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Why Is the U.S. So Good at Killing Pedestrians?(freakonomics.com)
63 points by snthd 3y ago|37 comments
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by snthd 3y ago
Copy the installed version, and run that with wine.
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by snthd 3y ago
>but also one of social justice. Illegal employment, or what is called "sort arbejde" in Danish or Schwarzarbeit in German if want a compounded word, allows builders en masse to make a decent wage and is widespread, in Denmark
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by snthd 3y ago
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB >A Lemmy frontend based on phpBB 3.3. https://fedibb.ml/ >Flagship instance for lemmyBB
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by snthd 3y ago
I thought the point in debinding was to use an autofeeder - to make the actual scanning less labor intensive. Wouldn't a camera based scanner be better? It still requires manual page turning, but will save on the prep work and destroyi
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by snthd 3y ago
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has an open investigation on similar issues: https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/investigation-into-amazons-mark... >The CMA is investigating Amazon’s conduct in relation to
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by snthd 3y ago
>which send back info on the hashes of the 10 most recent URLs you've visited on the site, IIRC. None of them are unique tracker hashes for a given user, though. That seems highly unlikely to never be unique for some users.
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by snthd 3y ago
>Weren't all the CCTV's based on frequent bombings No, not all , but definitely some eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_and_Environmental_Zone
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by snthd 3y ago
>As an example, I'm not an anti-monarch but I was extremely angry about how the police handled anti-monarch protestors during the coronation. The monarchy is classism personified. Do you not think that by not being anti-monarchy you
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by snthd 3y ago
Google don't make smart home products, they make cloud home products.
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by snthd 3y ago
Can US taxpayers not just do a freedom of information request to to the IRS, and base their tax return on that? https://www.irs.gov/privacy-disclosure/irs-freedom-of-inform...
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by snthd 3y ago
FERPA - https://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html >Schools may disclose, without consent, "directory" information such as a student's name, address, telephone numbe
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by snthd 3y ago
https://kentindell.github.io/2023/04/03/can-injection/ >Ian’s sleuthing found that mostly these cars are destined for export, sent via shipping container to places in Africa "These cars" mig
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by snthd 3y ago
I'm seeing dark text on a dark background in the diagrams (Firefox Nightly with Dark theme). Toggling dark mode to light mode to dark mode on the site's built in control "fixes" it.
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by snthd 3y ago
Another unintended consequence could be increased exposure to potential allergens in babies, reducing allergy rates. "Give babies peanut butter to cut allergy by 77%, study says" - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/h
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by snthd 4y ago
It's the opposite IMHO. Reducing emissions directly will never work because of the Jevons Paradox[0] (at least for CO2 - crazy-high-CO2-equivalent-pollutants are something else). The only thing that matters is preventing extraction of
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by snthd 4y ago
Farming this out to humans via CAPTCHAs ("Flag the scam comment") risks the Cobra Effect. Viewing it through an economic lens the other end of the problem to attack is naïve users - if they're identified and don't see th
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by snthd 4y ago
Not available in Belgium or Vietnam for exactly that reason.
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by snthd 4y ago
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/82162575#map=15/-8.7460/11... Tags: addr:city=Denpasar aeroway=aerodrome iata=DPS icao=WADD name=Bandar Udara Internasional Ngurah Rai name:de=Inter
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by snthd 4y ago
GNU Taler[0] provides a "modicum of privacy" and isn't demonized. [0] https://taler.net
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by snthd 4y ago
>The main advantage of microcode is that it turns design of control circuitry into a programming task instead of a difficult logic design task. But then you need circuitry to process the microcode. Why is that desirable? Is microcode bas
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by snthd 4y ago
You (we?) need to solve attribution bias first. Art? VR? Is copyright itself responsible for incentivising a pro-intergenerational wealth world view?
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by snthd 4y ago
What if you modify the cables to remove the DDC wire? Can no EDID negotiation be faster?
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by snthd 4y ago
>Video Trimmer by Ivan Molodetskikh https://gitlab.gnome.org/YaLTeR/video-trimmer
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by snthd 4y ago
Would JMAP not be a better focus both in general, and to attract those same users? https://github.com/thundernest/k-9/issues/3272
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by snthd 4y ago
Trademark search - https://www.tmdn.org/tmview/#/tmview/results?page=1&pageSize... The main one survived an attempt to revoke it https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.j
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by snthd 4y ago
I don't, sorry. It's a few years since I researched it, and I didn't build anything.
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by snthd 4y ago
It's patented and proprietary, please don't use it. Alternatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-power_wide-area_network#Pl...
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by snthd 4y ago
Exactly. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/17/people-caus... >Frequent-flying “‘super emitters” who represent just 1% of the world’s population caused half of aviation’s carbon emissions i
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by snthd 4y ago
Pylint issue #6234 "Warn usage of datetime.utcnow()" https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/6234

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