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by simbolit 3y ago
> informed scrutiny If it is that, fantastic. It usually isn't. If you haven't already, watch the newest tantacrul video, it is fantastic and very much on topic: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Eq3bUFgEcb4
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by simbolit 3y ago
"as is our custom" had me on the floor laughing
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by simbolit 3y ago
"came of age in a post-iPhone world" "grew up in a post-iPhone world" "learned to communicate in a post-iPhone world" All of these were valid options for the author, and all of them would support the "near
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by simbolit 3y ago
I don't see how this is relevant. My parent comment said "the only solution is spending $1000" (aka buying an iPhone 15 pro), and I wanted to point out that this is ridiculous. But even if it were relevant, what massive costs
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by simbolit 3y ago
I think it's probably futile to argue with someone casually using "fascist", but you might be surprised that Google isn't a non-profit charity spreading joy. Quote from their Wikipedia article: "Google has had criti
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by simbolit 3y ago
>the only solution is buying a $1000 device I did a quick spot check on eBay for "iphone se 2020 unlocked", and you can get one from $130 shipped.
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by simbolit 3y ago
"With an average age just shy of 16, the respondents to this poll were nearly all born in a post-iPhone world." Okay, it's 2023 [1], the iPhone came out in 2007 [2], that is 16 years [3] ago. A person born in the post-iPhone
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by simbolit 3y ago
Is Android 'cool' with anybody? I know some people who use Android because of customizability, I know some who use it because of price, some because of niche features, some because they want a folding screen, and I know some use i
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by simbolit 3y ago
You can, if you know it exists, which you don't. I am asking once more: If you don't have Google play, where do you sell your android app?
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by simbolit 3y ago
Of course it's not an airplane. What gave you the impression I thought that? I was saying the helium does a lot of the work, so I am not sure if I'd call it a fully "electric aircraft", it seems more like a "hybrid
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by simbolit 3y ago
There are a lot of ways to stay healthy without penicillin. Doesn't mean penicillin isn't super-helpful. Doesn't mean refrigeration isn't super-helpful.
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by simbolit 3y ago
I guess it is called "NAME OF THE CORPORATION square", but, well, isn't "corporation square" a great name for a mall!
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by simbolit 3y ago
Rough answer: as sloped as the terrain on top. Better answer: it depends. Best answer: find your local equivalent of https://www3.twdb.texas.gov/apps/WaterDataInteractive/Ground...
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by simbolit 3y ago
He meant "French" primarily means "French people" and only secondarily "French language". I'd try to distinguish this with a definite article, like "the French" vs "French", but what do
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by simbolit 3y ago
I'd argue that an electrically-powered gas-filled airship is more of a hybrid, as the helium/hydrogen does all the lifting..... but damn, that's very cool! This is before AC motors were even a thing, and the Siemens DC motor
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by simbolit 3y ago
Alan Perlis is cool. :D
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by simbolit 3y ago
That you can't tell me a single location kinda proves my point, doesn't it? "on the internet" to me seems equivalent to "you could always open a stand somewhere on the side of a dusty road and sell your consumer goo
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by simbolit 3y ago
Where do you sell it?
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by simbolit 3y ago
They are using it for another purpose - which is fine by me (tho usually not with LEO). If my psychiatrist gives me medicine supposed to deal with my mental health problems, I don't necessarily want contact with extradimensional entiti
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by simbolit 3y ago
You may be right about "too well", but how does an android developer do, without Google play? Like you can sell your consumer goods at Target, Costco, Kroger, Albertsons, Publix, Meijer, or just in another country. Where do you se
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by simbolit 3y ago
> how a country ... like the USA could come up with arguably the worst prison system in the world I will leave you with this quote by John Erlichman: "We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by
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by simbolit 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity
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by simbolit 3y ago
For smartphones, there is G and A. For supermarkets there is some competition. I mean Walmart doesn't even operate in the country I am located. See the difference?
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by simbolit 3y ago
The central bit: "psychedelics are silently doing something even more remarkable than warping reality: They are rapidly inducing a state of neuroplasticity, in which the brain can more easily reorganize its structure and function. (...
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by simbolit 3y ago
The list: * 1 EBay * 2 Wikipedia * 3 Napster * 4 YouTube * 5 Blogger * 6 friendsreunited * 7 Drudge Report * 8 MySpace * 9 Amazon * 10 slashdot * 11 salon * 12 Craigslist * 13 Google * 14 yahoo * 15 easyjet
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by simbolit 3y ago
The list is from 2006, back then Facebook was rising, but not yet big-big.
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by simbolit 3y ago
It teaches you to think, and specifically to question conventional wisdom. I don't need to "learn" programming anymore (and if I did, I would use something interactive, not a book), and thus not falling into rote monkey-codin
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by simbolit 3y ago
Not even a quarter as cool as Martin Gardner.
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by simbolit 3y ago
It's on my bookshelf. But the prompt said only one book. :)
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by simbolit 3y ago
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll. I am not even joking.

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