908. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_Industries
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
It wasn't a "frame" really, it was just a single sheet of stamped steel in a curved shape. The Model M wasn't nearly as impressive, or durable, as the Model F that preceded it and which was included with the IBM PC. Tho
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
That's a feature, not a bug. The problem here isn't the Model M (or any clicky keyboard), the problem is the open office.
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
Yeah, this article was a bit of a surprise to me. I would have assumed Xerox at least had been out of business for ages.
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
>but many artists seem to have only a limited amount of inspiration in them. Some have just one song, some an album or two, and some just never seem to run out. Some artists change their style over time, and the alignment between their s
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
The source code is available, so if you think this project is so important, you can do it yourself.

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